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One of the few games that changed the face of gaming

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Usually to me most launch titles end up being big failures. But I was wrong with this game and great good came out of it. Back when I first got my Xbox in december 2001 this game came with the package. When I first laid eyes on the game I was amazed at the graphics for one thing.

It was unlike anything I've seen before, how crisp, clear, and clean they looked and made a successful effort to drag you into the world of halo. That was just the beginning and there was still more that meets the eye.

I noticed that sending bullets into aliens never seemed to get old. How where you place the shot would determine how fast the alien would go down. Headshot by far the most effective while shooting them in the foot proved least effective.

The story itself is fantastically written. Even the events that led to halo (told in "The Fall Of Reach") proved to be a well thought out presentation both by the author and the designers.

Needless to say that this is one of the few games (including GTA 3) that changed the gaming world and the normal world forever. I love it.

Great, but not very replayable..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You've probably read 100's of reviews on this game, I don't want to repeat every single word on it, so I'll highlight the fact that the game is not the holy grail of video gaming in any aspect. But it is an excellent mix of all the goods you might want to get from a game. The graphics are not excellent, but very impressive. So is sound. Gameplay is great, but I would have loved a coolly implemented save feature.
The only bad part is that the ending levels are ENFURIATINGLY DIFFICULT, even on normal level - at the very verge of frustrating. Once I beat it - I tried to replay it at a higher level, but the constant flash backs in my head of the mainstream frustration I was up for later on in the game made me put it back in it's case and never reopen. I don't have any friends with XBOX, so I can't do the networked multiplayer thing, and the split screen kinda defeats the stealth and strategy on a multiplayer fight.

Excellent Game! Must Have for XBOX!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have played many different first person shooters and have liked lots of them, but I would have to say Halo was my favorite. Sorry DOOM. I have had many hours of fun with this one. Great to play with friends or by your self. Its not a puzzle type shooter there are no switches to hit, no doors to open, just kill, kill, kill!

PROS: Top Notch graphics, fun weapons, dirveable vehicles, easy but exact controls, TEAM PLAY and the ability to hit the enemy with the butt of your gun, GOD I love that! It was the right balance of everything!

CONS: XBOX Live - but hey it was an early release. HALO 2 will cover that. There are tons of enemies, it would have been nice to battle a boss or special character, now and again.

Alright..

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 25
Date: July 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well this game has awesome graphics. The bad side is.. Controls [perform] badly, untill you get use to them. But then the game gets sooooooooooo boring. Unless you play multiplayer and shoot eachother up. Its alright.. I guess

is everyone else that easily entertained?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: January 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I don't understand why everyone says such good things about this game. The multiplayer is average at best (crud) compared to Unreal) and the single player mode is about the laziest level design I have ever seen. There are about 20 wall textures total, and in some levels, you will see the same EXACT room about 50 times. There are a total of about 5 different kind of aliens in the first 9 levels, and then you finally see 4 new ones... over and over and over and over until you wanna puke. The story is decent, but unless you have surround sound, you can't hear much of the talking over the way too loud music (and you can't change this in the settings) I actually thought this game was decent until I started playing Metroid Prime, where every single room is completely different, and there are about 100 different monsters, all with very different AI. The vehicles are kinda fun, but the controls are downright stupid, especially for the banshee. Overall, either the developer was too rushed, and didn't wrap up the game completely, or they were just incredibly lazy. I did enjoy playing the game through in coop, but only because there was no other 1p shooter coop game to play at the time. My advice: if you want a good single player game, get Bond:Nightfire, if you want good coop, get Timesplitter 2, and if you want great multiplayer, get Unreal.

Strangely overrated

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: June 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have played this game for a few days, and I had a hard time to see what the fuss was all about. I was very surprised to find that Halo was such a mediocre and pre-scripted game - I normally really enjoy shooters like this, but I had a hard time appreciating this one - the graphics weren't all that - the game play the usual boring storyline. The action was fluid, that's about as possitive as I can get.

sucked

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 26
Date: February 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

it is awful, shooting aliens how boring, this game sucks

Halo is horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 32
Date: July 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I first played Halo, I was interested in seeing how supposodly good it was. I played deathmatch with my friend. A little one on one action. The only thing I remembered about it was how incredibly boring it was. Of course, you say that playing Halo one on one is boring. You're right. It is.

I thought I'd give co-op a try. I was even more bored playing co-op than I was playing deathmatch. All it was was running around, engaging in some easy gunfight with generic aliens, more running around, more fighting, more running around... WHEN WILL THE HORROR END?! This kind of action has been tortured, cut, ripped up, killed, burned, peed on, and thrown off a cliff. We get the picture. How about not having a game be about a guy in a clown suit saving the universe. That's been done before. Can anyone say Doom? That's basically saving the universe... if the universe consisted of preventing aliens from traveling to Earth from Mars.

When I was playing the game for about... oh I don't know... fourty-five minutes, I found absolutely no trace of a storyline. I'm guessing it's just some other pointless shooter about killing aliens for s***s and giggles.

I'm guessing that the main character (cough Master Chief cough), who has the worst name in existance, has the strength of a giant. My worthog tipped over, he's able to turn it over with a flick of the wrist. Wish I had that kind of strength. I want to move a bunch of cars in traffic, I flick my wrist and the road is clear. Or I'm standing in line at a store, flick my wrist, all the people ahead of me fly in all seperate directions. He may have the strength of a giant, but can't resist gunfire worth the s***. His shields wear off and he dies in two bullets. What happened to that amazing strength?!?! You're able to flip a worthog by breathing on it, yet you can't withstand two bullets?! That's when I get the urge to throw the game out the window.

I'm not going to even get into how bad the grapics are. Lets just say looking at the graphics in Halo are as bad as staring into the sun.

