- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Please, dear god in heaven.
NEVER MAKE A HALO MMO THAT IS ANYTHING LIKE WORLD OF WARCRAFT.
I sware, I might have to do something REALLY bad if that happens.
World Of Warcraft is the most boring and whiney game ever. It depends on who did the most dungeons 2000 times for some gear. Who has the higher level. Who's class is better. It's all rocks paper scissor. No skill is required in it.
Everything in Huxley and World Of Warcraft is instanced (you go in a portal and it takes you to your own little dungeon) instead of playing with tons of people.
The only game style that I can see Halo actually being good in, is Planetside. It's an MMOFPS with TONS of people fighting over bases and towers all the time. It has continents you can take over and if your empire does raids you can take over the world for a night. Theres dozens of vehicles (land and air and water). Countless weapons, from shotgun, auto shotgun, to automatic sniper, and minigun, and plasma gernades. Weapons that have more then one fire (gernade launcher that can launch plasma, jammer, and frag.).
The levels aren't based on "ZOMG I LVELED UP AND NOW I KEN KiLI ALL". No, instead of getting like +2 stats from a level up, you get a battle rank. With a battle rank you get a cert points. With cert points you can get certifications in weapons or vehicles or armor (that means you can get them, you just go up to a term and grab it). You can forget a cert and spend the cert point again. There are 25 Battle Ranks now (I think), every couple ranks you get more color added to your armor. Like one empire starts black, and the max color that gets added is red (your empires main color). Every six levels you can get an implant point (you get three all together) and can get one of many implants, like increased zoom, health regen, advanced targeting (lets you see enemies armor and hp), dark light (lets you see stealth people), surge (speed boost). But implants drain stamina so you can't use them all the time, and you can take an implant off and get another.
Theres also command rank, you get that by leading squads and platoons. There are five command ranks. You get waypoint ability, orbital strike (insta kill beam, one hour cooldown, strategic move), find enemies/allies (scans and displays current locations of enemies or allies on map, 20 minute cooldown), EMP (shockwave the jams all mechanical stuff and blows up mines).
EDIT:: Also, World Of Warcraft is extremely glitchy and laggy and can't handle more then 30 people being around each other unless your in an instance. Planetside however, can handle 300 people with barely any lag.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT = SUCKS! DON'T USE IT
PLANETSIDE = GOOD! USE IT!
[Edited on 5/23/2006]