"Repetitious gameplay and awkward controls make this a less of a ‘dive' and more of a crash landing"

A fantastic space-set twin stick shooter.

Helldivers is an entertaining cosmic shooter, if you're playing in a dedicated team. It's an experience that can be had solo, but is intended for a team of four, if those four will actually work together, and in my experience, that can't happen with randoms online.

+ Fun twin-stick shooter; + Enemies are challenging; and it can be tense; + Co-op design; when playing with mates

- Objectives are fairly boring; - Very repetitive; - Terrible story; - Playing with randoms sucks

Helldivers doesn't quite capture the intensity and brutality of the many galactic battles we see in films like Starship Troopers or Aliens, but it makes a decent effort. From Arrowhead Game Studios (the makers of Magicka) comes a bread-and-butter top-down shooter that has a few kinks and twists...

Polished; content-heavy shooter action; Captures Magicka's essence in a brand new setting; Solid co-op fun

The gameplay gets repetitive in large doses; Abundant nickel-and-dime DLC; Solo experience is lacking

helldivers is like baby from starship troopers and warhammer 40k , fun and addictive but also...... PREPARE TO DIE.......... ALOT !!!! with unlimited replay value, it cant go wrong for 19.99

This is pretty much Starship Troopers the video game, but without the licensing to call it that. I absolutely love the great 4-player same-screen couch co-op play, and the Playstation Cross-buy and Cross-play functionality.

Great game

Best couch co-op I've played since I was a kid. My friends and I awe awful at it, but we still enjoy it.

not knowing what I was getting into, I bought this game and give it a shot, i was totally being over run trying to play solo, I was so close to giving up on this game and suddenly 3 random people join my game and man I just cant stop playing, it feels so good to have someone to watch your back!

Gaming is something we all enjoy in the family, or at least all of us siblings do and there are invariably lots of arguments around the different consoles. This is all over now because it's only me and my brother left at home and as I'm the oldest, I can just sit on him and that solves all...

Amazingly good co-op; tongue in cheek humour; satirical; good gameplay; tense and difficult

Poor single player; weak plot; may be too difficult for some