Defender of the Faith is a arcade minigame developed in 1984 by Degenatron. It is available to play in the Arcade in Grand Theft Auto Online.
Description[]
The game was previously available to play on an "emulator" on the degenatron.com teaser site for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City before being added as an arcade machine in GTA Online.
The game is a side scrolling shooter in which you collect green squares as a large red square. The player can control the speed and direction of the red square to avoid the blue squares, which kill in a single hit. After three lives are used, it is Game Over.
In Grand Theft Auto V, the Vinewood Star Tour Guide mentions a Defender Of The Faith movie adaptation, an advertisement for which can be found on a calendar in Lester Crest's home.
In GTA Online, the symbol for the Epsilon Program is heavily used in the boxart and arcade cabinet artwork. This, along with its movie adaptation, may be a reference to L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 sci-fi novel Battlefield Earth, which in turn was adapted into the 2000 film Battlefield Earth starring John Travolta. Hubbard was the founder of Scientology, which is loosely parodied by the Epsilon Program.
Challenges[]
In GTA Online, there are two challenges available for this arcade game. Special T-shirts will be awarded to the player if they manage to complete each one of them.
Keeping The Faith[]
This challenge requires the player to complete a level by only pressing right. This is easier done on the first level since you only need to collect two green squares to complete it. Just press and hold right as soon as the level starts and hope that two green squares align with the red square. This is entirely based on luck so just keep retrying until you finally manage to do it.
Completing this challenge awards the player the Retro Defender of the Faith Tee.
Retro Master[]
This challenge requires the player to complete the challenges for Defender of the Faith, Monkey's Paradise and Penetrator. Check the challenge description of each of these three arcade games and complete all of them to finish this challenge.
Completing this challenge awards the player the Defender of the Faith Tee.
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