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Halo is the king of all FPSs.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love this game, it's number two on my favorite game list (Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is number one). In the past, most FPSs were boring, had little replay value, cheesy plots, and a rediculous amount of weapons. Halo broke all of these grounds. It has a great plot with several twists, has a lot of replay value, it's exciting, and you're restricted to holding two weapons at a time (this gives you a good challenge, since you have to think out which weapon you should carry and use), as opposed to Goldeneye (if you use Gameshark and enable "all weapons," you get hundreds of them, but I think Goldeneye was great for it's time).

Now to the game, it's the year 2552, and a collection of alien races called the Covenant are out to wipe out all of mankind due to their religious fanaticism. After the humans kept losing battle after battle, they had a last hope, a bio-enhanced super soldier by the name of Master Chief. He has a green armored suit with energy shields and he himself employs great battlefield tactics against these filthy aliens. He's abord the ship the "Pillar of Autumn," the Covenant are attacking the ship, he helps his fellow Marines escape, and they land on a ring world called Halo. You pack up your weapons and start kicking alien ass!!

There are four Covenant species. The weakest is the Grunt, which is basically cannon fodder for the Covenant forces. The Jackal is about as weak but is harder to kill because of it's shield. The backbone of the Covenant is the Elites, they're really strong, fast, and tough. The Grunts are the strongest and most violent, they're also the hardest to kill.

Unlike earlier FPSs, you have a variety of vehicles to fight with. The two human vehicles are the Warthog LRV, which has a heavy machine gun mounted on the back, ideal for fighting infantry. The other is the Scorpion tank, which has a heavy cannon and a light machine gun, perfect for anti-vehicular warfare. The two Covenant vehicles are the Ghost, which is like a purple Warthog without wheels, and the other is the Banshee, which flies and has heavy weaponry. The human vehicles can't be destroyed but the people abord them can be killed, the Covenant vehicles are destructable, when you destroy one, the enemy inside it dies as well.

You get ten intense levels, four difficulties (easy, normal, heroic, legenary), killer multiplayer combat (up to four players per console, has system link capability), tough enemies, cool weapons, it's the whole package!! Since the game is very cheap now and if you have an Xbox and don't have it, you should get off your computer, start up your car, drive to your nearest game store and buy it right now!!

Ok.....overrated

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: August 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The hype surrounding Halo was enormous. The game itself provides enormous dissappointment. The single player game is easy, boring and non-descript. I didn't get giddy playing it (the sign of a great game) and it's awkward vehicle control and long spaces of no action were awful. The multiplayer is what saves this game. It's pretty cool, but I think a lot of the levels repeat the same things over and over, meaning the architecture DOESN'T change...so its just the same level with different textures. Don't buy it, rent it twice and get your money's worth.I already sold my Xbox and bought a much better machine. A Gamecube. Thanks

Good Single Player, Horrible Multiplayer

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: July 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was so stoked when I was about to play Halo multiplayer for the first time. I thought it would be great, but I was terribly mistaken. I played for five minutes and hated it. It was horrible. The single player was just like any other game. If you want a good multiplayer game buy Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 for PC. If you're gonna get this game, avoid the multiplayer.

XBOX Needs to Think Outside The "BOX"

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 26
Date: September 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Unfortunately, this game is still not XBox's signature title and character. Nintendo is better at that, and that's why in the end, Nintendo will prevail. And once again, Microsoft and Mr. Gates' stock options will drop like dead flies. This game isn't the reason to buy an XBox. XBox needs to make games that appeal to everybody, not low-life bums who like to shoot people all the time.
My 16 year old son and I would much rather play better games, like Mario, Star Fox, Metroid, Resident Evil. Hand down, buy a GameCube. It is SO much better and well rounded!! I assure you.

