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"Halo = rubbish."

I had the misforune to play halo yeaterday i have to say that is without a doubt the worse FPS i've ever ever played.

Though the graphics are good the controlls were fiddly, the eneimies could gun you down before you got near them. Your guns was poo.

I played for a good 10 mins to expeierenced the game and within ten minutes, i know whether a game is any good for not for me. This isn't.

*Me feel an arguement coming on*

And that deserved twice the mention...To be honest, DD64 was cheap at £5., whixh is why I bought it in the first place. But hey, what a bargain.

Well...

I wasn't impressed by Halo when I firt played it. As has been said, it's doesn't add much to the FPS genre, and certainly isn't up to the hype many reviewers have given it.

However, the more I've played it, the more involving it has become, and I have to admit, I love it. It offers nothing astoundingly new, but it is a top, top quality FPS.

As for the controls... I fail to see a problem. They are a little tricky to get used to, and as with all FPS games it would be better with a mouse/keyboard combination.

The default controls, though, are practically identical to the FPS games on the PS2 - both Red Faction and TimeSplitters use the sticks in exactly the same way. So basically if you hate Halo's controls, you hate those games on PS2 also.

I played ti for 15 mins at the Xperiences in November i didnt like it but then again it was only 15 mins...

In the original post he posts in the present and past tense in one sentence tut tut tut

well the hype this game got was tremendous and i thought that it would be excellent.

i saw it in eb and thought that it looked rubbish so i didnt even play it.

didnt look good enough.

even the graphics didint impress me.

maybe that was just the hype that let me down but i dont know.

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> The default controls,
> though, are practically identical to the FPS games on the PS2 - both Red Faction
> and TimeSplitters use the sticks in exactly the same way. So basically if you
> hate Halo's controls, you hate those games on PS2 also.


Does it allow you to custom set the controls? I didn't get a chance to look into it when I was playing?

With regards to the PS2 control system, I changes all of mine to resemble Goldeneyes control set up,mainly changing the movements on each stick to something a bit more logical... ie: L3 - Straffe / Back, forward, R3 - Look up, down / Turn left, right on holding aim: L3 - Turn left right/Look up/down, R3 - Straffe LR/ Move Back, Forward... ore soemthing along those lines...

well halo is a good fps but not one that should have got 10/10 from the likes of edge magazine, mmmmmm sounds like a bribe from ms.

I've said all along that it wasn't a 10/10 game. Originally based simply on what I'd read about it; but now that I own it and have played it, I stand by that opinion.


And Tyla - yes, you can reconfigure the controls for Halo.

The official mag didn't give it 10 out of 10 now thats something

Mr. Furby wrote:
> well halo is a good fps but not one that should have got 10/10 from the likes of
> edge magazine, mmmmmm sounds like a bribe from ms.

It was. Thats how edge make money.