"4. Bluetooth. Nobody looks cooler than a guy with a bluetooth earpiece screaming at the top of his lungs" Yeah. I don't think I've ever seen a person with a bluetooth headset and thought they looked cool. In fact its the mark of a douche
I agree what a rip off. Nintendo does this kind of thing all the time. Have you seen Super Mario Galaxy? Definitely a complete rip off of Crash Bandicoot. Also Goldeneye 007 was clearly trying to cash in on Killzone's success.
Halo: Combat Evolved. Or rather - Combat DeEvolved. That should be the slogan that Microsoft should run with for the latest in its One Hit Wonder trilogy - Halo 3.
Now don't get me wrong. Halo was a good game, although a little over rated, and fulfilled itself as the only official X-Box game worth buying the console for (although it came out on PC! Bad move). It developed tactical shooting and developed a good fanbase for those interested in that kind of thing. It had satisfactory multiplayer content which was good solid fun but also applied the use of tactics like in the missions.
Then enter Halo 2. To increase Halo fanbase, they decided to dumb the game down for those who don't have the time for tactics and made the game just a full on shooter with limited tactics and cruddy weapons. Yes Halo 1s weapons were far superior.
And now Halo 3 which promises to be a rehash of Halo 2s style of gameplay to keep these gamers who don't like to think that much and just shoot (the types of gamers who thought Doom 3 and Prey were Gods Gift to Gaming) and still keep in pretty well the same style as Tribes only without the jetpacks. Plus the same repetitive nature of the game will drastically annoy fans of the original and soon enough people will just ignore Halo and remember it for what the series really is - A One Hit Wonder, much in the same vain as the Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out" and the original Rocky film.
Resistance is the Halo killer for this generation of gaming. No doubt about it.
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