Destiny: The Taken King - Legendary Edition

Destiny: The Taken King Legendary Edition features the complete Destiny experience including The Taken King, the next great Destiny adventure, Destiny, Expansion I: The Dark Below and Expansion II: House of…

100 15 September 2015

Role-playing (RPG) Shooter Action Science fiction Warfare

Destiny: The Taken King - Legendary Edition is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Bungie, released 15 September 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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What Destiny: The Taken King - Legendary Edition is

Destiny: The Taken King - Legendary Edition is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Bungie and released in 2015. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It runs on In House Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Prior to the events of The Taken King, Guardians crippled the Hive invasion force on Earth and the Moon by methodically taking down their field commanders and strategists, including Sardon and Omnigul. The Guardians then banished Crota's soul and eventually killed Crota himself. They also destroyed a Shrine communing with Oryx and killed its protector, Sardok. Eris Morn alerted Mara Sov of Oryx's arrival, and the Queen set out with the Awoken Armada to Saturn, where the Taken King's Dreadnaught had stopped to refuel. Uldren Sov led his fighter wings to attack the Dreadnaught and engage the fleet of Tombships protecting it, with the Queen and Oryx presiding over the battle from their…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It supports multiplayer for up to 16 players online, and includes co-op. Available modes: Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Destiny: The Taken King - Legendary Edition holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 100% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 31 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Destiny: The Taken King - Legendary Edition launched on 15 September 2015, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, Until Dawn and Mad Max. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, Until Dawn, Mad Max.

Cheats and codes

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