Double-A gaming is back, baby.
In other words, you should expect a few quirks.
It’s so terribly easy to be shot by your own team-mates.
Or stepped on by them if they’ve unlocked mechs.
Hell really is other people."
If anything, the biggest surprise is how little it’s changed.
Your boots strapped into the floor like some kind of pop-up action figure still half-wired into the box.
And the amount of times I’ve killed and died by that friendly fire.
The other day I walked straight in front of my friend shooting a sniper rifle.
you’re able to see the Magicka heritage here - a friendly fire-fuelled, if-this-then-that classic.
Helldivers 2 is also wonderfully systemic, a game of weird little moments of pure logic amongst pure stupidity.
Just throw a few grenades at it, obviously, or call in an orbital strike on its roof.
The timing feels significant.
They’re relentlessly polished.
They are frightfully self-serious and po-faced.
And they are, as we’ve seen recently, unfortunately not doing that often enough.
