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Posted by: forthnback
Loved the flood in CE. They lost their scary in the other games.
A lot of it had to do with Bungie effectively playing on imagination and fears of the unknown, I think. In HCE, they never showed much (such as the actual process of infection) explicity, but hinted at stuff constantly, and so your imagination is let to just run wild.
Contrast with Halo 3, where we get to see a hilariously goofy twitching animation followed by an obvious model swap. Even had it been well executed, it's too explicit to be scared by. Horrified, maybe. But it can't tap into that raw fear.