Review: Helldivers 2 – Not for the Faint-Hearted

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Despite being a sequel to a successful game, Helldivers 2 is entirely different. The original, a top-down shooter, delivered an action-packed challenge for squads battling alienoid bugs. Switching up the approach for the sequel, Helldivers 2 is a third-person shooter. However, it doesn’t stray from the pace of the original, delivering insane levels of action from the get-go.

As with many games, it offers a quick tutorial to get players up to speed with the controls. Unlike most other games, where you can easily pass the tutorial and feel confident jumping into your first mission, you’re left unease. I thought I had familiarised myself with everything I needed to know, so I headed out on my first mission.

I was highly unprepared for the intense level of action I signed up for. Given 40 minutes to complete, I quickly killed a few bugs, re-aligned the required power cells and thought I was pretty much done. Easy. Or so it seemed. Instead, I must journey a few yards further using the map to the extraction point. On the way, however, I was swarmed by a horde of more giant bugs and then some. I was in over my head. Frantically trying to reload and shoot them down, I also needed to find additional supplies to keep up the fight, which I was slowly starting to lose. In all the rush, I forgot how to call down new supplies or reinforcements and almost everything else. What I thought would be an easy 5-minute mission to ease into the game turned into a 30-minute frenzy, where I spent most of it running around to evade the increasing number of bugs while simultaneously trying to find my bearings.

Having been successfully extracted and left in a bit of a sweat, I decided it may be wise to redo the opening tutorial, this time spending more time learning each of the controls and mechanisms I’d need from the offset. There is no easing into this – you’re here to defend the galaxy from alien threats—time to put on my big-boy pants.

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