1.9.2004

Right just to get started MY GOD what an amazing game. halo has four different difficulties, easy(theres no challenge just dead aliens),normal(theres still no challenge just less dead aliens),heroic(now this is where the game becomes a god you will be challenged by a numerous amount of enemys who have a lust for death),legenderary(the game is now very very hard for a first timer an in some situations can even trouble a veteran). Theres one final difficulty.....immortal which you have to unlock which is near inpossible and not many people have done this in the whole world. The story line, your a geneticaly modified human wearing a suit at the pinicacle of human technoligie,fighting a looseing battle where your "amazing marines" are being horribley decapitated and brutally gunned down by a powerful race of aliens. The aliens also known as covenant consist of pathetic dwarf like grunts which produce commical phrases in the middle of a battle or massicre in the grunts case and travel in large numbers on there road to victory or suicide, there a bit like lemmings but more funny. Now theres also things called jackels who in large numbers can be a bloody pest but a well placed grenade would do a nice job of blasting them to hell which is damn funny. Right this enemy, the elite is the hardest in the game expecilly on legendary, as the game has made them pritty intelligent and often await your presence in numbers up to 5 be afraid they are alot like you with a shield and can use a array of weapons but as of any they can be stopped by a sniper(which are only on certain levels) but if all else fails chuck a grenade. The final alien a HUNTER are huge bulky heavy armored things, carry a huge gun and can pull a deadly punch, sounds hard, are they heck, what happend was the gamedesigners in all there glory mucked this enemy up 1 yes just 1 pistel in the back can kill it, but near grunts, jackels, and elites this adverseary is not to be taken lightly(but still on there own there really bad). Right your on the ring shaped planet where the covenant live. The covenant were digging and discoverd a thing which can only be killed by being starved(but they will stay down for a long while so don't worry, you will have to face them and no there not hard but just a bit mangled)there called the flood and you have to distroy halo and escape......eventually. theres also multiplayer up to 4 players and is incredibly amazing better than single player if you have four players. Theres also co op on story mode which is also incredible amazing.graphics:100%(the people don't look that inpressive but the suroundings are stunning)sound:100%(crystal clear, commical, not annoying, cool main character and helps with the game)gameplay:200%(this is what makes the game, forget the graphics and everything the gameplay is unbeaten)my review may be biast but if you bought it too you feel exactly the same this game is a must to by. If you don't have an xbox buy one. I had an ps2 which is a great consols but the xbox has better graphics by fact, already has four cantroller slots, you don't need memory cards, the contoller is equally as good when you've played it alot and the xbox is bigger but why does it matter.hope this review helped.

28.6.2005

(Continued from Halo is Magnificent-Part 1)Here is a note about the two parts of Halo is Magnificent. Read part 1 first, do not skip right on to this.Co-operative play is a very interesting and fun way of beating your way through missions and covenant. The saying that says: Two heads (or people) are better than one could have been written for the Halo Co-operative section. Because of tactical advantages and the fact that one person could stay back and the other person could run up, weilding a weak and common weapon, but going up in a 'Kamikazi' or suicide way.Split Screen is even better. Within split screen there are different game types. Oddball, CTF (Capture the Flag), Slayer, Team Slayer and juggernaut,make the split screen Halo extremely fun and very interesting. Slayer is intense fighting, sniping, rocket-launching, shooting fun, and is absolutely deadly (get the joke!?). Team Slayer is basically Slayer Multiplied by two, since two teams are fighting each other. Of course, you can make uneven teams (3 vs. 1). Once again, the saying mentioned in the paragraph above applies, and you might ask your friend to cover you while you raid enemy territory. Oddball is when you have to get possesion of the ball and have to keep it for as long as possible. Capture the flag is basically explained in the name. You have to capture a flag. However, you have to defend your own flag, kill enemies that dare to get near you, melee enemies that challenge you when you have the flag, Kill enemies that get near your flag, destroy vehicles that might give your enemies a tactical advantage, and think quickly to succeed in winning a CTF match. Juggernaut is basically a 3 vs. 1 match, the 1 person is the juggernaut. Basically every time the juggernaut is killed, the person who killed him will become juggernaut. So the cycle continues, at the end the person with the most points wins.The thing about Halo is that it is a absolutely different criteria from the other FPS (first person shooter) games. It's graphics are stunningly good, even for the current year (2005) and Halo was made in 2001, The game world is huge. In a way, the Xbox was all lost until this game came along, and it helped (re) revelutionize gaming and the Xbox, which looked like a fire that just started but was starting to get put out, until more firewood (Halo) came along to breathe extra life into the Xbox fire.Just unless you are wondering, Halo 2 is the sequel of Halo and Halo should be played first in any case. The Halo 2 game is more like a new game than a Halo sequel, it has no health bar, more variety of weapons, you play half the game as a covenant. Review on Halo 2 will come. Overall, I think anyone who likes FPS should get Halo. Anyone who likes good graphics should get Halo. Anyone who wants a great multiplayer game should buy Halo. Anyone who wants 10 extremely hard missions and extremely detailed landscapes and worlds should get Halo. Anyone who wants to have a good time on a console, get Halo (and, or) an Xbox if you do not have one.May Halo 3 have the gameplay of Halo, and the graphics of Halo 2.

