Titanfall 2's singleplayer campaign had no right being as fun as it is. I was supposed to slog my way through this and whine about the stagnant and sleep inducing state of blockbuster First Person Shooters, and not have to come here and tell you to play Titanfall 2 cause it's one of the handful of recent ones that is actually worth a damn.
Instead of having you excruciatingly peeking and ducking in and out of cover as your screen is filled with blood each time you get hit with a single bullet, Titanfall 2 forces you to get close and personal with enemies while you dash and jump around the walls like an annoying Looney Toon and waste away rows of enemies with a very generous slide that seems to go on until the cool points run off, complemented by the ability to turn invisible for a short period of time which incentivizes you to suicide yourself into the line of fire and keep the pace going.
Getting inside the titan would have felt like cutting the legs off the player, but Titanfall 2 prevents that from ever happening by contrasting the fragility of the pilot with the absurd military power the titan displays everytime you get inside it and just annihilate everything on sight, feeling which is further exponentiated by a surprisingly effective bond between the player and the talking giant anime robot.
Short and sweet and only sparing 6 hours, Titanfall 2 presents a core idea each mission only to discard it for something new the next one, like the one mission everyone already knows about where you have to shift between past and present every 5 seconds to sequence your way through, or the factory one where you have to parkour through a vast assembly line of moving platforms, never letting things get dull and uninteresting.
It's unfortunate then that Titanfall 2 is dragged down by its "westernisms" and doesn't achieve peak uncompromised unashamed dopamine release. The needless constant reloading greatly contrasts with the main appeal of the game, deflating every single offensive lunge every time you have to stop and wait for the gun to go back to game mode, and the weapons are all incredibly boring and safe, giving you around 4 assault rifles that I honestly couldn't tell you the difference between them right now. The story is a bunch of serious space marine nonsense, saved only by the banter between the pilot and the titan, and would have enormously benefited from a Platinum style plot.
Nonetheless, Titanfall 2 is awesome, and as usual the videogame zeitgeist disagrees with me cause this game sold like shit and you will play Call of Duty for the rest of your life because of it :^)
Oh, and there's also online multiplayer, i'm sure it's good or w/e.
Instead of having you excruciatingly peeking and ducking in and out of cover as your screen is filled with blood each time you get hit with a single bullet, Titanfall 2 forces you to get close and personal with enemies while you dash and jump around the walls like an annoying Looney Toon and waste away rows of enemies with a very generous slide that seems to go on until the cool points run off, complemented by the ability to turn invisible for a short period of time which incentivizes you to suicide yourself into the line of fire and keep the pace going.
Getting inside the titan would have felt like cutting the legs off the player, but Titanfall 2 prevents that from ever happening by contrasting the fragility of the pilot with the absurd military power the titan displays everytime you get inside it and just annihilate everything on sight, feeling which is further exponentiated by a surprisingly effective bond between the player and the talking giant anime robot.
Short and sweet and only sparing 6 hours, Titanfall 2 presents a core idea each mission only to discard it for something new the next one, like the one mission everyone already knows about where you have to shift between past and present every 5 seconds to sequence your way through, or the factory one where you have to parkour through a vast assembly line of moving platforms, never letting things get dull and uninteresting.
It's unfortunate then that Titanfall 2 is dragged down by its "westernisms" and doesn't achieve peak uncompromised unashamed dopamine release. The needless constant reloading greatly contrasts with the main appeal of the game, deflating every single offensive lunge every time you have to stop and wait for the gun to go back to game mode, and the weapons are all incredibly boring and safe, giving you around 4 assault rifles that I honestly couldn't tell you the difference between them right now. The story is a bunch of serious space marine nonsense, saved only by the banter between the pilot and the titan, and would have enormously benefited from a Platinum style plot.
Nonetheless, Titanfall 2 is awesome, and as usual the videogame zeitgeist disagrees with me cause this game sold like shit and you will play Call of Duty for the rest of your life because of it :^)
Oh, and there's also online multiplayer, i'm sure it's good or w/e.