This review contains spoilers
The story is perfect and definitely one of the best stories you can experience in a first person shooter. The tragic end of Noble team is emotional and dramatic. The characters that make up Noble team all have their own personalities, voices, and aesthetics. The heroic sacrifices and deaths of these Spartans make my blood boil with a hatred for the covenant like never before.
This is hands down the most cinematic Halo game. The cutscenes are expertly directed as if from a movie.
Each mission is completely different from the last. First we have a boots on the ground mission where we see the country side and investigate the death of some civilians, only to discover that the covenant are on Reach. Two missions later we are stealthily sniping covenant forces at night. Next thing you know you're in a tank, followed by a dogfight in outer space before boarding and blowing up a covenant ship. There are jetpacks, then you're in the gunner seat on a chopper, then you're flying a chopper, at one point you're manning a giant anti-air cannon.
New Alexandria is a memorable mission where we experience urban warfare as we pass civilian corpses in the streets and defend survivors as they evacuate. It's here that we experience just how devastating the fall of Reach is. I believe this is the mission where you are flying a chopper and watch a skyscraper collapse. That was a detail the developers threw in that made me take a second and say "holy shit."
As far as the gameplay goes, there is a lot of great stuff here. Plenty of new weapons like the plasma repeater, concussion rifle, and focus rifle however, there is no SMG and no dual wielding. Every enemy type in the covenant arsenal is present and there are also jet packs.
The only bad thing I have to say about the gameplay is that Noble 6 should be able to sprint at all times.
I must have been about 11 when this game introduced me to the Halo franchise. Replaying it as an adult this weekend, all I could think about is how I wish I could have completely forgotten this game and experienced it for the first time again, now that I have recently played all the Halo games that came before it. It would probably be my favorite Halo game (and I think it is) but hard to say since the best parts were not new to me.
#RememberReach
Playtime: 6.3 hours
This is hands down the most cinematic Halo game. The cutscenes are expertly directed as if from a movie.
Each mission is completely different from the last. First we have a boots on the ground mission where we see the country side and investigate the death of some civilians, only to discover that the covenant are on Reach. Two missions later we are stealthily sniping covenant forces at night. Next thing you know you're in a tank, followed by a dogfight in outer space before boarding and blowing up a covenant ship. There are jetpacks, then you're in the gunner seat on a chopper, then you're flying a chopper, at one point you're manning a giant anti-air cannon.
New Alexandria is a memorable mission where we experience urban warfare as we pass civilian corpses in the streets and defend survivors as they evacuate. It's here that we experience just how devastating the fall of Reach is. I believe this is the mission where you are flying a chopper and watch a skyscraper collapse. That was a detail the developers threw in that made me take a second and say "holy shit."
As far as the gameplay goes, there is a lot of great stuff here. Plenty of new weapons like the plasma repeater, concussion rifle, and focus rifle however, there is no SMG and no dual wielding. Every enemy type in the covenant arsenal is present and there are also jet packs.
The only bad thing I have to say about the gameplay is that Noble 6 should be able to sprint at all times.
I must have been about 11 when this game introduced me to the Halo franchise. Replaying it as an adult this weekend, all I could think about is how I wish I could have completely forgotten this game and experienced it for the first time again, now that I have recently played all the Halo games that came before it. It would probably be my favorite Halo game (and I think it is) but hard to say since the best parts were not new to me.
#RememberReach
Playtime: 6.3 hours