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"Just because you a man among men doesn't mean your manly."
- Something I came up with when I imagined a nerd in a room full of fabulous guys.
Mabye I've been reading it wrong, but it sounds like you can only play as ODST's in co-operative (Barring team killing) online. Is there going to be a deathmatch or something, or do we only get to play as an ODST in story and a Horde knock-off? (I love me some Horde, don't get me wrong) I mean, what's the use of having the old pistol back if you can't get some epic pistol wars going?
Also, 60 bucks for a glorified expansion pack. Good deal if you haven't downloaded any of the maps yet, (Except thanks to MS being money-grabbers we had to get them months ago if we wanted to play on 90% of the game types, essentially ensuring that nobody gets the value for those) but for the vast majority of Halo 3 players (Who's going to get ODST without having already bought Halo 3 and all the maps) we're getting a stripped-down story mode, one new game mode (Which could have been emulated in forge with a bit of imagination), and three new maps. ODST suffers from the same pricing problem as Wars; it's a spin-off priced as a full game. There should be two versions of ODST released, the $60 one that comes with all of the multiplayer maps and a $50 (Although $40 would be infinitely more reasonable) one that doesn't.
*Edit* When I said it could be remade in forge I meant you could create scenarios. For example, red vs. blue, with the reds being ODST's. Essentially everyone would have one life. If the red's win then you open up the next scenario in which the blues would spawn with some powerups (To simulate skull effects), better weapons and/or even vehicles. Granted you could only get 12 enemies/blues onto the field at a time to attack the reds, so it certainly wouldn't be as epic and it'd be annoying to load up a new scenario everytime but the point is that the firefight mode isn't as earthshattering (And certainly not enough to justify a $15 price tag).
[Edited on 06.08.2009 3:10 PM PDT]