Halo: ODST Retro Review
The Short Version: It’s sad that when the time comes to look back at the Halo franchise, ODST will be seen as an Excellent Well-developed Expansion turned to Full-Priced Game in order to Exploit its large fan base. Sad but True.
The Review:
What you’ll Like:
• A Welcome Highly Polished Extension of the Halo Experience!
• Great Voice Acting!
• Excellent Level Design Work.
What you’ll Hate:
• Wallet Rape. This IS an Expansion turned into a Full Game to Exploit the Halo Fanbase.
• A 4-Hour Campaign? (or less) w/ one new Multiplayer mode for $60??!??! Unacceptable.
• Most of the Game is played in the ODST Vision mode which takes away some of the visual flair.
• The “open-world” element ultimately felt pointless, you’ll be backtracking and avoiding conflict before long
Final Verdict:
6/10
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There was a spider on the halo suit at the end, look closely at the chest piece when he is moving, there is something moving. Man, what was that!!!
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What? Where exactly… I dont see one.
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I payed an extra 20 dollars to get the edition with the wireless controller, so I think that made it worth it. Otherwise, yeah. I recommend a used purchase.
Ironically, I think this review is too short. Is this the full one?
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Joe is right, I got it soon after it came out, maybe a week after. It was a great game, but it was far to short with only Fire Fight added to it that was unique, but boring after a while. It was fun for a few hours, but then I didn’t really want to play it again. The story was perfect, but just far too short. I’ll rate it a 6/10 as well.
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for me this is how the game should be
Story: For me if you are playing as a ODST they should make you have missions as you are playing as a soldier showing how you are developoing and then you become a ODST they should show parts of Halo 1 and 2 and then you become a ODST on Halo 3 helping soldiers on the war of the Covenant. And at the last level they tell you to find Master Chief crash site like on the Halo short film and what happens after that. You play as Master Chief and the Abiter why not as a soldier becoming a ODST?
Trainig as a soldier: Well just imagine call of duty take cover of enemy fire and killing enemys and troing granades on targets :B
Campaing: You start as a soldier and you are on middle of Halo 1 and 2 you are a soldier fighting the covenants on places that master chief as never their. Then they tell you that master chief disappear or something like that and you se how the war was without master chief. Then you become a ODST and you are on another training mode were you see how the ODST are. And you are on war during Halo 3
Training as a ODST: you have to kill targets with your night vision, killing enemys with the silent machine guns and kill an enemy with your team like a cutscene on Halo ODST were they are killing a brute.
Campaing: You are on your first ODST mission with your team on a city to save survivors and helping the soldiers. On a mission you must recover information of the covenant so you must use your night googles, your silent guns, flash granades (you cant use other guns and granades because they make alot of noise) and your knifes. Then they see a security camera showing of master chief on the space ship he was on the ending of Halo 2. At that point you play as master chief killing enemys on board as you are trying to kill the last prophet the prophet escapes and the ship blows up the camera shuts down. You tell this to the Admiral and he tells you that he allready knows that and the pieces are coming to planet earth and they are telling this to all the soldiers and odst on planet earth and blah blah and then you are on a mission on africa and well just imagine the short movie of Halo 3 they made for Halo 3 game play and thats the end of the game
sorry for all my spelling errors :B
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Please dont do anymore retrospective reviews anymore! They are so boring!
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What the fuck is going on with ODST It should be named FSGE FUCKING.STUPID.GAME.EVAR
this is not a shoothing gallery or that fucking shit bu what the fuck after i play halo ODST ……i found halo reach really!!!!!!!! U might say “This guys comment is making fun of halo ODST” and when u play it you say This piece of fucking shit im gonna set the god damn dosc on fucking fire its bullshit uggghhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…..*GamersHellDude is frustrated*The only thing they could perfect on this game is ITS PERFECTION……U THINK IM SATIFIED BUNGIE you dum shit WHAT THE FRICKIN FUCKIN HELL BITCHIN FUCKING PIECE OF HELL TRASH!!!!
