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Summary Halo is the all-around best game ever!!!!Sound The sound is a little repetitive but it sets the Halo mood and can really scare the heck out of you at times.Gameplay The gameplay is very detailed and the game itself has 4 difficulty levels to and to the gameplay.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary I first got a taste of Halo at my friend's where we got 16 guys together on 4 XBox's and played Team Slayer. I was instantly hooked and the following X-Mas i bought a Xbox just so i too could own this game. Easily the best shooter i've ever played.Sound This game is lucky in that Halo is American made, meaning that there wasnt much difficulty in redoing the voiceovers from Japanese to English. Voice acting was very good, especially that of Master Chief's and the Covenant. I also loved the sounds for each weapon and vehicle. We play this game on surround sound to take advantage of the Dobly Digital Sound and lemme just say WOW again.Bottomline: If you own an XBox, you sure better own this game. If you dont own an XBox, go out and buy one so you can own this game. Gameplay Two Words: Wow. I dont think ive ever played a shooting game before where the controls came so easily to me. Targeting, weapon switches, secondary weapons, and vehicles are all easily utilized thanks to the much hated Xbox controller. Single player mode is fun but tends to get repetitiveas you advance through the storyline. Multiplayer on the other hand is absolutely amazing. Going through story mode with my brother was so much more fun than by myself and of course there cant be enuff said about the amount of depth put in the battle and team battle modes. This is probably the only game allowing such multiplayer depth without being online capable.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Brett GlantzFrom Easton, PA Review Date 06/27/2003 Overall Rating  5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary This is one of the greatest games I have ever played! If your a kid who loves shooting games and killing aliens n stuff, u HAVE to play this. Every time i think of XBOX, one of the first things that comes to my mind is HALO. I play this game every time my friends come over or im bored. I definetly recomend this to any person who owns an XBOX console!!!Sound Its good. I liked how they have the different accents for the marines like spanish and canadian. Plus, the sound of the Banshees and Warthogs soud kool.Gameplay GREAT GREAT GREAT!!! Each level gets more challenging and challenging as u go on. The layout of the levels is also excellent. Even if u keep playing the same level over and over, its still fun.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary The first time I had ever played this game was at my cousin's house with my dad. He had played before and said it was awesome, and some of the guys I know said it was awesome, but I had to find out for myself. I have played tons of different kinds of games. Only difference is that I've grown up with a Playstation, so I wasn't that good with the controller at first, but as soon as I customized my own player and got down to it, I was getting pretty good. Me and my dad played for hours that night. The next day my cousin sold his Xbox and everything to us for $100. After the first week of playing it, I was hooked. Soon I was better than my dad. I was the best in the family. Soon I was playing the game. I started out on Easy since I had just gotten used to it. Soon I had beaten that and I had moved onto Normal. One day I went with my dad to the neighbors. I was the only girl there out of 16 guys! That multi-player is so awesome! Whether you're playing Capture the Flag, or playing Slayer Pro it is so cool. In Blood Gulch when you play Iron Capture the Flag and you're in the Scorpion, it is so fun. The graphics are so sweet. The sound is wicked cool. The story Plot, is un-heard-of. And it is very well thought up. My friends all are hooked on PS2 but once they played Halo once they are always coming over to play. I wouldn't be surprised if they beg their parents for an Xbox soon. Halo is the best game I have ever and probably will ever play. Whether you're sitting there with a shotgun to an alien's head or sitting at the base guarding the flag. This is a great game.Sound I love it! Surround sound is great when playing this game. I love it how the aliens talk and sometimes shriek. And when it comes down to battling there nothing like the sounds of aliens blowing up, guns firing, aliens shrieking, and butt of your gun being smashed into some alien's head. Yeah I think i's alright.Gameplay Well I do have to say it takes some getting used to. You may be shaky at first but then once you get the hang of it you go full out. There's no saying what you can do. Whether you're 10 and playing on Easy or 30 and playing against your buddies it is great for all ages. When you do Multiplayer you never know where you're going to end up sometimes. There are some hidden places where you can go. Then the actual gameplay, sometimes you can get turned around, but usually you can tell where you have or haven't been. Then there's co-op play. If you or your buddy dies they can come back as long as you/they stay alive. That's what is great. And you have infinite life. Plus, if you get sick of your buddy you can just blow his head-off with a shotgun and he'll just come back to life. Another plus, is that you can create your own guy, and you can create your own game. I love it.