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In Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor and Helldivers 2, the vital spirit of twin-stick shooters lives on
A look at a few games that capture the thrill of twin-sticks without actually being twin-sticks.
Helldivers 2 is a satirical multiplayer blaster in which you play as one of a foolish bunch of Space Nazis who fire themselves out of orbit, diving down from ships like mine with callsigns like the SES Claw of Individual Merit (Halo, take note of the names you can make in this thing) and crashlanding on various hideous alien worlds where there are fights to be had with giant bugs or glinting robots. Robotron and the early twin-sticks were all a bit satirical, it feels, not just because Eugene Jarvis, the godfather of the genre, was and is video games' very own John Carpenter. The first Helldivers was legit a form of twin-stick, a top-down arcade blaster that gave you freedom of movement and aiming to make up for the fact that it was very easy to run out of ammo.
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