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Developer: Bungie
Publisher: Activision
Genres: RPG, First-Person Shooter
Destiny: Rise of Iron Reviews
View All (81 total)Rise of Iron has just enough new content to keep me coming back for a while, but it feels like the bare minimum. When I wasn’t absentmindedly grinding against reskinned enemies until I couldn’t do it anymore, I was falling down the rabbit hole of side quests and trying out new weapons while patrolling the Plaguelands. The satisfying but still not groundbreaking raid is a decent reward at the end. I wish this expansion had focused more on fixing Destiny’s repetition problems, because it has a few good ideas — but with all its pitfalls, this is just Destiny going through the motions.
Destiny's uneven final expansion fails to build on The Taken King's advancements.
Assured creativity and a smart eye for systemic refreshment make for a confident and classy expansion.
The stuff that is genuinely new is very good, but there’s so little of it that the sense of déjà vu, in a game that is already so repetitious, becomes overwhelming.
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