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Halo: The game that makes Final Fantasy sh*t itself!!
Date of Review: Dec 29, 2004
The Bottom Line: You must play this game because it has almost everything you could possibly want!!
When I first got my Xbox in January 2002, my first game for it was Halo: Combat Evolved. When I first put that thing in this new and powerful console I wasn't real familiar with, I was amazed by everything in it, especially the fact it's the first game to have infinite lives in it. I wouldn't stop playing that game for hours upon hours. Halo is the reason why I'm glad I didn't buy a PS2 or Gamecube. My eyes would become bloodshot and I would loose alot of sleep because of Halo. I was up for a long time many nights blasting away genocidal aliens out to destroy humanity.
Unlike most other shooter games, Halo has a great plot (unlike the Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid games). You are a super-soldier named the Spartan 2 aka Master Chief, you're far superior to your allies in the Marines, and you're their last hope against the Covenant, a collective of alien races bent on wiping out the human race for religious beliefs. However, it doesn't stay like this the whole game, in the middle of it, you have to fight a different enemy called the Flood, which are basically like intelligent, fast moving zombie-like creatures that feed off humans and covenant alike. Then, this spherical object named the 343 Guilty Spark is trying to activate Halo to wipe out the Flood, but is unaware that it'll wipe the galaxy clean of all sentient life.
You get to use weapons and vehicles from both sides of combat (humans have an armed LRV and a tank, the aliens have a hover craft and divebombing craft). You fight on diverse terrain from forests to snow. You fight diverse enemies from small, humorous aliens named Grunts from lean, tall, and brutal ones named Elites.
May the anti-Covenant campaign begin!!
