Comment Played it, wasn't terribly impressed. (Score 1) 369
I don't know exactly how much money this guy was paid to say Halo was a multi-orgasmic thrill-ride, but that's another matter.
I finally got to play Halo after my local Babbages had a technician in to fix their X-box (which took one day to break). I found it to be pretty, but nothing like what this guy was describing. It felt and looked like a tweaked version of Unreal Tournament's engine, with nice lighting effects. No more, no less. The gameplay was pretty much the exact same thing you've experienced playing any other FPS, shoot this, go here, shoot that, open door, get key, shot some more, go here, repeat ad infinitum. The only thing that really stood out was how the NPC's reacted to eachother, your character, and the environment. When they aren't just standing around, they move and act very fluid and natural. Low level guards cower and panic fire their pathetic little pistols, marines gun down aliens and celebrate, and then chatter back and forth. That much was cool. It's definately a pretty good game, but from all the hype you'd figure it'd reach through your monitor and jerk you off.
I finally got to play Halo after my local Babbages had a technician in to fix their X-box (which took one day to break). I found it to be pretty, but nothing like what this guy was describing. It felt and looked like a tweaked version of Unreal Tournament's engine, with nice lighting effects. No more, no less. The gameplay was pretty much the exact same thing you've experienced playing any other FPS, shoot this, go here, shoot that, open door, get key, shot some more, go here, repeat ad infinitum. The only thing that really stood out was how the NPC's reacted to eachother, your character, and the environment. When they aren't just standing around, they move and act very fluid and natural. Low level guards cower and panic fire their pathetic little pistols, marines gun down aliens and celebrate, and then chatter back and forth. That much was cool. It's definately a pretty good game, but from all the hype you'd figure it'd reach through your monitor and jerk you off.
