Halo: Reach reviews go live – get them all here

@Erthazus: still into HALO?

@46 @47 added

lmao

OMG, Ertwatzus is going to be ina suicide watch.

campaign is 6 hours long which is fucking gay

@Erthazus, thought we all agreed that you would never post on another Halo article, but i felt the same about Halo before i played the multiplayer, thought it was just some generic space shit with a relatively boring story, but i after reading some of of the backstory, i started to love how deep the franchise was, it goes well beyond the game & is just fun to play with friends, but CoD is not, it’s just dull, no backstory, boring campaign & i don’t like having to camp for minutes on end to get a + kill ratio, i just plain hate camping, on Halo it’s hard to camp unlss you find an exploit.
In other news, Halo is, at it’s base, a multiplayer game, the Singe Player component is just the frosting ontop of the cake, but the cake would be dull without the frosting, see my point?(tho i feel the opposite with Halo Wars, i loved the story, but MP was very-meh)

one last thing i want to say: marketing or not. i played the beta. i loved the beta. it was fun fun fun. i´m not a halo sp fan. never was. but anyway i scream: reach reach reach. and i do not see any problem if gaming sites dedicate a lot of content to this release – it is a great game – so what?…

@56 Killzone 2 have great backstory too. http://killzone.com/kz/storyline.psml
but in the game it sucks ass. CoD or Battlefield are absolutely different to Halo, so you don’t even need to compare them. What you really need to compare is THIS: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/titan-pack-unreal-tournament/46965 with Halo. Halo multiplayer is very bad and slow paced and boring as hell. End of story.

@Fin i was joking

@to all, oh as i said before soon there will be like over 9000 Halo fanboys on this thread.

The Killzone backstory is fantastic… but as for Killzone 2… what story?

(Was pretty angry about that, such a fucking joke)

Unreal & Halo are also very different, i found the unreal touranment stories put me to sleep & the multiplayer, while intense, felt like something missing, well there wasn’t much of a backstory & the game is just too boring, no tactics or skill needed.

@Erth: Yes, shure, MP boring as hell. Now THAT must be the reason, millions are playing this series for years.

Like Princess Leia said: I don’t know where you get your delusions, laser brain. …

@60 Unreal Tournament was never a Singleplayer game.
You said that there is no tactics or skill? All right, ok sir. I will pretend that i don’t know you. Except that Unreal Tournament is a national cybersport game. There are more tactics than in Battlefield or Call Of duty combined if you don’t know that.
Or i need to show you a videos of skilled people playing Unreal? It’s all about a precision and how your teamwork works. If you don’t know right button combinations of jumping, running on the walls or you suck at precision you DIE. If someone said that there is no tactics or skill required he is a casual gamer at best. Go play Halo games there, you need a lot of skill for the arcadish shooter.
Epic Games never makes game where you don’t require skill. Never.

@61 It’s the problem of children, kids and gamers who started playing games on consoles or yesterday. Let them have it’s own fun. I don’t have problem with that.

^ What a moron

@63 Hey, SPOILERS! Hide the ending for people who didn’t played REACH.

@LOLshock94

If you played through the campaign in 6 hours im guessing you only played on normal right? I normally go straight into Heroic

i got the game on thursday finished it on easy on friday and then played it on legendary on friday to today it isnt that hard on legendary if ya let the AI do everything

Good call on the spoilers Erthazus, I was only glancing down and I really don’t want to read nything about the game till ive played it all the way through on all difficulty settings!

p.s How can you say the multiplayer is bad? Maybe you are playing with the wrong people man? Its such jokes online with good friends!

I will Ignore those who Spoil Um LOLshock, I am looking at you…Glad it was deleted, good way to get account banned, and I am sorry if I started something bad with my comments, I just feel the subject matter I wanted to address needs to be heard, just as much as MP subjects need to be heard..I fault neither, unless they fault themselves in what they do wrong. So sorry if I offended anyone, that is never my intentions.

short campaign, how shit is that!! 5 out of 10

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@68: The hell are you talking about? That Piece of shit cont for a mother doesn’t even have a 360, he is just a silly pieceofshit3 sonybot.

OMG poor results. I don’t see this selling anywhere near 3. /s

oh, btw I have to agree with what Ghz said. I would expect the devs totally dropping SP in fps games soon. I think the co-op campaign will stay though. plenty of other genres where SP works, but there’s no way the devs will keep wasting budget on twiddling with AI and putting those levels together when they can spend all that time balancing MP. I would expect one or two games like Deus Ex or Bioshock (then again it’s not quite a mere fps) being released here and there but generally the MP future of this genre is imminent. you also don’t really need the SP for multiplayer to work, ie L4D is a great MP only release.

