![]() For example, one stratagem calls an airstrike, which is great… unless your teammates are caught in the crossfire. You then need to decide where you want the stratagem to perform its action, which depending on if it’s a defensive, offensive, or support type, you’ll want to be careful about where you place it. ![]() Each stratagem has it’s own button combo. In order to use a stratagem you have to hold its assigned button down to open the list of stratagems at your disposal, at which point you have to enter a button combination on the d-pad to execute. Stratagems cannot be expended on the fly like, say, Diablo 3, with only a cooldown to worry about Helldivers is unwaveringly focused on timing and positioning and, as such, makes you sing for your supper. Stratagems, otherwise known as spells, abilities, or special attacks in most games, are a big part of what sets Helldivers apart from other action games. Guns will be your primary source of destruction in most cases, but there’s also various types of grenades and, more uniquely, stratagems. The guns have different recoils, clip sizes, ranges, and so on. ![]() You’ll get a chance to try out various weapons that perform surprisingly different – you’re not going to play the same way if you’re strapped with a laser beam cannon as you are with a shotgun or an automatic rifle. The missions start out on the easy side, accurately labeled “A Dive in the Park”, giving you a chance to acclimate to the control scheme. You need to teamwork your ass off if you want to survive. That’s not the case in Helldivers, though. ![]() It’s more like there are multiple people doing their own thing but with a common goal. It doesn’t feel very much like teamwork, in most cases. I tend to disagree with what other people consider a good co-op game because often times it’s simply a good single-player concept that happens to scale when you add more players to the mix. Most of these games are great co-op multiplayer games that won’t fail to bring a tear to your eye as you reminisce about CRT televisions and the bygone days of 16-bit consoles.I’m always on the hunt for a good cooperative multi-player game, but sadly they are far and few in between. Not to mention the too often overlooked Bonanza Bros. ![]() It ranges from all the classic Sonic the Hedgehog games including the excellent Sonic & Knuckles, to the side-scrolling beat’em ups Streets of Rage and Golden Axe, to the puzzle game Dr. While this isn’t the first classic games collection ever released by SEGA, it is hands down, the very best. Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection is a trip down nostalgia lane. No matter if local or online, a co-op mode makes any game so much better.Įven if it just provides someone to blame for utter defeats and complete failures. With the advent of the PlayStation 3, plus a wider adoption of broadband Internet connections, the co-op experience took a massive step forward allowing players from all over to engage in jolly cooperation. It was only over time that the concept of cooperative multiplayer started taking shape, rising to incredible heights in the previous console generation. For a very long time, playing games with friends meant that you were playing against them. ![]()
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