- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Master Kim
Ironically, though the assault rifle had the form and the intended function of being that important weapon you'll be using all the time, the pistol took that position. The assault rifle is a back up weapon and the pistol is what you'll be carrying most of the time.
The only thing an assault rifle is good for is its quick melee.
Yeah that's what puzzles me. While all other FPS games have their "primary" weapons as the standard, but useful-in-all-situations Assault rifles, such as CS, with their M4A1/AK47, Starship Troopers, with their Morita Mark2 AR, Starcraft and the Terran Marines, with their standard Gauss rifles, Gears of War, with their AR with chainsaw-bayonet, etc. Halo doesn't seem to follow their priority. Well maybe in campaign the AR is useful, but not much in multiplayer. Halo2 follows that rule though, with their BR55 Battle Rifle.