![]() ![]() If you’re a fan of hardcore top-down shooters and you enjoy coordinating your alien hunting parties with friends, then Helldivers is the game for you. This version comes with the “Masters of the Galaxy,” “Turning Up the Heat” and Democracy Strikes Back” expansions, so you get the entire Helldivers experience to date. The controls–though they felt natural on a gamepad–definitely feel designed for mouse and keyboard. The top players on the leaderboard put in dozens of hours, and over a hundred completed planets, just within a single campaign.Īrrowhead goes back to its roots with the PC port. This may change as your level progresses, but even then the impact a single Helldiver makes within the broader community is minimal except for the elite few. And not once did I feel like I was making any difference toward the Galactic Campaign. It just wasn’t enticing enough to keep me engaged. The process of playing to gain new stratagems is appealing at first, but loses luster as you progress. The higher the difficulty, the more influence awarded.Įach planet comes with experience and a reward–a new stratagem that players gain upon completion. On each planet is a set of missions that must be completed to liberate that planet and gain influence toward the overall war effort. Each sector has a series of planets organized by difficulty. Players across the online community must fight these aliens threatening their homeworld. Three different factions–the cyborgs, bugs and the Illuminate–occupy multiple planets and sectors around Super Earth. There is a meta-campaign that includes the entirety of the Helldiver’s online community. Multiplayer integration isn’t limited to just you and your co-op partners. But when you don’t have another player to share the load, it can be incredibly frustrating. ![]() When you have friends to revive you, or to aggro enemies while you call in support, it makes the experience bearable. You’ll find yourself downed and bleeding…a lot. Escaping from fast-moving cyborg dogs, while in the snow, and trying to reload, is next to impossible. ![]() Moving through various types of terrain like snow or marshlands slows your character down even more. Ammo is sparse, and the reload animation is excruciatingly slow, leaving you utterly defenseless. And unless you’re a keypad savant, dropping to one knee to radio in stratagem support while being attacked by hordes is a bit of a hassle. It’s easy, especially in the later levels, to be swarmed by enemies. Character movement is slow, and it’s even slower when you have to aim. Once you get into the “medium” tier, things really begin to ramp up. For those who prefer to fight the good fight on their own, you may be a bit disappointed. Helldivers can be played single player or up to four-player co-op, and just like every co-op game before it, the experience is much better when you have a team of Helldivers tearing up alien scum together. In Helldivers, these abilities come in the form of stratagems–space-deployed pods of weapons, gadgets or vehicles that drop in to assist your Helldiver in combat.įrom health/repair kits to rocket launchers to minigun-wielding mechs, there’s a stratagem in Helldivers for every combat scenario. In Helldivers, that same keypad system is used, but to a lesser degree. In Magicka, the gameplay hook is the use of unique, and often, complex keypad combinations to combine elemental abilities to create various magical attacks. From Arrowhead Game Studios (the makers of Magicka) comes a bread-and-butter top-down shooter that has a few kinks and twists thrown in to freshen up the experience in this oversaturated genre. Helldivers doesn’t quite capture the intensity and brutality of the many galactic battles we see in films like Starship Troopers or Aliens, but it makes a decent effort. ![]()
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