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| Halo 3 Review | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 8 2009, 02:01 PM (28 Views) | |
| Thyunda | Apr 8 2009, 02:01 PM Post #1 |
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Halo 3. Yes, I understand I am treading some fairly dangerous ground here. The thing about Halo is that for every critic, there are three fanboys hitting them with things. For the first part of the review, I’ll talk about the campaign mode. Well, the game mode that fancies itself as a campaign. It’s short, easy and boring. In the Halo series, the Covenant feature as your generic bad guys. The interesting thing about the Covenant is that they don’t seem evil at all. They actually have an equal-opportunities thing going on here. For example, we have the seemingly-useless Grunts. They breathe methane, and are physically inept. The Covenant find them, and supply them with portable methane tanks and weaponry, then put them to work. And most importantly, by Halo 3, the Grunts don’t seem unhappy with it. So why are the Covenant bad? Because they want to blow up the Earth…or something. Oh, wait, that’s it. They want to destroy the Universe. With them still inside it. Religious zealots or not, I find this pretty hard to believe. Aided by a stunted cast of characters so annoying even their own mothers would have shot them by now, Master Chief has his wits challenged at every corner by mentally retarded gorilla-monsters, forced driving sections and headcrabs/facehuggers/Man-Thing. The campaign is really just a shooting gallery. Walk here. Shoot Enemy A. Walk over there. Shoot Enemy B. And the ‘boss fights’ against enemies like the Scarab Tanks consist entirely of ‘Shoot leg’. Jump on. Shoot Enemies. Shoot glowing thing. Jump off. Run away. Even on Legendary difficulty, there is no challenge to the campaign. It looks to me as though Bungie intended to create a campaign mode, but had to finish it quickly to work on the multiplayer features. Which, of course, brings me to my next section. The multiplayer. It’s fun, it’s simple and it’s addictive. Five minutes of Matchmaking quickly becomes two hours, and the different playlists allow you to choose whatever you’re in the mood for. The stunted cast of dislikeable characters suddenly becomes a whole host of detestable annoyances, with the occasional silver lining. You’ll find that 90% of Matchmaking players will be under the age of fifteen, and talk incessantly. 5% are bigots, and are generally American, and be warned, if you so much as talk with a different accent, they WILL demand that you eat crumpets. 4% are mutes, either lacking a microphone or too scared to talk for fear of cussing children, or began forced to eat crumpets against their will. The 1% is usually between 15 – 26, the age range that SHOULD be playing the game, and often their vocal communication is limited to smart one-liners and amusing quips. You should count yourself very lucky should you encounter that 1%. I could give an endless lecture on the multiplayer, because there is so much to it. What made the campaign tiresome, tedious and ‘tarded has become what makes multiplayer so fun. As with every game you get the players that hog a certain weapon, but a smart player can find their way around it. General gameplay-wise, the game works fine. There is no cover system, no sprint, and no prone. There’s so such complexity. Simply move the sticks and hammer the right trigger and you’ll beat the game. A regenerating shield bar forgives the player for any mistakes they might make, and the vehicles handle so easily you begin to wonder why nobody ever uses them. The vehicle set features quad bikes, jeeps, tanks, VTOL aircraft, and their Covenant equivalents. Minus the jeep. For some reason Bungie removed the Covenant jeep-equivalent. Weapons are simple and generic. Like the game, really. The imaginatively named ‘Assault Rifle’ and ‘Rocket Launcher’. Don’t hope for any variety. They weren’t weapon classes, they were the actual weapons. Character customisation is an interesting part. You can change your character’s armour styles, with changeable shoulders, helmet and body. But not legs. There’s no point all the armours, I’ve seen. Let’s look at the statistics again. That 90% will run around in Hayabusa armour, which is modelled after a Samurai or something. I can’t remember exactly. The 5% run around in a Rogue helmet, because they think it looks cool. 4% usually stick with the original Mark VI armour, which is the one Master Chief wears. The signature Halo armour, if you will. And the 1% actually have variety in what they wear. Colours are changeable too, but for some reason there is no black. I have my character in full Scout armour, because I like the helmet. It has a thin visor. My colours are Steel and Red. Steel is grey. It looks alright. This leads to the next point. Graphics. For a next-generation game, you’d expect some serious graphical spectacles from this. Yeah, the game looks nice. Shiny explosions, realistic environments, a lack of gradients on the characters, so they stand flat even if one foot is on a rock and the other isn’t, no climbing animation, so Master Chief simply floats up ladders. And for the final section – Community support. This includes downloadable content, and technical support. Bungie is very good at looking after its community, releasing regular map packs for download, which decrease in price, then become free, and releasing the occasional free map. As with all Microsoft published games, Halo 3 comes with a disc-replacing service, if you somehow break your disc. |
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| Barky | Apr 8 2009, 09:15 PM Post #2 |
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Some nigga been plagiarising? |
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| Thyunda | Apr 8 2009, 10:30 PM Post #3 |
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I fail to understand. |
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| Loz | Apr 9 2009, 07:17 PM Post #4 |
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Went on Gears Of War 2 today, it's way better than Halo solo. Dunno about mltiplayer. |
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| Thyunda | Apr 9 2009, 09:04 PM Post #5 |
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Gears of War 2 is an awesome game. I play it online with my cousin a lot. Wingman games are fun. Five teams of two. He utterly raped them. We won a game with 32 points, and the upper limit was 25. He'd gotten every kill in the game. |
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| King Crimson | Apr 13 2009, 05:24 PM Post #6 |
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I actually played on something earlier, although it wasn't exactly new. Remember that Star Sonata game, Con? Not much has changed from 2006, except I'm slightly more shit at it... |
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| Thyunda | Apr 13 2009, 11:14 PM Post #7 |
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Hahah, I'm not surprised. 
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