I normally am not outspoken about these reviews, but this review truly is unsettling. Want to know why?
They gave Modern Warfare 3 a 9.0, a game in which literally nothing changed, introduced noting new to the franchise, and really played it safe, while they are now bashing Halo 4 with a 7.0, claiming that the game needs to try harder with changes and improvements. Sound hypocritical to you?
Here’s everything new in Halo 4: Spartan Ops (free weekly chapters of missions up to 50 missions total, turret defense style dominion mode, several much needed and enhancing features in forge including dynamic lighting that pairs up the environment lighting with object placement among other key features such as magnets to make forging incredibly intuitive and easy, brand new leveling system, 3 incredibly diverse forge worlds each with unique forge pieces, an actual flood mode where they took the time to give your character a claw and flood skin, etc. I could literally go on and on about the changes and new introductions in Halo 4 new to the series.)
What did MW 3 introduce that was “new?” - they put in theater mode (previously first in Halo 3- copied to black ops, a horde style mode- pretty much gears of war horde mode or halo’s firefight mode with some tweaks.)
In addition, the reviewer blasts Halo 4 for the lack of iron-sights, the lack of michael-bay-esque sequences, and scripted events. The lack of iron sights!! Just when you think that reviewers couldn’t get any more…ignorant and daft.
I’ve already bashed my face into the wall enough over rank threads. The last thing I need right now is to read a review on Halo from some people who obviously favor CoD.
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I read that earlier and he is an idiot, read his replies in the comments below.
He’s mad that the Halo campaign isn’t full of gimmicky set pieces and that the gunplay isn’t like every other shooter out there. A.E.
This guy gave it a 5. Saying 343i tried too hard to not step on anybodys toes that anything new felt pointless. Concluding with a notice, “For Fans only”.
I can respect opinions and low scores.
But the reasons this particular reviewer provides are abysmal and bleed of ignorance and extreme bias. He basically wants Halo to transform into one of the many “modern” shooters that have taken birth from the exact mechanics and key elements set forth by the Call of Duty franchise.
He criticizes the open environments (of which Halo is known for), the lack of iron sights (of which Halo is known for), the lack of an abundant number of scripted events (of which Halo is known for), and even calls the game soulless and empty in comparison to Call of Duty. He states that Halo is too conventional with games from the past, yet he wants it to join Call of Duty in a new norm, just another conventional group tipped to the brim with iron sights mechanics.
> This guy gave it a 5. Saying 343i tried too hard to not step on anybodys toes that anything new felt pointless. Concluding with a notice, “For Fans only”.
What the hell? A 5 game is something plagued by bugs and broken mechanics.
Pretty terrible review. Its like getting someone to review the Civilization series of games, that obviously doesn’t like Turn based RTS games.
Halo has always been a different style of FPS. Thinking 343 would just change the core mechanics of the game series that spans 7 titles is just Ludicrous.
Reviews like that have to be viewed with impartiality with as little use of their own opinion as possible backed with facts and researched comparisons. That was not a review, it was roast and a poor one at that.
I quit reading as soon as I saw he was begging for Iron Sights. Yea and while we’re at it CoD needs aliens and Mario needs an FPS spin off too.
Though one complaint of his was valid. He seemed pretty impressed by the first level and several of the non-shooting segments and wished more of that was in the campaign. That’s something I can actually respect. I actually sympathize with that complaint since I really think this series needs more non-shooting segments, whether it be in the form of more exploration, interactive/climbing/platforming sections (like the segment we’ve seen so many times from the first level), etc.
