*Intro Music*
Halo has always been a part of my gaming life- possible because it was the only game my brothers actually owned for a long period of time. So here we are, Halo 4. Halo has come a long way since the first - with incredible graphics, better sounds effects and more screen time for the sexy Cortanna.
From the off, Halo 4 is a fast paced action game that is the equivalent of a "Die Hard" movie - Master Chief is thrown into a story he does not want to be a part of yet still saves the day and the world. In Halo 9 he better have a cane and say "Fuck It I'm going home now" and just leaves and lets the other troops battle it out in increasingly copied and pasted worlds from COD.
He is thrown into the story and he doesn't want to be there, he doesn't know what is going on - that makes two of us - and is jumping around shooting the Covenant (YAY!) but also fighting some AI thing that just pisses me off. It is an original idea for an enemy but just a strained over done enemy, then some shit happens. More shit, a space battle and then its over. So unsatisfactuary I had to play it again to make sure it was the correct game and I hadn't missed some missions out, it was bad.
The first campaign run through was brilliant - only because I was in awe of Master Chief - but then it dawned on me. Halo 4 was not a complete game - sure it has lots to do - but it was only running off the name. It sold because it is a Halo game.
343 are trying to turn Halo into COD: more cover, no health bar (only shield) less insane guns lying about the place, muddled story and no ability to go "skitz" and run around tea bagging anyone who looks at you funny. I don't like it, I was going through a level and it hit me, literally - the fuel rod cannon nearly killed me - and I realized
"Why can't I have that?" "Wheres Mine?" "GIMME GIMME GIMME (a Cannon after midnight)". A part of a mission in which some shit happens for no reason and then you are expected to do some shit in a building for no reason, and shit, so yeah. You are given a sniper (COD) and then are sent into some facility expected to snipe people.
NO, I DO NOT WANT TO SNIPE I WANT TO RUN UP SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER AND BLASPHEMY AND SHOOT THE ALIENS IN THE TITS, AND I HAD TO SHOOT THEM IN THE HEAD FROM HALF A MILE AWAY! CHALLENGE?
The characters are good - to an extent - Cortanna is going ape shit and that's as far as the characterization goes. The online gets boring after 3 days - 9 hours - and then its "Samey" the "SWAT" mode though is very good.
Now, Forge, huge boots from Halo Reach (in my view one of the best Halo Games) and it filled them. Half full. Really, its easy to do, it's fun to play on maps you create - but the maps you build on are shite. Ragnarok is a remake of Valhalla (Halo 3) which is inspired from Coagulation which is inspired from Blood Gulch.
Why not a remake of Forge map - so aptly named - from Reach?
Sparton Ops. They look fun, but I am not going to download the online and forge mode (two massive chunks of the game) to download Sparton Ops.
FUCK OFF 343. FUCK OFF! Sparton Ops looks good, like the campaign did, and that was disapointing, so Sparton Ops could be shit too.
In short, buy it, go ahead. But don't get your hopes up, please don't. It will disappoint, unless you only want something to compare COD too, and then it isn't really worth it then. Stick to 1, 2, 3 and Reach. Even Halo 3 ODST, the most un-Master Chief experience since getting shot in the foot and going home is a better buy - as it is dirt cheap - and you have to think about your enemies rather than jumping in the air with the biggest gun in the game shouting LEEEEE ROOOOOY JJEEEEEEHHHNKKHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNSSSSSS. Unlike in Halo 4.
So, 343. Piss off back to "dulls-ville" and try and do the next COD game, I am sure you would fare better there.
He is thrown into the story and he doesn't want to be there, he doesn't know what is going on - that makes two of us - and is jumping around shooting the Covenant (YAY!) but also fighting some AI thing that just pisses me off. It is an original idea for an enemy but just a strained over done enemy, then some shit happens. More shit, a space battle and then its over. So unsatisfactuary I had to play it again to make sure it was the correct game and I hadn't missed some missions out, it was bad.
The first campaign run through was brilliant - only because I was in awe of Master Chief - but then it dawned on me. Halo 4 was not a complete game - sure it has lots to do - but it was only running off the name. It sold because it is a Halo game.
343 are trying to turn Halo into COD: more cover, no health bar (only shield) less insane guns lying about the place, muddled story and no ability to go "skitz" and run around tea bagging anyone who looks at you funny. I don't like it, I was going through a level and it hit me, literally - the fuel rod cannon nearly killed me - and I realized
"Why can't I have that?" "Wheres Mine?" "GIMME GIMME GIMME (a Cannon after midnight)". A part of a mission in which some shit happens for no reason and then you are expected to do some shit in a building for no reason, and shit, so yeah. You are given a sniper (COD) and then are sent into some facility expected to snipe people.
NO, I DO NOT WANT TO SNIPE I WANT TO RUN UP SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER AND BLASPHEMY AND SHOOT THE ALIENS IN THE TITS, AND I HAD TO SHOOT THEM IN THE HEAD FROM HALF A MILE AWAY! CHALLENGE?
The characters are good - to an extent - Cortanna is going ape shit and that's as far as the characterization goes. The online gets boring after 3 days - 9 hours - and then its "Samey" the "SWAT" mode though is very good.
Now, Forge, huge boots from Halo Reach (in my view one of the best Halo Games) and it filled them. Half full. Really, its easy to do, it's fun to play on maps you create - but the maps you build on are shite. Ragnarok is a remake of Valhalla (Halo 3) which is inspired from Coagulation which is inspired from Blood Gulch.
Why not a remake of Forge map - so aptly named - from Reach?
Sparton Ops. They look fun, but I am not going to download the online and forge mode (two massive chunks of the game) to download Sparton Ops.
FUCK OFF 343. FUCK OFF! Sparton Ops looks good, like the campaign did, and that was disapointing, so Sparton Ops could be shit too.
In short, buy it, go ahead. But don't get your hopes up, please don't. It will disappoint, unless you only want something to compare COD too, and then it isn't really worth it then. Stick to 1, 2, 3 and Reach. Even Halo 3 ODST, the most un-Master Chief experience since getting shot in the foot and going home is a better buy - as it is dirt cheap - and you have to think about your enemies rather than jumping in the air with the biggest gun in the game shouting LEEEEE ROOOOOY JJEEEEEEHHHNKKHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNSSSSSS. Unlike in Halo 4.
So, 343. Piss off back to "dulls-ville" and try and do the next COD game, I am sure you would fare better there.
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