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A Date With Destiny (2)

I fell in love with the first Destiny... but will I feel the same about Destiny 2?

When I first purchased Destiny 1, I was hesitant about how much I would actually enjoy this game. I thought it was going to be a first person shooter version of World of War Craft... I was very wrong!

Destiny combines a bunch of different game styles while adding a social element that we have not seen much of before.

It is very much a sci-fi, first person shooting game, but it also adds a very shallow sense of Open World.

Some people have been playing Destiny 1 for three years, (no joke). So you can imagine their excitement about Destiny 2.

At the point of writing this article, I would say I have played around 7 hours of Destiny, and I plan to play a lot more.

his game is very much like the first one, except better looking.

Some of the levels are jaw droppingly gorgeous. The game play is as you would expect, unrealistic, sci-fi and fun.

It seems to me that this time they tried to make the gap between Guardian classes much more noticeable.

There are new weapons, exotics, and outfits. They have even changed some concepts, like communal areas which also include enemy threats, and adventures instead of patrols.

For me, it is the social element that really shines. I can go into a coffee shop in London and order a coffee and not actually say a word to another living human. I can sit there, on my own, in one of the busiest cities in Europe, and feel as though I were floating on a raft in the middle of the Pacific.

But on Destiny 2, when I look at the roster, all the players from Destiny One are working away at their own game, slowly building a guardian that will benefit the team when the time comes to do a strike or a raid.

I can't get through 20 minutes of game play without someone dropping in on my party chat and striking up a conversation about how awesome this weapon is or how can I get that ship.

Socially, it dominates.

To give you an example, I was playing a level that was obviously too advanced for me, I won't lie - I was getting hit fairly hard, health was down, ammo was getting low and just as I was thinking I was going to need to respawn and start the entire evolution over again, someone started firing over my shoulder.

It was my buddy, who dropped into my game and saw I was getting my butt kicked.

We finished the level together, and very efficiently.

That is the kind of game you are looking at.