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Defiance is a number of things. It's a third-person shooter, but it's also an MMO. It's a PC game, but it's also coming to consoles. It's a video game, but it's also a television show. A multimedia collaboration between Trion Worlds—the developer behind the MMORPG Rift, launched earlier this year—and the SyFy network, Defiance is nothing if not ambitious; events from the game will have an impact on the show, and vice versa.
Ars spoke with Rob Hill, senior producer on the game, to learn more about the world and just how the cross-media aspects will work.
Both the game and the show take place in a near future, post-apocalyptic version of Earth. First an alien race came to Earth intent on colonizing the planet, and then their arks—massive ships loaded with alien plant and animal life—crashed on the surface. At the time of Defiance, the world is in a period of re-growth, but has been significantly changed thanks to the newly introduced alien species. The game is centered in the remains of San Francisco, while the show will take place in St. Louis.
"They exist within the same universe," Hill told Ars. "And primarily where we're going to be different is the fact that things that happen in the game will occur in the show and things that happen in the show will occur in the game. From a global standpoint this could be a large political change, a big environmental change, and they'll happen simultaneously on both."
No word on a launch date, but it's for 360, PS3, and PC. No cross-platform play however, apparently (boo).
It's certainly ambitious.
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