Destiny Expansion I: The Dark Below

Critic reviews

• PLPS Lifestyle

  Chandler Wood · Dec 23, 2014

  7.5

  For the ultimate Destiny experience, yes, you will need The Dark Below. You may find more of the same content, with some palette swapped enemies and similar bounties to what we traditionally had access to, but the new content allows Destiny to continue to surprise us.

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• GFGame Front

  Phil Hornshaw · Dec 22, 2014

  6.5

  For the $20 price of entry, The Dark Below provides some quality skirmishes and will keep players busy for hours, if that’s how you measure value. If you can fight your way up to Crota’s End, it might even be money well spent. Things are definitely getting better in Destiny. But dropping another third of the price of the full game for more opportunities to slowly slog through dull content feels like money is changing hands in the wrong direction.
• PSPush Square

  Robert Ramsey · Dec 19, 2014

  5.0

  On a fundamental level, The Dark Below fails to justify its expensive price point for anyone who isn't a hardcore Destiny fan. While the story missions are enjoyable and the Strikes are some of the best, there just isn't enough new content here to reinvigorate Bungie's project for more than a few hours at most.

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• IIGN

  Vince Ingenito · Dec 18, 2014

  6.0

  The Dark Below is a huge missed opportunity, a mish-mash of recycled ideas and content that fails to reinvigorate Destiny or address any of its biggest problems. The new raid is great, and the combat is as strong as it was before, but the new progression systems are limited and ultimately unrewarding, leaving me to wonder where Destiny will wind up if this is a sign of what’s to come.

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• GGameSpot

  Justin Clark · Dec 17, 2014

  6.0

  You are the Destiny player the game wants, which essentially means that you are a farmer. You find out what kind of product you want, and you invest the herculean time and energy needed to obtain it and then nurture it with constant love to bring it to fruition until you decide to destroy it and plant something new in its place. This is Destiny’s circle of life, and The Dark Below does just enough to feed it, if not enough to make it thrive.

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• CCheatcc

  Travis Huber · Dec 15, 2014

  9.6

  All in all, this expansion was well worth the wait. For fans of the game it gave us all an opportunity to recapture a little of that new feeling as we tried to regain our levels with the new gear and weapons, but at the same time it gave us a new level of challenge and difficulty in addition to the increased level cap.

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