Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris

It's not exactly ground-breaking, but this expansion to Bungie's popular sci-fi shooter delivers plenty of new stuff to keep players busy. Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris' four-hour story is completely separate from the original game, provides interesting and beautiful new locations to explore in both Mercury and the Infinite Forest, and introduces a fun new character in the overly confident Sagira, Osiris' longtime ghost, who gets separated from him at the story's outset. The two new cooperative Strikes follow the familiar cooperative mission formula, providing a series of straightforward objectives and boss fights for groups of up to three players to tackle as a team, and the two new Crucible maps fit nicely within the existing roster, providing a little more diversity while rotating through multiplayer matches. And through it all, players will gradually grow their avatar's power level and earn better weapons and gear either through random loot drops or by completing challenge and milestones for various non-player characters.

Where Curse of Osiris falls a bit short, though, is in delivering anything truly new to the Destiny formula. It throws a few more locations, missions, weapons, and characters onto the pile, but stops short of introducing any fresh modes, features, mechanics, or functions. Players aren't able to grow their character's class-based abilities beyond what they did in the original game or learn any new ones, and there aren't really any new types of multiplayer modes. It's just more of what players already had. That ought to be enough to satisfy some fans of Destiny 2, but players hoping for something a little different might want to hold off a bit and see what the next expansion has in store. Keep in mind, too, that those who don't buy into this first expansion will begin to be left behind as others continue to grow their characters and gain access to power level-restricted content, including prestige Raids and Strikes.