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Argh_College said:

I will post reviews as soon as they hit the web! 

Predictions ??

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Note: I cant fix the thread tittle, some mod fix it for me. Thursday. November 1st.

 

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http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/31/read-our-halo-4-review-tomorrow-night

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96 and its about damn time too.

Believe me when I say theres NO way itll get under 93. 94-95 possible. 96 is my bet. And I know many games havent made it but 97-98 wouldnt shock me. Halo 4 looks to be the definitive halo experience, getting everything from sound, gameplay, gfx and lasting appeal perfect.

This is based on what weve seen and it could have weak moments to bring it down but with the money behind this game and the developers being considerd as an allstar team .. Yeah. Expect a high score. We'll find out soon!



~9 hours remaining, I'll see what the morning brings!

It could very well deserve a 96-97 (Fuck, GTA4 got it and that most certainly didn't deserve anything about 92 IMO). but I'm sticking with my 94 meta/gamerankings prediction, anything less would be bullshit (Most likely).



I just read a snippet from a review. It was a magazine ready for sale tommorrow at my friends supermarket. It was 10/10 and it wasnt an xbox magazine. It said it wasnt necessarily an artistic evolution in visuals but for this generation a technical marvel in graphics. I quote " Leaps and bounds above other shooters this generation."

You'll see when this releases tommorrow.



Aldro said:
96 and its about damn time too.

Believe me when I say theres NO way itll get under 93. 94-95 possible. 96 is my bet. And I know many games havent made it but 97-98 wouldnt shock me. Halo 4 looks to be the definitive halo experience, getting everything from sound, gameplay, gfx and lasting appeal perfect.

This is based on what weve seen and it could have weak moments to bring it down but with the money behind this game and the developers being considerd as an allstar team .. Yeah. Expect a high score. We'll find out soon!

 

i really wonder why you hype the game so much the last days haha

i have the feeling but i might be wrong that you do it just because you can say with a lower score which is way more realistic  “lower as i expected“ and something like “couldn't hold up to the hype“ or something i hope i'm wrong with my feeling but at least i can quote this now if...



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I, saying 8/10 because no one has yet.



Ive got a feeling were going to see the lowest reviewed mainline Halo ever...

I think nows the perfect time for publications to be tough on Halo. I hate that Im saying that but i fully expeft 89 Meta



The Halo series' average scores according to the only accurate and consistent game reviews aggregator, GameRankings:

XBOX Halo: Combat Evolved
Bungie Software/Microsoft Game Studios, 2001
95.58%
76 Reviews
XBOX Halo 2
Bungie Software/Microsoft Game Studios, 2004
94.62%
99 Reviews
X360 Halo 3
Bungie Software/Microsoft Game Studios, 2007
93.60%
90 Reviews
X360 Halo: Reach
Bungie Software/Microsoft Game Studios, 2010
91.71%
69 Reviews
X360 Halo 3: ODST
Bungie Software/Microsoft Game Studios, 2009
84.92%
70 Reviews
X360 Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
343 Industries/Microsoft Game Studios, 2011
81.80%
51 Reviews

 

I think most of you people are expecting way too much from Halo 4. The above shows that every mainline Halo game has scored lower than its predecessor although I expect Halo 4 to break that tradition and slightly outrank Halo: Reach. And even though I expect Halo 4 to be the best in the series I don't think it will score any more than 92.50%, I'm going to guess that it'll score between 90.00%-92.50% which is an amazing score range by anyone's standards.

I own all of the Halo games except for Halo 3: ODST and the only thing I can praise about them are their multiplayer components, I haven't enjoyed the single player campaign in any of the Halo games apart from Halo: Reach which was quite good but Halo 4 looks to be truly great in the single player campaign department as well as the multipayer component. I am genuinely excited about Halo 4 as everything I've seen or heard about it has impressed me which has never happened before with a Halo game. I think 343 Industries is doing a better job than Bungie ever did as much as the die-hard Halo fans will bitterly disagree.



To fair ODST started out as an expansion to Halo 3 and Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary was just a remake of a 10 year old game.



Aldro said:
96 and its about damn time too.

Believe me when I say theres NO way itll get under 93. 94-95 possible. 96 is my bet. And I know many games havent made it but 97-98 wouldnt shock me. Halo 4 looks to be the definitive halo experience, getting everything from sound, gameplay, gfx and lasting appeal perfect.

This is based on what weve seen and it could have weak moments to bring it down but with the money behind this game and the developers being considerd as an allstar team .. Yeah. Expect a high score. We'll find out soon!

Believe me when I say theres no way it will get over 96.