- Acres 057
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- Fabled Mythic Member
I'm an Anarchist. I don't need a government to be a good person, but I'm glad it's here because some of you clearly do.
It packed a wow factor that none of the other games have touched. Everything about the campaign was new.
When exploring the ring world in level 2, Halo, all you knew was there's aliens trying to kill you, you're carrying an invaluable piece of Data, and you need to find Captain Keyes and other people from the ship that you escaped from, and you don't really know much more until you rescue Captain Keyes, and then the plot unfolds. "Ah, I see now..."
...but wait.
The Flood.
After finally feeling like "Ok, I can do this. We can get off this ring," what humans are still alive are suddenly being eaten by zombie monsters with the creepiest freaking music ever in a video game.
After you're done pissing your pants in the underground trying to escape the zombies in the swamp, you're taken to the most difficult, confusing, and scary level in all of Halo, without any assistance at all, where you develop anger issues toward all places referred to as libraries in the world.
Then you bust your ass, totally confused, trying to get to this control room place where apparently you can turn the ring on and kill the flood... and you're told that you were about to kill yourself, the other humans, and all life in the Galaxy, because zombies are unstoppable.
And now the robot is trying to kill you.
The only way off this ring is to find your crash-landed ship and blow the world up. You arrive at the ship, totally overrun with zombies. You search around in the dark like a rat fighting a million roaches, you blow the engines, get to watch the foehammer die, jump into the last ship, escape by the hair of your ass, and become stranded in space with absolutely no indication that there will be a Halo 2.
Halo Combat Evolved was an epic story - not just a filler between one and three, and not just the last portion. It was a stand-alone epic game. The only way to understand is to have played it when it was new, so I guess I'm preaching to the choir in a language the audience doesn't understand, but meh. It was an epic game, and is worthy of praise.