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First Review of Halo

Posted by michael on from the high-altitude-low-opening dept.

The Halo Guy writes: "Voodoo Extreme has posted the first review of Halo, the new first person shooter from Bungie Software that's an Xbox launch title and will be ported to the Mac and PC later next year. Included are some very cool high resolution Xbox game captures too." I guess buying the bundle will be a little less painful if you get good games with the system.

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  1. HALO ... or how MS sucks! by Bad+Mojo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    HALO was planned to be an amazingly, impressive, multiplayer game set inside a virtual online war. If you look at the finished product, having no idea of the original concept, you might think it's a nice, fun game. Woo. But if you knew what the game was to be like before MS purchased Bungie, you would know how HALO has been watered down into a trivial, add nothing new, console version of Quake or Unreal.

    Honestly, the fall from a multiplayer, persistant, war story of epic proportions down to a simple action shoot-em-up with a hint of multiplayer is truly a fall form grace.

    Suck it up, Bungie. MS stole your soul and your ability to innovate.

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  2. Re:the death of Halo by Ryandav · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    okay Mr. Cranky Troll, you win, I'm posting.

    Just because you feel like mister poopy pants about a game on a system that _hasn't_ actually been released officially yet because it wasn't released by the company you like or on _your_ system of choice first, doesn't mean it sucks or it died.

    By all online accounts, and my own play testing experience, you're wrong. The game is incredible.

    frankly, all the bitching about microsoft buying bungie so they could use the game as a launch title is silly. if you want the game, buy their console. I'm planning on it, and the first title in it will be Halo.

    PS. The prequel book they just released about the Halo world is _good_. Think Enders Game meets Dark Angel.

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  3. Add rabiid Linux zealot statement as Enum! by ravic · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Hate Microsoft but cant think for yourself? If you're like me, you want to gripe and whine about Big Bill but dont want to waste time entering the same tired comments over and over again. So just start replying with numbers! Here's the key!
    1. = They just copied Apple!
    2. = I hope they really get it good because of their monoplist practices
    3. = So typical of Microsoft to ship code with (bugs, security holes, bad breath)
    4. = Users are idiots, only smart people like coders know that Microsoft is bad because we've can quote Monty Python at will.
    5. = I'm going to change their name to Micro$oft, MicroSerf, M$, to get moderated as funny but I'm only copying some loser on OSOpinion
    6. = Microsoft did it wrong because it doesnt have a (command line, Linux port, Linus's blessing)
    7. = How dare they charge money for software! Its like they're running a business or something!

    Start enumerating your responses today!

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