Helldivers 2 Brings Third-Person Camera To PC And PS5 Later This Year
It's time for you to enlist! Helldivers is getting a third-person sequel that takes the bug-killing action to a totally new dimension later this year.
Announced at tonight's PlayStation Showcase, Helldivers 2 picks up where the first game leaves off. The inhabitants of Super Earth--basically the same Earth, but futuristic--are under attack from space-faring bugs that have a taste for human flesh. A dictatorial government asks (and later enforces) enlistment with the Helldivers, a group of elite soldiers that drop into combat zones from orbit. It's like skydiving in a tank, and only marginally more survivable.
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Once on the ground, players are tasked with completing certain objectives and then extracting before being overrun by swarms of more insects. In the first game, there were also cyborgs and cultists that gave the game a more Warhammer 40K vibe, but today's trailer seems to be mostly about those insectile aliens.
It's all very Starship Troopers in feel, although there's a big difference in Helldivers 2. The gameplay footage had an over-the-shoulder camera that confirmed a 3D upgrade for the sequel. Where the first game was all about twin-stick shooting, now players will be able to use cover, throw grenades over walls, and call in air strikes with the added precision of the extra dimension.
The original game was also a co-op title, where players would drop into combat with the expectation that additional support (for up to four players) would arrive relatively soon. Enemies would scale with the number of players, so the more squadmates that joined your team, the harder the mission got. And just as before,
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