20.11.2004

The Xbox seemed to be quite a flawed release by Microsoft. With it's bulky design, ridiculous game pads, and competing with a console with 2 years worth of games, never mind being backwards compatible, it didn't seem to have much going for it. That was of course, until Halo burst onto the scene.Halo is one of those beautifully simple games where you don't really care about the story line, you just know that; a) It looks good and b) you get shoot to shoot a variety of aliens. The story lines, for those who would pay attention, centered around a genetically enhanced soldier known only as Master Chief, who as part of Earth's battle fleet, are at war with a race of alien known as the Covenant who are just as conspicuous as our protagonist.

1.8.2004

I bought an Xbox+Halo combo a while ago, and since then Halo has yet to leave the Xbox console. I've been told there are other titles for the Xbox but I don't believe it :PI just LOVE Halo. Bungie have thought through this game so well that I cannot find any flaws in it, except maybe the odd bug here and there which may in fact be due to the mind-boggingly long periods of time I spend replaying the game! Sometimes I worry how much more the disc and Xbox can take!As Master Chief, you'll be accompanied in several missions by a band of brave Marines. Now this is where it gets good: the vocalisations of these guys is hilarious. I've had Halo for months and I STILL keep hearing them say new stuff.

11.9.2004

Well... HALO, where do I start... 10 levels, close to 20 hours of game play for the moderately skilled games player (ands that's on normal, legendary will chew you up and spit out the fat!), one Master Chief and two guns. Sounds like your standard FPS...far from it, this isn't your average point and shoot foray. HALO encourages the player to use their environment for cover to battle against an intelligent foe.The AI in HALO presents enemies that react realistically to your presence, shouting to alert nearby troops then tossing sticky plasma balls at you before diving for cover behind a nearby boulder. The enemies you face don't run blindly unto their death they use cover and fight,

6.6.2007

Chances are if you're reading this review you've already heard a lot about Halo, you've either played it and want to know what other people think or thinking about catching up with the series before Halo 3. People will tell you that Halo is the greatest game ever made and it's easy enough to see where they're coming from; Halo is a very fun, very clever, great looking for the time first-person shooter. It's also one of the first FPS for the console market to be playable and well designed. However, please be aware that Halo received rave reiews primarily on the fact that it was the best FPS on a console at the time. Veterans of PC shooter should be more cautious, Halo has nothing on PC shooter classics such as Alien Vs.

6.2.2007

I bought an X Box purely for this game and its does not disappoint in any area.No other game I've ever played ( I have PS2 and a Gamecube) on any console carries such a fantastic story in such an epic way.You play the Master Chief in this FPS, A 7ft tall,1 metric ton in weight super marine- the best the navy has, and its upto him to save the world against a murderous horde of aliens. I'll be honest I could tell you more about the story but its so good that other games can only hope to be as good as this and it'll ruin it to go in too much detail. Instead I'll tell you what makes this so good.The Graphics - Are simply stunning, beautiful back drops welcome the detailed characters.

