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Reviews: Halo: Reach Video Review

Can Bungie's last Halo game reach the high bar set by its predecessors?

Giant Bomb delivers the final word on video games in podcast form.

Sep. 14 2010

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Halo: Reach

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@Sephiroth9997 said:
" This review just SCREAMS attention.  Losing all integrity here guys... "
How  exactly have they lost integrity?
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@Sephiroth9997:  Should have gave it 9.87596 stars huh?
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lol at the end.

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Edited By comradecrash

Nice review...still unsure about the game. I guess I have played too much of COD that the movement in Halo is so weird for me. Still want to try it tho.

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Halo: Reach is one of those games which really makes me wish I had a Xbox 360. Unfortunately, as I am currently between jobs, I cannot get an Xbox 360 (and a Live subscription) at the moment. 'Tis a bummer.

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Hmmm...I don't think this video is in HD when I'm viewing it via the mobile website. :(

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@Sephiroth9997 said:
" This review just SCREAMS attention.  Losing all integrity here guys... "
This comment just SCREAMS fanboy. Newsflash: Halo ain't perfect. Deal with it.
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Edited By ScreamingFist

Most awesome check point, lol =D
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Wasn't going to get this but then deicided fuck it i'll get it. :P

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@MiniPato: THIS COMMENT JUST SCREAMS!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!
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Edited By Figcoinc

At first I was wondering why the heck did they keep looping that death. Then I realized it was a checkpoint. Oh man...HAHA!!

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lol again with the amazing checkpointing jeff xD

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@Reverseface said:
" Wasn't going to get this but then deicided fuck it i'll get it. :P "
*sighs*...yea...me too...
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Edited By Ravenousrattler

check done ah......

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What Jeff is doing with his hands is actually the America Sign Language sign for vagina. 
 
I'm not kidding.

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Photobombed Brad. 

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I had a shitty checkpoint situation today, as well. A Covenant ship is about to crash into me for massive damage (+ death) as the checkpoint saved. I couldn't escape it. 
 
Other than that, I'm enjoying the multiplayer quite a bit (love, love looooove the DMR) and the campaign has thus far been very entertaining.

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Edited By unsolvedparadox

Can't wait until the weekend, when I can really hunker down and play this!

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It seems like Bungie has a really hard time ending games.  In Halo, you had the stupid library, that just flipped itself to become a "new level" (or whatever it was, It's been like 8 years since I've played that game.)
 
Then in halo 3, the ending just kind of kept going and going.  Then in ODST, it just kept going and going.  And in Reach again, Jeff says it keeps plodding along.  I hope in whatever franchise they create next they bring someone in who knows how to do a proper denouement.

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nice shot of you murdering Dan Hsu!

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I hope Bungie's next game is nothing like Halo, and that checkpoint sucks Jeff.

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@Kyreo said:
" What Jeff is doing with his hands is actually the America Sign Language sign for vagina.  I'm not kidding. "
Based on the video on this site (no direct linking), it looks like you have the pointer fingers and thumbs extended. Jeff has all his fingers extended.
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That's an incredible autosave.
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I have always wanted a halo reach game!

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Spot the Brad?
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JEFF IN HD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Edited By wolf_blitzer85

Gotta love gettin' burned by a check point.

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Why wouldn't they have match making for all the modes in the previous games? Seriously..

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FYI In Halo 2 when I got trapped in an instant death checkpoint cycle the game recognized it after not touching the controller and dying 3 or so times in a row and rolled me back to an earlier checkpoint. 
 
That said, Halo lost me this gen and this is way too textbook for me to care.

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Edited By Overwatch

Awesome inclusion of Mr. Bradley :)

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Green screen looking a bit rough in HD, game looks pretty nice. Would be playing, but my school's mail room can't move a box from one building on campus to mailroom within their six hour open...ness.

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jeff is a good reviewer, he dictates the issues way better than other video reviewers ive seen
 
edit: also im one of those who has sworn off halo long ago, PC shooters>console shooters

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Oh Jeff.
You and your crazy checkpoints.

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Man. I totally want to buy this game. Which is pretty crazy seeing as I don't have a 360.

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@kratier said:
" PC shooters>console shooters "

+1 

Still getting this though, I like me Halos.

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@Sephiroth9997 said:

" This review just SCREAMS attention.  Losing all integrity here guys... "

"SCREAMS attention"
But you have Sephiroth and a random string of numbers in your name.
And you have Advice Dog as your picture.
 
I don't think you should be talking about begging for attention and a lack of integrity.  (Also there is nothing of that note in the video review.)
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great review, thanks for getting rid of that mustache too Jeff, you simply didn't suit at one bit!
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Video review was far better than the written review. Good job Jeff

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that falling spin is sweet

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Edited By sparklykiss

Video review! :D With a photobomb! That alone makes this the best video review yet.

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Ouch! That is not a very good checkpoint place ther eat the end :D

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That was the best checkpoint in the history of video gaming.

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@aseddon130 said:
" great review, thanks for getting rid of that mustache too Jeff, you simply didn't suit at one bit! "
Could not have said it better myself. Not as bad as the Jeff with blonde hair though, but it did make him look like a person who enjoys the company of five year olds a bit too much. Good to see the stach gone. 
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instant win checkpoint

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Multikill

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@kratier said:
"PC shooters>console shooters "
 If bug ridden Russian shooters are your thing. 
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Have your say here...

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Young Fred Durst...? When did that douche ever grow up...?

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Oh man, that was a great checkpoint at the end! I hate situations like that.