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Hack&Lube · 04-10-2007, 07:38 PM

I don't understand the love for Halo, it seems totally to be a manufactured hype machine to pull in gamers that have never tried the various genres that make up Halo before...It's honestly not that great. The controls are clumsy, the graphics are average, and the level design is frankly boring and the storyline uninspired.

I mean Halo looked amazing when I saw the development videos from Bungie before Microsoft bought them...that was like the Halo trailer from 1997 which was revolutionary at the time and I watched that video over and over again. But by the time the actual game was released by Microsoft (delayed for years and remade over and over again until the Xbox came out) there were many games that came out that does what Halo does much better.

I do like the asymmetrical offense vs. defense / choke point maps they are putting in but hey...this was done back in 1998 by Team Fortress and Unreal Tournament in excellent ways.

04-10-2007, 07:38 PM	#3
Hack&Lube Atomic Nerd Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Calgary Exp:	I don't understand the love for Halo, it seems totally to be a manufactured hype machine to pull in gamers that have never tried the various genres that make up Halo before...It's honestly not that great. The controls are clumsy, the graphics are average, and the level design is frankly boring and the storyline uninspired. I mean Halo looked amazing when I saw the development videos from Bungie before Microsoft bought them...that was like the Halo trailer from 1997 which was revolutionary at the time and I watched that video over and over again. But by the time the actual game was released by Microsoft (delayed for years and remade over and over again until the Xbox came out) there were many games that came out that does what Halo does much better. I do like the asymmetrical offense vs. defense / choke point maps they are putting in but hey...this was done back in 1998 by Team Fortress and Unreal Tournament in excellent ways. Last edited by Hack&Lube; 04-10-2007 at 07:45 PM.