Hmm... I've been hearing about a lot of bugs and glitches with the Rising demo as well. Hopefully the final game is in good shape.

Dvader said:

Halo 4 reviews in a few hours! Thank you MS for not being a bunch of BITCHES and letting reviews out when they should be out.

So excited, how excited are you Geoff.

"Two touch screens. Twice the sensation."

Wii U NA advert

Zombi U^

Archangel3371 said:

Those sexy costumes are hot. Pikachu, Sonic, Yoshi, Milenna and Kitana are my faves. Oh la la.

I just checked out the website, they have costumes for everything, Bugs Bunny WTF? Minnie Mouse? Hogwarts and more.

Archangel3371 said:

Just watched the Gamespot video review for Halo 4 and OMG this game looks so freakin' awesome. I am so jacked for this game.

I just jacked off for this game.

I'm not too jazzed about Halo 4. I've always felt that whilst good, sometimes very good, every Halo game I have ever played has been overhyped.

As a series with franchise troupes that repeat themselves this worries me:

CVG said:

A few years ago Microsoft set about building its own studio to carry Halo beyond Bungie's contractually obligated spin-offs ODST and Halo Reach. All 343 Industries ever had to do was match the quality of Bungie's games, and in that sense it's succeeded. Halo 4 is indistinguishable from a Bungie Halo. Unfortunately, the Halo it's indistinguishable from is Halo 2.

Halo 4 isn't just a another Halo; it's the Haloest Halo ever. It's good at mimicking the bits you remember best from past games to make it clear that, Bungie or not, this is the real thing. Level one is all grey corridors like Combat Evolved's Pillar of Autumn. Level two is a remake of the Chief's arrival on the first game's ring, complete with stunning vistas, arbitrary Warthog ride and a trip inside a Forerunner structure. There's a cross between Halo 3's jungle level and CE's 343 Guilty Spark, there's a Halo 2 gondola ride, a giant Covenant vehicle to bring down torn straight from 3's Scarab fights, a version of Reach's Long Night of Solace, and a recognisably Halo finale.


343 have replicated their favourite bits from other games in the series using an upgraded version of Reach's engine and Halo has never felt better. The guns have never packed more punch, its world has never been so beautiful and the enemies have never put up a better fight. It could be the perfect Halo - 343 are clearly capable of making it - but Halo 4's problem is the way it references Halo 2 more than any of Bungie's other games.

That degree of craft is lacking at the end of the campaign. Halo 4 ends with a shrug rather than a bang - a tepid version of the classic Halo escape sequence, a series of firefights in copy/paste spaces, a quicktime event and an inexplicable ending that falls apart under scrutiny. The soft finale is one final throwback to Halo 2 at the end of a story loaded with redundant MacGuffins and supporting characters whose plot strands never service the action.

The 3 big UK sites have given it an 8.0 and two 8/10s. They all agree it's good/great but I believe they are more cynical. I'm sure the platform specific sites/mags will give it more.

I'll have to play it to form a judgement. I've always enjoyed Halo games a lot, and this one has me excited because I want to see what 343 came up with. Impressions vary depending on who is writing them, and honestly I've never felt they match my experience with the games once I get the chance to play them.

I thought Halo 2 was pretty cool btw.

I would fuck Sonic.