Overview:

Helldivers is a game that takes the top down twin stick shooter and adds some pretty interesting mechanics to it.  You’ll control a Helldiver, a part of Super Earth’s defense/police force, to try to stop intergalactic threats from destroying our way of life by making them adopt ours.  The gameplay is frantic and very animation heavy.  The enemies are highly dangerous but, above all, the one thing that is your worst enemy is Friendly Fire because that will kill you the most.  In order to call down reinforcements or supplies you have to input a series of button combinations while all of this shit is going down.  Can you handle it?  Good luck!

Visuals:

I’m not really going to knock the visuals because this game came out over ten years ago and was a little project from a small team.  While everything seems kind of bland or lacks detail it does make up for it in just the overall swag this game has.  The enemies are all uniquely different.  The worlds also have their own style to them and they will cause you to really hate going into lava or swamp zones just from the very beginning. 

Audio:

The music and sound effects are where this game truly shines with how it utilizes these so well.  When the music swells and the bullets are flying, it just brings a sense of urgency to the game and makes you want to destroy every enemy you see.  I just wish there was more voice acting in this game because what we do have is severely lacking.  Everything else, though, top notch.

Completion:

I FINISHED THIS GAME!  Well, me and my posse did.  We won the war against the threats to humanity.  Mind you we lost the first time, but that doesn’t matter!  It was a fun game and still is a pretty nice staple to have every night we play.  I just wish there was more to do but that’s what makes a game great, right, when all you want to do is play more and more of it.