- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I hadn't played too many FPS games before (just Dooms, Unreals and Quakes, I think) but I thought that the weapons, which although they weren't completely new (every game has a shotgun) were pretty original and every weapon has its use some way or another. In a game like Doom 3, if you have the pistol and the shotgun, there is no reason why to ever switch from the latter. In Halo, the pistol has its uses, as does the shotgun. In Halo, you can only use 2 weapons at a time, requiring some strategy as well. And the shields... that I think is one of the best improvements into an FPS.
Of course, what really won me over at first was the Covenant... Just take a look at an Elite or Hunter, a Needler, a Beam Rifle, all works of art.
Right now, though, I think MP is what keeps me playing.