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I am an unimpressed 'Halo Virgin'...

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...

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