Another week, another critically acclaimed first-person shooter from EA. Titanfall 2 will finally mech a mess of the PlayStation 4 this week – not that anyone cares what with it being sandwiched between Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Apparently it's really good, though. Honest. We'll confirm when we actually, y'know, receive our copy.
GameSpot - 9/10
And lastly, Titanfall 2 demonstrates a vitality that its predecessor couldn't. Whereas the first Titanfall kept up its breakneck pace throughout the entirety of every match, Titanfall 2 understands that sometimes, dialing things back for a few moments can make the long run much more enjoyable. In many ways, Titanfall 2 feels like the game Respawn should have made in 2013. It's a fantastic sequel. It's a fluid shooter. It's a spectacular game.
Games Radar - 4.5/5
Titanfall 2 might well be this year's best surprise. The original game's gorgeously tactile, flowing traversal systems always had great potential as the fuel of a single-player campaign, but the care and craft that Respawn has instilled into creating that adventure will blindside you. It's immediately gratifying on a moment-to-moment basis, but as a complete work and experience, it's one of the most creative and rewarding FPS in recent memory.
US Gamer - 4/5
Although it's a little on the short side, and its production values are a bit oldschool, Titanfall 2's single-player campaign is a really enjoyable experience while it lasts. It's very inventive and fun, and a great warm-up for the game's excellent multiplayer component, whose gunplay and controls are absolutely outstanding. All it needs is a few more maps and modes.
Polygon - 7/10
Consistency is a problem for Titanfall 2 in general, and it's a game that seems to struggle with a confident direction for its changes. The end result is a collection of fantastic mechanics across its campaign and its multiplayer that often feel hamstrung by difficult to understand design choices. There's clearly more here than before, and the package is offering something more "complete" by today's standards. But Titanfall 2 throws the series' dynamics off enough to make for something that just doesn't quite click together as well as it did before.
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10/10 for free maps/modes and no season pass!
i see polygon's review parameters haven't changed much..
XB exclusive - great
PS exclusive - sh*t
multiplatform - meh
from what i've seen of the campaign it looks interesting and quite polished, i have a feeling that it might be fairly short though. the multiplayer beta was ok, but not overly enticing all the same. i passed on BF1, still not sure about this. i'd really like to know if proper release has an option to flip aim/fire controls to L1/R1 - the beta didn't have it and i don't like using L2/R2.
Will buy when it's cheaper
Seems like a good game. However I haven't met anybody with much interest in it to be honest.
@leucocyte TLOU 7/10 - that's all I needed to read to understand Polygon were biased. If you played the last of us when it launched there is no way on earth any competent gamer or reviewer would have given it anything less than a seal of approval. 7/10 on that occasion was a complete disgrace.
Polygon are also clearly marketing on behalf of blizzard. Suffice the never ending Hearthstone, World of Warcraft and Overwatch articles. I actually quite like the site due to its articulate articles, but any opinion or review you have to take with a pinch of salt.
For me personally, this is one of my most anticipated games in 2016 and this generation in general. Absolutely loved the tech test, even though I'm normally not that much into the mp part of a game, but I haven't had that much fun in mp since MW 1 and 2. Figures, since those games and TF 2 are basically made by most of the same guys.
On top of that, I somehow get a late-80s-buddy-movie vibe from what I have seen from the campaign. Seems right up my alley.
Thursday night, 00:00 can't come soon enough!
@Reverend_Skeeve totally agreed!!!
Most anticipated game of the year is finally 4 days away!!! Had a blast with both tech test weekeneds!!! I've never been able to play a shooter so much in such limited amount of maps, and that says something! When I stop playing the test it was from actual fatigue not from boredom, haven't felt that way about a game in a long time actually this is probably the first multi-player I can play by myself or with people and not get bored and the fact that they have free maps switch to me helps any Shooters stay fresh is even better. So glad there's a campaign this time I think I might actually be played this campaign two or three times! I had this bf1 and IW pre-ordered canceled both of those and put their cash towards the PS4 Pro! Titanfall is the only one out of the three shooters that I paid off and I'm still hyped for! Just got the TB elite 800 strictly for the new system and playing the crap out of Titanfall its going to be so fun!!!
