

Especially since there are missions where you don’t get to make that decision. But there’s more to sci-fi shooter than just deciding if you want to be a foot soldier or, well, a really tall foot soldier.
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Or, to put it another way, Titanfall 2 is basically Avatar if it was rewritten by Old Man’s War author John Scalzi and co-starred the Hulkbuster suit from Avengers: Age Of Ultron.Īs in the original, Titanfall 2 has you engaging in a series of frantic firefights, both on the ground and in your Titan. Which doesn’t just require you to shoot IMC soldiers and their robots, but it also means you have to pilot your former commander’s Titan, a heavily armed and armored mech suit. During a mission to the planet Typhon, your commanding officer is killed, and it’s up to you to complete his mission to investigate a research facility run by your enemies in the IMC. With this sequel not out yet, and thus the multiplayer servers not yet populated, here’s my assessment of the game’s campaign to tide you over until I’m able to shoot real people online.Īnd many years in our future, Titanfall 2 casts you as Jack Cooper, a rifleman in the Frontier Militia.

But with Titanfall 2 ( PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC), the good people at Respawn Entertainment have given this sci-fi shooter a real, no-foolin’, story-driven, single-player campaign. While it had a story mode, it was really just a loosely connected string of multiplayer matches. Like Star Wars Battlefront, Evolve, and Rainbow Six Siege, the original Titanfallwas a multiplayer game that kind of had a campaign.
