Forget all the nonsense review-bombing about the whole "you need a PSN account" requirement. This is a Sony-published multiplayer game with crossplay. It was always going to need a PSN account to make that work, and they said as much from the start. They just didn't make it mandatory at first because the servers were having technical issues (probably high load).

As for the game itself, well: Helldivers 1 was already a better "Starship Troopers" game than the actual licensed Starship Troopers games, and with a hilariously over-the-top "Team America World Police" tone to it.

Helldivers 2 is pretty much everything I could have wanted in a sequel. Sure, I wish the Shredder tac-nuke made a return, but that's really about it. And given how many old (and new) concepts they're re-adding every patch, I would not be surprised if it did return.

There's definitely some bugs they're still working on, and those can be frustrating now and then. But they've polished it enough that the actually frustrating bugs are pretty rare now, and most of the rest are just easily avoided, or even funny and enjoyable.

Forget all the nonsense review-bombing about the whole "you need a PSN account" requirement. This is a Sony-published multiplayer game with crossplay. It was always going to need a PSN account to make that work, and they said as much from the start. They just didn't make it [i]mandatory[/i] at first because the servers were having technical issues (probably high load). As for the game itself, well: Helldivers 1 was already a better "Starship Troopers" game than the actual licensed Starship Troopers games, and with a hilariously over-the-top "Team America World Police" tone to it. Helldivers 2 is pretty much everything I could have wanted in a sequel. Sure, I wish the Shredder tac-nuke made a return, but that's really about it. And given how many old (and new) concepts they're re-adding every patch, I would not be surprised if it did return. There's definitely some bugs they're still working on, and those can be frustrating now and then. But they've polished it enough that the [i]actually frustrating[/i] bugs are pretty rare now, and most of the rest are just easily avoided, or even funny and enjoyable.