(WARNING: Happy Rant!)
Last night I played Halo Reach multiplayer with my gf for the first time in a year and I loved it!
(Before then Halo Reach didn’t seem right to me on the Xbox One but now it feels okay. I’ve also been playing Halo 4 multiplayer and I love it too, mix of classic + H5)
I just couldn’t help feeling so impressed by all the features in the game that just felt so misding in Halo 5. I was just openly ‘wowing’ everything I came across.
In particular this article is mostly dedicated to the Halo Reach Warthog!
The Halo Reach Warthog is so freakin’ fast I just loved it! And it sticks perfectly well to the ground. It’s amazing! What more can I say? It’s easy to control, feels fast and isn’t bouncy. It feels GOOD! I feel like a professional warthog driver again!!!
Unfortunately, I have NEVER felt that way with Halo 5! The warthogs in H5 have ALWAYS been considered useless, because they’re just so bouncy and harder to control. In fact you can even feel somewhat helpless driving one and bounce out of control very easily. Not only that I guess Halo Reach just has better environments for Warthogs and H5 doesn’t.
My dream warthog is the Reach warthog. I can only hope Halo: Infinte resembles the Reach Hog because there’s no way I’m going to enjoy driving a H5 warthog. Never have. My heart breaks every time I try anyway.
A few years ago I posted an article explaining how the Halo Reach scorpion is better than the H5 scorpion and that article is still true today. The Reach scorpion is faster and more accurate. The H5 scorpion is slow and not accurate at all.
I was also very impressed by a lot of other things in Halo Reach and Halo 4 that I’ve kinda forgotten to mention, but there’s a lot to be wowed by.
Oh yeah, like in Halo Reach there’s like an indicator on the enemy for the plasma pistol if you charge it. That alone I thought was kinda cool.
Basically, HR just so much details. Big things, little things… I just wish the 8 year old game would have a larger population. It truly deserves it based on it’s quality gameplay alone.
Oh hell yeah man I can’t wait to drive that warthog again!
There’s just so much more to say. Like, in Halo Reach, there’s a few details that I actually was complaining about that I wish Halo 5 had and completely forgot HR had all those things!
Just too bad I can’t remember all the things I was so impressed by… cuz I wanted to write it all down and just say that Halo 5 is definitely lacking in several things. Even the assassinations in Reach feel more automatic and natural!