You can't win a Galactic War without losing a few good Helldivers. That's what my friends and I learned the hard way last night, as we dived into what is undoubtedly one of the best PS5 games to launch so far this year. Not that we made all that much of an impact, with the effort to shift frontlines of battle back from Super Earth controlled colonies proving to be a slow, enduring struggle. There's a large community effort underway right now, unfurling in real-time across the globe, to defend eastern territories from encroaching Terminids, all while a markedly smaller contingent of deployed soldiers work to contain a growing Automaton threat out in hostile space to the west.
In Helldivers 2, you fight for everything the Super Earth Armed Forces infomercials said that you would be: For Freedom, for Liberty, and for Democracy! And yet here the four of us stand in the frigid hellscape of Heeth, bickering about who 'accidentally' shoved who off of a cliff face while we were scoping out a nearby hive of Hunters – legs shattered and without a stim handy to regain full battle readiness, our fallen comrade was soon surrounded by swarming Terminids, and consumed by one of our devastating Orbital Strike stratagems not long after. Rest in pieces, L-Dawg.
