Few games have made me throw down the controller and scream in anguish like HALO: ODST.
You’re hearing this from a man who has not only been playing games since the original Nintendo gaming console (NES), but also somebody who has beaten the other four Halo games (even Halo Wars) on their highest difficulty settings.
This game is such a decrepit piece of crap. In the game you are a super weak version of Master Chief, whose mission is, as always, to beat the Covenant. In previous games, that part was easy with Master Chief’s skills, but with this version of the character your shields are significantly weaker. It is almost like your character should have his mommy in the game to hold his hand and help him when he has a boo-boo.
Take level two for example. I sat behind a box and got holes tore through me as snipers from all directions took aim. I took two hits and my character was down. The really dumb part is, if you make it through all the getting filleted alive, the actual game play is only three, maybe four hours long.
The only thing good about this game is they’ve totally revamped the graphics. Cut scenes are breathtaking and the game play looks awesome, but that is like finding a gummy bear in a snake pit, honestly. Yeah it’s a good gummy bear, but snakes are killing you, so who really cares?
It is just a bad game that really should have been an expansion pack rather than a whole new $64.90 experience. I feel bad for the hordes of people who were cramped in small game stores across the country at midnight to pick this up. They are all enclosed together, and now they probably caught the swine flu.
I think they were trying to make this game feel more like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and in doing so totally leeched everything Halo out of it. My only hope is that maybe this unsatisfactory release is just to make the next Halo release, Halo: Reach look even better.
Don’t let us down Bungie. That’s one strike thus far. Everyone knows that Call of Duty is the new first person shooter (FPS). Don’t lose your fan base with any more crummy games like this one.
Seriously, take it from me. If you do want to put yourself through the brain cell killing ODST experience, rent it. Don’t buy it. Odd Decrepit Sucky Tasteless is what ODST means to me.