So Is Destiny Any Good?393107

Destiny has no doubt been among this years most talked about games. For months rumors have already been circulating around the web, magazines, social networking systems in regards to the game, asking questions varying from what it will look like, seem like and seem like. Well, by last Tuesday we are able to finally answer those questions.

Destiny, a game released by Bungie - legendary game developers behind mega-hits Halo and Cod - is a mamoth MMO/FSI title set in our solar system. The framework of the story is that, in the distant future, humanity entered a golden age and therefore attianed the technology as well as the ability to travel across the solar system. Using the desire to travel however, also came the need to obtain knowledge and secrets, thus unlocking hidden dark truths behind our solar system. The effect was utter destruction, leaving the human race in tatters as various varieties of alien lifeforms invaded our planet, leaving us with one pitifully small city where you can use being a HQ for taking back our lost empire - type of the crux with the game.

So my point is, could it be any good?

What you usually expect from such highly-anticipated game titles is beautiful, crisp graphics with ridiculously meticulous attention to detail and Destiny achieves this spectacularly. Every possible object looks incredible, varying in the way grass and bushes sway within the wind, to the way your characters hands crease and fold just as if they were real hands. There aren't any doubts that the game looks spectacular - well done Bungie on that front.

However, as you play through the single-player - an area that most FSI titles often ignore nowadays, instead focusing on multi-player - things start to get a little dull. You begin to no more take notice of the beautiful graphics and instead start to groan at the repetitive gameplay of descending out of your spaceship to the moon, shooting your path through waves of weak enemies without dying, obtaining an artifact from a cavern while emptying clip after clip of ammunition in a bullet-sponge 'boss' enemy, before completing the mission simply to repeat exactly the same steps in the following one.

The single-player mode is certainly not other than boring. It offers almost nothing original, unlike Halo and Cod, and leaves us asking precisely what did the developers spend their $300 million budget on?

However, the joy of the game comes in its multi-player mode - the hugely rewarding Crucible. Destiny could very well be the largest multi-player game ever created; in fact, you can't even take part in the game without having to be connecting to the web (a bummer if you don't have it), which suggests you're constantly connected to other gamers. In the Crucible, you'll find very familiar gme modes - team deathmatch, checkpoint control and capture the flag - but everything runs so smoothly with highly entertaining gameplay throughout.

Where Destiny excels best though is thru its levelling up, 'loot 'n' shoot', Borderlands style gameplay. You'll find nothing more exciting in the game than upgrading your weapon and armour and in actual fact noticing that you have become just about invincible to your enemies (online in addition to offline).

Overall, destiny 2 inventory is an extremely good game that's certainly well worth the money, nevertheless it just feels a little disappointing while there is very little there that appears original. We've seen it all before, which is perhaps whyit has not been getting the rave reviews that individuals were expecting.