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary I've played through Halo twice now, once on Normal, then on heroic. This is much like HL2 will be. The physics are spot on and are revelutionary. They look like what HL2's will be. The AI is incredible as well. Now, these two factors alone make Halo 10 times better than any FPS ever made before, and I've played most of them.Add to great physics and AI, great graphics, sound, tight controls, very nice graphics, lots of animation, fun weapons, well balanced weapons, great use of granades, four skill levels, co-op and multiplayer modes, lots of vehicles and even a decent story, with lots of game options, and you've got yourself one hell of an FPS. All the levels are perfectly contructed and provide the correct level of challenge depending upon which skill level is choosen. Sound Very well done with the sound and music. I couldn't imagine how it could be better.Gameplay This game is so fun to play because of it's level of realism and immersion. I'm telling you this game is so incredible and so much fun on every level. I noticed there were a few people who scored this game a 1. Well, they'd give that score to HL2 as well because some people just can't appreciate the kind of technology that has been poored into Halo. It's revelutionary and no other FPS even comes close and I've played them all.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary This game is the BEST FPS (First Person Shooter) i've ever played on a console. This game is the sole reason why i even bought an Xbox. Fun, Exciting, Great AI, you just cant get enough!BUT! my ONLY complaint, is that there is no Multiplayer Bots. So after you beat Campaign mode, theres really not much to do... Sound the Sound is great. really clear. i can't say much about sound because i don't really pay much attention to it once i get into the game. but it satisfies me!Gameplay Gameplay is great, Controls are simple after some practice. Structured storyline, and great variety of weapons. The level of difficulty is what makes this game stand out in my opinion, the AI is great.Multiplayer is the best, not only because of the different type of games you can play with your friends/family, but you can even hook up to 16 players all at once!! Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary I was on this site posting my what i thought about Brute Force (sucked) and i thought i'd drop in here and see what people were sayin' about Halo these days.Sound yeah the game had soundGameplay What? Halo is a Game, i thought it was a religion. this is the best game to ever come out of any game console ever, just beating out Pitfall for atari and Metal Gear Solid for PSone. Sure the campainge it cool but you play that, beat it, then call 10 of your friends over head to blood gulch and play a 3 hour long game of capture the flag with all the vehicles on. then you do that again at sidewinder, then keep repeating this until your thumbs fall off and your eyes bleed. This game was made for the system link, unmatched in the area of multiplayer.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary You know, I don't have a problem if you think that this game isn't worth 5's across the board. But to give it a rating of 1 or 2?? Come on!At least be honest in your review and give the game the marks that you feel it deserves. Don't purposefully low ball it to bring down the overall rating. Sorry about the soap-box, but I had to set the record straight. This is one of the best games ever made. I'm not going to go into specifics...the other 320 reviews have covered those. Suffice to say that in every meaningful category, this game rates very high. I can't wait for Halo2. Sound See above.Gameplay See above.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Hobbes0240From USA Review Date 06/15/2003 Overall Rating  1 of 5 Visitors rate this review 2.33 of 5, 3 votes Rate this review? Summary Come on people, this game does not live up to the hype, sure, it has one of the best multiplayer, but what use is that when the single player game is so lousy? You only get like, 7 weapons, and you can only carry two at a time!? You're supposed to be a super soldier for crying out loud! And how can you drive alien vehicles? Over all, this game was peaty shoddily put together, it seemed rushed, and the plot, and most of the game play didn’t make sense, it could have been a lot better.Sound All you here the entire game is: “BAM! BAM! NO! ARGH!” It’s amazing how little sound this game gets away with. The sound affects are WAY to loud, you can’t even here Cortana speak during a mission! It’s infuriating!Gameplay ARRGGHHH!!!! What the heck?! It is so boring! It’s more of a novelty at first, but that feeling where off quick. There is absolutely no variety, yea, yea, you get to fight with marines, but what fun is that with monotonous game play and horrible controller set up? All it is, is run into room, shoot covenant, run into other room, shoot some more, have Cortana say something you can barely here over the excessively loud gameplay, shoot some more, turn off the console, shake your head.