- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
And as for originality? Yeah, I sure three different genres of enemies (human, Covenant, and Flood) is so original. I'm never reminded of Starcraft when I play Halo. Never. I mean, seven-foot-tall aliens that are zealous in their ways and have rechargeable shields? An alien species that consumes everything in site and spreads like a virus? And to tie it all off there's a mysterious race from which everyone draws their technology from? How about the fact that the concept of the Halo ring structures themselves come from a book?Yeah, and the Flood Infection forms ability to take over a host's body doesn't remind me at all of Half-Life's headcrabs.
Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
I can go on, but I'm sure at this time embarrassment has settled in. Come back in a few years after you've grown up and have done some researchCombo breaker!
The only thing Halo has done is proved that shooters could be played on a console (with its superb controls built for the gamepad and auto-aim). The ability to throw a grenade without needing to equip it, energy shields that recharged, and a melee function with every weapon in the game were pretty nifty features, but aside from that, nothing else is new.