Why would a super democracy like Super Earth waste time building a super robot?
Why is Helldivers 2 A MASTERPIECE?!
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You could call me a fan of mechanics. I've sunk more hours into Titanfall than any other multiplayer game, and Armored Core 6 was my personal game of the year. Big robots, tactical war games, plastic models, I enjoy them all. So when I say the Helldivers 2 mechanics suck, I mean it with love, because it's absolutely perfect for this game.
Helldivers 2 takes place in a fictional galactic war between alien insects, autonomous robots and the idiotic fascist humans of Super Earth. The game's tone is satirical in essentially the same way that the Starship Troopers movie was: that is, to show how war horrifically distorts a society and how propaganda is used to hide it.
