![]() ![]() Mastering the use of Stratagems will help, but it’s still incredibly easy to get overrun in Helldivers. In the midst of the intense battles of Helldivers it can be hard to input the commands correctly, but feels really rewarding when you do. Not only are you managing the cool down timer for said Stratagem, but you also need to input a code on the d-pad, which then brings up a beacon that you must throw to where you want the items to land. The gameplay wrinkle is that it takes some skill to use these items. These items are essentially power-ups that you equip before a mission and range from heavy weapons and vehicles, to airstrikes and automated turrets. Careful use of “Stratagems” is critical to success. Though the thread is that you’ll be doing this during a constant onslaught from the natives. Objectives range from destroying alien structures, to activating terminals or equipment, escort missions, or one of many others depending on which faction you are fighting. Managing power-ups on cool down timers, ammo supply, and plotting best routes to take to your objectives are paramount to aiming and killing. Helldivers simply isn’t kill all bad guys in changing environments. What really sets it apart though is the management aspect and required strategy of it all. Left stick to move, right stick aim, trigger to shoot, with a number of special weapons, power-ups, grenades, and alt-weapons to wrangle with. It controls precisely as you would expect it to. To do this you’ll need to put your boots on the ground, but Arrowhead isn’t necessarily reinventing the twin stick shooter with Helldivers. Continue to successfully complete missions and liberate planets, and you’ll get incrementally more difficult missions to tackle and planets to explore. Complete all the missions on a planet and it becomes liberated. Liberating said planets requires a team of Helldivers to drop in and complete objectives in a mission. It’s not a bad set-up for gallivanting across the galaxy. Your job as a Helldiver is to liberate increasingly hostile planets with procedurally generated landscapes and eliminate the aliens that get in your way. Helldivers is a game about shooting these three different breeds of aliens at its core, but Arrowhead’s tongue in cheek delivery touches on subjects like Imperialism and Exceptionalism in a non-threatening way. ![]() Set in the year 2084, the countries of Earth as we know it are united as one to form “Super Earth.” Super Earth doesn’t take crap from anyone in its quest to “spread democracy,” apparently - Especially not from any freedom infringing aliens that could threaten their way of life. ![]() Topical and self-aware, Helldivers doesn’t take itself all that seriously. Yeah, it’s a mouthful, but underneath it all Arrowhead Game Studios carries over of the core cooperative gameplay and impressive presentation facets from their fantasy series, while adding a deep progression, customization, and over-arching online galactic war to sew it all together into something unexpectedly special. Helldivers is an isometric, multiplayer-focused twin stick shooter from the creators of Magicka, where players assume the role of freedom fighters whose job is to spread “managed democracy” across the galaxy and defend “Super Earth” from a multi-pronged alien assault. ![]()
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