Helldivers 2 review: this great multiplayer shooter blows the competition away

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Helldivers 2 MSRP $40.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product Pros

• Intense combat
• Stratagem system
• It's a blast with friends
• Solid live-service progression systems

• Lack of story content
• Matchmaking issues

Failing to extract and losing 40 minutes worth of samples and medals collected during a mission. Sacrificing myself to a swarm of Terminid bugs and an orbital strike so I could destroy stockpiled ammunition. Laughing as I watched a teammate slowly walk into the range of a Hellbomb I’d activated as it exploded. Those are the kind of moments that define Helldivers 2, a new cooperative shooter from Arrowhead Game Studios and Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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In a month full of live-service titles, Helldivers 2 has garnered the most praise and attention. Moments like those are why. Within an hour of playing, you’ll understand all the basics and have seen most of the in-game narrative. But unlike a lot of other games in the genre, the repeated loop of Helldivers 2 doesn’t get exhausting. Even when you are replaying the same objectives, a variety of factors give each mission in Helldivers 2 a layer of unpredictability that sustains the experience for much longer than it initially seems.

It’s the multiplayer game to play in 2024.

For Super Earth

Helldivers 2 is light on plot outside of the little given out in its opening cinematic and tutorial. Players control soldiers of Super Earth who are fighting backp against Terminid and Automaton invasions across the galaxy. Fans of more satirical sci-fi like Starshoop Troopers will immediately recognize the premise, as players are essentially the foot soldiers for a fascist regime that wants to wipe out anything it deems too alien.

Of course, Super Earth can’t make this process too easy.

Sometimes, all squads need to do is wipe out a certain number of Terminids, but more often than not, they have to interact with Super Earth technology to extract