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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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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