So Is Destiny Any Good?7838524

Destiny doesn't have doubt been certainly one of this years most mentioned games. For months rumors have been circulating around the internet, magazines, social networking systems in regards to the game, communicating with them varying from what it will look like, think that and appear to be. Well, as of last Tuesday we could finally answer those questions.

Destiny, a game released by Bungie - legendary game developers behind mega-hits Halo and Call of Duty - can be a mamoth MMO/FSI title set in our solar system. The structure of the story is that, in the distant future, humanity entered a golden age and thus attianed the technology and also the ability to travel round the solar system. With all the desire to travel however, also came the desire to obtain knowledge and secrets, thus unlocking hidden dark truths behind our solar system. The end result was utter destruction, leaving humanity in tatters as various types of alien lifeforms invaded our world, leaving us with one pitifully small city to use being a HQ for taking back our lost empire - sort of the crux with the game.

So my point is, can it be any good?

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

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

The single-player mode is nothing other than boring. It provides 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 reality, you can't even play in the game without having to be connecting to the net (a bummer without it), which suggests you're constantly attached to other gamers. Inside 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 amongst people than upgrading your weapon and armour and actually noticing that you've become just about invincible to your enemies (online as well as offline).

Overall, destiny 2 inventory manager is a very good game that's certainly worth the money, however it just feels a little disappointing as there is very little there that seems original. We've seen it all before, and that is perhaps whyit hasn't been getting the rave reviews that we were expecting.