The weaponary itself is unorganized. No weaponary used today is outmatched by an ordinary pistol. The pistol is more like a backup weapon. Not a weapon that is twice as strong as an assault rifle. The sniper rifle itself is slow. You would think that weapon technology has improved from today's standards. It can only zoom in like a present-day sniper rifle, and has slow refire rates. You'd thing that weapons that far into the future could zoom in further and shoot faster, wouldn't you think?

All the AI's movements are scripted... then again, many games are like that. But this game has very stupid AI. They always have to wait for you, they shoot when the script tells them to; otherwise they'd just sit there looking around waiting to die a horrific death. Unlike Farcry, the enemies have minds of their own. In Farcry, I was driving a realistically looking inflatable boat, and I was approaching a beach with enemies on it. Since I didn't want to get my ass kicked, I opened fire on them and some died. The suvivors got into a nearby vehicle and retreated into the woods to regroup with their allies. Later on, I found the same vehicle abandoned in the jungle. That, my friends, is what AI should be. Let's see Halo do that. Have unscripted AI run around, fly any vehicle they want at any given time, and running away when they need to. Halo's AI just stands there, shoots you, runs around flailing their arms, then they die. Awesome.

Review taken from:
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Halo wins my world famous WGE (Worst Game Ever) award.

HALO why waist your money...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: October 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Wow there says it all right there,A waste of money ...O wait were talking about Halo am I right...A game with excellent graphics,1st and 3rd person shooter mode,Vehiclur combat,I guess I should keep my mouth shut then because its going to be a great game...This isn't just for Halo it's really funny how anyone who couldn't afford an xbox gives it a bad rap...I got a few words for everyone out here ...Microsoft is in the gaming comuntiy now there not leaving and there going to make The best games anyone has ever played as Halo shows right here.

amazingly overrated.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: January 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Halo has to be one of the most overrated games in the history of video gaming. It's an incredibly standard first person shooter, that actually does more wrong than it does right.

For starters, the first thing you'll notice when you play (cause I know my review won't stop anyone from making a mistake and purchasing this game) is that the whole game speed is very slow. The jumping, the running, the physics, everything really feels like its playing at about 3/4 speed.

The weapons and aliens are quite bland and very by the book. You have your small aliens that are quite weak, but dangerous in numbers, and your large aliens that are quite capable of killing you all by themselves. And then a massive alien that is a danger regardless of the situation. So standard stuff there. Then you have the Flood. To say that these aliens are badly designed is really to not know the meaning of the word 'design'. They are merely clumps of flesh, that upon shooting, explode into what look like cockcroach type creatures that you might see in other FPS games.

You have you standard pistol, the shotgun, the machine gun, sniper rifle, rocket launcher. Blah blah blah. And the equivalent alien versions of the pistol and single shot rifle, and a homing gun. Whatever.

The graphics, sure they look pretty, but they are hardly detailed. The environment is very bland, and the basic rock or metal textures aren't anything to write home about.

Although, you would have thought that they would have had more time to work on those, given they hardly put any effort into level design. The game shows some promise, and you can look past the rest of its bland design, until you start realising that virtually every indoor area other than the spaceship looks identical, and even the couple of alien ships you have to work thru (and boy did this game feel like work, right up until the very end) are all the same basic corridoors and open areas. About half way thru you enter a certain level, that everyone who has played the game knows about, and from there on in, you have about 7 identical levels with the Flood. And thats where the game starts its swan dive into mediocrity. After this you are tasked to blow up three certain targets, but to get there all you have to do is go across endless bridges and thru endless rooms. If it weren't for the fact that the game is totally linear, it would be amazingly easy to find yourself in an area you have already been, with no way of telling which way is the right way to go. If fact, with such cut and paste level design, its still easy to do.

Its absolutely brainless level design that really confirms this game as a complete waste of time single player.

And the much vaunted 'AI'. Whoever said this was great intelligence obviously lacks a fair bit of their own. On the hardest setting I have stood stock still while shooting at enemies because I was just out of their attack AI range, and they just side stepped a bit when they got hit, stopped again until I hit them again, then started dancing again. I have stood two feet in front of one, with a enemy shield in the way, and just repeatedly jumped and fired until I killed three of them, not once did they fire back when i was visible or move around the shield to get a shot in. The only 'difficulty' youll get on the harder settings is that they fire a million miles an hour and are almost always spot on. I think that people need to be told that having the enemies fire faster and aim like crackshots ISNT good AI.

In fact, the only redeeming quality this game has is the vehicles. They are fun to play with, the move convincingly, and the few times you get to use them are the only time halo rises above being more work than gaming. The warthog is a lot of fun, and the flying vehicles are great for strafing runs on the enemy. It's incredibly satisfying to dogfight with other flying vehicles (ghosts?) before launching an attack on their teammates on the ground. They are probably a lot of fun in multiplayer, although the game was so slow in multiplayer as in singleplayer, that we didnt bother wasting much time with it given there are so many much much better FPS multiplayer titles out there.

All in all, a vastly overrated game, and one thats simply not worth your time. If you can handle the annoying aiming system, get Timesplitters2 instead. It's so much better in everyway.

If Halo had much improved level design (and I mean MUCH improved, in other words, actually have some level design), and concentrated more on the vehicle aspect, as well as maybe getting some variety into what is a stagnant weapon and enemy lineup, it might show promise. Something for Halo2 then. Not that I'll be rushing out for a copy.

Not that any of this matters, every seems to have a zealot-like love of this game, running lemming like into its arms with huge amounts of praise whenever it's mentioned. And I've played it from start to finish, and then started it again just in case, and I still cannot see why. Most Overrated Game Ever.

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