Saturday, December 22, 2007

Ten Games To Play Before You Die
This week’s game is the legendary Halo on the Xbox. Halo is a legendary FPS that revolutionized the FPS genre with its state-of-the-art graphics and realistic A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) when it first débuted on Microsoft’s new console – the Xbox – in 2001. Since then, Halo has spawned 2 sequels, one on the Xbox and the other on Microsoft’s current console, the Xbox 360, a soon-to-be-released RTS (Real Time Strategy) game called Halo Wars and even a possible film (though it may only be a rumour).

In the year 2552, Earth is caught up in an intergalactic war with a group of alien races known as the Covernent. After an attack by the Covernent on one of Earths space stations called The Reach (while attempting to find Earth), the Earth battleship Pillar of Autumn tries to lure the Covernent fleet away from Earth by warping into a part of space away from Earth. The Pillar of Autumn ends up in an unknown part of space and is attacked by the Covernent and crash lands on a mysterious ring shaped planet called Halo. Just before the ship goes down, its crew escapes in the escape pods and head for the ring shaped planet. Amongst the survivors is humanities last hope of survival against the Covernent. A super soldier known as Master Chief. Now, Master Chief must search Halo for survivors to help reclaim the Pillar of Autumn while fighting off Covernent forces and trying to uncover the secrets of Halo.

The best parts of the game are:
• a rich storyline;
• large selection of Earth and Covernent weapons and vehicles to use;
• several different difficulty levels to challenge the skills of any gamer;
• a wide variety of dangerous enemies; and
• levels that range from large, breathtaking outdoor fields and valleys, to indoor facilities with narrow corridors for dramatic shootouts.

The worst parts of the game are:
• the Xbox version of the game does not online play unlike the PC version which does;
• your allies die too quickly; and
• some parts of the game will cause you to die over and over again before passing them.

Halo is by far one of the greatest first person shooters of all time and will make you want to play Halo 2 and 3 just to see how the war with the Covernent will end. Halo is available in most good second hand game stores or should be available on ebay.

Black Dragon99

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