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If you had to choose between the fast-paced arcade style of XDefiant and the powerhouse dominance of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, which side are you on? With XDefiant officially shut down, we look back at how these two arena shooters stack up, what went wrong, and how MW4 is shaping up right before its launch. Whether you're looking for free-to-play arcade action or the next evolution of tactical military shooters, we’ve got you covered.

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4:57 - Modern Warfare 4 Gameplay

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00:00ex-defiant versus call of duty modern warfare 4 in 2026 and also for the upcoming new year
00:06so if you had to pick one game between the two which one would you pick you cannot say neither
00:12you had to pick one so let's take about let's talk about what is the good the bad the ugly
00:17of each game the stuff that we like we didn't like the stuff they could have done to make them
00:22things better because ex-defiant was supposed to be the call of duty killer and color before it
00:27seems to be uh clearly for my warfare 2026 edition right seems to be the uh the killer of call
00:35of
00:35duty because people don't like it people hate it so it's a little controversy out there i'll you
00:40guys decide but i think ex-defiant had a really good chance to i'm not saying to kill call of
00:47duty
00:47because i don't want any game to kill any other game i want to play a lot of games but
00:51i think
00:51ex-defiant had a big chance to be a big game to do something fun to do something maybe a
00:58little
00:58bit different to maybe just grab some of the audience from colluding battlefield and just
01:02you know just get it into into their game i think had a lot of potential sadly after like one
01:08season
01:09they decided to you know call it quits and i think you piece up i don't know made a mistake
01:15i think had a lot of potential and i see ex-defiant as a uh maybe the new age of
01:24of gaming and what i
01:26mean by this is they could have just expand so much from from this game and one thing maybe i
01:33would
01:33have just recommended is to have a playlist for you remember like call of duty uh advanced warfare
01:40where they had a playlist without exosuits okay so something similar for ex-defiant like a playlist
01:47where you know you have no powers no superpowers because i mean even though they were kind of fun
01:51but at the same time they were kind of annoying it seems at some point it's more like or it
01:56felt like
01:56playing uh like like one of those games like it's just all about the the abilities and and i mean
02:05it's kind of fun at the same time it's not in my opinion so overwatch is the example that you
02:13know
02:13comes to mind you know overwatch is all about crazy you know or valorant you know crazy abilities and
02:20crazy things and i think a game like ex-defiant would be so cool where uh we didn't have that
02:26uh maybe
02:27they want to add some sort of kill streak whatever just just add the idea of like metal of honor
02:32war
02:33fighter or something like that uh that was kind of cool or maybe don't have them uh at all just
02:38you
02:38know uh just get kills with a gun and that's it i'm gonna be getting some other some different rewards
02:45maybe a gold gun or something i don't even know but i think had a lot of uh a lot
02:53of potential in
02:54my opinion it wasn't it wasn't terrible the game was free to play which is fantastic we love free stuff
03:00you know a lot of free to play and uh you know you don't waste any money just some time
03:04downloading
03:05you play the games you like it you know you keep it if not you just delete it and you
03:11know end of
03:11the story so i don't think it's too terrible um that's sort of a business idea in my opinion
03:16a lot of good things um comes with free games man so again i think there's just more time just
03:23to
03:23settle down just to see what was wrong with the game what needs to be fixed because that happens
03:28with every game battlefield call of duty i don't know tarkov you name any game man you know after
03:33after the season goes on they change things for the better sometimes for the worst but usually you
03:38know for the better and make the game more playable and more fun more entertaining more everything
03:43right but i think that was the case with xfi and this needed more time just to settle down season
03:47after season new weapons new maps and and maybe maybe just steal the game to a different direction
03:55you know to a different okay let's let's try this now people like this so let's go ahead and try
04:01this and like as an example no abilities or uh another one could be uh a gun game which is
04:10kind
