Bill and Lance are back!
VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "While not universally applied, 2024's best shooters tended to follow a particular cadence of shooting, smashing, stomping, vaporizing, obliterating, bashing, and/or annihilating with a partner or several partners in tow. If you weren't surviving the post-nuclear fallout wastelands of The Zone, odds are you were in the shoes of a super-solider dedicated to their cause: God and Country, Super Earth and Managed Democracy, or The Emperor and The Imperium of Man. Perhaps there weren't as many prominent new IPs to account for in this genre, but at least that's balanced out with wall-to-wall testosterone-laden action. Without further ado, here are the nominees…"
Thr guns feel so good, not just because of the dualsense, but the sound and "feel". Helldivers 2 is awesome.
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Helldivers II is one of the best current illustrations of 'game feel' beyond the Dualsense gimmicks (which are also nice). The years of Arrowhead toiling with the shooting truly paid off.
A legendary action classic comes back to life with a brand new remake, and both Dali and J.J. seem to think it does the machine gun loaded job well enough.
"Contra: Operation Galuga switches on the time machine and bags some 1980s action hero glory - a near-perfect slice of retro run and gun fun."
- Stuart Cullen, TechStomper
Will there be a physical release?