This game is an achievement on how to reinvent the wheel as a 4-player co-op horde shooter, and then engineer a particle accelerator to make the wheel spin even faster.

First off, Helldivers II is funny as all hell in the fact that you can literally nuke your friend from orbit, and you'll ragdoll 50 feet from the blast. Friendly fire has never been a funnier mechanic than in this game. It also helps that the voice acting is top notch, with dynamic voicelines for how tense the situation is. (I.E. Casual "Reloading~" during leisurely treks vs bloody screams of "RELOADIIIING!!!" when being swarmed by bugs/bots.)

Secondly, it's addictively fun to play in the sense of having total control over your characters actions. Movement, firing weapons, throwing stratagems, and most importantly diving, all have a satisfying, and deliberate weight associated with each action. You're no super soldier, you're just a soldier with an arsenal of orbital strikes, and that's okay! It makes accomplishing challenging tasks all that more rewarding because of that fact, especially with friends.

Lastly, the game is a live service, which means the game's lifespan is determined by how long the developers want to support it. Not always a good thing, but from what I've personally seen in my nearly 300 hours of service to Managed Democracy, is that the developers are on a good track to keeping this game alive for a very long time considering their 60-day plan, and recent balancing patches have made the game that much more fun to play.

ENLIST NOW!

This game is an achievement on how to reinvent the wheel as a 4-player co-op horde shooter, and then engineer a particle accelerator to make the wheel spin even faster. First off, Helldivers II is funny as all hell in the fact that you can literally nuke your friend from orbit, and you'll ragdoll 50 feet from the blast. Friendly fire has never been a funnier mechanic than in this game. It also helps that the voice acting is top notch, with dynamic voicelines for how tense the situation is. (I.E. Casual "Reloading~" during leisurely treks vs bloody screams of "RELOADIIIING!!!" when being swarmed by bugs/bots.) Secondly, it's addictively fun to play in the sense of having total control over your characters actions. Movement, firing weapons, throwing stratagems, and most importantly diving, all have a satisfying, and deliberate weight associated with each action. You're no super soldier, you're just a soldier with an arsenal of orbital strikes, and that's okay! It makes accomplishing challenging tasks all that more rewarding because of that fact, especially with friends. Lastly, the game is a live service, which means the game's lifespan is determined by how long the developers want to support it. Not always a good thing, but from what I've personally seen in my nearly 300 hours of service to Managed Democracy, is that the developers are on a good track to keeping this game alive for a very long time considering their 60-day plan, and recent balancing patches have made the game that much more fun to play. ENLIST NOW!