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Halo: Reach - Review
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Halo: Reach
Game Information
Release Date : 9.14.10
Developed By: Bungie Studios
Genre: FPS
Platform: Xbox 360
Age Restriction: 17+ (M)
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Release Date : 9.14.10
Developed By: Bungie Studios
Genre: FPS
Platform: Xbox 360
Age Restriction: 17+ (M)
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Synopsis (Wikipedia)
Reach takes place in a futuristic science fiction setting during the year 2552, shortly before the events of the 2001 video game Halo: Combat Evolved, and during the events of the 2001 novel Halo: The Fall of Reach. Humans, under the auspices of the United Nations Space Command (UNSC), have been waging a long war against a collective of alien races known as the Covenant. By the events of Reach, almost all of humanity's interstellar colonies have fallen. Reach itself is an Earthlike colony that serves as the UNSC's main military hub. The colony is home to over 700 million civilians in addition to the military presence.
The game follows the actions of "Noble Team", a UNSC special operations unit composed of elite supersoldiers known as Spartans. Players assume the role of an unnamed new addition to the team, identified by the call sign Noble Six. Noble Team's leader is Carter-A259, a no-nonsense soldier. His second-in-command, Kat-B320, has a bionic arm; together, Carter and Kat are the only two remaining original members of Noble Team. The other members include heavy weapons specialist Jorge-052, assault specialist Emile-A239, and marksman Jun-A266.
Campaign
The Halo: Reach campaign takes place before Halo Combat Evolved. You play as Noble Six. First we have "Carter" who is the "Noble One" and is the Team Leader. Along with Kat, she is a Lieutenant Commander and is your "Intelligence" in the Game who is "Noble Two". Third is "Jun" known as "Noble Three" and he is your good ol' Sniper of the Team. Fourth is "Emile" who is knows as "Noble Four", he is your Assault Specialist of the Game. Lastly, we Have "Jorge" knows as "Noble Five". He is your Big Guy of the Team and mostly handles the heavy weapons. He mostly carries around a Turret throughout the Campaign. You guys are battling to keep the Covenant Forces out of Planet Reach. So you go through a numerous amount of missions that are exciting and fun to play and try to stop those Covenant Forces from coming back into Reach.
Multiplayer
The Halo: Reach Multiplayer is really fun. Halo: Reach introduced many things into the Halo world including Armor Abilities that Include:
- Armor Lock [A Power up that makes you invulnerable for 5 Seconds while in Armor lock mode]
- Sprint [Lets you run faster for a Short Period of time]
- Jet-Pack [Lets you fly around but only for a small amount of time but quickly regenerates]
- Hologram [A Decoy that makes it look like your Spartan and could control where it goes, easy for tricking beginners]
- Evade [Enables players to roll into a certain direction if in any danger or want to move around faster]
- Drop Shield [A Similar object like the Bubble Shield where it regenerates your Health and Protects you. It Could be destroyed easily though]
- Active Camo [Makes you invisible and scrambles yours and enemies radar when they are near you, when moving it goes down faster then staying still]
The Halo: Reach weapons are Improved by a lot. The "BR" one of the Halo favorites was replaced by the "DMR" where it only takes 5 shots to kill an enemy instead of 4 and does a One round burst instead of a Three. The thing where most Halo: Reach players got upset was the "Bloom". It makes the circle around your cross-hair bigger each time you shoot it making it a bit harder to kill your opponent while in Halo 3 and Halo 2 you could keep shooting and it will kill your enemy. Most of the Multiplayer Maps were from Previous Halo Games Like :
- Reflection (Formerly Ivory Tower on Halo 2)
- Pinnacle (A Forge World Created Map Replacing Ascension from Halo 2)
- Hemmorage (Formerly Blood Gulch from Halo 1)
- Asylum (Formerly Sanctuary from Halo 2)
Overall Halo: Reach is great in the Multiplayer besides the fact that the Highest Rank (Inheritor) requires 20,000,000 Credits.
Custom Games
Just like in Halo 3, Halo: Reach offered a numerous amount of Custom Game options that will have you non-bored for hours, as long as you play the right ones. They have it all in Halo: Reach Custom Games, you have the 'MLG Gametypes' for all you Serious players, you got the 'ol Fat Man from Halo 3 (As Long as you could create it or find the Gametype and correct map, you got the casual Team Slayer,CTF,Infection, your Awesome Created Maps, and much much more!
Forge World + Theater
Once again Forge is back but better! In Halo: Reach Bungie really made Forge better by adding a lot of work space, a lot more items, and made it Noob-Friendly. In Forge World that's where anyone could create the best maps possible. You have an enormous amount of work space whether it could be a side a waterfall, inside an enclosed area, by the water, or even right in the Air! You have an Incredible amount of Objects to look over and it's even easier to use then before. With the press of a button you could make an Object merge into one another, let it just plain out fall into the floor or even make it just stay there.
Now that you know some information about Forge why not Post it on Youtube or something? Well just like in Halo 3 Theater is also back. So get into there and if you are a Bungie Pro Subscriber you could render that Film out in HD or even standard quality and you could Download it and put that baby on Youtube so everyone could see how your Map will look before they download it. Or how about that Nice Killtacular that you have gotten in MLG? You Probably would want to put that on the web for people could see you own some MLG Tryhards just plug that Capture Card in and you could easily Film it.
Graphics
The Halo: Reach graphics are truly outstanding. Bungie did an incredible job at making the Graphics Perfect by just detailing every thing in the Game. You got the guns where almost anywhere you shoot it will look like you would be actually shooting that thing. [Ex - If you shoot Dirt, the dirt will pop up, or if you shot a wall the sparks would come out]
Controls
Just like any other game the Game Controls are not that hard to use. They are Pretty much the same as Halo 3's. Only different is I believe the Armor Abilities. Since I haven't played Halo 3 in a while I don't know what "X" did, I believe it was to use your equipment and since that isn't in Reach and it is replaced by Armor Abilities that's how you would use your things. Aside from that everything is pretty much perfect.
P.S - I Use 'Bumper Jumper' not 'Default' so I don't know if "X" is how you use the Armor Abilities with Default Controls.
Rating
10/10
I Felt this Game Deserved 10/10 because it was really fun to play at first. Even though players may leave it is still fun. I Enjoy playing Game Types such as Team Snipers and Invasion, Maybe some Big Team Battle.
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its good... but i feel like it strayed too far away from the original Halo formula i.e. armor abilities. 9/10
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far from the original halo, but definitely one of my favs for online.
I like halo2 (the most) and halo3s multiplayer too. Bungies good with that.
I like halo2 (the most) and halo3s multiplayer too. Bungies good with that.
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i give it a 7 out of 10
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Nice post. I really like reach. I like all halos though
i give it a 9/10
i give it a 9/10
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I gave it a 100/10. Because I can.
Great post, very detailed for people who might never had played a Halo Game before.
Great post, very detailed for people who might never had played a Halo Game before.
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I give Reach a 10/10.
Halo is an amazing series, but I still think the first 2 games were the best.
Nice post,too.
Halo is an amazing series, but I still think the first 2 games were the best.
Nice post,too.
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5/10 becuase it strayed away from the original Halos and was more like Cod
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I give it a 9/10. It is pretty good.
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Good Post. nice to see you can review on your own series. Halo reach i thought it was 8/10.
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