@71, Did you forgot to do your homework?

@72 Valve, Id software, Splash Damage, Epic Games, Infinity Ward, Treyarch, GSC game World, Crytek and e.t.c disagree with you. Singleplayer campaign in FPS games will never drop.
some people prefer playing multiplayer game knowing the backstory behind characters you kill or who your characters are.
Like for example Gears Of War 3 (It’s not FPS game, but it’s still a shooter). There is a cool mode where grunts fights with locusts and other mutants. It’s not very interesting if you don’t know in what place you are fighting for and e.t.c. except for these guys who give an rats ass about story, setting and e.t.c. just pure gameplay mechanics.

For example STALKER that is very popular in Ukraine or Russia and it’s 90% singleplayer game where you exploring open world Pripyat in the FPS mode. Half-Life 2: Episode 3 is the most anticipated FPS and it’s anticipated because of singleplayer campaign.

id software agree with me since 1997.

and I wasn’t talking about sandbox games or role playing ones. surely something like Just Cause isn’t going anywhere soon as well. I guess it’s really hard for you to read what others ‘re saying?

also, Gears characters and story are as good as nothing, they’re embarassing . and the campaign is a good example of what I’m saying btw, clearly an aftethought and co-op oriented one.

“some people prefer playing multiplayer game knowing the backstory behind characters you kill or who your characters are.”
kind of killed your own Anti-halo campaign with that, can’t you just drop it, everytime i hear the overrated mario, i dont complain about it & say my browser can play super mario, i just leave it & pass it by.

@76 But who said that Unreal has no backstory for characters? They have, it’s just very low. Just pure basics. But i play it for the pure mechanics and everybody else too. some games i prefer playing with back story.

“and I wasn’t talking about sandbox games or role playing ones.”

you were talking about FPS games first of all. FPS game can include sandbox or corridors.

wtf really? I think I know better what games I was talking about. like I was saying, not the ones using the game world as a sandbox playground, or rpg hybrid titles.

@77 “wasn’t much of a backstory”, not “Unreal has no backstory for characters”, two very different statements

@78 + 79 if you feed the troll it’ll keep coming back! It is incapable of reason. Also, I would love to see dev’s focus more on mp (fps) imagine cod or battlefield having an entire disc for mp. Maybe with a second disc for sp?

Nice review Joe.
Good to get a neutral viewpoint.
Overall the reviews are pretty positive I reckon.

With a franchise like Halo, you really can’t or shouldn’t believe the reviews. I mean Halo 2, 3 and ODST also had great reviews, but all of them where pretty shite. I’ll rent it.

@Crysis: Fuck Backstory. When i play a game i want to experience that story. I want to be part of it. Is it really that hard to pull off? Do i really have to read the manual to care about the world of Halo?

@82, go play Uncharted then, best game i’ve ever played story wise, but halo is right up there with one of the best gaming universes

“but halo is right up there with one of the best gaming universes”

Thats very subjective.

You probably need to read more Sci-fi books or to see BattleStar Galactica, Babylon 5 if you think that Halo is one of the best Sci-Fi gaming universe. Even Mass Effect – Rip off from other Sci-fi universe masterpieces have much better characters, world and e.t.c. Gears Of War series have depth within it’s world. Tron 2.0, STARCRAFT obviously (Not SCII), System Shock 2, DEUS EX obviously, Half-Life, Portal, Warhammer 40K and e.t.c. offer much better and most important it’s clever. Without Generic stuff like Master Chief or typical Sgt Mgr. Johnson

“…offer much better and most important it’s clever” that’s also very subjective, especially considering many of those weren’t created as a gaming universe, it’s like saying SmackDown vs RAW! has the best backstory becase RAW is the longest running weekly television show in US history (granted it does have a huge history, but the game has made very little impace on the franchise & the franchises Universe), it’s all very subjective, but i think most gamers would agree that the Halo universe is up there as one of the largest in history, hense Halo’s large cult following, rivaled by few other gaming universes.

@Erthazus:

You just couldn’t keep your ignorant big mouth shut, could you? Not even after you stated that you would *not* comment on Halo articles anymore; not that anyone here actually took your word at heart, mind you…

Just pathetic, really pathetic, man…

@JonFE, “Just pathetic, really pathetic, man…”

Pathetic is that you wasted 1 minute of your life posting a stupid post about how someone’s opinion is pathetic because some Halo fanboy must not see this or he is going to be butthurted or his life will be ruined by this day. Alright. When you post something, make something on the subject please. Thank you. Have a good day.

