Halo Hands-On

The end of all other games is near :)

There's a few reasons why I couldn't care less about Halo PC: first is that the levels aren't being reworked at all. Halo is a decent game, but it has repetitive level design which could really benefit from some tweaking. That it's being released exactly the same as the console shows that Gearbox thinks the originals were good enough; that scares me a bit. Second is the lack of co-op. Halo just suffers from an "I've Done This Before" syndrome. Look, Halo's got the same 4 aliens all throughout the game (turtle underlings, tall purple/blue enforcers, zombie flood, and zombie exploding/wight flood). Anything else, like the giant turtles with the plasma rockets, are thrown in perhaps once every two levels. It's like I'm fighting George the alien and his ten-thousand identical twins. That just sucks. Co-Op is needed to break the monotony.

I was really hoping Halo would be a large scale battle on a continuous ringworld, with buildings to enter and fight in, a bunch of interesting weapons to use, vehicles to hop in and out of, and a lot of varied enemies to duke it out with. That it's mostly an indoor shootout with the George brothers while I look at the same shiny metal wall texture is ok, but I would have greatly preferred to fight and fly around the ringworld itself. I suppose I'd just rather see Halo PC do something new and get us out of the facsimile indoors, but instead it's more of the same, only now internet with multiplayer. Halo PC, I've been there, done that. You were fun on the Xbox even though you underperformed and underdelivered on the admittedly overzealous hype (this game was revered as the second coming for a while). Further, you screwed me by going to console only. But I'm not bitter Halo. Well maybe a little bit, but that's ok -- you have nothing to offer me now anyway.

Death to the years old console port rehashes. All hail Half-Life2, Deus Ex2, etc!...

is it just me or do the graphics in all those new screenies look really crap!?

I wasn't going to but have since changed my mind. I'm allow'd to do'd that'd I'm buying this as soon as it hits the shelfs.

This is so 3 years ago lol

lets hope they added a flare or some sort of spray paint thing for the maze part

Wow! UT2K4, out wai

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