There’s even a timed test with leaderboard integration, a fun throwback to. My demo started off in a short training scenario, a VR simulation in which Cooper’s CO gives him the expected rundown on pilot controls. Either way: robots.īT, an acronym for Buddy Titan or Bully Titan? We'll find out soon enough. It’s a caricature of modern environmental and economic issues, but if the characters are written well enough, the contrived backdrop may not matter. And they practice what they preach, tearing up defenseless Frontier settlements in the name of planetary fracking.
They need an armed force because the Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation-a Weyland-Yutani-esque example of capitalism’s worst case scenario-openly believes human lives are expendable and planets are only good for their profit potential, even though they’re humans too. Titanfall 2 puts you in the role of Jack Cooper (a very exotic and rare name in the future), a rifleman in the Frontier Militia, a group set on expanding human settlements into rimworld colonies.
It’s one of the most surprising action shooters I’ve played in recent memory, a planetary tour that gets more mileage out of experimenting with level design and traversal than no-scoping enemy infantry. You shoot bad guys, sure, but you also have branching conversations with a robot companion and Super-Meat-Boy your way through challenging platforming gauntlets, all set in a cohesive, mysterious science fiction world.
