Bungie aren’t keen to remove content from the game just yet. But for those who want to visit the Cosmodrome of yore, don’t worry: it will still be accessible. The wall has collapsed, the area has doubled in size, and there are Fallen everywhere. The Russian outpost where players of the first game start has been transformed by the arrival of mutated Fallen, twisted into new forms by the mysterious Siva technology which is at the heart of the game’s plot.
For the first time, players can enter a version of the world explicitly changed by events, as the Cosmodrome becomes the Plaguelands.
Sandwiched in between those is expansion number two, the House of Wolves, an exploration of the Reef and the Fallen and the third of the four enemy races.īut while Rise of Iron tells the backstory of the Iron Lords, it also pushes the games story further forward than ever before. It’s a new tack for Bungie, which has previously built up the world’s narrative in a fairly interlinked way, telling the story of the player’s fight against the techno-organic Vex in the first game, then the overarching battle against the Hive (think: space devils) split between the first and third expansion. Rise of Iron sees Destiny take a brief departure from its overarching plot line to tell a relatively self-contained story about Saladin and the Iron Lords, the mysterious figures which are already partly mythical by the beginning of the first game. They didn’t want to promote them as something that you’re supposed to engage with, or turn into pets” he said. “They wanted to make sure that the wolves in the game were represented in a way that benefitted wolves in general, and how they’re perceived. They are wild animals – a fact drilled in to Bungie by the Washington State wolf sanctuary, the team recruited to help with the motion capture, audio and visual modelling, according to the game’s director, Christopher Barrett.
The two gigantic canines, pictured in promo art flanking Lord Saladin, leader of the Iron Banner tournament and central figure in the newest expansion, are not pets. The most important fact about Destiny: Rise of Iron, the fourth and likely final expansion for Bungie’s groundbreaking massively multiplayer shooter? You cannot pet the wolves.
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