The story missions introduce a new section of Earth called the Plaguelands, a portion of Russia beset by perpetual blizzard and blight, but it’s essentially an extension of the core game’s Cosmodrome with some new weather effects.
Even then, that’s a semantic difference, considering the place is called Felwinter Peak. Right out of the gate, Rise of Iron is unimpressive: The new social space is Game of Thrones’s Winterfell in all but name. The last of the Lords, Shiro-4 and Saladin, cannot abandon their posts at a watchtower/temple atop a snow-covered mountain, and charge Destiny’s heroes with investigating and taking out the threat. A group of fur-wearing knights bound by honor to protect Earth’s last strongholds against the prevailing alien threat discover that the Fallen-one of Destiny’s snarling evil alien species-have managed to get ahold of SIVA, a nanobot-created substance which can, true to its name, either create out of thin air, regenerate lost parts, or consume matter indiscriminately. One might not even be blamed for thinking the whole thing is a weird April Fools’ joke given that Rise of Iron takes Destiny-a game that has explored the far, infinite reaches of the void of space and the terrors waiting in other dimensions-and drags the whole thing kicking and screaming back to a boring, medieval presentation of Earth. Though this latest expansion falls back on the tired, uninspiring grind that dominates the core game, which bought Bungie time to produce a proper sequel, it lacks for the two things that Destiny has never been short on from day one: personality and imagination.
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mindlessframe created some posters you can use as wallpaper, to get in the mood.In every way that last year’s fantastic Destiny: The Taken King expansion made it feel like Destiny had come closer to realizing its full potential as its own weird, scattershot, but nonetheless ambitious enterprise, Destiny: Rise of Iron is a regression. Use these tools - and your friends (going into IB with a team is FAR easier than going in alone) - to make the most of this week! (Don't have enough friends to form a real wrecking crew? Ask on our forum - there are folks playing all the time!) And just for fun. It's an invaluable post if you have a specific goal and limited time to reach it.