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Rating Reviewed By RaulFrom Oakland, California USA Review Date 12/14/2002 Overall Rating  5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Halo is a very, very fun game... But yet it gets pretty easy, and convusing.The aliens are very funny I had a great time with them... Well I mean the small ones. The worst part I guess about it is that the game is too confusing. In some parts I couldn't tell where I was suposed to go. They make it in some places easy to tell where your suposed to go, but as I said before in some parts you couldn't tell where you were suposed to go. The best part is that you can play mutiplyer in the campain!!! I thought that was great! In most games you can only play againist each other... But in this game you can just beat the whole game playing with your friend, family member, etc. It is good for me because I have some friends that just plain suck at the game... But when we play on the same team they're actually pretty good. But when we play againist each other they don't stand a chance! I also thought the varity of weapons and veicles were wonderful and how you can drive a worthog and have you be the driver and your friend or just the computer be the gunner or passenger. I think anyone who has a Xbox needs to get Halo!!! Sound The sound is great no problems there.Gameplay It is very fun but convusing where your suposed to go... But easy at the end.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Halo is probably THE best FPS ever made. Sure, there are people who like Half Life more because it was the original story driven FPS and is nostolgic for them. Others like Golden-Eye more because it was the first really good console FPS and again holds nostalgia for them. Haters also like to mention that Halo can't be the best because it's not "original" and brings nothing "new" to the table and everything in it has already been done before, in one form or another, in numerous other FPS's. Well I'm here to tell you they are WRONG! Sure Halo has almost all the multi-player aspects of Godlen-Eye. Sure it has the story driven aspect of Half-Life. Sure, it also has the vehicles of Tribes and some stratigic elements from Rainbow Six. But guess what. Halo is Halo.It is not ONLY those parts of all the said FPS's thrown together. It is more than that. If someone decribed "GTA 3" as "Driver" with parts of "Die Hard Trilogy" thrown toghether, would it do the game justice ? You would know right away that they are either wrong or trying to hate. If you took all the best parts of all those FPS mentioned above and SEAMLESSLY married them together, you would ONLY have the base of what Halo is. You really have to play it through to really appericiate it, as there is no other videogame experience like it. Sound Great sound. Even if you don't have Dolby Digital 5.1, which this game is able to run in, every sound is crisp and clear and appropiate for what it tries to represent. The music is also phenominal too. It's original, and fits the mood of the game perfectly.Gameplay Where do I start. Precise. Flexable. Stratigic. Astonishing.Halos, tecnically, controls without a hitch. There is really nothing much to complain or worry about when you are controlling Master Chief. The controls are integrated perfectly onto the Xbox controller. So much so that it really made me wonder if Microsoft had this game in mind when they created it as everything is instantly accessable, precise and completely intuative to the experience. The moveing and aiming are handled with two different analog sticks which are offset from one anotheron the conroller(I cannot tell you enough how much this helps me subconsiously differentiate that these two sticks have different purposes). The aiming is precise, yet flexable, in that it's sensative enough to follow any movement you give it but it also allows for slight mistakes on your part by kinda guiding you when you get close to an enemy. Great! Fireing your weapon and grenade throwing with this conroller are also handled perfectly. The Xbox controller has two triggers onthe bottom, a left and a right, which your index fingers are ALWAYS sitting on. There's nothing else down there to distract them. The left is used to throw your grenades. The right is for the trigger on the gun in the game. That's it. There are no modifying button down there, no zoom in buttons no nothing. Just your finger, a trigger, your reflexives and an unsepecting alien. It doesn't get any better than that in this game. The face button are handled resonably well too given that there are six face buttons. The more important buttons are up front, like reloading, switching guns ect., and the least near the back, like turning on/off your flashlight. Great controls! You are only allowed to carry two weapon with you at any given time, so you have to watch your ammo, what kind of weapons you need in a given