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Helldivers 2

Arrowhead Game Studios

2024•Shooter•PEGI 18

Taste attributes: actionscience fictionmonster/alien/supernaturalfastunsavouryimaginarybig & variedall consuming questfighting evil

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Boxlist takeA fantastical shooter that is wide-ranging, pacy and dark. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Pace: fast · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

IGDB rating

85 / 100

324 ratings

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About This Game

Helldivers 2 is a cooperative third-person shooter in which squads of up to four players are deployed from orbit onto hostile planets to complete strategic missions. Players select loadouts of weapons, armor, and stratagems that allow them to call in orbital strikes, supply drops, vehicles, and turrets during combat. Friendly fire is always active, requiring coordination between teammates. The game features a persistent galactic war where community-wide performance determines which planets are liberated or lost.

Summary: IGDB

Story

Set a century after humanity's victory in the First Galactic War, the Federation of Super Earth harvests a valuable resource called E-710 from insectoid creatures known as Terminids across colonized worlds. When containment of the Terminids is breached, they overrun multiple planets. Simultaneously, a mechanical army called the Automatons emerges with the goal of destroying humanity. Players serve as Helldivers, elite shock troops deployed from orbit to reclaim lost territory and repel both threats in an ongoing galactic conflict shaped by the collective actions of all players.

Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

ActionScience fictionMonster/alien/supernaturalAll consuming questFighting evil

Keywords

AliensFriendly fireSquad based shooter

Where to play

Details

Developer: Arrowhead Game Studios
Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
Released: 8 February 2024
Series: Helldivers
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Perspective: First person, Third person
Time to beat: 40h complete
Age rating: PEGI 18
Taste scores: How we score
Source: IGDB

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