Currently doing a long awaited co-op replay of the game with my best friend from high school on PC, and so far most of what I remember liking about it holds up really well. The writing is painfully 2009 dude-bro dogshit but it's the only Halo game to have such an amazing sense of atmosphere, and the music is easily the best in the franchise. Genuinely justifies itself as a spinoff because it doesn't just play like the mainline Master Chief games--if anything I wish they'd taken some of the stealth/open world ideas present here a little bit further, either in this game or a future one. Unfortunately it was just never meant to be and ODST remains the weirdest and most experimental the Halo franchise ever got and it's better for it.

Reviewed on Nov 15, 2020


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