situation, what kind of weapon your enemys have so you pick them up off their corpse if needed. But that's just the tip of the iceburg. There are vehicles in this game that are all drivable AND/OR flyable. Each has it's own assortment of weapon at your disposal and some even let you transport friendly troops, if they aren't killed first that is. Vehicles are EXTREMELY important in this game AND very useful. Now, while the technical aspect of Halo's controls are great, it's the intangible aspects that put this game over the top. To put it simply, this game has some of the smartest A.I. in gameing history and really makes the single player campaign a stratigically filled, one-of-a kind experience the nearly equals the amount of fun you'd have playing multi-player with friends. Everyone in this game seems to be really fighting a real war. Throw a grenade at an alien an watch id dive for cover. Kill every alien except one and wach it run for it's life only to find support, gain some courage and come back for more. Not to mention the marines you are fighting with. They will run around you securing areas and start to get excited when a fight is drawing near. Shoot one of your own soldiers once and they will start to quesion you. Shoot them again and they'll start shooting, AT YOU! ASTOUNDING! Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Dwight DoyleFrom I am from Saskatoon Review Date 12/13/2002 Overall Rating  4 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Yes. It was a good game. It was a SHOOT-EM-UP game. Yes. You were a human in a robot suit. I called myself OPTIMUS PRIME. You get to choose what color your robot suit is. I chose SAGE. Yes. It was a good game. There are many many different levels. Each level is not very different from the previous. All you do is shoot up aliens. Thats all. Its great for the first few days. But after a while, when you realize your spending countless hours trying to kill duplicates of the same aliens, you get tired and return it to blockbuster.Sound Sound is good. Yes. The small aliens shriek like real aliens would. Its not a high pitch shriek that will ruptur eyour eardrum though. Its about an A MINOR PITCH maybe. Yes. And the music excites you when your coming close to aliens.Gameplay Gameplay was good. The Xbox controller gives you many different buttons to press. You have a flashlight, and the aiming is much easier becuase you use two joysticks at a time. The game is best played in multiplayer, in my opinion. But thats just my opinion. I mean, I like sheppards pie, for pete's sake.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By XBOX KIINGFrom Australia Review Date 12/10/2002 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary This, quite simply, is the best game ever made. The graphics, sound, gameplay and replay value individually are amazing. However, when combined into one game, it makes this game even more stunning. To make it even better this game has a thrilling storyline. This game will last you months on campaign. You'll want to keep coming back for more. Then another few months for multiplayer. Brilliant.Sound The best music Ive ever heard. Suits the game marvellously. Sound effects are great. Lost of freakiness later in the game, and also the marines are sick humored!!!!!! SCORE!!!!!!!! and on SURROUND SOUND it is scary hearing the explosions and cries in the distance.Gameplay Controls are superb, ideal to use. Feels extremely natural and comfortable.BEST EVER Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Trisstian ReedFrom ?????????? Review Date 12/09/2002 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary First of all I'd like to say that all the people that think that xbox is the worst consle ever and think that even the playstation can handle this game I think that, that is a clear meaning of what jealousy means. Anyways when I first picked the game up I knew it wouldn't let me down, I saw a faint heavenly glow on the case as I walked by the section of xbox games. And this game is probably the best FPS (first person shooter) around... wait let me refraise that again, it is one of the best GAMES around, suprising enough it is a launch title!Sound The sound, i thought to myself is this a game or a big bugit film? also you can even hear the grunts asking themselves if they are going to die!!!! once even when i was gunning down all the helpless grunts i herd one say... Oh no it's big daddy cyborg, he's going to kill us all. good stuff i know. and one more thing JUST BUY THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Gameplay THE GAME IS THE MOST IMMERSIVE GAME EXPERIENCE I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED!!!!!!!on the first level when you are trying to escape the Pillar of Autumn ( Human space craft ) I was wondering if I was ever was going to even get out alive. !!!!WARNING SPOILERS ON NEXT PARAGRAPH!!!!!! on the sixth level i found myself wondering what kind of freaky thing had hapenned to the missing marenes who had disapeared in an uncharted part of Halo. Phew... ok it's over!!! ok lets just remember the game plays good with good and custimizible controls. Oh also the AI is unbelivible, probably the best i've ever experienced! Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary It's just impossible to describe in words how GREAT this game is! Everything is just so perfect! Everything from the graphics to the storyline is PERFECT, there's just no other word for it. It's left me wetting myself in anticipation for the next one. (Can't wait!) If only the game was endless . . . in a perfect world maybe.Sound BANG! BOOM! 'Take cover!' Little Grunt aliens waddling around screaming 'we're all going to die!' etc. Yep, this definatly passes the sound test.Gameplay I hear what you're saying. 'All first - person shooters are all the same'. Well how absolutly wrong you are. Oh yes. This seperates itself from any other. I don't know why, it's just better in almost every way. The weapons are very different a imaginative, and the storyline has lots of turns and twists and really gets you involved. Plus the game huuuuuuuuuge.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Just recently I picked up an X-Box, and the reasons why are because of Clancys Splinter Cell and Halo. I have been waiting to play this game since the X-Box hit store shelves for the first time. And now that I have had my chance to play it, I am both impressed and unimpressed at the same time. This is a solid first person shooter, as far as consoles go (there are better ones for PC), but it does leave a little to be desired. Overall, Bungie should be proud, but they have some work left to do for Halo 2.Sound The sound gets great scores as well. The voice acting is pretty good. You will get praise from your fellow marines when kicking a little enemy behind and they don't appreciate it much when you kill one of your own. Nothing is better than hearing the enemy grunts shout out "Grenade" when you toss one their way or "He's everywhere" when your showing them what's up. Hilarious and great additions to the game. Weapons sound pretty good too, but could be a little louder. With a decent sound system, Halo will not disappoint.Gameplay First the good news. The default control scheme is nice, and there are three others to choose from. The responsiveness of the "look" stick should be turned all the way up, as it is a little slow when looking up and down on the default setting. Personally, I would have liked to be able to fully customize my control scheme, to something a little more Turok like, which should be the norm these days for these kind of games.One thing I really like about Halo, is getting to cruise around in the humvee-jeep-like Warthog, with a few of your marine buddies tearing up the place and running over enemies. A tank with a very powerful canon and a Ghost hovercraft type of ship is available to operate as well. The action is fun and can be real intense at times. It always seems that right when you are completely out of ammo, the action dies down, then there will be a boatload of goodies in the next room. I don't think Halo is either really hard or really easy, but it should be played on one of the higher difficulties. If you are into multiplayer gaming, then Halo shouldn't disappoint you. Now, the bad news. This is honestly the worst level design and redundancy I have ever seen in my life in a first person shooter. I feel it really takes away from the game as every level is the same thing over and over and over. Just when you turn the corner and think to yourself that the next few rooms can't possibly be like the last few, they are. For this, Halo has to drop a point. This is totally unacceptable and it should be looked into for the next release. If it wasn't for the action and the occassional messages from your little girly computer friend, you would damn near fall asleep. Lastly, and another reason Halo drops a point, is the fact that only two weapons can be carried at a time. Throughout the entire game, you will continuously have to keep swapping weapons with other weapons which is a real pain. This is another thing that should be corrected come Halo 2. While ten weapons is a little too much, two is a little to few. Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By mattFrom fenton missouri Review Date 12/07/2002 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary If you own an X-box and dont have this game ,,,you should be shot.So go buy it.If you dont have an X-box.This game is worth purchasing one for it.You can invest soo many hours into this game,its not even funny.Everything blends together into an unbeliveable game.This is why you bought and/or why you should buy an xbox.Sound The sound is very well done in this game.The soundtrack is especially good.From quiet to loud its perfectly fits the mood.Its cool how the covanent talk and react when they see you.Gameplay This is the meat and potatoes of the game.This is a pretty challenging game on the upper 2 difficulties.I suggest beginners stat on normal or easy,cause once you beat it on one of those,the game is much more fun to play when you have some experience.Ive put in 30+ hours and I dont plan on stopping anytime soon.I also suggest if you have 4 controllers and 4 friends.Stay away from this game if you value your social life.In conclusion=best FPS on any system yet.