“the Phoeron” Colin J E LuptonI’m not sure how I feel about #Helldivers2 so far. It’s really quite freaky how effectively it drops the player neck-deep into a full Starship-Troopers-experience. I was hoping for more of a Starship-Troopers-The-Novel-experience from the trailer but gameplay is definitely more of a Starship-Troopers-The-Whole-Damn-Movie-Franchise-But-The-Third-In-Particular-experience right down to the exact style of Super Earth’s propaganda.
I was not particularly impressed with the Easy missions, but the quality and diversity of missions scales with difficulty, which keeps things interesting.
I do, however, really like how every end-of-op extraction is a frenetic escape from a whole damn swarm of certain dooms, just like that one scene from the first Starship Troopers. It really sets the tone of the whole game.
For an online multiplayer, the community is surprisingly helpful and welcoming to new players. I’m kind of still in shock about that.
ClickyMcTicker
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