HELLDIVERS™ 2
The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.
HELLDIVERS™ 2 is a online co-op, pve and third-person shooter game
developed by Arrowhead Game Studios
and published by PlayStation Publishing LLC.
Released on February 08th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 963,433 reviews of which 725,742 were positive and 237,691 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K or AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 470
- Storage: 100 GB available space
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[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38888018-United-Critics/] Please follow United Critics for quality reviews Helldivers 2 Review About The Game An epic 1-4 player PvE First/Third person shooter filled with intense and epic battles, where you will find yourself fighting on dozens or more planets facing off against Terminid bugs, Automaton machines and yet to be seen threats in the name of Super Earth and Democracy. Story The game takes place 100 years after the events of the first game with the resurgence of Democracy hating murderous enemies looking to once again threaten the peace and freedom of the superior human race. The story progresses as Major orders are failed or succeeded, with the progression planned for either scenario, which makes it engaging to check in with the game every few days for new story events. Gameplay You start off in a boot camp tutorial, where you are introduced to all the game’s basic mechanics like walking, shooting, healing destroying enemy spawns, calling in equipment and the like. Afterwards you will find yourself on your very own Super Destroyer which you get to name using a number of preset words to combine into a name fitting your peace-dispensing space ship. There you will find you can collect samples on missions to upgrade call-in equipment and air support, as well as unlock new equipment and weapons using Requisition (base currency). You will also find a Warbond store, which is a store where you can buy new pieces of armor, capes, weapons, grenades and perks and premium currency, which you buy with Warbonds. (medals found in matches, rewards for completing missions, private objectives and major orders) There is also a premium store, where you can buy additional armor and equipment not available to the regular store, but still using the same Warbonds. (You can get enough premium currency to buy premium passes from missions and other passes) From the map at the deck, you can select the world you want to drop onto to complete missions, but those worlds depend on the progress of fellow helldivers, as once a world is liberated you can no longer access it unless it is retaken by enemies, which happens via Story events where you have to defend a planet to 100% in a set amount of time, otherwise it gets taken over by the enemy. Once your world is chosen you get to select the sets of mission you want to complete, your weapons and up to 4 pieces of call-in equipment and deploy. (Number of equipment may be reduced depending on a world’s passive effect) The equipment can be called in once you land, which is done via directional/button prompts, adding an extra bit of engagement to the game, but be careful, as a wrong input means you have to do it all over again. And try not to fall when holding call ins, as if you get knocked down you will drop them, meaning they will be called in right on top of you which can prove deadly. There are various sets of objectives which you can see available on the world map, and they work in various sets depending on the difficulty. (Only 2 missions on lower difficulties, 3 missions on higher difficulty) When the objective is complete, you can extract to gain bonus Requisition depending on the number of surviving Helldivers, and the amount of Sample you survived with. If you complete the objective but the squad gets fully wiped, all is good, you died for a good cause and completed your objective. If you get wiped and failed to succeed… Let’s just say that the records won’t show it. There is a limited amount of respawns available depending on the number of Helldivers in your squad. For each Helldiver the number goes up by 5, up to a maximum of 20. Each world also has it’s own passive de-buffs and events making a planet more hostile to life, or just making it more difficult/longer to get your hands on call-in equipment. And if a fellow Helldiver disconnects from the game, you can call down a SoS beacon to increase the chances of someone else taking their place. After completing the mission sets the % of world liberation goes up, and once it reaches 100% the world is once again under the control of Democracy. Visuals The game looks amazing and cinematic and is pretty well optimized, the enemies have various designs which also look great. It’s not the best-looking game, but it’s pretty high up there. Audio & Music The game has some great and epic soundtracks to accompany you on your missions, and is also voice acted for NPCs on your ships and announcer while on mission. Your character is also voice acted, spitting some cheesy lines as well as screams of terror, pain and freedom as they get torn to shreds or shot to bits. Pros & Cons Pros [*] Fun and repetitive gameplay, [*] Amazing atmosphere and cinematic feeling, [*] Variety of maps, [*] Overall fun time with friends and randoms, [*] Variety of weapons and equipment to use, [*] Freedom loving and Democratic (Anyone says otherwise, report them) Cons [*] Lots of issues with game crashes and they mess up the game sessions stats and bugs out. [*] Meta of certain weapons, leaving not much reason to use others. The crash issues are getting fixed all the time so there is less crashes that are occurring. Conclusion The game is overall an amazing experience, well worth the price as you can easily sink at the very least dozens, more likely hundreds of hours and still enjoy the experience. It does have some issues with crashing, but that’s about the only thing I can think to complain of. Review Update May 6th 2024 They have backtracked on the PSN account linking due to all the negative feedback on it. So it will not be required anymore. Review Update May 4th 2024 The review has been changed to negative due to the requirement of linking a PSN account to play the game. Disregard any previously stated negative points, as the traitor who wrote them has been dealt with. Remember, for Glory, Freedom, Democracy and Liber Tea. Rating: 8.5/10
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Well.. 100 hours later, almost max rank, all achievements unlocked, and basically everything purchased besides some ship modules, it's time to review. This game is fantastic and would recommend it to anyone, I think we can all agree HD2 has brought us all back to our golden-era of gaming where we couldn't wait to come home and play. No game, besides Elden Ring has done that for me in years and it's a feeling that is highly valued in my gaming experience. The developers are amazing at rolling out updates/communicating with the community, and yes, while the server limit can be annoying at first, think about how great of a success this really is in the long run. Not only for Arrowhead, but other companies that have maybe looked away from this type of game in the past due to it's uncertainty in the market. There are a few bugs and inconsistencies that I have ran into but nothing super game-breaking, mostly temporary annoyance but it can be dealt with, and 100% sure will be fixed soon. I look forward to the future of this game, there was a ton of content in HD1 and I would love to see that implemented in HD2. I think this game has longevity if it's done right. For $40, in this market, is incredible for the type of experience we've been blessed with, and even if it was one of those games you play for a month and never touch again, it has been the best one out of all of them. Also, as cool as it would be, unfortunately I highly doubt Xbox would get a port, but-but maybe 343 will decide to create an ODST game with the same principles and instead of Helldivers, we're Helljumpers fighting the flood and the covenant, which would be just as awesome. To freedom and democracy! o7
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Crazy to say that in February 2024, a successful 4 player coop live service third person shooter launched and it’s not the Suicide Squad. Arrowhead, with a much smaller team, accomplished what Rocksteady could not in the same amount of dev time. Gameplay loop is a blast, with procedurally generated missions giving what appears to be a lot of replay value. To me this is Deep Rock Galactic without the mining and a lot more emphasis on the bug killing. Being able to earn microtransaction currency means you can unlock everything in the game through gameplay. A breath of fresh air in the AAA multiplayer game space that seems motivated to squeeze every last dollar out of you. Highly recommend
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The only co-op game where you are scared of your teammates more than monsters
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Got knocked out of bounds by some exploding mushrooms, was declared a traitor for abandoning the mission, and then got nuked from orbit. 10/10 - I'm doing my part.
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Online players
54,897
Developer
Arrowhead Game Studios
Publisher
PlayStation Publishing LLC
Release
08 Feb 2024
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