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Bobby EnsmingerFrom Ft. Worth, Tx Review Date 06/07/2003 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Well what can be said about Halo that hasn’t already been said? We have here on VGR.com already 321 reviews on it, it has won several awards as game of the year, and is toted to be the biggest things since Half-Life, so what else can be said about it? Well one thing for sure is Halo is a very convincing game that’s for sure.For the longest of time, I rejected the thought of getting a Xbox. It wasn’t because I’m a fanboy or anything of such nature, in fact I own my fair share of all systems, but I just could not really validate a reason to buy one just yet. However, with the passing of the recent 2003 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3 as it is known) Microsoft dropped the price of the Xbox down to $179.99. I figured what better time than to just go ahead and pick one up, and of course I got Halo to go with it. Well after spending much, MUCH time with Halo I’ve been thoroughly convinced that it is indeed one of the best first-person shooters ever made, if not one of the best games ever made. Put simply, Halo does for the Xbox what Goldeneye did for the N64. Sound The harmonious chanting:Halo’s music is also stunning. The music kicks in with epic orchestrated composure when the action is intense and the voice acting is dead-on. All the marines provide great one-liners while fighting and rarely is the same line of dialogue heard twice. All actors fit the part and nothing sounds forced or overtly cheesy, and the dialogue and sounds given from the Covenant is downright hilarious. Also, for those with surround sound Halo supports Dolby 5.1 and the sound effects rock and roar with bullets ripping through the air and grenades exploding. Halo’s sounds are stunning. The epic that is Halo: Halo is easily on par with the greatest of games. With its stellar presentation Halo does no wrong. Everything about it is superb and ultimately it is a pure blast to play whether by yourself or with others. It provides great graphics, gameplay, and sounds all rolled into one package and can make the non-believers of the Xbox (like I once was) a believer. It’s one of the best FPS since the groundbreaking Half-Life, and the fact that Halo has still yet to be beat in the almost 2 years it has been out is a feat in itself. Gameplay Not to be confused with that thing over angels heads:You will play the now recognized hero (and trademark for the Xbox) the Master Chief, a bonafide cyborg badass called upon to cause a little chaos to the alien species called the “Covenant”. You “awaken” on a ship and are given the basic controls to help you “stretch-out”, however the ship is soon attacked by the Covenant. They began slaughtering the civilians and troops on the ship, and it’s up to you to kick some butt, save some lives, and get out of there. Definitely a rude-awakening indeed. Thereafter you will find your escape-pod crash land on the planet Halo and from there on this is where the game will take place. As its name suggests Halo is a ring-shaped planet that resembles earth in a pseudo sort-of way. However, this is definitely one of the best aspects of Halo. The construction of level design, layout, and length of each level is superbly done. You’ll explore mountains, rivers, snowy plains, underground industrial caves, and many other locals that the atmosphere Halo gives is unrivaled by any other game on the market. You’ll never feel bored searching around in levels, and no two levels ever repeat themselves in design. The game continues through 10 HUGE levels all told with a thoughtful and provocative narrative that it easily rivals that of the all mighty Half-Life and provides a better story and experience than even most movies. But the meat and potatoes of Halo is all in the action, and Halo’s delivers in doses. Unlike other FPS, Halo does not allow you to carry a plethora of weapons with you. Although it does have several weapons to choose from throughout your journey, Halo presents realism by allowing you to only carry two guns and two types of grenades at the same time. Although this may sound silly to some, this is really a simply concept turned brilliant by the strategy required to determine which gun is the right gun for the situation. Not only this, but the guns are creatively crafted and players will certainty pick and choose favorites to carry with them at all times. Once armed and ready, it’s time to get onto killing and again Halo scores big. The enemy AI is superb and definitely one of the best seen in a game yet. They dodge you bullets, run for cover, sneak up on you, and cleverly even commit bombing suicide to take