JJ Reviews: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
I was about a quarter of the way through doing my first
Insane run through of Gears of War 3 when Halo Anniversary dropped and that hot
little potatoe fell into my Xbox at the expense of arguably the year’s best
game (don’t play war games, don’t get me started) and stayed there for a week
or so as I played through a heroic version of the game that made the gaming
industry what it is today. Or rather the played the newest version of the game!
Anyways on to the review - I should basically just repost
this Halo
CE review I did a couple of years ago. I said then:
“So while the game's graphics may look a little tired to
modern day games such as Call of Duty and Mass Effect or even the new Final
Fantasy, the game play still holds up. It's well paced, and has many neat
combat scenarios to keep the player well entertained. At times the game can be
infuriating - Floods with rocket launchers and annoying fire from Banshee ships
can impede your progress, but getting through them proves the game's worth. I'm
almost tempted to suggest that Bungie should have remade Halo: Combat Evolved
instead of Reach but as the story has already been told, I'll sit and patiently
play through the rest of the Halo series until Reach is safely in my Xbox 360's
disk drive.”
This review should be of no surprise to any one reading this
Halo blog – Halo Anniversary is a good fun thing. And prettier. You know how
your memory tricks you? You might think that hair cut you had 10 years ago was
the best hair cut you ever had but then you see a photo of yourself and you
just look butt ugly? Well that’s how the old Halo looked. The new, prettier
version is like some high class hooker or something. You are paying for the
make believe of the memories of that haircut. If that makes sense…..
So basically that’s the review, Halo is still awesome. She’s
just had a coat of new paint. But what a coat of paint!
There’s been a few attempts to utilise the power of the Xbox
– Kinect has been integrated to allow
you throw grenades and reload by way of voice command but frankly, it’s just
gimmicky. The use of Kinect to full your own Library is just dullsville and I’m
glad there was no achievement points associated with this tool!
The infamous Library level is still fun to play (I have no idea
why there’s so much hate for it – is it because the casual player sux) – I noted
there were some arrows in it to help you find your way.
I managed to find a couple of skulls and terminals without
cheating which was a wee bit of a thrill cos I totally cheated with Halo 3’s
skull recovery – here’s a cheat
sheet for finding the CE skulls and here’s a guide
for the Terminals. I found three terminals and they told a pretty cool
story from the point of view of the character 343 Guilty Spark – I love the
fact that he appeared to have left the Halo at some stage and gone on a ‘holiday’
to relieve his boredom!
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