Not many other games deliver on the experience of managing to make you feel like a giant unkillable god among mortal men, whilst also feeling incredibly out of your depth with every engagement requiring your full attention else you add to the Tyranid swarm.

An engaging is topped with surprisingly fun PvP and repayable missions with some light progression mean you will more than your moneys worth.

Destiny 2 is a hard game to review, as is the nature of Live Service. Having played since Warmind back when the game was on battle net I have played this game for awhile. Whilst I consider myself a casual it would be remiss to mention I'm very active in keeping up with the on-goings of the game.

So how is the game right now? It's good, one thing destiny has always been good at is consistency (for better and worse), if you are not a long time player you will find things to enjoy if you enjoy horizontal loot based progression, though it is hard to recommend this game to new players. The game is notorious for its on boarding issues, whilst there is a tutorial the focus to let players hop in all activities leads to it being hard to know exactly what to do next as you stumble around the various activities; that's not to mention the true price of the game. Destiny 2 is a subscription based game with a free trial, you buy the season once every 3 months to play the current content with yearly expansion, yet the free trial is rather limited having no expansion content, nor launch content. Instead whats available is a rather limited selection of activities, so I recommend keeping an eye out for sales to pick up the content expansions.

When reviewing this its almost impossible to avoid the multi headed hydra that is the live service, the game would probably have a better reputation if it just referred to it as a subscription based model. The community sentiment is pretty negative right now following a layoff of 8% of Bungie's workforce and continued perceived lack of ability to quickly integrate player feedback. It's pretty par for the course at this point, and the complaints haven't changed much since I started playing. Though in my opinion you wont find a better horizontal loot progression mmo on the market, a lot of work goes into making weapons feel unique and interesting to collect and all of which feel satisfying. Build crafting has come into the for front of the game over the past few years and is an incredibly satisfying system to engage in, the art team continues to deliver impressive destinations and armour that I want to wear.

So where does this leave us? Destiny 2, despite the live service trappings delivers a strong loot based shooter. Despite community fatigue and sentiment this has always been a consistent package. Whilst the game makes it hard for a new player to get in, existing players are playing a game which has provided a strong shooter experience for the past 10 years.