I was in Game the other day, and I noticed a box marked Defender on the GameCube shelf… the logo looked like the Williams Defender logo, but the pictures on the back didn’t. It seems that Midway have made a 3d rewrite of Defender. This is just plain wrong.

The new game is pretty, I suppose, but it isn’t Defender. Have a look at IGNs video… The joy of Defender is the constant motion, the flow of the game. You never actually stop. The attackers don’t run on rails. It’s one of those games where you get into a ‘zone’ and do impossible things. People watching can’t see how you are doing it. There’s few enough games like that, without losing one to renovations.