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Destiny: everything you need to know

Awaiting other details or official images that will come over the next few days, we provide you with a summary of all information so far about the new Destiny of Bungie. First of all, the co-founder of software house Jason Jones wanted initially to make it clear that with this new project, the development team doesn't want to classify Destiny as a simple game: this word would be reductive against such a project which is colossal.

Destiny is a series that Bungie will be able to deliver into the hands of users a new way to conceive a game by redefining the rules of entertainment on consoles, exactly how did Halo as far back as 2001. As you know the Destiny is Publisher Activision Blizzard, an entertainment colossus that has the strength to carry on a project so ambitious.  The game will give us a lot of freedom, and was categorized as an FPS within a huge shared and connected world that will offer lots of goodies inside. Bungie defines the title a "shared world" shooter ", IE one shared world shooter to indicate how we can enjoy them either alone or in the company of friends with whom to form groups of heroes to venture into our businesses.

The title will arrive both on the current console generation on those, but not on PC: on the latter point it seems that Bungie is very determined, he ribatido several times reporters present at the revelation of the game that it's a "console shooter". Regarding interactions between platforms, Bungie has made it clear that Xbox 360 players will not be allowed to play with the PS3, but it is not yet known whether those of each of the two consoles can play with the holders of the respective next-generation machines.

A comparison is made with Halo: while this has wanted to highlight the great figure of Master Chief, Destiny points mainly on online experience. Impersoneremo a guardian, a soldier living in the Tower within the city, the last outpost of the Earth. Chronologically, Destiny is set hundreds of years in the future after which ended the golden age and after that there have been technological advances and various space colonization which caused catastrophic wars. It is precisely the human thirst would continue to create new technologies to live always better that caused the world to decline. When all seemed lost, however, the traveller, an immense sphere belongs to time travellers aliens appeared on Earth to save mankind from catastrophe and give a new lease of life to the survivors, giving him powers similar to magic: this has, however, attracted the attention of numerous alien races, they now want to seize traveler gifts in human hands.

This is briefly what Bungie in Destiny wants us to live. A desolate world destroyed by the hand of man, problems born from the discontent of mankind and a looming alien threat.

Destiny will have features from MMOS, however the developer States that there will be no monthly subscription to play and the title can be played either solo or in small groups of players whose creation can be completely dynamic: we can for example start a mission, unite to someone who gives us a hand and then decide with them to continue in other missions or separate us and take different roads. The game type has been defined as a kind of cross between Planetside 2, Borderlands 2 and Halo.

To better clarify how you will play a game of Destiny, although details were not divulged details, take for example two of the characters involved in the game: a class Warrior Titan and another Warlock class that dalla Torre walk to Mars in search of an artifact inside the Dust Palace. Along the way they must defeat various enemies. Here begins a kind of matchmaking that will allow other groups of different players, intent on the same mission, to cross with our characters deciding whether to fight together for a single purpose or ignore them and ignore one another between them, continuing each for different roads. Destiny we will present various types of avventure to deal with, but still is not quite clear how these amalgameranno are among them. For example, in missions to Mars together with our teammate adventure, they will add a third, a Hunter aboard a vehicle. It is likely that with time we will know of other classes that we can play, each with different characteristics. At the moment so we know who will be attending the Titan, the Hunter and Warlock, and everyone can use different spells and powers depending on the chosen class. There will be various weapons equipped with special powers and a large number of objects that can be added to Armor so you can customize your character and be different from others that will meet.

It seems that the gameplay will also provide gaming opportunities that go beyond the FPS: apparently we will also be able to buy and drive space fighter, with which we can engage in sparring sessions.

At present we know that the Tower will be a meeting point of online communities that will serve, inter alia, as a place to get to know each other better, interact and plan various strategies to confront the alien menace. However, the developers have not yet explained if the Tower will consist in a real setting where we will see various players interact with each other or everything happens through the appropriate menu.

Bungie there will have a Solar System inhabited by powerful enemies of every kind, that will attempt to bring complete destruction is what man has created that man himself. We can prevent this from happening just wearing clothes of the guardian, which will save a few survivors hiding within the city walls. It will be from here that we will begin our long travels to face the alien threat and also save the remaining planets orbiting around the Sun.

The writer Joseph Staten wanted compare Destiny with a huge literary saga composed a unique narrative and events that will blend perfectly with it giving rise to an exceptional combination ever created before.

From the pictures leaked on the Internet today we made the acquaintance of the Cabal, or armored enemies in the Dust Palace located on Mars. In addition to the Cabal, have been proven to be the aracnoidi space pirates, who are of robots arriving from a distant future and, finally, zombie aliens.

During the game will not load breaks written various or other that would cause the interruption of the adventure. Everything is consequential says Bungie. We will have to play in a huge world while we see that other players/Guardians will naturally and fluidly in front of our eyes. According to Bungie, this play will become a standard in the future. A reference is made to the soundtrack that will be curated by Martin O'Donnell with the collaboration of Paul McCartney and longtime partner of Martin, Mike.

Glancing at the levels, they are huge and very well detailed, with a dynamic lighting that will make everything more realistic. Meet pyramidal-shaped ships, vast sand dunes on Mars, space abandoned wrecks around Saturn and thick jungles on Venus. Scenarios, according to Bungie, much different that does not tire so easily. Everything will be powered by a brand new graphics engine.

To experience integrarel console, there will also be a special application for Smartphones that will give the opportunity for players to interact with the entire community. Was not yet revealed the length of the game, but should take place no later than 2014.

One last hint to the competitive multiplayer, which unfortunately Bungie spoke very little: we know that there will be and that the player will decide to participate, then we cannot be attacked by other players while we're on a mission. The multiplayer game will be called "Faction Wars" and it looks like we will be able to choose a faction to fight in an enormous global war.

At the moment the information ends here, but please keep checking back for more news.