Mark's Blog

I first bought this game for the PC about a year ago when it was newly released, I tried it out briefly and my first impression was that it was ugly and given how ugly it was the performance was really poor given that I had a pretty good specification PC. It points to the game being a very bad console port like the original halo for the PC was. It too was ugly and very intensive in terms of load on CPU and graphics card.

I never really played this game on the Xbox but from what l am told by others that have its a direct port the actual game is exactly the same in terms of looks and playability except that on the PC you can get a far greater resolution. Now back to what I said earlier this game especially the earlier stages is very ugly I thought even the original Xbox could have produced something that looked better. For graphics I really would have to give this game a 3/10 it doesn’t even look like they even bothered trying.

Playability wasn’t too bad but the game felt very static and repetitive. Wave after wave only a few more each wave isn’t very adventurous or new. The levels were for the most part very unimaginative especially when compared to the original halo which had some great looking and thought out levels and this game basically feels like it was rushed to get it out whilst the hype of the original game could drive the sales up.  For playability I would have to say if I am being honest a 5 or 6 out of 10.

One real plus for me like the original halo was the music soundtrack the music is gorgeous and truly epic I think many game designers could get some real tips from Bungie on the musical score for their games.

Overall I’d give this game a 6/10. If you can get past the ugly and dated graphics especially in the first half of the game its actually fairly fun if very repetitive at times. But obviously their are newer and better games already out there.