DO NOT BUY HELLDIVERS™ 2 - WARNING

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Helldivers 2, and as a massive fan of the

first Helldivers game, I knew I just had

to play this game. Unfortunately, so far

it's been kind of bland, boring, and

uninspiring. It's probably one of the most

boring games I've ever played. I don't

even understand what the point of this

game was. It seems like a complete copy

and ripoff of Starship Troopers, where

you've got this kind of tongue-in-cheek

sense of humor that's trying to be really

funny, but it's just kind of cringe. And

you fight against these massive insect bug

things that are aliens on other planets.

Strike down to the planets and your

mission is to wipe out the insects at the

target zone that you're supposed to go to,

at the objective area. And you get to the

objective area and you've got some kind of

really boring mediocre objective to

complete, like activate a satellite dish,

reestablish the signal, stop the signal

from being broadcasted, destroy some kind

of insect's nest. And then you've got to

go all the way back to the pickup

extraction point and then wait 2 minutes

whilst bugs attack you. It's kind of like

horde mode. And then you've got to survive

a few minutes until the extraction picks

you up. And then you head back to the main

base where you get some points, XP, some

money, and then you upgrade your

character, buy new weapons, that kind of

stuff. So it's a pretty bog-standard game

and there's nothing really interesting or

exciting about the gameplay in this game.

One of the most annoying things with this

game is before it even lets you get into

the meat of the game, it forces you to do

this stupid training mode where all it

does is tell you how to run, how to jump,

how to crouch, how to go prone, how to use

a grenade, how to call for reinforcements

and supply boxes. And the way you call for

supply boxes and stuff is really weird.

You go press Ctrl and then you gotta hold

it down and then input some kind of

Tekken-style combo where you press the

directional keys on WASD— up, down, left,

right, that kind of stuff. It just seems

pointless. Why is it making you do these

weird combo moves to get supplies or

extractions? Or sometimes there's some

kind of minigame where you've got to

fiddle with a terminal and enter some kind

of combo input, directional button input,

and it's just kind of silly and

unnecessary. The training mode is

completely unnecessary as well. I'm pretty

sure everyone here knows how to throw

grenades change your weapon, equip a

machine gun, call in for supplies. Why is

that something we're forced to have to do?

It took me like 20 minutes to finish the

stupid training mode. So the gameplay in

this game is extremely basic. You just

have a few weapons. You got your primary

weapon, the machine gun. You got your

sidearm, the pistol. You got some

grenades. You got some special abilities

like call for reinforcements, call for

supplies, or whatever you've chosen. And

the gameplay is basically you just aim at

the enemies, the bugs, and you shoot them.

The aiming system feels really weird and

floaty. It doesn't really feel snappy and

responsive like I would expect from a game

that's all about shooting. The gameplay is

extremely boring. You've got a melee

attack as well. The enemies are just these

stupid mindless bugs. You've got the small

bugs and you've got the big bugs that take

a few more bullets to shoot down, and they

just kind of bum rush you. They don't

really have any tactics or AI. There's no

strategic, strategic thinking, just mow

them down until you've run out of ammo,

and then you reload. For some reason, the

guns don't automatically reload. You've

got to manually press R to reload them.

And then you've got some grenades and

orbital strikes in case you really need

them, but you never really need them. So

you land on the planet because you're a

Helldiver. You land like an Orbital Shock

Trooper from Halo. Then you head to the

targets, the checkpoints that's marked on

the map, do the objective, and then head

back to the landing zone, the extraction

zone. So you're just going from point A A

to B and then from B back to A whilst

gunning down a bunch of insects, doing

some boring arbitrary side objectives and

main objectives, collect a few items,

then head back to the main ship, the

mothership, where you then check your

armory to see if you've got any new

weapons, fiddle around with your character

a bit, maybe change your cloak, your cape,

your armor, that kind of stuff if you

really care. It's a really boring game.

It kind of reminds me a bit of Warframe

where you've got this mothership that is

your home base and you've got these very

grindy kind of missions and levels that

are very repetitive and boring. You go

down there, grind XP, finish a few

objectives, come back to the mothership,

upgrade your character, customize your

character with new armor or whatever, and

then just rinse and repeat. The gameplay

is extremely repetitive and monotonous and

tedious, and I would not recommend buying

this game. The game is kind of expensive,

it's like £30. It's not super expensive

like £60, so I give them credit for not

trying to charge full price, but the game

just doesn't feel good either. It doesn't

look very polished. Looks like a very

janky game as well. So unfortunately, I'm

gonna have to give this game 6.2

out of 10. Very unoriginal, just copying

Starship Troopers. It would have been

better if they just called this game

Starship Troopers. It's got kind of like a

Captain Branigan kind of captain character

from Futurama who's all about democracy

and freedom, bringing democracy to the

alien bugs And it's trying really hard to

be funny, but it's not very funny. Maybe

the game would be kind of fun if you had

friends and you played as a group of

friends with voice chat and you're just

messing around seeing how many bugs you

can take down, go back to the

headquarters, armor up, go back down

again, squad up, mess around with your

friends. Maybe that is the way to enjoy

this game. I thought this game would be

like a multiplayer online game where you

launch down to the planet and there's a

bunch of people already down there

fighting a massive swarm of insects, and

you've got to like help them out to

survive the massive swarm. But it just

wasn't anything like that. It's just very

boring and solitary experience.

Out of ammo.

Have a taste of democracy.

Toast.

Extraction shuttle inbound.

Deploying support weapon.

ETA T-minus 1 minute 30 seconds.

AT-AT minus

Fire in the

hole! ETA T-minus 30 seconds.

ETA T-minus 20 seconds.

ETA T-minus 10 seconds.

This is Pelican One. I have visual on the

extraction zone.

Pelican One landing sequence initiated.

Watch where you're standing.

Extraction complete. Pelican 1 beginning

ascent.

Soon not even a single spore will sully

the surface of this planet.