It’s been a little under a year now since the arrival of the time churning intensity of Destiny and it’s about to get a pretty significant shot in the arm with the upcoming release of new DLC pack, The Taken King. Featuring a new story development for the campaign mode along with a raft of new missions, enemies, locations, Strikes, Cricible maps and a mammoth Raid there’s a lot packed into its impressive looking bundle of intergalactic ferocity.
The add-on pack will be released worldwide on the 15th September 2015, following on from the previous DLC releases, Expension I: The Dark Below and Expansion II: House Of Wolves. The new instalment will be available for digital download for each of the console versions of the game (Xbox ONE, Xbox 360, PS3 and PS4), as well as being packed up as a Legendary Efition multi-platform physical release, which includes the original Destiny game, The Taken King DLC, and both of the previous two expansion packs.
The new campaign storyline centres on the arrival of Oryx, The Taken King, who arrives in our solar system hell bent on revenge for the death of his son, Crota. With a vast Taken hoard at his command, thanks to his ability to harness the power of The Darkness, he takes up position in orbit around Saturn to launch his attack from the confines of his massive space ship, The Dreadnaught.
It will see you squaring up against his forces and making a play to board the ship and ultimately take on Oryx face-to-face inside his own well-guarded stronghold. That all sounds like a pretty tall order to us, but the good news is that you’ll be given access to a set of new abilities, weapons and gear to help level the playing field a little against what looks in the trailer below to be a pretty significant new opposition.
To start will players will get a new set of supers to command, with Warlocks getting a charged electric storm to hurl at their enemies, Hunters getting a void energy bow and arrow super to improve their distance attacks and Titans picking up a bad ass flaming hammer, which you can use to fire at the hoard from afar or use in a new and devastating melee attack.
There will also be three new sub-classes to build up and use to smash Oryx and his forces with. Titan Sunbreaker will give you aerial firepower to rain down the Hammer of Sol and Sundrikes from above; Warlock Stormcaller provides access to Darth Sidius-like lightening Arc energy strikes and a lightening infused melee; and Hunter Nightstalker will give you a short-range teleportation slide and the Shadowshot arrow that binds to a group of enemies, slowing them in their tracks and allowing your fireteam to pick them off.
In a addition to the new campaign there will also be new Strikes to face, with all new mega bosses to battle, along with a major new Raid to wade into. This in turn provides more than a few opportunities to unlock new gear and weapons, including new Exotic firepower, to taka little of the heat off in your fight against The Taken King.
The graphics look much the same as the original game, but the new supers look very cool, especially the Titan Sunbreaker sub-class Hammer Of Sol moves. The invasion of The Taken King looks pretty epic too with a dark and foreboding design for the Dreadnaught, a massive, malevolent presence of Oryx himself and some stunning sci-fi location settings. Check out the trailer below to see the game in action for yourself.
