A tiny flying robot searching for something amongst the desolate scene of crumpled cars and burned down buildings bring you instant understanding of the catastrophe that happened on Earth. This robot, known as a Ghost, finds you and brings you back to life. Ghost tries its best to fill in the player as they fight off more and more waves of aliens, known as the Fallen, trying to find a safe place to take shelter.

The game throws you directly into the action after the player creates their first character. Nothing separates each of the races from each other besides their look.

After the gamer choose these visual “upgrades”, the class selection is next. Titan is the tank based character protecting their teammates. The Hunter is the gunner. It is able to lay waste to many enemies with stealth and assassination type of moves. The Warlock is set up to steal life from enemies and deal massive amounts of damage with their super skill. Even though each has it’s own talent tree to build off of, there seems to be a lack of separation of the classes.

The gear is what sets this game apart from a lot of FPS ( first person shooters) and brings in the MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) feel to the game. Each character gets a main gun, side gun, and a heavy gun. There are several classes of each gun.

While each type of armor gives the player a different look and feel, the amount of customization with the skill/upgrade tree inside each armor gives the player a chance to customize the character to their style of gameplay.

The PVE (Player vs Environment) or story mode, allows the player to team up with other players to fight on several different planets versus several different races of aliens. Each world is brilliantly designed and players can sit there for hours just looking at the art work that was put into the design of this game. After a while though, the gameplay seems very grindy ( doing the same thing over and over again ).

For players that love the grind and gear scavenging, Destiny fulfills this with the hunt for items with random drops on kills, rewards on end bosses, and in random treasure chest. Even after the level cap at level 20, there is still are given a chance to get bigger and better gear which in turn levels the character up to level 29.

The PVP portion of the game feels great. Bungie has a great level design team. In the PVP maps your level is erased and everyone has the same amount of health.

Destiny feels like a solid game that still has some room to grow. Bungie has stated that Destiny will be a ten year game. This means that it will have many upgrades down the road in DLCs ( Downloadable content) and expansions. The first expansion is already set to come out for the holiday season.

After looking at this game as a jack of all trades, I can easily give it a solid 8/10. The game is neither a solid FPS or MMO game. It brings in a lot of identities and still holds its own.