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Great game overall. Very engaging story!

This is an amazing game. From the graphics, the locations, cinematics and just plain awesome gameplay and story, I can only recommend it.

Prior to this the only Indiana Jones movie I watched was The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull... But man am I going to watch every single Indiana Jones movie now. The story is really interesting and I found myself feeling like I was playing an interactive movie! Additionaly there are a lot of secrets to find and side quests to do at each location, which I did only for a bit, but mostly just played the main story. From the side quests I did, they were all fun and almost felt like a part of the main story.

The graphics are really impressive and when I was buying the game I was sceptical if my PC with an RTX 3060 would be able to run it at an enjoyable pace, but I have to say they did a great job at optimizing it and it constantly ran at 1080p with 60 fps at high settings. Mind you I did have FSR quality on since DLSS would not work with proton for this game.

Also, thanks to this game I am really eager to visit the locations from the game IRL because it all just looked so amazing. The dev team really put in a lot of details into the world.

BUY THIS GAME!!!

MAJOR ORDER COMPLETED

DEMOCRACY HAS PREVAILED

I smashed my PC because of this game. That means I can finaly go out and touch some grass. Masterpiece.

JUST LIKE THE SIMULATIONS

Thank you Ubisoft, very cool. Now I can do two of my favourite things to do at the same time.

Edit: Now I also have a reason to use the other strings and not only the E string, very epic.

SPACE! ITS SO COOL!

Thank you Respawn Entertainment. Very cool.

Just a normal Nazi killing day...

If you are looking for a nice-looking looter-shooter with great gunplay, aswell as a lot of diversity when it comes to equipment and playstyles, I encourage you to give Destiny 2 a chance. It has lots of free content with more to come. The community is nice and helpful and I also would not recommend playing the game for 10 hours and building your opinion about the game based on that, since it has a lot more to offer.

Continuing from the short description, I am going to bring up some more detailed points about the game, atleast from my expirience, including the Gameplay, Community, Expansions and the technical side of the game.

Sandbox:
You can choose between three different classes: Hunter, Warlock and Titan. The Titan is a "tank on legs", capable of being a good offensive, aswell as a defensive part of the team, using his Shield-Wall, the Hunter is a quick "Space Ninja" having the ability to dodge aswell as double-jump and the Warlock is a "Space Wizard" that can heal his Teammates and fly for a short time. All three classes have Void, Solar, Arc and newely added Stasis subclasses with Supers and trees or aspects. All classes also include three different types of granades, movement, melee and two types of class abilities. Destiny 2 being a game from Bungie, the gunplay is pretty solid and easy to get in and master. The weapons are diverse and have five different rarities. The two rarest ones having weapon perks and the rarest one, Exotic, having perks specific for those weapons and those weapons only. The armor in Destiny 2 works similar to the weapons. Five different rarities but this time, only the rarest ones have specific perks. By Masterworking your armor, you can slot mods in to suit it to your playstyle. Mods are also avalible for weapon but, exept for a few ones, are not big game changers.

PVP:
Firstly, in my opinion, fun is a big factor of a game and if I do not have fun with a game, I do not play it. PVP is a part of Destiny 2, I dislike and while spending the majority of my playtime in PVE, I almost do not play it at all anymore and would not at all, if it would not give weekly loot. My expirience with PVP is bad SBMM and people sweating so much, that it's not real. In casual modes by the way. With the diversity of the ingame builds, it probably is hard to balance everything, so if you want to compete, you can not play your personal build with which you are familiar with and suits your playstyle, you NEED to play the current meta, something which in my opinion destroys the freedom in the game a bit. Not to mention technical problems, I have expirienced in PVP.

PVE:
Coming to PVE, there are Strikes, about 15-20 minute long missions where you go to different parts of the Solar System and fighting against baddies and earning loot. At the time of writing this, there are 12 different Strikes in the game, since some got removed after the Beyond Light expansion came out with 5 of those being avalible to everyone. More will probably come in the future. Nightfalls are a more difficult version of the Strikes and they are in a weekly cycle. The Nightfall difficulties reach from Adept to Grandmaster and the higher the difficulty, the better the loot. Next to Strikes and Nightfalls there are Raids and Dungeons. Raids are Endgame, six-man activities with specific mechanics, that you have to figure out, to beat them aswell as difficult and strong bosses. Dungeons are from my standpoint Raids but for three people instead of six. Ofcourse, there is equipment, that you can only get from Raids and some quests include Dungeons for Exotics.

Gambit:
Gambit is a kind of Hybrid between PVE and PVP. Two teams collect Motes which can be banked and when a limit is reached, a boss spawns that you need to kill. You gain Motes from defeating the enemy Teams members or by defeating AI enemies on the map. I have a love hate relationship with Gambit, since it is a cool mode to play, but is sadly full of teammates, which care about getting kills instead of playing the actual objective.
P.S. Gambits anouncer is one of the greatest characters in the game.

Destiny 2 has a relatively smaller dedicated, but really friendly community. There are high-level players, who help you do a Raid for example if you do not know how, or if you need more people, just out of their free will. People are also rarely toxic with you and are pretty patient. In the Hubworld - The Tower a lot of times, people will just hang out and do emotes together or otherwise find ways to entertain themselfes together. I can also recommend the Destiny 2 Subreddit and the Raidsecrets Subreddit if you need to know anything about the game. Also when it comes to Community Events or secret missions, there are people really dedicated and who do stuff just for the community, which I find is good especialy since you do not find something like this in most games.

Currently there are three expansions in the game. All of them being paid expansions but the price lowers everytime a new one comes out. Every single one includes a campaign mostly with a maximum lenght of 3-5 hours. All of them come with lots of new stuff, including Strikes, Raids and ofcourse equipment. Whether it's worth for you to buy them, you have to figure out for yourself. While there are good DPS choices for example that come with F2P, the real juicy loot comes with the expansions. I personaly bought all of them because of the story behind the campaigns and the raids, if that is what you are looking for, I can recommend buying them.

The game is pretty, it has some really good-looking graphics and still runs good. It also includes a moderately high ammount of settings to adjust them. When it comes to bugs, it definitely needs some polishing. Now while it, to my knowlage, have any totaly gamebreaking bugs, there are some, like places where you can clip through the floor or typical physics bugs. The servers are ok except when a new update comes out since they are almost always full at that time and I think, that the tickrate is a bit low.

In total, Destiny 2 is in my opinion a good game with a few minor problems, that do not impact your expirience drasticaly.