18.6.2004

Right first off this game is Good, Good being the operative word. I wouldn't say it was groundbreaking in any aspect nor would I say the graphics are out of this world, but the visuals are all pleasing on the eye and the outdoor environment seem to be slightly better than indoors.The game play is pretty standard FPS, but for a few clever twist such as riding onboard a jeep raining bullets down on different creatures and flying in a futurist plane trying to take out the enemy. But the problem is there just isn't enough of this variation in the game play and a lot of the levels become repetitive because of this. The guns are all ok but again the amount of different weapons available isn't great,

9.5.2004

Halo has no new or original features or ground breaking ideas, however every aspect of the game has been tuned to perfection. The basic story line is that you are a kind of super-human who is the last of its kind as the others were all killed by the growing alien invasion. The ship you are on gets ambushed by the covenant (the aliens) and the ship crash lands on a strange ring world named HALO.During the game you interact with a variaty of vehicles flying and ground based made by aliens and humans. A fare few of these levels involve you fighting along side marines which is one of the best parts of the game. The AI of humans and aliens alike is something very special, its a joy to watch aliens flee,

19.2.2005

When i first got Halo I thought it was really gd. The guns are terrific, the vehicles are really gd and the AI is really kl. Even the liitle enemys called "Grunts" run away screaming the minute they see u! However in the missions, the checkpoints were sometimes really hard to find. Sometimes you'll find yourself looking for a checkpoint for about 2 days! Also the multiplayer is extremlly gd. A personal favorate of mine would be "Hang 'em High" map with Slayer type on.However, compared to Halo 2, I think that Halo was a better game overall. Yeah, yeah all the grafics and guns and stuff are better but what the heck! halo is still a classic game so I dont think it beats Halo2.Halo 2 is an extremlly gd game.

30.3.2005

First Halo the original,let's face it, it's the only real reason anyone buys an XBOX except for Project Gotham. We all know fps's are the best games, we also know that this is the greatest fps right. So what does that mean, yup it's even better than Doom, Doom was the best game ever for years, Half Life was almost as good but it wasn't until the Halo games came out that something actually topped it. Every time I play Halo i feel really annoyed that they released Halo 2 cos it kind of took away the magnificance of the original. Halo was perfect, I don't care what anyone else thinks cos i'm right, then Halo 2 came out and everyone I know who has an XBOX bought it the first day it was out,

12.2.2005

First, may I tell you that this may be the wisest gaming investment (after the Xbox, of course) that you will ever make. Halo is easily THE most original, fun, interesting, well scripted, nice to look at game in the world. It boasts its 9/10 in the Official XBOX Magazine, it whines of its XBOX exclusiveness, and boy, does it deserve to.Gameplay. 5/5. Simple to master, and when you have it is such a game you will want to keep coming back and back and back for more. Watching a marine beat up an evil grunt is worth playing it, for the Graphics (5/5) are so well executed, animations well designed and dialog fitting every slot. Epic backgrounds are another excuse to play,

26.6.2004

This is it. The best. This is the game that all by itself separates the xbox from the PS2. The graphics are some of the best I've hitherto seen. The levels are varied, from snow peaks to outer space, the enemies can be quite challenging, espicially in the upper difficulty settings, and your marines can be comforting at times, when they bite the bullet for you. The sound is also superb, with the music winning numerous awards, and this builds up to the excellent split-sreen modes, where you can play with a friend, or compete against a maximum of 16 ( which I have had the memorable experience of). There are plenty of different modes, and the plot is actually quite entertaining.

16.7.2008

I got my XBOX 360 just before Xmas 2007. I was keen to join the HALO fraternity so decided to start at the beginning and purchase this via the XBOX Originals downloadable games.I have to say that despite its age it is a superb game and its obvious why the series has gone stratospheric.The game is colourful with plenty of detail. The graphics stand up to scrutiny yet. Its a big game with about 8 levels involving roughly 4 missions each. The music and sound effects perfectly compliment the game.The game is simple to play with an intuitive if not easy to learn control system and is quite forgiving to the gamer. You might find this makes it easy but there are still a few good challenges which are difficult but not insurmountable.Overall,

6.9.2004

Halo is an artificial ringworld in the middle of space dominated by aliens called the Covenant. The race of men is slowly disintigrating against the power of these aliens and it your job to stop them. You are a robot, the last of your kind and you are the only chance for the race of men.When you play this game it feels like you are actually in it beating up all those Covenant. The cooperative missions are great and the special effects are ace! I love the vehicles and they so much fun to drive. The movement is great and you can run, jump,duck, melee with your weapon and loads of others.I especially like the weapons which range from handheld pistols to futuristic plasma gun.

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