you out. This provides a tough challenge throughout, especially if you kick up the games many different difficulties (take them on in Legendary and see you ass get tossed back at you!). Not only is the enemy AI great, but the Ally AI is just as fantastic. One mission in particular really shows this off as you storm the beach D-day style with your trusty marines by your side and you watch as they react realistically to the situation they are in. They perform just as cleverly as the alien’s do, and to watch your marines go overkill on the aliens can even bring a sadistic smile to your face. The single player rocks, but Halo doesn’t just end there no, no, it boast a multiplayer mode so extravagant to call it grandiose is an understatement. Firstly, players can play through the stellar campaign mode two-player co-op and this alone is worthy of a purchase. The strategy and good-times to be had during two-player co-op mode is so much fun I would withdraw from sleeping to play just another hour. However, it doesn’t end there players can take on a 4 player deathmatch with more options than you can shake a stick at to have a romping time. Yet still it does not end there. Those determined and willing enough, can raise the ante using a few system link cables and TV’s to play not only 4, not only 8, not only 12, but up to 16 players all at once! The replay value brought from all these mulitplayer options is reason enough to easily buy and Xbox for. Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Halo is a great game it really is the best game of 2002. The Graphics and Gameplay are awesome. The music can get boring but it does have an erie effect that puts a type of fear in the player, but makes you want to push on. I can't wait until Halo 2 is released. But I am just fine with the first. If I had to choose one game and that game was the only one I could get it would be Halo for sure!Sound The sound is an erie mix of maoning that really adds to the games quallity. But the way it repeats after a while gets kind of boring.Gameplay The gameplay in Halo is the best I have seen ever. It is really suspensful and makes you want to keep playing. Halo is one addicting game!Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By wouldnt u like to know non yaFrom Maryland Review Date 05/30/2003 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Halo is a game about a cyborg named the Master Chief and he is the last hope for the human race because a evil alien religous group has declared war aganist the earthSound Next to medal of honor halo has the best sound on a video game.Gameplay the gameplay is very great. I really like the idea of melee attacks they are very useful when a enemy is attacking and your realoding. I also like the way you through the gernades bacause with a lot of games you have to change weapons to go to the gernades but with halo all you do hit is hit the left trigger to throw the gernade. Other than that is basically like any other FPS.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary HaloSound Sound i dont really worry about much but the sound is good on this game. YOu hear all of the shots and when your about to be ran over by a tank or a jeep by one of your freinds.Gameplay This game is one of my favorite game. The guy who put this game down must not know anything about cool games. If you like to walk around and kill people or aliens in this case this is your game. This game is great to play with your freinds when you go into fighting each other. We have spent hours on just shooting and killing each other. When you get to go around in tanks and shooting missles. Or get on a jeep with a automatic machine gun. This is my favorite game and anyone who says it sucks doesnt know a true game or doesnt like killing games.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By SamFrom Sulphur Springs, Tx Review Date 05/16/2003 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary After reading many prasing review of this game, I bought an Xbox, for Halo alone. And I am pretty pleased, the game is revolutionary through the first half, but sadly fails to maintain that as you reach the later half of the game, with the exeption of a few key moments, and of course the late fifteen minutes. Some people tell me the last half feels rushed because it was, and if that's the case, I can understand why it isn't a good as the first half. But some tell me the game was not rushed...hmmm...well anyways, if you can get past the lackluster levels toward the end, then you are in for one of the finest and most rewarding games I have ever played.Sound Halo is a winner in the sound department. With great voice acting, for humans and aliens alike, adding to the badass movie feel. Though some of the weapon sounds are a little flat...Gameplay Gameplay, now this is where Halo comes through a cut above. Never has combat in a first-person shooter been so much fun. And one of the main reasons for that is exellent enemy A.I., expecially on the higher difficulty levels. The Covenent(the alien force bent on shuffling you loose the mortal coil...)will put up one hell of a fight. They