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and listen how dissapointed joe looks. i feel mad at bungie/microsoft for doing this! joe diserves better!
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this game was really bad. after all the waiting and i got that huge dissapointment
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ahahahahahha
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I liked this game but only because all my friends had it and firefight was the only good part so we just played that alot. Plus i didnt have any of the map packs so the multiplyer disc for me was a pretty good bonus i still dont think it was at all worth retail price though
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joe you are totally right, a 5-hour game for 60 dollars (especially from a company like bungie) is total wallet rape.
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That is just a pathetic thing for Bungie to do…
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its not really bungies fault they r just the developers its microsoft who made it full retail
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What’s really sad is it would have been a shining example of what great DLC should be.
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This Video was better than that “game”, and the video actual served a purpose in my life! The was a reason why a FREE copy was in many Xbox 360′s elites, it was an ADD ON to the system!
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I’d give this a 6.5 out of 10. To Bungie’s credit, I was kinda glad to see the Human-Covenant War through the eyes of someone other than Master Chief ( The Arbiter doesn’t count; Elites are just the Covenant Spartans), so it Deserves more than a six. Why not give it a full 7/10, you may ask? Well, since Bungie/Microsoft decided to rake in the extra market value that comes from a full game compared to an expansion, one would expect that they coulda, shoulda, and (at least if I ran the Halo Project) woulda put more effort into the campaign. If you wanna talk multiplayer, the more tactical approach in ODST could have been exploited for some enhanced or even new game modes and/or maps.
Summary in 10 words or less:
Halo Gear Solid: expansion pack at expanded price
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I would have to give the game a 7 out of 10 because of the fact it felt more of a budget title then a full on game like halo 3 but my favorite thing about this game would have to be the music its often somber tunes captured the feeling of the player being in a city occupied by a powerful enemy you have to be careful when fighting them, also I liked that bungie was trying something new then what we are used to in a halo game.
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i plyed all halos even halo wars i dont have live but i have psn so i thought it was short but because i plyed all of them its decent & it comes with a 2nd disk 4 multiplyer do a dragon ballz review
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haha screw this microsoft just loves taking you for every penny you have
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I have to agree with you, Joe as ODST happened to be my first Halo game. It was confusing and took awhile to complete on normal on my first try., and I pretty much hated it. Months go by, and I finally get to play Halo 3 campaign, and that was a great game, considering the story line and game-play. After going back to ODST, I recently completed the campaign on Legendary, solo, over 4-5 hours. I was disappointed with elements of game play such that the characters could be substantially weaker at times, the overwhelming amounts of enemies at times, and times when you had bad weapons for a particular situation, or entering a situation with all of these elements made it a bit of frustrating experience. But I see where you are coming from, where the campaign was too short, multi -player was bad, and the game’s price was horrendous. I would agree with you on your rating, or it would give it a 5.5/10 to a 7/10 for not combining ODST and Halo 3 multiplayer into a great game that had so much to offer, for a full price.
And as you stated that your not a part of the fanclub, which probably means they didnt send u a copy of Reach?
Will you still Review it after it comes out?
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Umm.. but this wasn’t a full-priced title – at least not in the UK!
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The story was, for me, stronger than Halo 3′s story and I didn’t get the on the Halo 3 DLC, too busy, so when I got ODST at $39.99 I got more bang for buck. But it was really UNACCEPTABLE for the campaign to be 4 to 5 HRS. long!
But at $39.99 it was ok.
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Hey where did you get that awesome suit and silenced smg prop.
Altho I agree that the campaign was short and ”unraveling of what happend to your squad in the shadows of new mombosa” or something was boring shit
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Honestly I dont thing it deserves a 6/10 more like a 4/10 The only fun things were one ONE!!!! map on firefight Lost Platoon and holding the line (when on the bridge charge instead of retreat) oh and Angry Joe if you read this you should Review Darwinia+ its an Xbox 360 Arcade game and it kicks ass
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If there’ll be a new ODST game maybe it’ll be longer than 4-hrs. tops, and maybe it’ll have new weapons. That would be sweet!
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