@Crysis, yeah, it’s true that there is a big cult. 2 million preorders around the world is not a joke. But this universe don’t deserve this big recognition there are nothing brag about. Halo is not Warhammer 40K, i think you will agree with me on this, even if Halo is popular. Halo is like Jimmy Fallon. Popular and overrated.

and on this note lets stop discussion or there will be like over 9000 Halo fanboys out here who will say that i’m pathetic piece of **** because Halo is a true masterpiece.

/smh…

@Erthazus:

Seems like I touched a nerve there, haven’t I? You might be getting that a lot…

I may have wasted 1 minute of my life, as you say, but you have been wasting hours upon hours on your little anti-Halo crusade, showing time and time again your ignorance and hatred over something really trivial like one video game, so I guess my minute to expose your hypocritical attitude was worth it.

As for contributing something on the Halo subject, well, I have done that in the past and you just don’t get it, so I’m not going to bother.

I’ve added a couple more reviews in there.

Also, LOLshock – One more spoiler and I’ll see to it you’re banned.

“I may have wasted 1 minute of my life, as you say, but you have been wasting hours upon hours on your little anti-Halo crusade”

Actually not. I’m not wasting a second. I’m waiting till someone will come to my Starcraft II server when i’m posting something here, i’m basically playing and waiting for the match.

VG247 and Kotaku are my favourites

You know a franchise is both successful and popular when any article that mentions it’s name ends up with all this bitching and arguing between people simply because they have different tastes.

oh, that explains it all. obviously that guy is playing videogames and posting rants on internet boards 24/7. ah, Middle school.. fun times indeed.

Halo is a over rated piece of shit, and was the first game on xbox that microsoft put money into. See b4 xbox was out, the guys at xbox were like ” we need just 1 game so we can atleast compete with sony and sell out dam consoles in masses” so they invested alot into it and didn’t want it to flop, so they paid from hundreds of thousands to millions all up to reviewers for a positive score, and a massive campaign. Now everyone who had an xbox fell into the hype, and i dont blame them, cause there were no other hits or good games on the system, so everyone bought the games, and they had something half decent hyped up to the max to play. And sadly, this continued up into Halo2, Halo 3. By this point they had been playing halo so much, they had gotten used to such a mediocre game and were voiding of propper thinking mentality, that they could not see the need to play other better games, or think rationally as to which is the better console. For example itsucks, he gave in to he halo universe and lost part of his brain. And so naturally, like someone being brainwahsed, all those caught in halo on the xbox, bought a xbox 360 to play just 1 game… halo3, and again, to keep some of these millions satisfied , they again pushed a massive campain and spent millions paying reviewers for decent scores, because they cant afford losing all those millions of fans to ps3. There are so many better games than halo, but you are all trapped under microsofts illusion that there is only 1 game HALO. And the trend now is, bill gates has helped make xbox console owners a younger version of him, yes u halo boys are 98% nerds now. Itsucks has a nerd halo party every weekend. Halo reach has a lame short single player mode, the graphics are still last gen, warhawk looks better!! the average multiplayer is there to satisfy those with a halo fix, to prevent them from going crazy to kill other people. WAKE UP PEOPLE, GET UR HEAD OUT OF UR ASSES

^ Laugh of the day.

Holy christ. Here I thought I was just playing a really good console shooter, but I was really being BRAINWASHED ALL ALONG.

tl;dr

TRY HARDER NEXT TIME

Okay, uber exited for this game stll but you can see where some sites got paid some money for good reviews. Look at IGN..They gave the graphics a 9.5
Really, graphics = 9.5? I dont think so. Ive played the beta, seen the review videos. Graphics = 8 at most and that is even pushing it but then again, IGN has always been gracious towards microsoft with their graphics (even during xbox1 days) and they have been overly gracious towards blockbusters also. And If all that matters is color than Ratchet and Clank deserve a 11/10, and DDR deserves 20/10

O well. I just feel like griping i guess cuz i know im still going to have fun even if the graphics are out dated back to 2006/2007 graphics.

8 hours & 8 mins til i have Reach

Scary thread is scary.

Halo review scores not unexpected. Well done, Bungie.

Several of my pals were playing this for a rather exceptional amount of time over the weekend, so I’d already surmised it was ‘really quite pleasing’.

theyd rather spend millions on marketing than making the graphics up to par with this gen!!

@100, graphics don’t sell, marketing unfortunately does, in the end the customers suffer. Still looks good though, it’s not horrible, just not great either.