So yeah, guess what I got like two weeks ago?
Big surprise, right? I originally intended on making a blog dedicated to my thoughts on the game but between my computer screwing up on me and Gamespot eating previous efforts at a blog I've given up.
I'll just try and express what I think about the game with much less detail for maximum time saving powers! In short, I thought it was good but not fatastic. It was pretty what I expected. A good but short campaign. Fire FIght is a nice diversion although the lack of matchmaking is disapointing and the games ending just because player leaves is a but frustrating.
The music is fantastic though. Seriously considering purchasing the soundtrack. The story is interesting but you learn next to nothing about the color cast of characters, especially Dutch and Mickey.
Again, just to be brief, the gameplay is pretty much a throw back to Halo: Combat Evolved. Although with the return of health packs it's arguably a step backward. While being reduced to all this may feel a bit lame at times it also is a breathe of fresh air to feel less than invincable for once.
Regardless Halo has now been around for nearly a decade and I think ODST takes the core gameplay Halo has thrived on to it's limits. It's fun but I think Reach should take the series in a new direction in terms of gameplay. I've been a fan of this series for about six years and I'm still having fun. Hopefully unlike Pokemon and Call of Duty Halo can evolve and keep me coming back.
Anyway, I'll probably get around to reviewing this some time. It'll probably be scoring in the 8 to 8.5. Good game but it's not for everyone. For a few reason.
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Speaking of Halo I got Helljumpers part 2
Hopefully this series dives a bit deeper into ODST's cast. Anyway in this issue not much happens. The main characters find some covenant and fight em'. Ends in a cliff hanger. It feels like the heading towards something with these cool sneaky covenant guys but yeah... I'm kinda hating how cominc books contain little story at all. You have to collect a crap ton before you get much of anything. I think in this respect I prefer manga. They generally come with much more.
I was looking through the dates for future issues and the finalpart of this is part story isn't suppose to come out till Novermber. Sheesh, ridiculous. The series has been going since like June and it doesnt end till November. A six part series and each issue is only something like eighty to one hundred pages. Yeah, after this I'm either done with Halo comic books or I'm waiting till series is fully released before digging into it.
Well, at least this isn;t as bad as Uprising. Hopefully.
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I won an HD TV from a Section 8 contest held by Machinima back in late August. I intended to blog it but yeah, I never got around to it until now. It was pretty cool, you could see my gamertag up on the machinima facebook page and everything. It's down now though. Funny thing is I stil haven't got it. You'd be surprised how paper work you have ti fill out for free stuff. Oh well.
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I rented a few games these past couple weeks. Just for kicks. FIrst I rented Spider-Man Web of shadows and Ninja Gaiden 2.
Spider-Man Web of Shadows is pretty fun. THe combat system is pretty impressive and you can upgrade you combat abilities for both your red and black suits.
The game has a whole choice system thingy based on good n' evil. I've typically had mix feeling about games that do this. For example, in web of shadows I went through the entire game doing all the hero choices. Once I finished the game I wnet back to my last save to see how the game would play out if I made the evil choice at the end. Not to spoil any thing but Spider-man did a really mean thing yet I still got the good guy ending.
Web of Shadows chooses the ending based on how many good choices I made. What I choose and why really didn;t matter. The plot doesnt really try to make sense of what I do. It just happens and the game goes with it. And so like with my example you can make choices that completly contradict what you'd been doing the entire time through the game and the game really makes no effort to acknowledge that.
Also, your choices made in the game really don;t effect what you do. I checked through the game's achievements and there were no major boss character I didn;t fight on my first run. So you fight all the same major enemies through out the entire game regardless of how the story unravels. After beating it as a hero I went about half way through wmaking evil choices and everything was about the same except the cut scenes and who was giving me (the same exact)mission in a small segment of the game.
All that aside, like I said it's still a fun game excluding some really annonying protection/escort missions. And I must admit the game has more of them than pretty much any other game I've ever played.
May or may not review. If so It'll probably be a 7.5/10
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Ninja Gaiden 2. Yes, I rented that too. Not much else I can say. It was frustrating, not fun so I quit after I got to like the third boss.
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After Ninja Gaiden 2 and Spider-man: Web of Shadows I rented GHost Busters the videogame. You maybe surprised to learn it's alot like Gears of War it's only missing the cover mechanic. Which isn;t such a bad thing considering the contect. You're exactly fighting heavily arming monster popping up from the ground.
Actually, it's sorta like Pokemon too, what with all the capturing of ghosts. And like Metroid with constant ghost scanning. And a little bit of Super Mario Sunshine with the sludge cleaning. We have a hybrid on our hands.
Still I kinda wanna categorize it as a shooter what with the main gameplay focus being on shooting ghost with a laser.
As fun as it all is though it's pretty short. About four hours. I was pretty disapointed to learn there was no co-op for campaign. There is however a collection of co-op games to play. It's all based on "campaigns". Each of these campaign don;t tell a story. Their actually just a collection of assorted objective on three maps per campaign. Theres like four or five campaigns.
It's pretty fun, but good luck finding players. For the few days I played Ghost Busters I was only able to play one game with a full team. The multiplayer is 4-player co-op so it;s kinda sad I had so much trouble finding a full game or games at all.
While Ghost busters is a fun game considering how short the campaign is and how difficult it is to play a multiplayer match I really wouldnt reccomend it purchasing it or at least not for mor than twenty bucks. It's a perfect rental though. And if this were a review I'd probably give it a 7.5/10
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Other random stuff:
-I rented X-men Origins: Wolverine. It was surprisingly good movie. I reccomend checking it out.
-I've been trying to rent Batman: Arkham Asylum but someone else seems to always beat me to the punch
-I'm getting sick of competetive multiplayer gaming.
-I've been having a frustrating time earning the "Vidmaster: Endure" achievements in Halo 3: ODST
-I noticed that out of the seventy games I've played on the 360 only about fifteen of them were shooters. Really surprised me
-I purchased the Last Remant. Not much else I can say. Haven;t got very far