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Here's to you, Bungie. 7,777 Covenant Heads on my spear.

*Spoilers!*

I say aye, you land in a dark and misty swamp. The Covenant seem to be scared -blam!-less, you see allies on your radar, bullets, and hell, I remember seeing a marine run through the trees and when I went to investigate, he was gone. Scary stuff. When you go inside, there's blood everywhere. Strangely, only Grunts and Jackals are present, where are the Elites?

You finally walk in the weirdest and creepiest room, a shellshocked marine is shooting at you, recounting his horrific tale of how his entire squad was killed, you are forced to kill him, when you see what is beyond the wall, destruction is everywhere, blood, fire, a moment the Master Chief won't soon forget.

You discover a door that's been tampered with, you open it, and catch a dead Marine in your arms, you collect his recording chip and discover that his entire squad-including Captain Keyes was attacked by Jellyfish looking parasites.

Then everything just explodes.

You are forced upon the missing Elites, which are now infected, you must escape this infestation, and the flood are everywhere. Truly Awesome.

*End spoilers*

Agree?

  • 01.21.2008 10:39 AM PDT
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It's what a level like The Library should have been like :)

Would have been awesome to retrieve the Index from the underground chambers, then emerge into the swamp. None of this jumping on the elevator, big hallway, tunnel, elevator, big hallway, tunnel, elevator, big hallway... etc.

  • 01.21.2008 11:01 AM PDT
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This level is the most important of all of them from the standpoint of how it changes the goals of the game in midstream, but it is not either the creepiest, coolest or most interesting level of the game. I will explain:

The level is the most important because it takes the game from Earth/Humans vs. Covenant war, to SURVIVAL OF THE GALAXY! The discovery of the flood, and what the rings are for changes the whole thrust of the game, therefore it is crucial to the storyline, the most crucial aspect in my modest opinion.

As for creepyness, the build up to finding the Flood (with the bloodspatters and barricades but NO BODIES!) is well done. The music is well done. The best part of the level is the helpless feeling when you think you have escaped by finding the elevator, only to have it go down! My heart actually sank the first time I played Halo and that happened. I was totally dismayed by it! The second best part is the maze that you have to finish to actually get the hell out of the level. It is great the first few times you play, before you can do the escape in your sleep.

Coolness? Yes, it is cool, but not the coolest. Two Betrayals is the coolest, and the first half of Keyes (trying to get back onto the covie ship) is very cool. Nightime battles just rock in my book!

As for most interesting, that to me is a toss-up. As lame as it sounds, the first time through the game, the level Halo to me was the most interesting because the game was just so much beyond anything I had played up to that point. The grand scale of the levels and the terrain. The sounds, sights and detail were amazing. I still love playing that level because it is just such a visual treat. Personally, my favorite level is Two Betrayals, because even though it is a replay of an earlier level, it is different enough, challenging enough and there are so many different ways to approach the main battles that it never has gotten boring for me.

As to overall creepiness, or "need new pants" creepyness and outright scare you out of your socks, DOOM III is unreal. I am 45, and even after playing that game for the last 4 years, it STILL scares the you know what out of me at times, and I know whats coming! It is a dark, mean, evil game, that is a blast to play. It is very different than Halo, it is very similar to Halo, and it is my second fave game after Halo CE.

Welp, thats it folks!

  • 01.23.2008 1:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: FlameSword
343 Guilty Spark=Creepiest/Coolest/Most interesting level of all time?
Ever played Half-Life or Gears of War? I've found it to be more intense and the horror more intriguing; then again, Halo did come out in 2001. So I might say yes, but only during 2001. :)

  • 01.23.2008 1:59 PM PDT
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To play or not to play....

This level and the library were scary because Halo is so much fun. The horror is simple and you are always afraid of what you can not see. Then suddenly a flood form rushes you.

It is cool and scary at the same time. The coolness lowers your guard so it makes it more frightning.

  • 01.28.2008 6:02 AM PDT

I keep getting banned since the mods are unfunny and suck at their jobs!

Um, no. 343 Guilty Spark is boring, compared to other levels in "scarier" games, also Halo is only a sci-fi shooter, not a horror FPS.

Cortana also ruins the attack of the flood in the ending cutscene of Assault on the Control Room by the way she acts.

  • 01.28.2008 10:15 AM PDT
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IMO, it was one of the biggest surprises/plot twists in all of gaming History.

It was like "Luke, I am your father!" but for a console.

  • 01.28.2008 4:04 PM PDT

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In my opinion the part where he puts in the recording chip is pretty badass.

You know what? Johnson can't die, he lives through the flood (Because of the plasma disease), and he still lives an explosion! What a badass!

  • 01.29.2008 2:22 PM PDT

lol i remember just before u go threw teh door were the marine falls on u..theres a dead marine on the ground..after i kill all the little parasites i walk out and his not there and im like were the hell he go?.. i turn around and a flood jumps right at me! lol scared the -blam!- out of me lol

  • 01.29.2008 11:33 PM PDT
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deffinatly the biggest twist of all time, when i bought the game i didnt get any spoilers on it so when i got to this level my jaw hit the floor and a wtf did come out of my mouth. I mean you go from fighting a smart covenant force to fighting zombies that can shoot??!! genious as far as any story in ANY game is concerned

  • 01.29.2008 11:54 PM PDT