Helldivers 2 is a the massively popular follow-up to Helldivers, which I played very little of. Instead of being top-down, this one is a third person shooter. It's really fun, and with it being so easy to drop in and out I can see myself playing a long time.

There's no campaign in this game. Instead, you select a mission from a rotating selection of worlds, and missions have a variety of primary and secondary objectives. Each mission you complete contributes to that world's liberation percentage, and when it reaches 100% a new world to play on is rotated in.

It works really well. The loadout system is complex without being hard to understand, and while there are battlepasses, the game seems generous enough with its currency handouts that you don't need to spend any real money.

My brother and I played a few missions, both alone and teamed up with randoms, and we had a good time. The TPS gameplay is simple but feels great, and the mechanic of calling in strategems already led to some great moments. The missions we did were pretty varied, but inevitably boil down to "reach objective, do objective, defend objective for X amount of time, then extract". I'm not sure if it gets more involved later on, but even if it doesn't the base gameplay is plenty fun.

We're always looking for a good co-op game and the drop-in drop-out nature of this one means we'll probably be playing for a good while.

Verdict: Endless (Multiplayer)

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