Halo: Reach

Halo: Reach

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Just now, I'm with the futuristic Falcon between the mile-high skyscrapers of New Alexandria road, when I received the radio message. A group of UNSC soldiers has problems in a night club. I make a U-turn in the helicopter and jet rid of to help them, when suddenly a squadron of enemy spaceships appears behind me. The guys in my unit manning the machine guns and we can make it just a way to save his life. I land the smoking helicopter on a roof that is so high that I can not even see the Earth and make my way to assist the boys.

To my horror I see that they are terrorized by the Hunters, perhaps the most heinous enemies of the Halo world. And yet this same four pieces. The whole thing is becoming a Halo battle that resembles nothing of what I've seen so far. I jump on bar counters to tear drink glasses fall to the ground and shoot magazine to magazine to the armored giants, my answer the attacks with a powerful fireworks. On the ceiling rotate a disco ball, and creates a strange atmosphere, which consists of equal numbers of deaths and Glamour.

It is now three years since Halo 3 was released, and go to finish the story, the former Bungie in Halo: Combat Evolved began. The Covenant are defeated, the secrets of the ring world are revealed and filled the gaps in the story. How do you do next? Sure, you look back. In Halo: Bungie Reach turns the clock back in time to when the covenants were still mysterious and the Master Chief was only one equivalent in the high volume Spartan-warrior.

Halo: Bungie's Reach is a counterpart to Titanic, this parable they themselves have often mentioned in interviews. The story is from the planet Reach, one of the most important human outpost, full of military industry and research. But how do we almost nine years ago in an introduction to Halo: Combat Evolved, read Reach is sentenced to death. The Covenant attacked with a force as it has never been seen before, and the Master Chief was the only Spartan-warrior who could save themselves and the world now so classic ring Halo fled.

So we know that Reach will go down and we know that all Spartans are sentenced to death. The transformed Halo: Reach into a dark, dark and at times quite listless tale of a fight with ridiculously poor odds. But the story also includes heroism and indomitable will to save until the last drop of blood to fight for humanity.

We play the role of the last new entry in the Noble team, a Spartan squad that consists of six powerful characters with different life histories and skills. There are, for example the giant Jorge, rumschleppt the cheerful giant miniguns as if they were only styrofoam dummies, but also the computer specialist Kat and the sniper Jun. Six of it goes up in an adventure for the little bit of saving of Reach, what can be saved .

So, that is, as long as one follows or no extra controller connects to Xbox Live. Halo: Reach supports namely co-op gaming for up to four players, and this throughout the whole adventure. Bungie urges the people to actually to play in co-op mode to experience the adventure of the way the developers intended. Bungie screwed the game level with each person, followed by a bit further up. The idea is that you can flank the enemy using all vehicles and collaborate more effectively in the enormous levels as a group should.

Bungie's incredibly proud of the Artificial Intelligence in Halo: Reach, and rightly so. There are more types of enemies than ever before, and suddenly all feel in life-threatening. Another reason for this is that Bungie wanted to make the covenants so as to instil a fear again. The Spartan warriors do not have the built-in translator, on the Master Chief has, that is, speak their own language, the covenants, which differs from breed to breed. Cannon fodder enemies as the Jackals hear so suddenly really uncomfortable and I ran it more than once cold down the back as I was surprised by her alien gibberish.

The covenants will now also different, because Bungie has returned to the ten-year-old, original designs. For technical reasons, these have then later, when the Xbox came out, a simpler appearance got missed, to which we are accustomed today. Now it looks really, the Grunts that wear a suit of armor in which the artificial ice-cold air is trapped, which predominates on their home planet. And if you shoot the hoses of this vitally important system for them, the small grunts hiss through the air and thundered with a clap-quality sound effects into a wall.

The sound sounds significantly better overall anyway. The weapons are heavier, more aggressive and it pops with more power than ever before in the Halo series. Likewise, the graphics from the ground to change. were used, for example, a single assault rifle now consists of more polygons than in Halo 3 for a full soldiers. And finally, Bungie has also the design right down to the wheel to reach to make it a credible and diverse world in which no two levels at a time. This is really successful. There are lush fertility, barren mountain areas, space ships, the huge city of New Alexandria, lonely shacks, night level, and much more. There is also a lot of different animals, and ordinary civilians, making the planet very much alive. The objective that no level was similar to another - and this is Bungie succeeded absolutely.

