{"id":232,"date":"2021-03-14T04:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T04:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2021-03-14T04:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T04:22:39","slug":"titanfall-2-savior-or-false-sheppard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/14\/titanfall-2-savior-or-false-sheppard\/","title":{"rendered":"Titanfall 2- Savior or False Sheppard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This article originally ran under a different banner\/website in November of 2018 and is now being here re-uploaded for purposes of convenience and consolidation. Please enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ladies and Gentlemen!\u00a0 Lend me your ears.\u00a0 I have a story that I want to talk about.\u00a0 A very underrated story about a man and his giant robot that came out two years ago.\u00a0 NO, IT WAS NOT TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT!!!\u00a0 Though I was reminded of the first Transformers movie, after playing Titanfall 2.\u00a0 I have a fondness for the interaction between the transformers and Sam.\u00a0 I love seeing the transformers confused by human costumes and sarcasm. \u00a0 Most of my fondness for the two main characters stemmed from having pilot Jack Cooper say something sarcastic to titan BT and him failing to recognize it as such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titanfall 2\u2019s story starts with our hero along with his entire battalion invading the small planet to investigate the schemes of the Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation (IMC).\u00a0 Before someone could yell \u201cIt’s a trap\u201d, the group is ambushed and nearly slaughtered by a colorful cast of mercenaries called the Apex Predators.\u00a0 Cooper is the only surviving soldier, and his mentor in his last moment binds his titan BT to Cooper.\u00a0 The two must venture through enemy lines to reconvene with the rest of the good guys and attempt to foil the IMC along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As mentioned earlier, the levels are designed to house iconic battlegrounds in epic set pieces.\u00a0 I can recall almost every level in Titanfall 2\u2019s campaign, something a game hasn\u2019t done since Bioshock.\u00a0 I can recall parkouring across assembly arms, mechanical cranes, roaring jets, and even through two moments in time.\u00a0 I can recall wall running behind my enemies to get the drop on them.\u00a0 I also remember the titan battlegrounds.\u00a0 Now I hear you cry out: DOOMSAYER YOU DESCRIBED TIGHT CORRIDORS DESIGNED FOR PARKOUR AND HIT AND RUN TACTICS.\u00a0 HOW CAN YOU FIGHT IN A BEHEMOTH OF A MACHINE IN THOSE TIGHT SPACES?\u00a0 That, my followers, is the beauty around the level designs.\u00a0 They will open in giant arenas when it is time for rumbling in your titans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While you trade away your mobility by jumping into your titan, you unlock ridiculous amounts of firepower.\u00a0 Along with your standard titan shotguns and machine guns, your Titan has access to various shields, rockets, and ultimate abilities depending on the loadouts you have unlocked throughout the campaign.\u00a0 The loadout range from an in-your-face fire-breathing scorcher to the long-range sniper-like Northstar.\u00a0 Along with stomping on grunts, titan combat also revolves around fighting other titans.\u00a0 Throughout the campaign, you meet the member of the Apex Predators each with their own unique quirks, ranging from the deranged psycho to grumpy Russian to the cocky jet pilot.\u00a0 At an early level, Cooper is able to knick one of their communication devices, which allows us to hear this band of misfits squabble amongst themselves giving more character to these antagonists.\u00a0 Making that much more satisfying to take them down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, I do have some small gripes with Titanfall 2.\u00a0 Numerous bosses were easily having their way with me until I tried switching titan loadout, and when I did that, the tables were turned in the most embarrassing of fashions.\u00a0 This makes me wonder how balanced the titan loadouts are when one loadout is clearly superior to another loadout.\u00a0 While fighting in a titan allows you to pick up health packs, you are not given such luxury while fighting as the pilot.\u00a0 Near-death, all you can do around the corner and wait for your health to regenerate like a second-rate wolverine.\u00a0 I believe if the game adopted a health pack system similar to the titan health packs, but placed them in places that require parkouring, it would reinforce the idea of being constantly on the move.\u00a0 I also never really became attached to a specific gun.\u00a0 In Bioshock, I rocked the crossbow, DOOM the chaingun, Gears of the War the flamethrower (yes feel free to laugh), etc. But no gun in specific comes to mind.\u00a0 Though, these are all small complaints that are easily overlooked with the game’s strengths like the growing relationship between Cooper and BT.\u00a0 When BT returns a thumbs up after his life-saving catch, I can only smile as my grievances with titan balance, gun design, and regenerating health wash away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Things might not be well for Titanfall 2 thought.\u00a0 For a game that has a campaign that has a very \u201cHalf-Life 2\u201d feel, the game\u2019s publishers, Electronic Arts, did not treat it well.\u00a0 Its release date was placed between EA\u2019s own Battlefield 1 and Activision\u2019s Call of Duty.\u00a0 I recently learned the EA found Titanfall 2\u2019s sales disappointing, which doesn\u2019t seem surprising when forced to fight two juggernauts in a competitive fps market.\u00a0 I am of the opinion that EA purposely set up Titanfall 2 to fail because Titanfall 2\u2019s multiplayer was not designed to crave content like Battlefield 1 was.\u00a0 EA will probably use Titanfall 2 as an excuse to stick to demanding money for maps.\u00a0 It is sad a game will care and love put into its campaign while games designed to steal more cash from you are a success.\u00a0 And while sales of Titanfall 2 will probably not help meet EA\u2019s expectations, I urge you to give Titanfall 2 a shot even if EA is unwilling to.\u00a0 The video game story lover in me has driven me to stand on this soapbox and yell Titanfall 2 is great until I collapse.\u00a0 If DOOM was my favorite song put on repeat, then Titanfall 2 is my favorite album.\u00a0 Not every song\/level may be the best, but experience it from start to end is incredibly satisfying and cathartic.\u00a0 While people these days don\u2019t listen to albums all the way through, I urge you to please take a seat and experience this tale of a boy and his robot from start to end.\u00a0 Like BT tells Cooper when he goes to throw him across a chasm, trust me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This article originally ran under a different banner\/website in November of 2018 and is now being here re-uploaded for purposes of convenience and consolidation. Please enjoy. Ladies and Gentlemen!\u00a0 Lend me your ears.\u00a0 I have a story that I want to talk about.\u00a0 A very underrated story about a man and his giant robot that… Continue reading Titanfall 2- Savior or False Sheppard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}