Helldivers 2 is the first PlayStation-published Xbox game

Arrowhead Game Studios’ Helldivers 2 volition marque the leap to the Xbox Series X and S consoles connected August 26th, costing $39.99. This is the archetypal PlayStation-published rubric to motorboat connected Xbox. The rubric volition vessel with transverse play betwixt each platforms.

The cooperative PvE third-person shooter was an unexpected deed erstwhile it archetypal launched simultaneously connected PlayStation 5 and PC successful aboriginal 2023. It soared successful popularity connected Steam, wherever it earned an “overwhelmingly positive” rating, which flipped to “overwhelmingly negative” erstwhile Sony introduced (then swiftly reversed) a determination to necessitate a PSN login for PC players. Xbox’s property release makes nary notation of a PSN login, truthful it apt won’t beryllium required here.

Helldivers 2 is simply a gem of a crippled that’s precocious connected hijinx. What initially seems similar a superior sci-fi rubric often gives mode to funny, emergent moments, acknowledgment successful portion to its Strategem system, which requires you to input analyzable fastener combos portion facing down swarms of enemies. There are a assortment of missions you tin instrumentality connected against aliens, robots, and a newer Illuminate species. And, since it’s a live-service title, the lore and the stakes are ever evolving (and the developers often troll players). It’s a amusive satellite to beryllium immersed in, adjacent if you’re conscionable grinding the escaped conflict walk for limb upgrades.

My erstwhile Polygon colleague Cass Marshall wrote immoderate unthinkable Helldivers 2 coverage, which person the powerfulness to person conscionable astir anyone that they were missing retired connected a bully time. I mean, conscionable look astatine these headlines below.