Your mission: Recover the tech, destroy the bad guys, and save the solar system from certain destruction (again). When it falls in the hands of the evil scavenger aliens called the Fallen, players have to become Iron Lords themselves to deal with the situation in a new area on Earth called the Plaguelands. The crux of what wrecked the Iron Lords was nanotechnology called SIVA. Unfortunately, those Iron Lords all got wiped out at some point, except for Lord Saladin. The Iron Banner is named for the Iron Lords, a group of space-magic superheroes that fought aliens before the Guardians, or alien-stomping player characters. Rise of Iron’s biggest change is a new story that adds a list of new stuff for to do in Destiny. The gist of that story is that players will assist Lord Saladin, the character who usually runs the “Iron Banner” multiplayer event in the game’s social hub, the Guardian Tower.

Here’s everything awesome that’s coming to Destiny when Rise of Iron drops this next month, along with the most useful info we can give: It’s coming out September 20, and you can buy it as a standalone expansion for $30, or as part of Destiny: The Collection, which compiles the base game and all the expansions, for $60. New missions, new weapons, new systems and new improvements are on the way. In its upcoming expansion, Destiny: Rise of Iron, Bungie is out to drop one more big bunch of improvements on players. But with the help of two downloadable content add-ons and one major expansion, Destiny has been transformed into a pretty solid game that’s even pretty damn fun. The game has come a helluva long way since September 2014: At first, it was kind of a dull mess wrapped around a solid shooter core. We’re closing in on two years from the initial release of Destiny, developer Bungie’s persistent world shooter.

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