So Is Destiny Worthwhile?3311137

Destiny has no doubt been one of this years most talked about games. For months rumors have been circulating online, magazines, social media marketing systems about the game, asking them questions varying from exactly what it will look like, feel like and seem like. Well, by last Tuesday we can finally answer those questions.

Destiny, a casino game released by Bungie - legendary game developers behind mega-hits Halo and Cod - is a mamoth MMO/FSI title set inside our solar system. The framework of the story is the fact that, in the distant future, humanity entered a golden age and so attianed the technology and the ability to travel across the solar system. With 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 mankind in tatters as various species of alien lifeforms invaded the planet, leaving us with one pitifully small city in which to use as a HQ when planning on taking back our lost empire - type of the crux of the game.

So my point is, is it any good?

That which you usually expect from such highly-anticipated video games is beautiful, crisp graphics with ridiculously meticulous focus on detail and Destiny achieves this spectacularly. Every conceivable object looks incredible, varying from the way grass and bushes sway within the wind, towards the way your characters hands crease and fold equally as if they were real hands. There isn't any doubts that the game looks spectacular - done well Bungie on that front.

However, while you play from the single-player - an area that most FSI titles tend to ignore nowadays, instead emphasizing multi-player - things start getting a little dull. You commence to will no longer take notice of the beautiful graphics and instead commence to groan in the repetitive gameplay of descending from your spaceship on 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 with a bullet-sponge 'boss' enemy, before completing the mission simply to repeat the same steps in the next one.

The single-player mode are few things 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 excitement 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 the game without having to be connecting to the internet (a bummer if you don't have it), which means you're constantly connected 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 hanging around than upgrading your weapon and armour and actually noticing you have become virtually invincible to your enemies (online in addition to offline).

Overall, destiny 2 inventory manager is an extremely good game that's certainly well worth the money, however it just feels a little disappointing because there is very little there that appears original. We've seen it all before, which is perhaps whyit hasn't been getting the rave reviews that people were expecting.