reviews, sales, fun factor, gameplay and graphics (the characters really fit in the environment due to great lighting) backup the scores for 7 years now. I've yet to meet the person who picked up halo for the hype. But i guess there are dummies everywhere who spend 60 bucks with no research. IMO
Even the large scale battles of halo 3 were not epic at all, but they were fun to play on legendary and get your ass handed to you.
I would say the 6.5 is a little harsh, just because it is one of the most feature packed games ever. I can't say it was rushed cause it was a technical masterpiece for fitting everything in 7.5gb.
I love hearing the screams of grunts when i'm blasting their buddies.
One more thing - i've never cared more about npc's then the soldiers in halo. Starting out with three of them in my warthog and trying to keep them alive during a large scale battle is intense. I've never wanted to restart a save point more than when my favorite smart ass soldier gets killed.
halo: ce lan parties may have been the funnest, but saved videos are the greatest invention since sliced bread. Until the replay system is commonplace or even imitated, then there is nothing overrated about halo. IMO
The 8 million repeat buyers weren't suckered into finishing the fight, my guess is they liked the game. Best coop game i've played with my girlfriend yet. Replay is enormous with the skull and metascore system.
i can't wait to see a squad of warthogs tearing down a hill to backup some troops getting slaughtered by brutes or elites. sounds like a blast to me.
I'm looking forward to the game, it looked fun to me. The series has sucked since ultimate.
to have an ironic name :) I hope this site is ready for UltimateGamer2.0
j/k duplicate accounts suck.
So... attacking me for my name is what then? I just don't think it is desperation, i didn't attack sony or you. Settle down or you're gonna get gray hairs before your time. The only one that is desperate around here is you for trying to insult me for adding my opinion to a thread. I guess i should change my name to fastlearner, cause you can see your bias from a mile away. I am merely amused by companies acting silly.
edit: You know what whooop, i think giving away a third party...
I love the whole punching someone while you're both falling thing. And throwing people through walls and continuing the whoop ass is full of win.
The iron man model is great, but everything else including explosions is pretty meh. On normal difficulty it wasn't challenging at all, as in there was no reason to attempt and evade any missiles or gun fire thrown at you(didn't die once). The flying takes a second to comes to grip with since it's all on the left stick. You can't look around with the right stick too well while flying. Targeting is cake since you just have to look in the general direction of anything and it auto targets. I cou...
that you take the high road on an anti-sony article. That was clever too, thanks for making me laugh.
I know it's completely silly. But i like these giant corporations acting immature. To me it makes them more human and saying stupid things that come back and haunt you is part of that. I doubt Sony cares, i bet they just have a laugh, say "Oh no they didn't", and come back with something of their own.
giving away one of the biggest games this gen free with the purchase of a new console. Honestly though i don't think either company is desperate, they're multi billion dollar companies. One has their hands in all sorts of hardware and the other is gonna make money for years on their software licensing. No reason for desperation, neither company is gonna go bankrupt from the video game division.
@nut juice (i thought i could go my whole life without typing that word) sony's state...
It's just business. Msoft has no reason to be desperate, it's not like they're betting the farm on the xbox division. This is no different from pr from sony saying Msoft punched themselves out. You gotta go with what you got and that means undermining the competition.
I know it's ridiculous, but come on video games is big business.
maybe it's just that i can't afford mass effect or bioshock at the moment, but i try to make my games last as long as possible. Still playing forza 2 to this day and it's definitely been a while since it came out.
the sad thing is though even if it turns out to be awesome and sells great xbox fans will just be degraded about getting nickled and dimed. I'm glad i have the choice for extra content because i expect rockstar to put out something worth paying for.
The little gas powered carts on the SNES and n64 versions are my favorite. The battle mode on the SNES version has been the best of them all.
i think i'm gonna go buy that right now, thanks for the reminder :)
I haven't played in months, but i'm sure if i jump online right now, there will be over 100 thousand people online that are disproving this bs article.
Any game with a community as strong as halo is not overrated, maybe it's just a great franchise. Keep the hate going sony crew. Maybe one day you'll have a game that sells over 5 million this generation and is considered overrated. It's been fun guys. Anyone that wants to play some halo 3 hit me up on my gamertag.