I played this game when it first came out and loved it, but haven't really revisited it since. I'd been jonesing for a fast paced FPS, and having recently played through Modern Warfare (pretty good) and some of its multiplayer, I found myself still a bit unsatisfied. So, I decided to download Titanfall 2 from Game Pass, and wow... this game is still amazingly god damn good.
The melees in this game pack a punch (or uppercut, if sliding) and never get old. Sliding around, wall running, shooting goons in the head all still feels great and fluid in a way I don't remember feeling even when playing some of the more futuristic Call of Duty games. I hate platforming games, but Titanfall 2 is perhaps the one exception to this.
I remember the game running well on my base PS4, but it's still impressive to play on a Series X due to the load times feeling slightly faster. And the game still feels like a breath of fresh air compared to other military shooters - whether they're based in old wars, current wars, or future wars - because the characters have humor and heart, never take themselves too seriously, and actually have personalities besides "cool military bro whose vernacular is mostly military acronyms." I get that military games have to carry a different tone due to the content they're based on, but man - having a fake war on a fake planet just seems to open up so many more narrative doors.
I haven't played the multiplayer mode in Titanfall 2 since playing it originally on the PS4, but I remember it being one of the few online shooters I actually got into, even though I was never great at it. It's a game that's perhaps even more fun out of mechs than it is in them. It kinda makes me wish Apex Legends had a single player mode, but hey - I get it.
So yeah, if you haven't replayed this in a while, I definitely recommend it.
The melees in this game pack a punch (or uppercut, if sliding) and never get old. Sliding around, wall running, shooting goons in the head all still feels great and fluid in a way I don't remember feeling even when playing some of the more futuristic Call of Duty games. I hate platforming games, but Titanfall 2 is perhaps the one exception to this.
I remember the game running well on my base PS4, but it's still impressive to play on a Series X due to the load times feeling slightly faster. And the game still feels like a breath of fresh air compared to other military shooters - whether they're based in old wars, current wars, or future wars - because the characters have humor and heart, never take themselves too seriously, and actually have personalities besides "cool military bro whose vernacular is mostly military acronyms." I get that military games have to carry a different tone due to the content they're based on, but man - having a fake war on a fake planet just seems to open up so many more narrative doors.
I haven't played the multiplayer mode in Titanfall 2 since playing it originally on the PS4, but I remember it being one of the few online shooters I actually got into, even though I was never great at it. It's a game that's perhaps even more fun out of mechs than it is in them. It kinda makes me wish Apex Legends had a single player mode, but hey - I get it.
So yeah, if you haven't replayed this in a while, I definitely recommend it.
