• 17Sep 09

  ODST-a sign of what Bungie is becoming.

  ODST is going to be a great game. The fact that (I believe it was) Joe Staten said he wouldn't change a thing (even though I personally would have added the Pimp-Slap Brute Chieftans) makes me feel very confident about this title. Before this, Bungie had been being converted into a one note song-Halo. But, isn't ODST a Halo game? Yes, it is, but it is a departure in many ways from the previous games.

  First, it is a side project. The last side project I heard about was a Halo 2 built for the DS (judging by the lack of a Halo 2 game on the DS, you can see where that went). Bungie had become extremely comftorable with making triolgies. The last true excpetion was Oni-Marathon, Myth, and Halo have all been trilogies. So, that is an interesting development. It shows Bungie is going back to more diverse developing, which might have been a cause for leaving Microsoft. The most impressive if how Bungie has developed ODST. Even though Bungie was given the opprotunity to use an engine they were familiar with, they finished a game with a 7-10 hour campaign and a co-operative survival mode in only a year. With a small team no less. Even more amazing, the city-a non-linear environment that is sure to be extremely amazing fun to traverse. I won't say that Bungie's next game (not Reach) won't be an FPS, but expect it to be different from what you've seen before. And expect a interesting bunch of games to be released after that as well.

  • Posted Sep 17, 2009 5:52 pm GMT
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• 16Jul 08

  Killzone 2

  While Sony has continually underwhelmed me, and has provided barely any new software at E3, there is one game that keeps me coming back. I mean, sure there is Resistance 2, with it's scale, which is cool (even though every time I look between Resistance 1 and 2, for some reason I think 1 has better graphics), and little big planet, which is really cool, and the White Knight Story later on. But there is one game that would warrant my purchase of the console. Killzone 2 is war. If you could smell inside the game, you'd smell the familiar odor of blood... so much, that it eventually finds it fills your nose, pushing down to the back of your throat so far you can almost taste it. And you see death-waves of it-enemies and friends alike being thrown out of areas to make room in ditches, where they'll rot. When I see someone play it, I feel the controller, nae, I feel the gun savagely kickback in my hands... like a wild beast under my control. And even when I get hit, I feel small amounts of pain, until the echoes and screams of war peirce my skull so thick and endlessly like a flood of demons that I am no more, and there is nothing left for me to do but raise my gun to my head and end it. Kudos to SCEA/Guerrilla, for while I don't know how it plays, the immense feeling of war that it conveys is far beyond any other game ever made. Good luck, and I hope it gets the sales it hopefully deserves.
  • Posted Jul 16, 2008 6:30 am GMT
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• 15Jun 08

  I'm pleasently surprised

  I always thought-but did not care-that Halo in general had a fairly weak storyline. It never bothered me. As long as the Bad-ass dude in the green armor had good gamepley surrounding him, I was fine. After reading reviews from people that like halo 1 over 2, the thing I noticed the most was the mention that Halo 1 had a better stroy. So, about 6 months ago I finally got it. I went Uggh. I mean, it was pretty good (better than average), but it was still nowhere near the kind of interactive story I love (Half-Life 2). It was fairly interesting, but there was no god-damn backstory, and I thought when I got it, I was going to learn about the spartans and such. I was wrong. I liked Halo 2's story a lot more. Even if I still didn't get much backstory, at least the Covenant became more than a mindless band of Worting aliens. In fact, I think that's why everyone hated the story so much-they hated the aliens! They couldn't stand to see them have feelings! That's probably an exageration, as the end-to say the least-dissaointed. The only thing that really pissed me off was that in the next game, Halo 3, you started in a jugle instead of outnumberes 100,000,000:1. However, the story was good. The first game introduced the Halos, and how they were used plus the flood (kind of). The second introduced the Gravemind and the Covenant in detail. And the third game brought it all home-well at least most of it (stupid god-damn Guilty Spark last boss fight). I though that, overall, the series had a weak but interesting storyline. If you've agreed with what you've read so far, STOP!!!!!!!!!! I want you to either get the book on Halo from your library, buy it, or just look up all the information on Halopedia. It turns out Halo has one of the coolest, most interesting, compelling Sci-Fi stories told. It's just told simply at some points (namely the games), and, well sci-fi. I won't get into details, but the story is very interesting. Once I discovered this, I became a bit mad at Bungie. I mean, they had this great storyline, and they kept it all hidden away. Maybe it was Microsoft, who knows. The point is, the Halo series has a very interesting storyline if you dig deep into it. If you have free-time, and want to understand all the events in the game, look it up.
  • Posted Jun 15, 2008 2:09 pm GMT
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