04:10of cool always to have in in a game and you know little things like that just to just to
04:14make the
04:14game more fun not so much about abilities but the gun game um things like that you know pretty fun
04:19in my opinion uh downside of the game also no campaign i know some of you or a lot of
04:25you don't
04:25play campaigns i do love campaigns i like campaigns i think it's very very fun so no campaign for this
04:30game uh if you are into battle royale uh all that kind of stuff also none of that so you
04:37stick just
04:38to the old school og multiplayer and uh you know some of these kind of weird game modes uh that
04:44the
04:45game had you know but with your basic t uh tdm uh domination i think was pretty fun uh session
04:50destroyed i think we'll just add some some other cool stuff into the game in my opinion so um free
04:58to play but also limited when it comes to certain things so that could be an issue for some people
05:03but for the free to play hey like i said you know you have nothing to lose now we got
05:07you know call of
05:08duty which is your basic you know call of duty that we've been playing you know for so many years
05:13you got the campaign you got the multiplayer now you got you know the warzone dmc stuff you know
05:18which is uh free to play you know but you know it's there for some people it's tied to the
05:23game
05:24you know you can also get it without call of duty but it's tied to the game so it's a
05:29it's a plus
05:30for a lot of people um it's a con for a lot of people you know it depends you know
05:35if you like that
05:35sort of thing but i think the campaign is always good to have and and why not you know it's
05:41some
05:41hours of entertainment and uh you know of course the multiplayer uh over the years you know call
05:46of duty is turning to something different it's not what it used to be we all know that it's not
05:50a secret that's why the uh i don't want to say remake the port from you know black ops 2
05:56black ops 1
05:57to ps5 you know did so well because people want that sort of call of duty you know it's uh
06:03it was it
06:04was fun they did it right so this is exactly what i want and you know just by listening and
06:10and watching the videos there's a lot of people who are not excited about mw4 other people are but
06:16the the consensus out there is is mostly negative from what i've seen uh we got to play the beta
06:25we
06:26tried the campaign which is pretty fun uh some multiplayer a little frustration i watch some live
06:31streams you know big names no names everybody i watch you know uh some gameplay footage just to get a
06:38an idea of what people were uh talking about the game and it's a little negative stuff when it comes
06:44to uh amw4 they could change things around you know make the game better who knows we'll see maybe
06:50they will maybe they they won't but you know the the french is going kind of backwards uh you have
06:57to
06:57pay obviously for the dmp and the campaign you know compared to ex defiant uh but if i had to
07:04pick
07:04really uh i will just take my chances with ex defiant you know i play and and i don't hate
07:09call of duty but you know i played call of duty for for so many years and the game is
07:14still fun and it
07:14was fun but it's not what it used to be but i will just take up take my my chances
07:19with ex defiant just
07:20in case you know the game happens to be good just the game happened to be i mean this is
07:25hypothetically
07:25right if the game was still available and uh you know we have more seasons and more stuff coming
07:30uh within the game uh i'll give it a chance to ex defiant maybe maybe they keep they were onto
07:37something and maybe they could just change things and uh make a really different experience we have
07:44seen this in the past you know when a game is it's not so good at the beginning and then
07:48uh with a
07:49couple of you know work here and there you know the team getting together listening to the community
07:54you know things just happen to take a different turn and ended up being a fantastic game so i was
08:01taking my chances with ex defiant so that's why i pick it uh after playing call of duty you know
08:06you
08:06know what you're gonna get which is not bad but you know what you're getting so there's no guessing
08:10game it's not like oh maybe you know you know what you're getting with with call of duty so but
08:15that's my take on it i don't hate the either game but i just wanted to give it a try
08:19to ex defiant see
08:20and i want i want to game the game uh the game to really succeed the game the game but
08:26i really
08:26want this this uh this new ip to succeed and just to do well but you know that's my take
08:31on it in
08:322026 and the new upcoming 2027 that is approaching really fast but thank you guys for watching hope
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