Helldivers 2 takes Critics' Choice Award at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024

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In a year packed with plenty of top game releases, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Helldivers 2 has won🦂 the Golden Joystick Awards' Critꦫics' Choice Award for 2024.

While the players decide🎉 many of the show's award winners, this prize has been decided by veteran journalists from GamesRadar+, PCGamer, Edge, Retro Gamer, The Future Game Show, and Future's trusted network of freelance writers. T🌌here's no shortage of excellent candidates this year, but the lure of spreading managed democracy has proven too great.

Our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Helldivers 2 review gives the prize winner a four-star rating, calling it "astonishing to behold" and "a fiercely challenging and visually breathtaking cooperative shooter where failure is funny and success feels magni♔ficent." The judging panel clearly shares this sentiment, with Helldivers 2 winning out in a year packed with great releases.

The third-person squad-based shooter has you enlisting to join the titular Helldivers to turn the tide of an intergalactic war as Earth struggles to rid the galaxy of rising robotic and alie𝐆n threats. To pla💮y your part, you must aid fellow divers in completing major orders often involving plenty of squashing bugs and spilling oil.

Alongside some biting satire, what makes Helldivers 2 special is that you shape the ongoing narrative. Success or failure dictates where the overall story heads next. Over the year, we've seen players finally take the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:infamous Malevelon Creek and aid in completing a space station that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:we're not totally sure is frienꦑd or foe – more on that as we have it.

Iain Harris
News Editor, Games

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