Actually I find his review to be rated a bit high ^^; Now before anyone goes off and calls me a fanboi let me be honest, I have access to all 3 consoles and I have games that I love on each :P I find myself a huge Sony fan yes, but thats only because I'm a die-hard fan of hardware :3 Anyway....
Halo isn't bad by any means!!! (just getting that out of the way) here were a few probs I ran into.
1.) Is it me, or did this game have TONS of graphical errors, playing through I've seen numerous brutes fly right through crates, when piloting the Tank I've hit a ton of "snags" wheren I had to make a snails pace manuever around, there was a scene in one of the warehouse locations where some debris falls, shortly after I killed this giant (forgive me I don't know the halo enemies ;-; ) and as his body fell it went right through (like 0 collision detection) and these didn't just happen once, I've been spotting this throughout the whole game.
2.)Hit response and collision detection. I simply don't know whats going on with grenades or bullets sometimes! I've tossed a grenade into a pack of guys and emptied the fuel rod gun into multipe clusters of people and I find that 80 percent of the time it registers splash damage. o.O sometimes a grenade will go off and it has little to NO impact. Yet I've attatched on to an enemy and it deals full impact to him and his nearby's, if they stick to an enemy I always get full impact, but my problem seems to be the splash damage. Then with the fuel rod its rare that they ever react to AOE, like almost to the point that I'm going to ask if it does have AOE?
Whats the deal with bullets? I've hit every part of the body on brutes and the little guys :3 and all I ever seem to get are those "shove effects" where the flinch a little if I'm lucky, Yes I understand that their wearing armor, but MAN does it make my gun feel weak. MAJOR ISSUE, the shotgun!!!! WTF, talk about a fickle weapon, I simply stopped picking it up, the range on that thing fluxuates like no other! I've had a decent shot from a good 15 or so feet, then I've had HORRID shots point blank that just have NO impact.. I just don't get it ;-;
Impact and master chief. I've been hit by explosives on the other side of the obstacle I happen to be covering agasint such as crates, walls, highway cement rail, etc. On numerous occasions. I've had enemy's with gravity hammers hit me by swinging through walls, I had the Scarrab(?) miss me by like 10 feet and kill me XD by stepping on me with the jedi force trick apparently :D
3.) Audio. My BIGGEST gripe with this game is its audio, the musical score was pretty cool sometimes, (I've found it a little overwhelming at times when npc's attempt to speak to me) but overall a great soundtrack, my problem however are the weapon sound effects and the enemy voices >< about an hour into the game I could have SWORN that the enemy's were copying the dialogue from Killzone 1!!!! I was hearing those muffled screams that the hellghast's gave out and it was almost disturbing!!! THE GUNS WTF!!! I was running around sniping people with my semi-rifle? ( sorry don't speak halo ;-; ) and I thought the gun sounded significanly under-powered (which fit with my earlier nags on response) and then I saw a turret, mmmmmm turrets, I LOVE TURRETS. So I go to man this turret, and MUCH TO MY DISMAY, it sounded weaker than my handheld!! Keep in mind this is the ONLY game I've played thats done this to me!
4.) Story. Not going to give away any more spoilers than I already have (I'm sorry >< ) but man with god of war being one of my favorite franchises I was expecting something a little more epic XD
5.) Multi-player. Keep in mind I've played MANY fps's some of my favorites being Tribes and Unreal for the PC, golden-eye, perfect dark, timesplitters future perfect and Resistance fall of man on console. I found Halo's multi to be ENTIRELY 1 dimensional. Like it was fun raping my friends and stuff, but wow does it get old ;-; again maybe I'm the odd man out, but I saw 10/10's like EVERYWHERE and man can I say I was dissapointed :(
I don't find halo bad in the least though! Its DEFINATELY got some flaws, but you really can look past them in this game (for the most part, audio still leaving awefull taste >< ) but man is this game average! I can at most give this game a 7.5 out of 10. And the flaws can't be my disk! (my friend had to buy 2 copies, our first one got a beautiful ring etched into it when one of our cats colided with the 360 >_>) but both copies had these aformentioned flaws. :(
Sorry for the poor paragraph structure but thats my 2 cents ;-;
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