Destiny (2014)
PlayStation 3 · PlayStation 4 · Xbox 360 · Xbox One
3.31 from 2538 ratings
4666 members have it in their collection · 296 playing now · 528 backlogged · 430 wish listed
How long? Main story 76h · with extras 56h (from 14 logged playthroughs)
Bungie has emphasized that the universe of Destiny will be "alive". Events may happen in-game that are not necessarily controlled or planned by the developer, which will help to create a dynamic developing experience for Bungie and a dynamic playing experience for gamers. The game's style has been described a first-person shooter that will incorporate massively multiplayer online game (MMO) …
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Bungie has emphasized that the universe of Destiny will be "alive". Events may happen in-game that are not necessarily controlled or planned by the developer, which will help to create a dynamic developing experience for Bungie and a dynamic playing experience for gamers. The game's style has been described a first-person shooter that will incorporate massively multiplayer online game (MMO) elements, but Bungie has avoided defining Destiny as a traditional MMO game. Instead, the game has been referred to as a "shared-world shooter," as it lacks many of the characteristics of a traditional MMO game. For instance, rather than players being able to see and interact with all other players in the game or on a particular server—as is the case in many conventional MMO games—Destiny will include on-the-fly matchmaking that will allow players to see and interact only with other players with whom they are "matched" by the game.
Destiny will incorporate a new game engine that allows global illuminations and real-time dynamic lighting to occur together. An innovation in Bungie's "hopper" technology, which has been the backbone for Halo's matchmaking system, will allow better player matchmaking in order to create a more natural experience in either cooperative or competitive multiplayer modes.
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Details
- Developers
- Bungie
- Publishers
- Activision, ND Games
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG), Shooter
- Themes
- Action, Science fiction, Warfare
- Series
- Destiny
- Events
- PlayStation Experience 2015 Keynote, PlayStation E3 2014 Press Conference, Xbox E3 2014 Media Briefing, VGX 2013, PlayStation E3 Press Conference 2013
Release dates
- Sep 09, 2014 (Worldwide) PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Also available on
- Destiny: Ghost Edition (2014) · PS3, PS4, X360, XONE
- Destiny: Limited Edition (2014) · PS3, PS4, X360, XONE
- Destiny: Digital Guardian Edition (2014) · PS3, PS4, X360, XONE
- Destiny: The Taken King - Legendary Edition (2015) · PS3, PS4, X360, XONE
- Destiny: The Taken King - Digital Collector's Edition (2015) · PS3
Related
Bundled in
- Destiny: The Taken King - Legendary Edition (Sep 2015) · PS3, PS4, X360, XONE
- Destiny: The Collection (Sep 2016) · PS4, XONE
Expansions
- Destiny: The Dark Below (Dec 2014) · PS3, PS4, X360, XONE
- Destiny: House of Wolves (May 2015) · PS3, PS4, X360, XONE
- Destiny: The Taken King (Sep 2015) · PS3, PS4, X360, XONE
- Destiny: Rise of Iron (Sep 2016) · PS4, XONE
Featured in lists
Rating distribution
5 stars
349
4 stars
707
3 stars
960
2 stars
415
1 star
107
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status SuperFieroStatus Aug 1, 2014
Taking this one off my wish list. The beta just didn't do it for me. I was falling asleep through the whole thing. Run forward, shoot, run forward, shoot. I don't understand why so many people really liked it.
Status peter Jun 15, 2014
I played about an hour or so of the Alpha tonight. I'm not much of a first person shooter guy, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt.
The world just seems... empty. There's a lot of space, but nothing to interact with in the world. You just run and shoot stuff right now. As far as I can …
I played about an hour or so of the Alpha tonight. I'm not much of a first person shooter guy, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt.
The world just seems... empty. There's a lot of space, but nothing to interact with in the world. You just run and shoot stuff right now. As far as I can tell there's three places you can go in the Alpha. The Tower, which is like a central hub to interact with merchants and other players, Earth, which has two different mission sets, and The Crucible, which I didn't play, but I think is the multiplayer zone.
Anyway, I went through the different missions on Earth, and got bored after a while. It's pretty and moves fast, but I really just felt like I was running around on a million fetch quests in a big empty world with respawning enemies.
So there you go. I don't know if I'll be firing this up again or not. It didn't leave much of an impression on me.
