I just don't understand the hype, I've watched so much gameplay from it and all you do is move from point a to b and shoot. There is no variation in the gameplay, it plays exactly the same as every Halo before it, it's like the same boring FPS everyone has played for years. I just don't get why people want more of that? Aren't people tired of the same old yet? It's like Gears of War or Uncharted, I've played it already, I don't need another one, please no more boring cover based TPS unless they're going to reinvent them.
To me the pinnacle of the single player shooter was Half-Life 2 and there hasn't been another one that has excited me since. The genius of that game was to constantly change up the gameplay like what Mario does, you're always given new tools and new things to do, every area changes it up. It's not just what might as well all be the same level, because all you're doing is killing with the same gun and nothing else. Even COD 4 did more to change things up between the sinking boat, your standard shooting levels, then the UAV, the Chernobyl level and the Nuke scene.
The greatest shooters do this, but every time I see Halo, moving around a dull lifeless level with no interactivity, shooting aliens, rinse and repeat. Maybe you'll have a vehicle level, but you're still just doing the same thing but just in a vehicle instead, you're not doing anything unique with it. In Half-Life 2 you were doing puzzles to get the vehicle through the level... ok they were basic puzzles, but physics were new to games, you even had parts where you couldn't walk on the ground or enemies would pop out, I had fun messing with the physics there.
With Halo every level might as well be in the Skybox, you wont be interacting with it at all.
I just do not get that game.
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