Without giving away too much of the story, the Halo series for its many epic scenes is known. In Halo: Reach, there are more than ever before. The incredibly powerful attack of the covenants has also been transformed to the already spectacular sky Reach into a burning inferno. Against this sky feature often contrast the ominous silhouettes of miles of Covenant frigates from the spit out their devastating attacks, while the sky is dominated by swarms of Banshee.

There are several scenes that were so powerful that I could not help the controller to set aside, while I a "What the hell was just" going through my head and a grin spread on my face. Has Bungie the game up to here with effects, vehicles and explosions packed. spaceships down from the sky and seemingly infinitely high skyscraper will be blown up, while emerging on the horizon the whole time, other major battles. All this is so powerful that there is no counterpart added.

While the planet Reach breakneck speed in coming to an end, I'm fighting bravely with the Noble team that comes along, however, always troubled. On the control's is not, as in the Halo series usually extremely accurate - and that comes to my intense battles just right. You have to walk against Covenant ships fight, their tanks with their bare hands in pieces tear, get out of the orbit support, and wrestle with hairy Brutes. I will not stop playing and I can not stop playing. One has the sense all the time that the Spartan warriors know very well what is waiting for a hard fate for her, but that it does not itch at all. Halo: Reach is the longest adventure of Bungie and it took nearly nine hours to play through it, but without ever having been anywhere near anything.

But no matter how mighty and pompous in the history of the Halo games may be, it is the multiplayer, which gives games their long life. Halo 3 is still the second most played game on Xbox Live and the main attraction in the U.S. league MLG gamers (which include a contract with ESPN). Halo 3 was a way multiplayer perfection to which no other console game drew near even close and that makes it a sequel of course difficult.

Because the plot of Halo: Reach before Halo: Combat Evolved is happening, they tried to return to the atmosphere. In practice this means that the ability of Halo 2, to have double weapons are removed and that items were taken away from Halo 3 and, furthermore, that the extra grenades types from Halo 3: ODST deleted and all bonus items. What remains is a reduced multiplayer, which is less artificial and more intuitive feel for it.

Instead of quickly looking for a favorite weapon and items such as invisibility, one must now select for each death from a list of three to five alternatives, which we will have weapons and special abilities. Nuance Dragon Naturally, it starts immediately with the weapon that you like best. And who is invisible, like, can it be immediately after the special skills are recharged. I myself have quickly for the shield and the classic pistol from Halo: Combat Evolved excited. She is brutally strong, and the sign is very convenient because it also protects my team when it matters. But there are so many other options such as holograms start running, which can, to draw the enemy fire to himself or to sprint ability.

The arsenal is bigger than ever and in the course of development has dared Bungie to slaughter a few sacred cows. For example, the sniper rifle is no longer the super weapon that it once was, the clear first alternative, the Battle Rifle has been replaced by a significantly poorer DMR. And zurckzukriegen the energy, it is no longer enough to simply stand protected, but you need medicine.

Nothing was allowed to remain as it was. Instead, everything was shaken up. And that deserves applause. Halo 3 even though I really, really like like, my biggest fear was for Halo: Reach have been but it would not feel just new enough.

I personally was fascinated by the Spire level total. It has a high tower in the middle of which a view on everything. It comes with either the elevator or a human cannon up there, but there are Banshees, can fly up to them and a lot of other vehicles on the ground. Not least, the new helicopter Falcon.

Also Firefight in Halo 3: OSTD be there again and is now better matchmaking features and detailed setting options than ever before. Additionally, it will make for the level editor Forge strong. This happened even in Halo 3, but now it has been designed from the ground up, so now the last Tinker fantastic levels can build almost without limits. This should be a huge success. Race and Rally are two other, perhaps unexpected features that Bungie has added. Probably because in Halo it's so much fun to drive vehicles, but also because the fans in Halo 3 so have built many race tracks. For Race and Rally, it is thus not a question, shoot enemies, but only point is to deliver the Mongoose vehicles on different tracks race.

Halo: Reach is Bungie's departure from the Halo series, possibly ever. And Bungie wanted the best, largest and heaviest Halo experience to deliver all time - as a farewell from the series that they have created once. Now takes the novice 343 Industries, the development of the Halo series, but Bungie has raised the bar so high that I believe that when we look back in ten years to the Halo series, the unhappy fate of the planet Reach, and the self-sacrificing warrior Noble of the teams will be the one, what people remember best.

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