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By ben lopez and jeff gonzalesFrom u.s.a Review Date 12/06/2002 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary jeff-this is the greatest game I've ever played cause of its actionben-this game is perfect in ever way Sound jeff-the sound is so coooooooooooooooooool that it makes me hear things when im not playing this game is so perfect it hast to come out as the best greatest hit that ever lived and im waiting for halo2ben- the sound makes me feel like the enemey is playing with me Gameplay jeff-i think the gameplay is the greatest i have ever played i just love playing the game on easy to mow down the enemy really bad.ben-the non-stop action is what makes the gameplay supurb Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary I really enjoy playing this game! I always play this game with friends and family.Three of my friends bought an Xbox because of this game. So that must tell you something...I was lucky to get a 4v4 system link ,And let me tell you it was cool!I hope I could get a 8v8 .Sound Sound is good ...I really don't need good sound so i really can't say.I never pay really to close.I'll just mark everything a five cause some peoples reviews are just wacked! this might help even out this game rating. Gameplay Well really easy not to hard.I always hear people saying it's hard.Well I showed my 10yr Sister how to play in a week.She learned the first day ,but it took about a week for her little head to get good at it.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Andrew C. MorganFrom Honolulu, Hawaii Review Date 11/25/2002 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Simply amazing, its fun to snipe on multi-player, even though i lost so bad at it.(i suck at sniping) Im more of a GUNG-HO kind of kid, i charge in and kill whatever i can. my faverate faverate multi-player game is "rockets" its fun to walk around and shoot another player with an explosive shell that blow him/her 50 feet in the air.Sound the sound is awsome! i have surround sound so its even better, its awsome how the bullits just fly in the air! and that plasma bursts explode on the walls or on the ground, i like the way the shotgun sounds following the explosion of a SENTINAL exploding and then falling on the ground.(its fun to go up to a sentinal and hit it with heel of your gun, untill it blows up and takes away half of your health.)Gameplay gameplay? ummmmmmm, i dunno, its fun to shoot an alian and then through a grenade on it and watch it go sky high! by that i mean, the gamplay is so awsome that my friend comes over to my house and says "can we plz kill some covanant?"somtimes we even start to kill each-other in the middle of a covanant on-salaught. and its funny how the grunts will say a hole bunch of dum thing like "hes gonna kill us all!"or "hes every where" dum put so very true. Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By stop whining ArchonFrom Earth Review Date 11/22/2002 Overall Rating 4 of 5 Rate this review? Summary I think it pays to have a PC and a console: because you can see how far console games still have to come when they start encroaching on PC territory.Sound Good overall. The Grunts get a bit annoying, but other than that no complaints.Gameplay Halo is a great FPS, but as a PC gamer I have to agree with someone else who said the level reuse is ridiculous... because it is. Everything about this game is decent, except for the fact that once you enter "the flood" stage it goes downhill. In fact, the last half of the game consists of backtracking over the levels you played in the first half of the game. I guess if you've never played a FPS in your life, you can stomach that. For the rest of us... no way.Plusses: vehicle physics, good force-feedback, decent story til half-way point. 