by this shutdown. Any users who had an account for Defiance 2050 or wished to create one, would be given a one time special compensation and transfer benefit based on various in game progress factors and purchases on their accounts. On February 24, 2021, Gamigo announced that both Defiance and Defiance 2050 will be shutting down April 29, 2021. On April 29, 2021 at 2:00 AM Pacific Standard Time Defiance and Defiance 2050 servers were shut down. The community forums and all social official media pages related to the Defiance franchise were also shut down within 24 hours. Reception The game received "mixed or average" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. 411Mania gave the Xbox 360 version a score of seven out of ten and called it "a good foundation for a console MMO." The Digital Fix similarly gave it seven out of ten and said that it "settles into its rhythm very nicely and becomes a game that is so easily picked up and played you cannot help but fall for it a little." National Post gave the PlayStation 3 version a score of six out of ten, saying that it "seems simply to offer yet another big open world filled with weapons to collect and creatures to kill. I won’t deny that I’ve had moments of fun blowing holes in Hellbugs over the last week, but it was of a flavourless variety I could have derived from any number of other third-person shooters." The Escapist gave the same console version two-and-a-half stars out of five and called it "a middle-of-the road third-person shooter that never seems to fully capitalize on its alien-filled, post apocalyptic setting." Digital Spy gave it two stars out of five and said, "The potential is there for Defiance to be more than a half-decent console MMO marred by technical problems." Metro UK gave the Xbox 360 version a similar score of four out of ten and said, "A mix of low budget, (relatively) high ambition, and mediocre execution, Defiance is a hard game to hate but an easy one to lose interest in." Notes References External links Defiance Wiki Defiance (TV series) Role-playing video games Free-to-play video games Massively multiplayer online games PlayStation 3 games Post-apocalyptic video games Science fiction video games Third-person shooters Video games based on television series Video games developed in the United States Video games