Halo, An honest review

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 26
Date: October 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Firstly, halo is a good game, however it is a backward step in many areas when compared to elite ist person shooters. The graphics are very good, but the levels get tiresome and are very repetitive, you'll often find yourself lost as the area looks the same and you don't know if your've been there before or not. There is limited different types of enemy in fact you could count the characters with completely different looks on one hand and they have limited death animations, in fact two each i would say and no targeting of indivdual limbs, half the time their only reaction to being shot is to flash a different colour!! and they look like disney rejects for the most part. There is no animation of reloading your gun and at only 30 frames a second in large open areas you will be searching for a run button!! The multi player is probabley the biggest let down with no bots to play with!! this is a huge mistake and makes multi almost redundent as the areas are made for at least 10 players so unless your a super geek and want to hook up 4 TV's and 4 Consoles its painfully boring walking so slow looking for someone to kill and if you do hook up with other machines you'll be rewarded withy massive slow down which is highly frustrating!! so all in all this game is good if you have limited knowledge of 1st person shooters however if you have played the pc best and the rare duo you will be dessapointed at the bits missing.

The worst game on the earth.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 34
Date: June 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game stinks and for all of you people that like it you are morons. The gamecube and ps2 will always be better than a big black ugly box made by bill gates that has mental issues. Metroid Prime and Kingdom Hearts are the best games on this generation of consoles.

Great, But...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 20
Date: November 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I played the demo at a Babbages, and it was great. I'd buy it for the PC in an instant, but I'm not shelling out cash for the X-Box (especially when the X-Box itself crashed in front of me).

Originally, Bungie (the developers) were aiming to release this for the PC, and they wanted to do A LOT with the game.

Then Microsoft bought Bungie, and pushed the time-table up to coincide with the X-Box. Why? So they could release this for the X-Box ALONE.

While I loved the demo, it's a lot less than Bungie wanted (or at least bargged about). I'd buy it for the PC in an instant in either case, but as a console, forget it.

Should be negative 10 stars

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 37
Date: November 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

All I ever hear is 'HALO this, HALO that.' According to most people, this is the best XBOX has to offer. If you believe that, then that is proof enough to XBOX lovers that their system is a completely worthless piece of ... and a waste of everyone's time. First, This game has poor control setup, making it extremely difficult just to move around. Also it is very hard to see the poorly-designed enemy creatures until you're right on top of them! The ability to carry only 2 weapons at once and the lack of weapon varitey also makes this a terrible shooter. Second, there is VERY little action in the game: most of your time is spent wondering almost aimlessly around gigantic maps, shooting enemys sometimes. Even the multi-player mode has no action! No radar and huge areas mean you can literally spend hours failing to find your opponent, so forget heated shootouts! The biggest problem though, is with the XBOX itself: when the gigantic thing (easily 3 times the size of the original N.E.S., and weighing even more) powers up, and frequently during gameplay, the sound will turn to harsh static and the picture will roll or the whole screen will go white! Lastly, the game 'HALO' has nothing to do with the real thing! (For those of you that don't know, 'HALO' is a real-world acronym, it stands for "High Altitude, Low Opening", refering to paratroopers' jump) The main character is NOT a paratrooper, the company that made the game just thought the name 'HALO' sounded good!

XBOX OWNERS READ THIS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: March 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Microsft is liying about the relese date of the Xbox 2, the console will have a secret launch somewhere in july, they are not telling this news for the community because no one will buy xbox anymore. I also know from a reliable source inside microsoft that XBOX LIVE is sending a undetectable worms to 20% of the xbox users ( mostly die-hard-fans), the worms destroys the hard-dribe of the xbox by overloaing it. Send this to every xbox user, don't let the propaganda fool you, they'r playing with our money just for getting extra cash. This is no joke remember XBOX 2 will come in july with the name of XBOX: EVO.-insider

Talk about a terrible game!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 30
Date: October 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game just plainly sucks. Whoever plays this game needs to find something else to do even if its to go down to the local park and pick up trash, thats how bad this game is. This game's realism is as low as anyone who plays it. The game itself lacks in every aspect of orginal concept. Everything from the weapons to stages, even the monsters are rub-offs from other shooters and cheap sci-fi flicks. This game has no realism again the concept is terrible and nothing is original. I am glad this game is only on x-box so the other systems wouldn't have to bare its embarassment. Whoever plays this game should second guess their actions and remember what their looking at. A cheaply put together game with annoying sci-fi gadgets and the most annoying looking costumes ever. If I were you I would settle with Doom 1 or even Wolfenstien. Don't bother buying this game if you do you'll be disappointed and embarassed. Make sure your friends don't see it ;)

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