![]() How much you enjoy that will depend on your own personal tolerance for FPS platforming. Pilots can not only double jump, but they can also run on walls, meaning that there is a lot of platforming mixed in with the usual shooting that you’d expect from the first-person shooter genre. As a Pilot, Jack has a number of additional skills that he can utilise, such as being able to cloak himself momentarily in order to give him a window to escape when stuck in a firefight, and the game makes sure to ease you in when it comes to learning how to use them all. Of course, the “human teams up with a robot who doesn’t quite grasp how humans communicate” trope is nothing new ( Terminator 2: Judgment Day says hello), but Titanfall 2 executes it with a fair amount of charm, and I grew to like both Jack and BT as the story progressed. You can either have Jack be a wisecracking sardonic who delivers lines that always go over BT’s head, or you can make him an earnest guy who leans on BT for support and genuinely cares for him. By far one of the best parts of the story is Jack’s budding relationship with BT as throughout the game you are given a choice through dialogue trees as to how they react to the events of the story. ![]() This works well as it gives us as the player a chance to learn along with Jack as he is paired up with experienced Titan BT-7274. However, after the good guys have their keisters thoroughly handed to them in the opening level, Jack ends up having to step into Pilot shoes before he is ready and is essentially forced to learn on the job. Jack starts out the game as a rifleman who is going through the initial stages of his Pilot training. The IMC are opposed by the Militia, of which our player character, Jack Cooper, is a member. This being humanity and all, there are obviously some bad folk who are using the Titans to try to subjugate everyone else whilst harvesting the resources of other worlds, with the main culprit being a company called the IMC who often enlist amoral mercenaries to do their dirty work for them. Titans are usually paired up with a specific operator known as a “Pilot”, and the idea is that the two work together to uphold their particular mission, with the Titan having a protocol that demands they protect the life of their Pilot. It’s far enough in the future that humanity has discovered many different habitable planets and can enlist the aid of big robots called “Titans” that they can take into battle with them. Titanfall 2 would appear to be set in the far flung future, although I don’t think they ever actually specify what year it takes place in. After completing the campaign mode and having a day to digest it, I’d have to say “yes” but also add an “although” as well. After watching the Zero Punctuation review of the game, I decided I’d have a look to see how much it cost and found that I could get it for less than a tenner, and thus I forked out the cash to see if I’d like it or not. ![]() However, whilst on a recent dive down a Jimquisition YouTube rabbit hole, I came across an episode where Jim spoke about Titanfall 2 and essentially stated that you really didn’t need to have played the first game in order to play the second. ![]() The first Titanfall game was exclusive to the Xbox One, so I never got a chance to play it, and thus, when Titanfall 2 came out on both the Xbox One and PS4, I decided to give it a miss due to not playing the first one. I’ve been an early-ish adapter to new consoles during the past couple of generations, but nothing on the list of launch games for the new machines made me think I just HAD to pick one up, and I still have quite a few PS4 and Switch games that haven’t even come out of the plastic yet, so I reckon I’ll continue working my way through those for the next year or so, which brings me to Titanfall 2. I think I’ll be sticking with my PS4 and Switch for the foreseeable. With Soul Month now behind us, I decided to return to the eighth gen for this week’s game, mainly because I didn’t fancy venturing into the wasteland and battling marauders for the smallest chance of possibly having the opportunity to buy a ninth gen console. ![]()
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