I've had an XBox now for about a year and a half, and haven't played Halo for almost all of that period. But, after reading many a fanatic recommendation from respectable games journalists types I decided now should be a good time to try it out.

So I popped down to the local games shop, where a pre-owned (read: 'second hand') copy of it cost me just under 30 of our English Earth Pounds, which at the time I justified with the knowledge that the game would probably "occupy me for a good few weeks".

With perhaps an almost wreckless haste and abandon when I got home, I whacked the disc in the 'Box, ready for some glorius shooting action. Intro sequence boots up, and hey I'm kinda impressed, lovely slow moving abstract sci-fi type 3D model and choir-based music of death. "A good start".

Then the annoying bit... no bots for the multiplayer mode, a la Timesplitters... and even worse the single player game is shockingly boring and crap. OK the graphics are quite good, but I was so bored the time I actually got down to the ground in the dropship thing that I've chucked the disc back on the shelf and not touched it since.

So I put it to you to justify why everyone loves this game so? :unsure:

Go find someone to play coop with.

Is that where the magic happens?

Yes.

*mental note* must try the co-op missions.

Still its a shame there were no bots in the multiplayer maps, these are the only things i play in Timesplitters 2.

Halo is a good game, with massive room for improvement. I'd hardly consider it a classic though.


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Now Outlaws though, that is a classic...

What?! I am NOT mentioning it in every thread. Man...

Halo is the most horrible of horrible games ever.

It's the kind of game that Nintendo, several hundred years before birth, would have boasted being possible on the N64. To that relation, it looks like what most N64 games wanted to be.

And you float absolutely everywhere when you jump. By the way, I've tried the co-op/deathmatch modes, and they're phooking horrible.

C'mon, Halo is actually a jolly good game.

You're just being cool by being alternative.

I've played co-op Halo in the local GAME with a friend, and I wasn't too impressed either. I don't care for lasers too much, and the floaty thing's completely true. I did think the graphics were quite nice compared to the other XBox games of the time though, and the car impressed me a lot. The fact you can walk a million miles out to sea only to have to find your way back didn't impress me though.

Thats like reviewing the box or something. Oh, erm ah, oh look a fox ================> <00>

I played it for quite a while in a shop (alright, an hour - I was really bored). It's like Turok times 100.

Yawnity-yawn-yawn. I think Quake 1 is da bessed.

It was really, but I'm not a first person shooter fan myself. I did like the car though - vrooooom!!

Halo can be executed based solely on its complete lack of adrenaline-soaked-palm moments.

Doom on the PS is still my absolute gaming gold moment. Two TVs facing away from each other, two consoles linked-ups, the curtains pulled, the egos drawn, and six weeks until the first term of college.

May the best man win.

(And I did)

(About 51% of the time, damn his reflexes!)

Oh yes, yes and thrice yes :)

PS Doom is so good. I only ever played it single player. Back in the day I thought it sheer lunacy to bring two TVs in the SAME ROOM with TWO PLAYSTATIONS and TWO COPIES OF DOOM. Yet today I'll happily bring 452Kgs worth of PC gear round my mates for perhaps 7 hrs of "Network Configuration II" and 45 minutes of "Whatever 4 yr old game works on everyone's PC...Alpha 3").

Anyway, PS Doom = god & jesus. It's by far the best version I reckon, and the PS controller seemed like it was designed for that game.

The Playstation controller was especially wik for Doom, although you had to change the functions of a couple of buttons for it to be perfect. Triangle for run and circle for shoot, if I remener correctly.

Best strafing ever.

Hint: It's not Earth, it doesn't have to have Earth's gravity.

Aside from that I saw the PC version being played last night. Ohohohohhoohoh! Lets just say it doesn't look pretty at all, it hasn't scaled very well and looks kind of... Bright and not gloomy at all.