Abstract: Four months into its existence, Destiny is a better, more frustrating, more expansive—and ultimately, expensive—game than it was at launch. It's also very different, because after months of tweaks, it has become clearer than ever who we're really playing...
Abstract: Populating that world is where things start to come undone. Of the four enemy factions, only the Vex come close to having any personality. The Fallen are just a poor man's Covenant, the Hive are, for the most part, just the Flood and the Cabal are just th...
Destiny is an interesting spectacle of a game that's been crushed by the weight of its own hype. Bungie hasn't delivered the game-changing open-world shooter that was promised, but instead has ushered in a sort of unified mixture of addictive gameplay wit...
Abstract: I'm standing in front of a cave, my assault rifle drawn. I'm shooting at a steady stream of identical aliens. I do this for an hour, hoping an alien will drop a good enough item so I can finally feel okay about walking away. That moment never seems to com...
Destiny is an ambitious and content-rich shooter that pushes the genre forward, but it lacks the quality storytelling that maker Bungie is known for. Destiny is the Han Solo of video games. It's incredibly handsome and knows a thing or two abou...
Published: 2014-09-15, Author: Jacob , review by: bgr.com
Abstract: Destiny is one of the most high-concept releases to ever reach home consoles. Combining some of the most beloved elements of massively-multiplayer online games with the pedigree of one of the most heralded FPS developers of the past decade, it was nearly ...
Abstract: Over the first dozen or so hours in Destiny, it becomes pretty clear that the early bits of this game very much define big publisher, big developer, AAA gaming. Destiny is a highly polished and well oiled machine. It fires on all cylinders in terms of per...
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Published: 2014-07-12, Author: Ben , review by: yahoo.com
Abstract: It comes close, I'll give it that. Destiny is gorgeous, slick, and finely tuned, a technical knockout and a calling card for what big video game money can do. But it's also strangely repetitive, occasionally empty, and saddled with a story only its author...
