The propaganda splayed across the screen insists on the player’s individual significance to the cause while constantly sending her on suicide missions of dubious import. Of course, to the controlling powers behind Super Earth, “military superiority” means overwhelming numbers of disposable troops and high-tech weaponry. As a nameless Helldiver, Super Earth’s elite troops, players carry out missions to bring order to aliens that for whatever reason don’t want to be liberated through a show of military superiority. The game imagines a similar globalized earth in which technological advancement and general human progress has led to globalized post-democratic Super Earth, a monolithic entity that uses the rhetoric of colonial liberation to justify its rapid expansion across the galaxy. The game’s triumphant score, propaganda newsreel, military hyper-violence, and rampant xenophobia all seem cut from the same satirical cloth as Verhoeven’s film, and Helldivers delivers a humorous punch as sharp and strong as Johnny Rico’s chin. Like everyone else playing Helldivers, I immediately thought of Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 film Starship Troopers at the game’s launch screen. Super Earth has ample reserves to throw at the enemy, and I’m soon back into the fray, spreading democracy one round at a time. A fourth member descends from the sky right on top my character with a sickening splat. We form an unstoppable wall of fire, each character shouting gleefully at the carnage. Soon, I’m knee-deep in insectoid guts when two more pods fall to the earth (one on top of a rather large enemy), and two more divers emerge ready to give them hell. I call in a machine gun just in case things get hot when a bug scout signals that someone with enough firepower to level a forest is making his way toward their hive. If your friends are dicks or unskilled, though, prepare to search online for voodoo dolls.My Helldiver’s pod penetrates alien soil with a heavy thud. Our subsequent session was live streamed, and you can see for yourself how well that went:īottom line: if you like playing tactical-based top-down shooters with friends, this game will easily scratch that itch. Three minutes in and we were already cussing at each other like drunk relatives at a Thanksgiving gathering from hell! Precise teamwork is crucial to succeed at this game, and it’s too easy to have a reload drop on your head or get an inadvertent face full of shotgun. Team Digital Crack’s first foray into this game involved a “very easy” drop onto a bug-ridden planet with simple objectives. Diabolically, it also supports friendly-fire damage, and I can GUARANTEE that this feature alone will lead to all the hilarity – and rage – this game offers! The top-down game supports up to four-player cop-op, and features squad-based combat and support. The premise is simple: you are part of a military force tasked with dropping onto different planets to do battle with three different enemy species and complete some mission-based objectives. This game will beat you harder that you beat an egg! But if your friends are iffy, or if you are joining an unfamiliar group without having skill, you will suffer. I have put in a few hours with the game since downloading it and have one thing to say: this game is INCREDIBLY fun to play with friends, and you must definitely play it if you can get a group together. I had seen videos and read impressions of Arrowhead Game Studios’ Helldivers before it was available for free on Playstation Plus this month, but I was not ready to jump in until the Digital Crack crew agreed to group up and take it on. And if the game is challenging and depends on seamless cooperation between gamers, I dig it even more. But I do appreciate a good co-op multiplayer game when playing with friends. I prefer depending on my own skills when looking to dominating a game. When I play games, I like the solitude and predictability of the single-player experience.
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