RPS Advent Calender 2024 is underway, revealing one favorite game each day leading up to Game of Year on Dec 24th.
Helldivers 2 is a top-down shooter with clumsy controls, friendly fire, slapstick and aliens.
Despite being an over-the-shoulder shooter, it retains studio's personality.
The game has not adopted the live service grind and players can unlock weapons and cosmetics through play, or via a battle pass with their starting arsenal being as good as anything they'd get afterwards.
Helldivers 2's missions are perfectly bite-sized and few blockbuster multiplayer games offer the option to finish few missions in a Helldivers 2 session.
Arrowhead allows comedy to shine by making the actual encounters feel like serious stuff.
The game has fascist forever war element, and Edwin suggests reporting it as automaton sympathizers, reporting major order failures as victories.
380mm barrage is a favorite in-game 'thing' of this year.
Despite friendly fire in video games being always funny, Brendy is not very impressed with Helldivers 2.
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