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. The fact that during multiplayer you can snipe someone in the head, laugh, swear at each other and exchange right fists and repeat the process six times without going to the bathroom and choosing to soil your pants is amazing. If you do not like this game it's unfortunate as you and your inbreeding family play strip poker, you choose not to enjoy the true essence of the game(read 2nd sentance again). First player is unbelievable, co-op is stratigic, and multiplayer is insane panick. Go buy it and enjoy.Sound Hearing little grunts muffle out various naughty words always brings a special joy-tear to my eye. The music is also awesome (surround sound is cool) and change with the setting. You really don't notice sound much in multiplayer but it does set the mood (it ain't no Bradybunch music) and really can get your heart going when a player is right behind you. This game never does fail...and no situation is the same. It's multiplayer is as good as Super Smash and maybe a little more...Gameplay although the controls require a learning curve...play enough and you will see the obvious advantage that the x-box controller has over other systems first-person-shooter-wise. Don't be stubborn when it comes to sucking at this game because you have difficulty with coordination and getting over the fact that your Seamonkeys have died. Motivation simply comes with the fact that people are better than you and have a bigger pokemon collection(not true for me....but i have heard names). Snipering is very good fun not to mentioning pushing steel in the back of of someones head.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Travis PFrom Melfort,Sk,Canada Review Date 11/18/2002 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary well, this is probably without a doubt one of the best games i've ever played. i cant beleive people gave it under a 5/5, this game deserves at least that. its fun and insane in every aspect, if its in single player, cooperative or split screen mode. i personally have went psycho on every part of this game. This game in my opinion is the best fps game of all time, currently. metroid prime is gonna be up there too. but i cant get enough of this game, imagine what the 2nd one is gonna be like, even more isanity.Sound well the sound is probably also one of the best i've seen in any game, also enough said. leave it at that.Gameplay At first the gameplay was a little weird getting used the different controls gets a little getting used to but after a while you love it. the story line is just awesome in it, if its shooting the pi$$ out of the enemies in coop or single player or going psycho on your friends in multiplayer/splitscreen mode. i personally believe that halo 2 is outdoubtably gonna be the best game or at least the best fps. the gameplay is brillant.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Wow! I've owned Halo since the Xbox launched in November of last year and I still can't put this game down! I was absolutely amazed by all the thought and polish put into this game. If you liked Goldeneye 007 on Nintendo 64, then you'll love Halo cause it is the biggest evolution of first person shooters I've ever seen! I've not played a first person shooter that even approaches Halo's quality for a 1 player game. the multiplayer is awesome as well, wish it was on Xbox LIVE!Sound Sound is arguably the best part here...great soundtrack, awesome sound effects! I wish i had surround sound!Gameplay Perfect! The 1 player game is untouched because the enemy artificial intelligence can and will suprise you as everytime you play the enemys act different, so you can never memorize Halo, you have to always use your brain. You fly an alien spacecraft, drive a jeep, a tank, and a hovercraft. did I mention that you can play through the entire 1-player game with 2 players cooperatively?Multiplayer is awesome! I've been to several Halo LAN partys with 4 Xbox s and 4 big screen tvs, what an absolute blast! When this one hits the PC next summer, it's going to revolutionize PC first person shooters as well! Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary WOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! The BEST game in existance without a doubt! From the second i picked up the controller at the XBox Xperience in Birmingham i was flung into an intense war between the Humans and the Covenant with easy to use controls that and drop-dead gorgeous graphics i was fully immersed in the only game to be near perfect, if not perfectSound Another area which Halo can thank the XBox's ability to use Doby 5.1. Listen to the pattering of dirt and stones as they fall back to earth after an explosion, or to the hollow ringing of a fallen bullet shell in the silence after taking down an enemy with a sniper rifle. Not to mention the howling winds in tight spaces and the crunch and squeak of snow under your feet and the hilarius taunts of the covenant grunts as they run in terror as soon as they see you weilding your assault rifle. and you cant forget the kickass sound track that pumps the adrenaline round through your veins at lightspeed!Gameplay With the freedom of movement and easy controls to master it will feel as easy to use as a first-person shooter on a PC. The added use of vehicles just adds to the overhwelming excitement of being stranded on the ring world known as Halo, which later you find isn't just a perculiar planet, it is |
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