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DesTiny 2<br />
insiDeR<br />
Guardian<br />
anGels<br />
Rebook your<br />
Traveller plans<br />
After all of the hype and rumors, Bungie has<br />
finally announced the sequel Destiny 2. Here’s<br />
everything we know about it so far<br />
Toys<br />
‘R’ Us<br />
The game is already<br />
available for<br />
pre-order for those<br />
who want to get in<br />
extra early, and those<br />
who do can get<br />
themselves a little<br />
extra treat in the<br />
shape of a miniature<br />
Cayde 6 figure with<br />
an oversized head. If<br />
you’re in the UK you’ll<br />
be able to secure one<br />
from Game with the<br />
standard, limited,<br />
and collectors<br />
versions of the game.<br />
US readers will be<br />
able to do the same<br />
but can get it from<br />
GameStop instead.<br />
After the success of the last twoand<br />
a-half-years we always knew<br />
this day would come. Some might call<br />
it fate, we call it destiny… 2. Ahem<br />
Yep, Bungie’s follow-up to the Halo<br />
series is finally getting a sequel, and<br />
just from its brief announcement<br />
it’s already looking more impressive<br />
than the original. It’s also going to<br />
mark a fresh start for the series,<br />
so it’s going to be the perfect place<br />
for all would-be Guardians to join the<br />
fray for the first time alongside more<br />
experienced folk.<br />
Currently Destiny players are<br />
enjoying the game’s last event—The<br />
Age Of Triumph, which gives you<br />
access to a record book full of tasks<br />
that will keep you busy all the way up<br />
to September. Like a victory tour, it<br />
takes you through revisiting all of the<br />
game’s best bits from the last two<br />
years. It’s all rather cheery, so how we<br />
get from there to all of the death and<br />
destruction that’s currently on show<br />
in Destiny 2 will be quite the shock to<br />
the (solar) system.<br />
For starters the low-hanging moonthing<br />
that is The Traveller is in a bad<br />
way. After ushering in Earth’s golden<br />
age of technology, where humanity<br />
spread throughout the solar system<br />
and kept the Last City safe for the<br />
last few hundred years, The Traveller<br />
seemed invincible. So invincible that<br />
seeing its innards ravaged by flames<br />
like the after effects of a bad chilli<br />
comes as huge a surprise.<br />
It’s not just our giant round friend<br />
either—the Last City has also fallen.<br />
The Tower where you spent all of your<br />
free time in Destiny 1 dancing and<br />
being dismayed by Xur’s offerings has<br />
been obliterated. The storage vaults<br />
where you kept all of your loot? All<br />
gone. Yep, even the secret balls used<br />
for spontaneous kickabouts are gone,<br />
and it’s all thanks to those blasted<br />
Cabal. Thanks a lot, guys.<br />
Hive mind<br />
Despite how much you’ve been killing<br />
them off in Destiny 1 the bad guys<br />
have managed to amass enough<br />
forces for a full-on assault on The<br />
Traveller and The Last City, forcing out<br />
you and your Guardian buddies into<br />
the surrounding wastes. The ones<br />
behind it all? The Red Legion led by<br />
Ghaul, or Gary as Cayde-6 likes to call<br />
him. They’re a completely new faction<br />
that are said to be even more powerful<br />
than anything we’ve encountered and<br />
come equipped with some seriously<br />
powerful gear and some nasty new<br />
enemy types.<br />
From more mobile shields that can<br />
be deployed at will by enemies that<br />
we’ll have to get around, to brutes<br />
wielding energy cleavers, and vicious<br />
alien dog things that will pounce at<br />
your face, there will be a lot of new<br />
bad guys to shoot at. Ghaul himself is<br />
said to be a master strategist, which<br />
explains how he was able to formulate<br />
a successful plan to attack The<br />
011<br />
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