Halo ODST

Oh, Halo, how the mighty have fallen...

Halo O.D.S.T. might have had a nice live action ad on the television but it's at best a "Meh" in my book. I mean, making me run back and forth in the same map as different characters just so I can unlock the next part of some "I've heard it before" storyline? Not cool. Not cool at all.

The fighting is the same ol'Halo we've all grown to love and maybe that's the problem. We're in the "Modern Warfare" era now and being unable to run just seems so odd to me. And I kept holding down the left trigger to look down the sight making myself loose grenades for no reason. Then there's the whole "Brutes fire then sidestep" A.I. which makes fighting pretty predictable to the point of being, well..., boring.

I guess there were some "improvements", like the combat view or whatever it's called. The thing about this view is that it makes everything look like its cartoon shaded with lines all around it and I don't necessarily want to see the Halo world in this way. If I wanted to play a cartoon shaded game then I'll go find a cartoon shaded game. Then there's the fact that the combat view is basically useless during "daytime" making everything blow out. So you get used to being able to see the enemy outlined, then all of a sudden you can't. Why? Because some asshole game designer said so. Oh, yeah, I'll definitely mention more about asshole game designers in the future. My theory is there is always at least one asshole game designer at each game company who thinks their mission is to torment the player because they have nothing else that gives their life meaning otherwise. I'll definitely be pointing these out in future reviews.

Anyway, I normally stop playing a game because games make me mad but in the case of Halo O.D.S.T., I just got bored of it and, at the end of one of the story segments, I just put it down and didn't feel the need to pick it up again. And since I didn't pick it up again and is about to return it to Gamefly, I won't even get to try the multiplayer. This to me is indeed very sad since I stayed up all night to play Halo 2, and used to own 2 Xboxes and six controller just so I can have an extra machine to play Halo on when my friends and I used to get together for LAN parties. Sorry, Bungie. It's not quite a "Oh, hell no!" but a no it is. Ahhh, how times have changed...