Eager Guardians can now dive into the new and dramatically different (and yet comfortingly familiar) universe of Destiny 2, as the servers have now gone live around the world. Of course, there is one proviso to this: you must have a physical disc of the game to play today.
Faithful Redditors in the UK have been posting to say that a number of retailers have posted their games early enough that they have arrived today, breaking the street date of 6th September in the process. If you’ve bought from SimplyGames or The Game Collection you may be in luck and have a Destiny 2 disc waiting for you at home, or already in your hands.
If you’ve pre-ordered digitally, you will have to wait until the regional digital unlock time, which is at midnight tonight in your country, or midnight EDT in the US. Also, you should be aware that there is a day one patch to the tune of 6.2GB to download before you can play, whether you’re buying digitally or physically – you can manually trigger the update download on PS4 if you’ve pre-ordered and pre-loaded digitally via the Options menu.
This is also where we stand with our review, as we await the digital unlock in order to get started playing the game. We’ll endeavour to have early impressions from the first several hours of the game tomorrow afternoon, covering as many of the salient points and key differences to the first game as we can, but for a full review we’ll be waiting until the Raid goes live next week on 13th September to experience the endgame that was so key to the experience in the first Destiny.
Source: Reddit
aerobes
I’m sure it will be excellent but my shooter catalogue is fully booked right now with Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 and the Battlefield and Siege DLC.
Andrewww
That’s the sequel to that game they completely forgot the story bit, and then tried to patch it in afterwards, right? Thanks, but not interested.
There’s so many games of developers who are good at storytelling that I won’t bother about this one.
Nate
The story was lacking, but the gun-play was spot on. I love a good narrative but Destiny is still one of the games I have had most fun with this generation. No other shooter has felt as “right” to me. (And let’s face it, FPS in general aren’t known for their stunning stories)
Andrewww
Of course, many if not most shooters are rather short on story, and I sometimes play these and have fun. But still, I regularly feel let down if I go and see an action blockbuster, which they spend incredible amounts of money for, but which feel really shallow and the story is plain stupid or just not there. I wished they’d spend a tiny fraction on that too, and the more games I play, the higher my expectations are.
marvzilla
Received my copy early from simply games, excellent so far and seems like they learned a lot of lessons from the first game. Regarding the comments above the story telling is much improved, and I agree the gunplay is the best of today’s shooters – it just feels right.