flank you, ambush you, and attack you in packs. The smaller, weaker enemys, instead of facing you alone will run to get help, they will aid larger more powerful enemys, and use a varitey of weapons remarkably effectivly. You toss a Plasma Grenade, that will stick to an enemy, and watch that enemy either panic before his enevitable death, or see him start running after you tring to take you with him. Though the A.I. for the Covenent is great, about midway though that game a new kind of enemy is thrust upon you...and my god are they annoying! There plan seems to be to run at you or stand and shoot at you and little else. And the little crawling pod things are the only thing I really HATE about Halo. The weapons in the game are another one of it's strong points. From human weapons like the Assault Rifle, Shotgun, Pistol, and Rocket Launcher, to alien weapons like the Plasma Rifle and Pistol, and the Needler, the game is in no short supply of fire power. Each weapon serves it's own purpose, and the fact that the game only lets you carry two weapons at a time(which adds to the realism and reduces the "One Man Army" feel that plauges most FSPs)adds a bit of strategy to the game in choosing what weapons you will carry into a given situation. And that god for the melee attack that can be done with any weapon and is very usefull. And last, but not least, the vehicles. Although a bit underused, the are a blast and definatly one of the reasons that set Halo above the rest.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary This game is defenatly the best first person shooter I have ever seen on a console to date, as well as the best launch title on a console ever. Yeah, thats not saying much, but words can be deceiving. Sure, many people will slag it for being short, or repetitive in later levels, but heres a solution, if you dont like those levels, dont play em! The greatest thing is co-op, I spent 30 minutes in a death-match in a level, (The Silent Cotographer) and there were bodys everywhere, countless bodys, laying in heaps and blood strewn across the ground, the best gaming moment ever for me. The second best gaming moment for me was driving (on the same level) with a friend in a couple of warthogs and ramming each other head on, we went like 20-80 feet in the air, and when we knocked each other out, we would run each other over or lob grenades at each other.My third greatest gaming moment EVER was when I was attemting to cross a bridge that apeared and dissapeared constantly, me and my friend thought we had to cross it, everytime one would fail, the other shot them and he respawned to the top location, by the end there were about 50 bodys in a huge pile, we got mad because we realized we didnt have to do it, but it was pretty fun doing it, and dang funny afterward. 9.8/10 Sound Sound is good, good music use and awseome voices for enemys and allies, for example, I saw a soldier run up to a dead body and start shooting it and screaming stuff, ive seen that a few times, and each time he usually says something different. Nothing beats throwing a plasma grenade at a grunt and watching him scream and run around going "NOT AGIAN!!!" or "THERE EVERYWHERE!!!", and the scream as they fly through the air too, and watching their little arms waving when they explode is simply awe inspiring.9.2/10 Gameplay Controls are solid and comforatable, framerate leaves a bit to be desired in co-op, but at least it doesent make me ill like Medol of Hounor. Really short in game load times, which many people mistake for framerate problems, but are in fact not, although there are a few hiccups, like when you beat a dead alien to a bloody pulp and layer the blood, then look at it and walk over it back and forth, thats a good way to get sick.9.0/10 Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By MikeReview Date 05/16/2003 Overall Rating  2 of 5 Visitors rate this review 1.00 of 5, 1 votes Rate this review? Summary Horribly overrated.Sound Bah, I wouldn't care when it's all this bad.Gameplay Ok, so a friend convinced me to buy Xbox for Halo alone, because it would be one of the best experiences I can have in gaming life. I was curious because I am a hardcore PC gamer with an insanely powerful computer rig that handles anything which means, insane graphics. Boy was he wrong in my case.This game is so lame. You start off in a ship with some really bad character models instructing you. After a really lame tutorial like introduction, it gets into things going bad. Um? Half Life anyone? I already played this sort of thing in 1998 on my PC back then. If it took this long for a console to make a game ripoff of that, then it's sad. Controls are ok once you get used to them which didn't take me long. Eh, I don't got much to say, if there is a good, the combat with your teammates isn't so bad though then again, I've seen stuff like this only more insane in Unreal Tournament original for PC and that was back in...Oh forget it, I've already seen all this and better. Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. | |||||||||||||||||
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