I am an unimpressed 'Halo Virgin'...
By smokemare 45 Comments
Okay, after my recent article about the likes of Modern Warfare and Battlefield and so on - I'm banging on about FPS again, so what gives?
Well, I was down at my sisters house picking up my manic three year old - when I managed to bag a ten minute play of Halo 3 on my nephews XBOX while the girls were out of the way. The argument for doing this was to 'test' whether I found it gave me motion sickness in the way my sister complained it gave her. In a word, it did, a tiny bit, but moving closer to the screen seemed to help and it was no way as bad as playing Half Life 2 on an over-spec PC or Wolfenstien 3D on a Pentium 3.
But what about the game? Did I like it?
Well, yeah, I suppose.... It's alright. Nicely rendered, interesting character design and maps... From what I can tell anyhow. At the same time though - it all seems a bit... Hmmm, how can I put this? Bland is the best word. The environment of Gears 1 & 2 to me was far more interesting, the characters were far more colourful too. I didn't play Halo 3 for long enough to judge the story but... It didn't really make me want to. Left 4 Dead and it's sequel are more interesting, more exciting - if perhaps not as polished? Actually, Doom 3 on the PC was more gripping and tense, and interesting.
To sum up - Halo 3 seems like a very polished product, but I just can't get excited about it. I genuinely don't know what the fuss is about with it. I even had an American friend try to explain the Halo story to me in detail - but it just sound pointlessly complicated....
*Sigh* I guess I'll give it a go again, but it's not particularly something I'm looking forward to - unlike Gears 3 or Left 4 Dead 3...