Narratively, the campaign’s careful rhythm of splitting and regrouping the team builds a surprising emotional closeness between the two of you, accelerated no end by the constant response choices that shape and personalise dialogue that in many other shooters would be arbitrary and throwaway. Titanfall 2 does a great job of changing up pace and environment in order to justify your going it alone and joining back up, but its handling of BT impresses beyond the purely structural.

mech play, as the two of you work together to explore and solve the problems around you, two differently sized and equipped partners sharing a common goal. But he’s only intermittently playable in combat, your time cut between on-foot battles and mech vs. Your Titan will be a permanent presence, wingman, and buddy, as well as your primary means of travelling the campaign’s world(s). It’s testament to the quality and inventive presentation of Titanfall 2’s on-foot play that the campaign would still be a landmark experience without BT-7274, but with him, it’s one of the most complete and finely crafted single-player action experiences of the year. Sorry, I said in that last paragraph that you’ll be alone.

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