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We Need to Talk About Tom Clancy’s XDefiant

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Video Games, News, Tech News, Leisure

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Reactions to Ubisoft's new Tom Clancy-universe-blending first-person shooter XDefiant have been polarizing, to say the least. We spend the bulk of the show discussing the controversial game announcement, from the challenges it faces to why it's upsetting some Clancy game fans to where the Clancy games go from here. Plus: Miranda shares her hands-on impressions of Psychonauts 2, and more!

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0:00.0

This is Steve Downs, the voice of Master Chief, Sierra 117, and you're listening to podcast unlocked the world's number one Xbox podcast.

0:10.8

Now, finish this fight.

0:14.4

Master Chief, out.

0:19.4

Welcome friends, it's podcast unlocked IGN's weekly Xbox show, episode 503 for July 20th, 2021.

0:26.6

You know me, I'm Ryan McCaffrey, and I'm joined by the same crew. As last week, you already know Destin Lagary.

0:31.9

Bam, hey everybody, how's it going? The human motion graphic, I like it too.

0:37.7

You're just begging people to gift that. That's what you want. I know. Please. I know that's what you want.

0:43.0

You want to see it posted in responses to weird things you say on Twitter. I know what you're up. Yeah, yeah.

0:49.0

Miranda Sanchez, how are you?

0:51.0

Hi, don't know. Welcome on everybody. I think just I think it's the whole circle of Destin Intros complete.

0:58.3

Like you got the motion, you have the log bam. There's nothing else can be added.

1:03.2

Oh, that sounds like a challenge. Yeah, I'll do that.

1:08.6

Miranda would have you done. And returning from last week, Stella Chung, Stella is so glad to have you back here.

1:15.0

Thank you for having me. It's always so exciting to be here.

1:17.3

Yeah, well, when I was putting together this week's run a show, I thought, all right, the topic,

1:23.3

what are these topics going to be? And then you be soft-announced Tom Clancy's ex-defiant,

1:28.2

which we're going to talk about in a little bit. And I thought, well, there's there's literally no one

1:32.4

better suited to talk about a competitive shooter on IGN than you, Stella. So I appreciate you coming back

1:38.6

to do that. But first, I do want to start with a big first party release coming right up. Miranda,

1:47.0

you got to preview a pretty nice chunk of Psychonauts, too. I mean, this is it. This is the

1:52.6

beginning of the first party avalanche that we've been waiting for years for. This game's out

1:57.4

next month. It's nearly done. You played a pretty near final build. And your previews up at IGN,

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