HALO COMBAT EVOLVED FULL

At times it appears Bungie simply ran out of good ideas and many people take issue with this failure to keep up a consistent level of quality. Not only do they look extremely samey (and bland compared to other areas), but, for example, the Library level is just plain tedious.

HALO COMBAT EVOLVED FULL

To be fair to Halo, to take issue with its repetition is nitpicking taken to the extreme most shooters, and most games full stop tend to do employ similar methods to pad out their game, but very few have ever created a game world as believable as Halo's and few have the style, the class, and the AI to carry them through.ДЄrguably, the least entertaining sections of Halo involve indoor corridor-based missions. Whether this bothers you or not is another matter it certainly didn't bother me, for the simple reason that the firefights are never boring, and thanks to the flexibility of AI they can vary dramatically from one game to the next. Essentially the game mechanic is: blow up a wave of enemies, restock ammo and health, move onto the next area and repeat.

Where its very vocal detractors appear to take issue with Halo is the repetition after a relatively short while it's easy to see that the game really is '30 seconds of fun, repeated over and over' as Bungie admitted at X03 last month. Even your buddies prove to be useful allies, and it's very clear that Bungie deserves all the plaudits for creating an extremely involving battleground, and colouring it with an effective storyline, which for a sci-fi shooter is fairly rare as experienced FPS fans will wearily testify. The opening sequences are among the best videogaming has to offer, with wave after wave of organised Covenant troops darting around hungry for your blood, displaying an incredibly convincing AI that underpins the entire game.

Protecting the ship's female AI, Cortana, the Chief escapes with some marines and survives a crash landing alone on the beautiful orbital ring of Halo. The game starts off like a house on fire, with the Master Chief awoken from a cryogenic sleep to defend the The Pillar Of Autumn warship, which has come under attack from the aggressive Covenant race. It still stands as the best console FPS and nearly two years on still looks ahead of its time with benchmark AI, great visuals, a credible sci-fi tale, great soundtrack, cracking multiplayer including the superb co-op mode. Before the flame wars kick off again, I thought Halo was a great game, a true classic that deserves its lofty status as the Xbox's killer app.

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