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Destiny 2 Gameplay: Watch The First Nine Minutes Here

Players attempt to defend the Tower against a Cabal assault.

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During Destiny 2's big reveal event this week, Bungie showcased a portion of a story mission called Homecoming. You can check out about nine minutes of this early section of the game in the video above.

Fans of Crucible and Strikes are also in luck, as we've gotten to check out both of those in Destiny 2. At the bottom of this story, you'll find a complete match of the new Countdown mode in Crucible, as well as a complete Strike called Inverted Spire (directly below).

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As for the Homecoming clip starts out with a cinematic sequence as the Tower comes under attack. We then see actual gameplay for the first time, as the player attempts to repel a Cabal assault on what had primarily served as a social space (and later a Crucible map) in the first Destiny.

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The video shows off two new weapon types: the grenade launcher and a chaingun of sorts. Also on display are some new Super abilities, which you can read more about here. Following the segment on the Tower, the action moves to a Cabal ship. The video wraps up as the player encounters the big villain of Destiny 2, Ghaul, a Cabal warlord and the leader of the Red Legion. He ominously states, "Your journey ends here" as the demo comes to an end.

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After the reveal, we spoke with project lead Mark Noseworthy to learn more about Guided Games and the new weapon system. For more on Destiny 2, check out our roundup of all the news and videos from the event.

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Well they have a 10 year plan for Destiny and were only a few years in ... interesting times ahead I guess, I liked the first one although there was plenty of room for improvement .. lets hope that some if mot all of that room has been filled with the 2nd Game !

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Pew Pew!

Pew!!!

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Wake me up in September when there's a reason to get interested. The hype trains keep starting earlier and earlier.

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Looking forward to it. These changes seem good and needed, while keeping the play style close so as not to estrange the player base. Nice graphic upgrade also.

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I wish Gamespot would stop playing the same annoying add for every single video.

EDIT: It would also be nice if the video player stopped freezing and they stopped putting 10 minutes of nothing at the beginning of previously recorded live streams. It's not live anymore, you should not leave that at the beginning of a video, it's ridiculous.

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im more interested in how hard will Destiny fans get milked with this one. never forget destiny and its so called 10 year life span

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@CagedOkami: How many COD games have you bought in your lifetime? Cause that's getting milked.

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@CagedOkami:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2015/09/21/bungie-theres-no-ten-year-plan-for-destiny/#16b801dd66f8

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@CagedOkami: the 10 years was for multiple games not just the first one dumbass

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Let me guess, the story this time around really is going to be on the level of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, lol. Sorry Bungie, but fool me once shame on you, fool me twice....well, you know how that saying goes. I rinsed my hands of Desitiny a LONG LONG ways back and have no intent on ever spending another penny on it. If Bungie creates a new IP somewhere down the road, I might decide to give them another chance. Until then, my money will continue to go elsewhere.

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@RighteousNixon: See you in September!

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@RighteousNixon: yet here you are. Liar! You can't even not comment the game you're so hooked. Pathetic. See you September 8th guardian.

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@Starhopper4: That's not even clever, they aren't spending money by leaving a negative comment, in fact they are backing up their claim by trying to convince others that the game is bad and they shouldn't buy it.

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This begs me a question from other thread:

Is it an expansion/DLC or a physical/digital?

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@MMX377: It looks like it could have been dlc. but then £20 vs £90 so they stuck a 2 on it so they can charge us more and lose all progress all emotes etc robbing bastards. Originally they said characters would be transferable now they have moved the goal posts so I can't trust em and no dedicated servers on pc ffs its 2017 not 1917.

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@balders74: did you say the same thing about Halo 2? CoD 2? Etc? Point to where Bungie touched you on this victim doll.

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@MMX377: Brand new game. Disc and digital. None of the old content is playable... all new.

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@tom_cat_01, @balders74: Hmm, so it's a brand new, physical & digital... not an expansion/DLC. Strange... when I watched Destiny 2, it was looked like Destiny 1, and I felt... not impressive. Gameplay and all, impressive, yeah, but not quite impressive because it never changes as an old Destiny's design... of course, it's its new design.

Still, not impressive. I'm not sure I am so hype to buy this game since I stopped playing Destiny 1 (House of Wolves or something) a long, long ago.

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@MMX377: You're so clever. Can we be friends?

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Looks Good ! The Mechanics and Gunplay on Destiny were really solid so pleased to see more of the same, hopefully the Game delivers on Story too !!

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@ltjohnnyrico: My personal opinion is if you have all of these high tech powers, there should be a little more variety than a grenade and a slightly different jump style... I just don't find the mechanics that compelling compared to, say, Warframe, which once you get past the slight wonkiness of it feels like what this game wanted to be. There is a point to different suits, and then highly customizable equipment that drastically change a suits play style, add in a competent matchmaking system so you don't feel like you are constantly wandering a baron wasteland alone... plus Warframe is free.

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I'm unsure what the consensus is, but that gameplay actually looked really boring to me. It's the same old shallow gunplay, wait until the red bar is gone, move on to the next mob, shoot until the red bar is gone, rinse and repeat. It's not a particularly hard hitting or satisfying shooter in my opinion. Also jeez how many scripted events do they want in their prologue? That was essentially an on rails segment.

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Destiny 2 Gameplay shows the world that nothing was changed, graphics are still the same, nothing cutting edge, gameplay mechanics are still the same, and you're still going to be shooting at bullet sponges.

So why release Destiny 2? Well, because there are those who played Destiny when it first came out, then left because they got bored/tired of it and never went back. Bungie is hoping that these people would find Destiny 2 refreshing and jump in for the $59.99 or $89.99 chump edition. You know who you are. Enjoy the game!

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@jyml8582: when did Bungie touch you in your naughty place?

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@jyml8582: I thought maybe I was just being a cynic for feeling pretty underwhelmed by that reveal, but obviously I took note of exactly what you saw.

This just looks like another expansion pack for the 1st Destiny that they chose to call Destiny 2. Maybe there was some stuff I didn't notice, but I really didn't see any drastic improvements.... lame.

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@camverge: Right? Just like BF 2, 3, 4 and 1. Same damn shooter. All those CoD's, just the same. All those FF's, same. What color is the sky in your world genius?

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@Starhopper4: Except there are considerable leaps in the look from Battlefield 2,3,4 and 1. Plus the COD games are just the same, which is why I'm never excited for those either.

Like I said "unless I missed something"

Which I might have, it looks very similar to the 1st Destiny. Nothing you need to get butthurt over. Sheesh.

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