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Subject: Halo: Combat Evolved - Beginning of a legacy.

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

For every system, there is one game. One title that stands tall among the rest. Enduring the harsh and competitive world of gaming. The Nintendo Entertainment system had Mario. Sega, had Sonic the Hedgehog. N64, The Legend of Zelda. Playstation, Crash Bandicoot. Playstation 2, well, it just had tons of games. And for the Xbox to Xbox 360, there was a game which defined first person shooters, multiplayer experiences and campaign modes. This game was ofcourse not just one game, but an epic trilogy, not unlike Lord of the Rings. Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2: Setting up for Halo 3, and Halo 3: Finish the fight.

For years now these games have enticed gamers with their wonderful glory. Halo: Combat Evolved had the greatest story mode of the Xbox. Rivaling even Duke Nukem in my heart. Halo 2 with it's multiplayer experience that still succeeds even now. And Halo 3, which jumped into the Xbox 360 world and established itself as a must have for any 360 owner.

None of this would have come to pass were it not for a small programming company and their first work. Halo: Combat Evolved. For how could they have ever imagined what they had started after the first day of work. Halo continues to sell and captivate everyone with it's story of a small boy, taken from his home at the age of six, breeded to a perfect soldier. And how he grew to save everyone.

An Alien Empire, a sentient parasidic species, and humans. Coming together to create the greatest first person shooter ever made.

Halo: Combat Evolved, we salute you. (21 Assault Rifle salute)

[Edited on 03.23.2008 3:19 PM PDT]

  • 03.23.2008 3:19 PM PDT
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Not to rain on Bungie's parade, but as influential as Halo has been, I don't think this "inexplicably popular festival of mediocrity" as Yahtzee so eloquently put it is deserving of such praise. No, it was a good game. It was somewhat innovative, it allowed you to throw grenades without equipping them, it brought the health regenerating system (and used it well), etc. It was also fun and engaging, no doubt about it, but it's not like Halo's storyline is that original. It was brought a bunch of concepts and features we've mostly seen before into one solid shooter that was more than the sum of its parts. Thus spawning millions of Xbox fanboys like insects.

I've always been a real fan of Halo, but the subsequent games wouldn't have been nearly as successful if it weren't for the fact they were sequels to the one game that started it all. It's lost the same flavor after the first game, which is something most of us had already tasted before, we just didn't realize it.

  • 03.23.2008 5:18 PM PDT

Thats just your view Master Kim. Not trying to spark any controversy, just saying many millions including myself would have to disagree on Halo being a "good game". Maybe I don't know much about other campaigns but I don't know too many storylines from other game studios much like Halo's.

  • 03.23.2008 8:57 PM PDT

It's the combination of things at just the right times. Other games have more drama, suspense, horror, etc., but Halo used them all together suoerbly, and coupled it with great and approproate music for any given situation. Well, that, and being guided along the missions without it seeming completely linear.

  • 03.23.2008 10:26 PM PDT