Helldivers 2 was a hit at The Game Awards, winning the awards for Best Multiplayer Game and Best Continuous Game and releasing a new trailer for the Omens of Tyranny update, which introduces a new enemy faction and a new ride for the soldiers of Super Earth. The continued success of Helldivers 2Even after a backlash from the community regarding the account requirements, it proves that players have been waiting for this type of game for a long time; the kind of game that puts soldiers in space, fighting enemy alien factions in a multi-front war with some kind of infection taking over their comrades.
If this game looks familiar, that's because the newest trailer for Helldivers 2 strikes a tone eerily similar to Halo series. In fact, it seems that Helldivers 2 is everything that Halo it should have been, especially after the games seemingly lost steam in the post-Bungie era. Creating a chaotic game for space soldiers to fight hordes of aliens is exactly what Halo needs for your future.
Why the Helldivers 2 trailer is so good
New enemies, vehicles and missions
Helldivers 2 It's a great game that's getting a lot of love and attention from its developers, even with some corporate interference irritating its player base. The newest update, which became available for download as soon as it was announced at The Game Awards, features the Illuminate, partially made up of hordes of mind-controlled citizens, and a new vehicle called the FRVor the Rapid Reconnaissance Vehicle. The trailer is full of classic Super Earth messages, especially regarding the practically zombified citizens, who are now called the Voteless.
What the newest update promises is more chaos and even more ways to get killed by Super Earth's enemies. The FRV looks as much like a monster truck as it does a Warthog, with its beefed-up suspension and rear-mounted weapons. Although the FRV already draws instant parallels with Halothe iconic Warthog, the addition of the Illuminate faction just makes the Halo much stronger comparison. An advanced alien race that brings with it a plague of body horror is just like the Covenant and the Flood, which is pure Halo.
Helldivers 2 already looks better than Halo
Chaotic gameplay needs to return
What it does Helldivers 2 So much fun is that the Helldivers are completely expendable. Dying in ridiculous ways or even persevering against overwhelmingly bad odds is what makes each mission exciting. This feeling is something that Halo series lostespecially with games like Halo: Infinite, which have a proper multiplayer mode of Spartans shooting at each other in small spaces. Always playing as a Spartan against other Spartans has become obsolete, and co-op shooters need to mix things up.
Halo need a game like Helldivers 2where players are much more expendable and go against all odds in the universe. A game that features ODST instead of Spartans would helpespecially if the game was throwback during the era when the Covenant and Flood were at their highest threat levels. The same basic premise of a small group of soldiers fighting waves of powerful enemies would work very well. Halo game.
Essentially, the Halo series needs to do another ODST-focused game and be inspired by the chaotic fun of Helldivers 2. One problem is that the tones of the two series, one seriously focused on humanity's fight for survival and the other mocking fascist government-style war propaganda, are radically different. However, combat on the ground could be essentially the same, and it would be better for Halo as a series to adopt a more chaotic tone for players to enjoy. Injecting a little chaos and levity could be just what Halo needs to overcome a somewhat obsolete era for the series.
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