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HALO Reach review – Worth the hype? - By Jimmy
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There was a lot of hype and build up to the release of HALO reach, as much as there was for the release of Modern Warfare 2. I’ve never really played any of the previous HALO’s, just the odd multi-player sessions with friends who loved the games. I do love FPS’s and I do like futuristic sci-fi genres, so it should have easily made my top 5 games…but it didn’t.

A lot of people these days are quite happy to buy shooters just for the online multi-player gaming, I do, but I also think the campaign should be up to scratch, it should be the defining factor of the game!

I’m finding it hard to put a finger on what exactly it was I found so disappointing! It may be that I considered it to be sub-standard when compared to other games that have been on the scene for a while. It didn’t have the story-line or scenery of Gears of War or the heat-pumping realism and variety of Modern Warfare 2.

I only completed it a few days ago and I can’t even remember what the campaign was even about, maybe that is because the storyline was weak or maybe it was because the game as a whole didn’t keep me interested enough to pay attention to what was going on. My lasting memory of this game will be trundling along the same environment, running into battle after battle with the same enemy characters…and that’s it. No variability in missions to complete, enemies to vanquish or vehicles to thrash around in, and the choice of weapons was also sorely lacking.

I found the controls profoundly lacking when compared to how natural the controls feel in other FPS’s like Battlefield: Bad Company 2, particularly aiming through the scopes; having to push down the same stick used to control your view just seems senseless and results in jerky imprecise aiming. I eventually gave up and just shot from the hip. If I was interested enough I might have taken the time to change the controls around, but I wasn’t, so I didn’t…and that says it all really.

Anyway, to end on a positive note - Bring on Black Ops!!!!

--Jimmy