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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