As a teen I was a huge fan of the Call of Duty franchise. The amount of hours I played COD 4 and Modern Warfare 2 online are enormous. So I remember when I've red that Vince Zampella was leaving Infinity Ward to create his own studio and make a game that would "blow cod away", I was disappointed but at the same time pretty excited for what's to come. When they eventually announced Titanfall I was left pretty disappointed since I prefer modern day warfare and I wasn't the biggest fan of Mechs so I never played any of the 2 games.
This changed this week because I remember Titanfall 1 and 2 getting great reviews but that wasn't enough to pull me in. After all this time I decided to give it a change and boy was I surprised. The game is truly amazing... The gameplay felt like a mix of Killzone and Call of Duty, the movement is amazing, the missions were fun and the relationship you build up with BT-7274 is truly something else. Great writing which you don't really expect from a shooting game like this. The story is nothing special but still very fun nonetheless. And even though I don't really like games with mechs, I loved the parts where you play with BT. The only minor thing I felt like was the game needed some more bigger set pieces like the last 2 missions because they really did some amazing stuff with this game, e.g. in mission 5 where you travel between time is really clever and something I've never experienced before in any game as far as I can remember.
The final trophy I went for was a pain in the ass though, '...Becomes The Master' in where you have to beat the gauntlet and get in the top 3. After some runs I was 10 seconds behind from the time I needed so I needed more than a couple of retries to beat the time. But then again seeing your time getting better and better also delivered a very satisfying feeling of accomplishment.
Overall I can recommend this game, it is very fun and a good but somewhat challenging platinum. There are only 3 multiplayer trophies but they are not difficult at as the time of writing I didn't had a whole lot of trouble finding matches online.

Reviewed on Mar 16, 2024


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