Getting this, only fps that had my attention in recent years
It's great that nearly every review says the single player portion is great, although I do want it to stay longer, man I remember playing half-life 1 & 2 single player portion, it take forever to finish.
@Neolit Polygon suck for review, although it's good for everything else, I enjoyed their ps vr articles, especially "the making of playstation vr".
That's great. I wanted to get this only for the SP anyways but I don't have time to play it currently.
Btw, does anyone know if you can customize both your pilot and titan with paints in SP or are they only for MP?
@Neolit "social justice in recent years"
Oh man, those articles were the worst. Zelda is racist dont ya know
@themcnoisy
I believe Zelda was deemed sexist. I think the sexism of contiually conforming to gender expected roles of playing the heroic boy saving the girl in distress. "In these modern enigtened times, why can't we play as the Princess coming down from the castle and rescuing the boy from the fairies who have him hostage in a idylilic life by the Deku Tree?"
Or something like that.
Honestly, I forgot this was even coming out. I don't know what EA have been thinking, but between the Xbox exclusivity last time around, and the absurd release date for the sequel, enthusiasm for Titanfall has dwindled to near irrelevance. Shame because the gameplay at the heart of it was pretty fun.
After the disappointment the was the Infinite Warfare Beta, I'm warming to the idea of getting this.
@NikCanPlay i realise i can customise the buttons in the accessibility menu, but the problem is that changes all the L1/L2 R1/R2 controls, so in BF1 for example, i still want L2/R2 to be L2/R2 for vehicles, i only want it to be L1/R1 for the shooting. it also doesn't change the on-screen button prompts - if the on-screen button prompts altered to reflect the accessibility settings (sony should really include something in the PS4 devkit for this) i could probably live with it, though i'd just prefer if developers allowed the option, or have fully in-game customisable controls (this is 2016!) especially if i'm to pay £50 for it. warframe's in-game controller configuration options were excellent, and that was a free-to-play game.
I will play this soon,
With my Titanfall helmet,
I have a problem.
@DoublezZ01 Agreed, man! I've played the hell out of the tech test on both weekends, even though I have a backlog up to the moon, but I couldn't help but to come back to Titanfall to play just one more match.
And the only thing I didn't like about the tech test was knowing that it would be over so soon. I don't know, something just clicked for me with this game. Controls were just spot on and having a giant mech guarding my back while I took to the battlefield was just awesome. I'm sure I'll play this for a long time.
Add me on PSN, if you like: Reverend_Skeeve
@Reverend_Skeeve Its crazy man same here got a couple of freebies and some on disk i need to finish! This is literally the game I've been looking most forward to all year! I had the last titatfall it was awesome but it always felt incomplete! But TF2 really does feel like how the game should have been during its original release! The solidified graphics fine tuned wallrunning, it just feels so unrestrictive compared to any other shooter ive played ever!!! I cancelled both IW and BF after playing there betas and put them on my Pro preorder!!! I guess sci-fi shooters are my thing, especially this one i love mechs and fluidness and this game (campaign included) has it all!!! I can.play this alone or with froend easily its just so unicque and buisier compared to other shooters!
Dude u read my mind...would love to have another enthusiasts to play with!!!!!! =) add me!!! Heero727
@DoublezZ01 Couldn't agree more, sir! Never played TF 1, but I love fps games and sci-fi fps in particular, so I wanted to try TF 2 since it has been announced...and since the amazing tech test, the wait has basically been almost unbearable.
Soon now, friend, soon...
@Reverend_Skeeve yea msn totally agreed in want able to play a game for aweek after the tech test! Felt like i was going through withdrawl lol ive been twerting the cap outta respawn and titanfall since and they have replied to damn near 20 of my tweets! And don't worry u havent missed much at all believe me, compared to the original this game is so much more complete! The fan base should definitely remain longer since they have a lot more content this time around! I can never go back to TF1 after playing TF2 and any idiot that tells u the first one was better should take there ass back to Cod! XD
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