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Halo 2: Anniversary
2014
Truly miserable game. Some of the worst animation ever pressed to disc. The controls just scream "we wanted to make this a lightgun title but ran out of time and/or money"—there is really just no excuse for an FPS from 2000 to play like this. PS1 DOOM, while flawed, is entirely playable and it came out five years earlier on the same hardware.
In spite of itself, it does manage to actually have atmosphere in some areas. Most of it owes a debt of gratitude to recycled RE2 assets. This is spoiled every thirty seconds, though, by what I am confident calling the worst videogame voice acting of the last 25 years. The protagonist sounds like a dopey cartoon beaver trying to find his car keys.
In spite of itself, it does manage to actually have atmosphere in some areas. Most of it owes a debt of gratitude to recycled RE2 assets. This is spoiled every thirty seconds, though, by what I am confident calling the worst videogame voice acting of the last 25 years. The protagonist sounds like a dopey cartoon beaver trying to find his car keys.
Halo: Combat Evolved
2001
I’ve played every other mainline game in the series and a handful of spinoffs, but for some reason I put this one off for so long. I was expecting to enjoy it well enough, no less than the bad ones and no more than the good ones, but it surprised the hell out of me. This game rocks so hard. No other game in the series is this open or has these impactful decisions to make, and finding out that certain scenes I got are missable, and that I missed certain scenes only made me love it more. Even though I did for over a decade, this is not one to skip in a series playthrough