uadfa said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWzY0RHe1dg This answers all of your questions. |
As ever the info in that video is incorrect. Vehicles were present in Tribes in 1998, 3 years before Halo, for example.
Halo is very good, but the only element I believe was truly introduced in the game was charging shields (although I'd be willing to be a variant was in something else first).
Halo's design strengh was taking a bunch of gameplay mechanics that had already worked in other FPS and bringing them together in a well balanced way. It did not really innovate anything from a gameplay mechanic that hadn't aleady been done before.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...