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Subject: ODST = most underrated Halo ever.

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Is it not? I mean, I think that it's an excellent singleplayer experience, and Firefight with friends is also very, very entertaining. Reach is a step up, of course (except for Mombasa Streets), but ODST is a great game and deserves to be recognized more than it is.

  • 12.14.2010 12:21 PM PDT

100% Agreement =) P.S best campaign ever only reason for mixed reviews no new matchmaking or forge

  • 12.14.2010 12:23 PM PDT

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Is it not? I mean, I think that it's an excellent singleplayer experience, and Firefight with friends is also very, very entertaining. Reach is a step up, of course (except for Mombasa Streets), but ODST is a great game and deserves to be recognized more than it is.


you sir are smart, ive played its campaign 4 times, and firefight game nights never stop, lets drop troopers

  • 12.14.2010 1:19 PM PDT

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agreed 100% i like ODSTs camapign better then reachs

  • 12.14.2010 1:53 PM PDT

ODST has the best campaign, Reach has the best multiplayer.

  • 12.14.2010 5:39 PM PDT

ODST is the most insulting halo game ever.
$60 for an expansion with no muntiplayer and a 2 hour single play and maps we already had.
Not to metion the terrible story. Brutes mysticly apeared on earth during halo 2 because bungie does not feel like putting elites into the halo 3 engine. Then they make up some bullcrap excusie as to why they are on earth...

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  • 12.14.2010 8:39 PM PDT

I personally thought the presentation of the campaign was really good. Even though the story itself was nothing special it really was the moody atmosphere that did all the work. I wish more Halo games had levels in Earth, but I guess it's too late for that.

  • 12.15.2010 5:57 AM PDT

Really like the more 'small-scale' tone of ODST's campaign, plus the banter's really good. Makes a nice contrast to the more epic, hi-falootin' saga of the main trilogy, or the sombre grit of Reach. Plus, it's fair to say that the game boasts the finest voice cast of any Halo game, perhaps even of any modern video game.

Gameplay-wise, I dig the move back to a more Halo: CE-style of play, laying the groundwork for Reach. Can't say I missed things like dual-wielding or equipment - those always felt a bit extraneous to me. That, and it just seemed more 'Halo' to have a pistol with a bit more power to it - the magnum of Halo 2/3 was a bit of a damp squib compared to the beast that was the CE pistol, so I got all misty-eyed with nostalgia when watching the automag make mincemeat out of brutes with ease. :)

So yeah - definately underrated, perhaps criminally so. ODST's a vital part of the series, and I'm adamant that Reach's success and quality owe a lot to the refinements that ODST introduced.

  • 12.15.2010 6:08 AM PDT

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Other gamers I chat with think ODST was a poor attempt at a Halo game by Bungie to make something hit the streets around the same time as Modern Warfare 2 came out.

If you ask me ODST is a sad story. Of course walking through the streets non stop can be a bit much. Look past that and find the true depth of the ODST. It is one of the best story lines and I love the flash backs. So many words are lost when my mind looks back when first getting into the campaign.

Just a great game for me.

  • 12.15.2010 7:10 AM PDT

Agreed. I think some people were upset because they expected a hole new game. Silly people :P

  • 12.15.2010 7:37 AM PDT
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I think it is 100%. I loved the music and the feel. You're on earth,you're no super soldier,and its just you and your team. Definatley a feel of last defense. Firefight was marvelous and still is. There was just the awe and inspiration i felt moving through the streets. And the pistol was so awsome.

  • 12.15.2010 2:54 PM PDT

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  • 12.15.2010 5:26 PM PDT

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Agree I think halo 3 odst is awesome.

  • 12.15.2010 5:35 PM PDT
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The legendary ending for Halo 4 is Masturcheef and Arby making love.

Agreed. ODST was, and is good.

  • 12.15.2010 8:42 PM PDT

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Reach has the best multiplayer.


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  • 12.15.2010 8:45 PM PDT

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  • 12.16.2010 5:40 AM PDT
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i LOOOVE ODST.

My favorite was the open environment of Mombasa Streets and how you literally had to search to find the next level of the game.

Very well done. I will certainly be returning to Mombasa in the near future~

  • 12.16.2010 8:02 AM PDT
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ODST is my favorite campaign. I'm not sure I follow the "no multiplayer" gripe, but I was a little late to the party. My copy came on two discs; Campaign and Halo3 MM.

  • 12.16.2010 10:03 AM PDT

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I am so glad that their are still ODST fan!

I have to agree with most of you. ODST is a great game, and I was happy that Bungie tried something new.

  • 12.16.2010 1:00 PM PDT

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It was a massive step-up from Halo 3.
I simply loved the multi perspective, just like I did in Halo 2.

  • 12.16.2010 1:16 PM PDT

halo is all i play oh

I love odst, not completely sure why but it was so engaging. Well i guess that's cause it was pretty hard. Playing this on normal is like playing halo 3 on heroic, playing on heroic feels like normal halo 3 heroic gameplay though.

I think what was challenging about it was that there was absolutely no auto-aim. It made sniping jackal's moving hands behind an energy shield hard, yet it added a certain sense of realism to the game, and i liked that.

I wasn't fond of mombasa streets the first time I played it, i thought it was a boring way to get from one level to the next. But I soon found in later playthroughs that it added an awesome replay value. You could go achievement hunting in a big city, using your mongoose to drive everywhere before killing an engineer to get the naughty naughty achievement, or carefully exploring to find audio logs to get the audiophile achivement.

I can't agree more that ODST is underrated. And this is definitely one of my most favorite games - even more than halo 3, and I loved that game too.

  • 12.16.2010 1:30 PM PDT

I agree with you guys. I gave the campaign a chance, and I loved the feel to the game. Separated from your team, all alone at night, no super-human powers, stealth action with silence weapon attachment, very dismal atmosphere with intimidating large numbers of covenant (basically, a feeling that a real war is at hand, and a great side story implemented. If Bungie took the time to make this their main project, rather then something to hold us over while Reach was in the making, this game would have been phenomenal! There were still certain things I enjoyed more about ODST's firefight, compared to Reach. I just wish they had a save & quit option though. It gave me such a thrill to beat the challenges I set for myself--like getting 200k on Heroic difficulty for every map and seeing how far I can get going solo. It really was great for what time they put into it, but I guess we have to accept it for what it is.

  • 12.16.2010 2:18 PM PDT

na i hate ods-crap.

  • 12.16.2010 2:24 PM PDT

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  • 12.16.2010 2:33 PM PDT

It's one of my favorites.

  • 12.16.2010 2:47 PM PDT