Halo: Overrated?
As Halo three prepares to launch, is the Halo Series is really as good as people say?
When I first finished Halo, I couldn’t decide what I thought about it. Yes, it was a good game, it had action, it had great graphics, it had everything a good First Person Shooter should have, but that’s it, it was only good. The gameplay was often repetitive, it was often so boring that you’d stand up and start screaming at your TV, but the simple truth was that it wasn’t a great game, only a good game.
Halo wasn’t the first ever First Person Shooter game, so it wasn’t original in that sense. It wasn’t a particularly big game that would keep you occupied for weeks. It wasn’t the first game to have a weapon which could home in on enemies, nor was it the first game with vehicles or rocket launchers. It simply combined many elements from other games, and it was praised for doing so. It didn’t have the originality of the first Medal of Honour game. Halo was never particularly immersive either, it was just a game you could pickup and play. Personally, I think that Halo was so hyped, purely because it was one of the first XBox games. It’s game play wasn’t particularly good, and everything you could do in Halo, you could do elsewhere too.
Halo is often said to be the benchmark for modern First Person Shooters, but I have seen many better games. Killzone (though I’m not a fan) is a much better game, as is Resistance: Fall of Man (which isn’t particularly good by PS3 standards). The plain and simple fact of the matter is that Halo has been so overhyped that people don’t even judge it anymore. Nobody highlights its flaws, its lack of believability, it’s lack of realism. Recharging shields made the game far too simple, a skilled player would hardly ever die. Nobody ever accepts that it isn’t perfect, and nobody ever credits other games with the credit that they deserve.
Personally, I am happy to see the last game of the Halo Trilogy come out, maybe it will finally be forgotten after Halo 3 is released, but I ain’t holding my breath.
Liked it
I completely Agree
The second most overrated game in history, beyond final fantasy 7
I’m suprised that we haven’t add any pro-Halo posts (except for the one that the owners deleted for spam). Nice to see others agree with me
Never played so I have no comment..
YEp very over rated! lets see wolfstein something like that was the 1st shooter game I can think of.
Halo kinda sucks and halo 3 wasnt original at all it only had a few new acpects and the weren’t even very exiting bungie screwed up I’d rather play viva pinata and Im hardcore shooter kinda gamers!!!!!
I’d like to point out a few things.
The online multiplayer of Halo (and Halo 2/3) really isn’t that great. It has online co-op, but so will Resistance 2 and GTA IV has it. I’ve played Halo 3 on multiple occasions online and offline, campaign and co-op/versus. It is extremely simple and extremely easy to master. Games that are so simple get dull quickly. Halo 3 is very overrated, as is evident from most rating sites. If you look at the rating the game was given (when released) it averages 9.2-9.5. If you look at the reader reviews, it has fallen to 8.0-8.5, the same level as CoD 3 got.
Also, if you’re going to bring in comment numbers, there is only 1 “dissenting” voice. If you’re going to say these 6 people know nothing, you, as one person, must know less.
Compared with most fps multiplayers now halo 3 proves itself very well. It is much better than crysis, resistance, and will still be way ahead of killzone 2, and the only fps multiplayer now that is on par with halo 3 is call of duty 4 and rainbow six vegas 2. If you want to look at overrated games look at resistance, it had nothing original in it. Originality is hard to find because of all the games that have come out. The first halo brought recharging health, 2 weapon inventory, and a button just for grenades. There is no other fps before it that integrated all of those features into a game that i can think of.
Ok, I have no idea how you can say that Halo 3 will be way ahead of Killzone 2! Have you seen the trailers? The Halo 3 graphics were horrible, Killzone 2 looks amazing. Seeing as that’s all we can base it on, Killzone 2 is much better than Halo 3 at this point in time. Also, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, while on the same level as Halo 3, comes nowhere near to Call of Duty 4. Call of Duty 4 is an amazing game, Halo 3 and Rainbow Six Vegas 2 are great games but are not “legendary”. Also, Resistance had a lot of original stuff in it. 40 player online, World War II never took place, sniper time. And Resistance 2 is going to have 60 player online with 8 player online co-op. That’s extremely original, revolutionary infact.
Don’t get me wrong, Halo (the series) is/are great game(s). I just don’t think they are deserving of all the hype they get. They have some amazing features, but then they also have some horrible stuff in the games. The annoying Cortana moments during Halo 3, the often predictable AI (particularly in Halo 1), the graphics (especially in the 3rd), the generic maps (mainly 1st, partially 2nd).
I didn’t really like halo.. I started playing first part and while it had interesting gameplay stuff, I really don’t like games where you just have to spend thousands of bullets to kill thousands of enemies for a few seconds of some story between it…
I just don’t feel it…
I like halo 3, but its campain is to short. Devil may cry 4 looks like a lot better game and i am hoping to get it soon
i forgot to mention (like many of you have probably have noticed) the AI is lame. I cant even count how many times i been driven over a cliff while turreting a warthog because your allies cant even drive in a straight line. And then theres the times when im driving and we sit there getting shot for twenty minutes because THE ENEMYS MOVING AT 1 FREAKEN MILE AN HOUR AND YOUR ALLIES KEEP MISSING INTILL YOU RUN THE ENEMY OVER!!!!!
I only liked one level on Halo, the bit where you go out into the snow and you can get in the flying thingies, otherwise Halo was repetitive and boring. I never saw anything revolutionary in it at all. Halo 2 was hyped even more, I bought it, thought it was worse so took it back and got another game. The guy at the till looked at me like i’d just farted when I said I thought it was crap. I just didn’t see what he did in the game I guess. Halo 3, my friend bought it, I watched him play for abit and thought “it’s still the same game, but it’s on a next generation console and the graphics haven’t improved much at all”.
Probably is the most hyped series out there, I just dont see what most people see in the games, to me, it was below average.
awesome game
Call of Duty overrated? That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard all day. The Call of Duty series is one of the best ever imho (well, not as close as my favorite series Thief, developed by looking glass studios, but not as many people know about that so I’m not going to say much.) Call of Duty brought out an extremely immersible game. Halo imo is quite a bad game. It’s a bit slow compared to games like Crysis and Manhunt. I don’t care if their PC games, since a game makes the game, not the console. The weapons in halo are very unbalanced and it’s it takes rather long to reload compared to the amount of time it takes to shoot. The vehicles just lack quality. It’s just my opinion, but Halo is a horrible series.
Thank you, everything that Halo ever was and ever will be was a rehash of a bunch of PC shooter’s into what was frankly a very uncharismatic bore. The whole franchise is a prime example of what can happen with enough good media propaganda. The ONLY thing that Halo had for its self in originality was a 16 player system link split screen. A feature that was beyond lost on most average gamers, yet was over sold by pretty much every gaming magazine. What it comes down to is the coming about of the fast food gamers, and the problems the “elitist jerk” gamers have with this(probably can point a finger at myself here). So what makes a good game? The ability for a company to sell and players to be able to pick up and play -or- learning curves and the abilities to master them in the way they were intended at the cost of a very low dedicated fan base. I think we all can agree innovation, plot, charisma, and graphics weigh on our personal foundations for a good game, but our stances on difficulty tend to leave us divided.
is it any surprise that it cost 29 million to make halo, and 29 million to market it? THAT’s the only reason its popular, they marketed it to hell, and everyone will blindly follow what they are told is the “cutting edge” of games.