That’s Halo 3 ODST single player done & dusted. Took me long enough; 18 months almost as Lindsay kindly reminded me last night, ah long term memories.
Well worth it I would estimate, probably a 4 out of 5 personally, single player might have been a little on the short side but the storyline was strong & the sideline “Sadia’s Story” was a nice touch.
There has been various things said online about elements of the game being unfinished, haven’t touched the fire fight or co-op elements so I can only comment on the single player part, from what I experienced it was a solid story with the intersecting story parts on the whole pretty good.
The wandering around the city as the Rookie started getting old with the same old bits of the city, but you can’t really have too big a map, otherwise it would get a bit lost, it didn’t get old for too long though as the end pieces starting coming into play just as I was getting bored J
The voice actors were perfect choices; I’m a little biased with two of them being ex Firefly characters & the female lead being Number Six from Battlestar Galactica. Plenty of banter during their parts in the game kept the game fresh as you fought your way through the increasingly harder mobs of enemies.
Was definitely fun being a little more ‘human’ than the Master Sergeant who could almost take on a tank one handed! Definitely makes you look for cover and flanking firing positions a lot more than you would normally do.
The friendly soldiers are still quite suicidal in part; so you do end up not caring about them as much as you know they’re going to run right in front of a Brute at some stage as if they’re going to take it single handed! AI is fairly good for the bad guys though, you have enemies running off to escape/get more support and chasing you when you dive for cover.
So overall well worth it, now with Halo 4 in the offering (who didn’t see that coming!) plenty of game play to come.
Still haven’t decided if I’m picking up Halo: Reach, it’s a bit of an emotional thing with me given the events of the last year or so, playing a game where you know the main characters are all fated to die in the lifetime of the game is a bit black for me just now J
