Halo: Reach super review

@D0CCON Yeah man, the forums are packed with anger, it's unreal how bad it is compared to various other FPS forums! I played 3 more then any other, and could easily play it for hours and hours. I got to General on Reach, and found myself getting really angry every game I played, AA's, Bloom, AFCers, the slooooow kill times, I just personally hated every minute of it, but weirdly played it more then 3.

When I first played this game I thought it was great, but after completeing the campaigns in both Black Ops and Killzone 3 I have since realized this game to ok. For a start after trying the new call of duty control scheme in Killzone 3. I have realized the control scheme in Halo is awful. Who decided it was a good idea to assigning zoom the the right stick? Also why do only certain weapons allow you to zoom, and who decided that the zoom would cancel if you got shot? Thats just awful design. Also why is it if you are crouching and you get shot you automatically stand. I beleive these were designed like this to artificially increase the difficulty to make up for the fact that compared to KIllzone and CODs chaotic, realistic feeling battlefields the Halo games fell like a game of paint ball. Before all the alo fanboys start bitching and moaning I am not a sony fan boy and I do like it. Another thing that pissed me off is that this game kind of subverts the original trilogy. In the first Halo Cortana is nothing more then A shipa A.I who helps Master Chief out and yet in true Star Wars fashion we Find out in this game That she is some ancient prothercy That they find in a temple on Reach. Why did they feel the need to do that. Finally has anyone rlse Noticed that Halo Reach Gears of War and Killzone 2 have exactly the same plot. The Whole rugged band of heoes have to lead a female scientist to some sought of lab or temple in order to find the way to save humanity. In These immersive universes with infinite story possibilties thes three games have the excat same plot? At least mass effect tried to do somthing different.

You sir, are an idiot. The control scheme? Been around for ten years. Defined the FPS control scheme for consoles. Why can't every weapon zoom? Why do you need to zoom with a shotgun? It's on the right stick because you should only be zooming with a gun that has a scope. About the zoom canceling when you take damage? Do you keep looking down a scope when you have bullets hitting you? And if you weren't an idiot, you'd know that Cortana is designed to be the most important AI. She wasn't some "simple ship AI". They didn't find her to be a "prophecy in a temple". They went to Dr. Halsey's safety bunker and got her. God, I hate people like you.

I take it back, the forums do hate it.

@TheDigitalG So I'm not the only one who came back to look at this trainwreck? I myself haven't heard much bad about Reach on the forums (although I don't look for it), but this is still my favorite Halo. Too bad nobody could just say that and play the game instead of acting like dipshits.

Looking back, it's ironic how much hate there is for reach on the Bungie forums, and how the population seriously declined. Dumb asses, Reach is probably not worth a 5/10 for armour lock alone.

I sold my Xbox along with Reach to pay for a speeding ticket... :( Now I have a PS3, but I still miss this game :'(

@Servo @FatherTime FFFAAAAGGGGSSSS

8/10? Cool. I'll buy it later this month, for sure, now that I have moneys. Gotta say, though, the multiplayer portion of the review was a bit iffy, there were absolutely no negative points in the entire thing, yet you marked it down a point. Wait, what?

AHAHA! look at all the Xbox fanboys! An 8/10 is a good score and the fact that you losers pick on Charlie before you even PLAY the damn game just shows your fanboyism even more. And I respect him more for actually putting up a ballzy review where as most of these guys would blindly give it 1000/10 even if it were a total piece of shit. Get over the fact he's just doing his job and go back beneath your bridge.

I know this has been done to death, but I realized he mixed things up. Jorge, the heavy, does NOT sound russian, but rather obviously sounds english. The guy with the Russian accent is actually the sniper. Kinda lame to take shots at something the dev didn't do. (Man, I'm still really bitter about that campaign score) I really think the campaign was an 8 campaign, and that halo 3 should've been a 9.

Servo is the biggest Halo fanboy Ive ever seen...do you jerk off to it dude??? I was bored...wanted to check out what buttnut was making such a big deal about how a game review didn't turn out to be what he wanted...and it's ridiculous. Take down your Master Chief poster and spend a day with a girl...just to put things into perspective.

I Havent Played this game yet but ive played and completed all the rest of the halos in the series, Halo Reach look epic cant wait to play it.

I personally think it deserves atleast a 9, but hey, I am a Halo fanboy, and Reach was when I really got into it. I loved the maps, weapons, customization, campaign, aka pretty much everything. But I know of you extremely h-core Halo fanboys out there, so I can understand if you believe that 3 was better. I personally think their all just plainly: really freaking awesome.

I understand the points they make but to me reach is STILL a 42/10 at least. sure I got more hyped up then needed but Reach still satisfied me in every way shape and form. This is all opinion but Reach is one of the best games of all time to me. Though I do agree it is not Halo 4 and is very similar to ODST I believe it is superior to all.

Also to everyone hating on Halo and it's fans. I have this to say. Shut the hell up. Don't hate on fans because people are frustrated by a reviewer whose reasons for not liking a game are absurd at best. I see so many people defending Charlie for his review. Saying he is being unique and helpful. Well i would like to remind you all.... http://media.photobucket.com/image/Unique+motivational/jradke138138/unique.jpg

Ok i know you've already gotten a lot of crap for this review. However I think what people have with this review is that you don't express what exactly is wrong with this game. When you do, your complaints seem to be very picky. Stuff that most people don't even notice. For example. "Again, the hero is a quiet rookie with zero characterization."-I don't understand how this is a flaw. Noble six is supposed to a character that has zero characterization because the player is supposed to characterize him/her. "Again, the teammates are defined entirely by their roles and accents: the American-sounding leader, the Russian-sounding heavy, the Asian-sounding sniper."- Mr Barret. I don't know if you have ever been on a team before, but that's how they are comprised. by role. If you are implying that bungie is somehow using cliché characters that I understand, but a good story can still be told with cliché characters. "Again, the story has a single, fan-servicing connection to the previous Halo trilogy and, again, everything until that point is spinoff – exciting yet ultimately non-essential to the larger saga." -A point well made but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. I think we can all agree that the story from halo 3 was a bit confusing to follow especially if you were new to the series. Halo: Reach doesn't have the problem of having events in previous titles that need explaining, because they haven't happened yet. "Again, you will miss Master Chief."- hahaha....Oh wait your serious....... "Remember when you first heard that you would play as another Spartan? And, because the game took place before the training program was destroyed, that you would be assisted by a whole team of Spartans? Our imaginations soared, and we pictured a sci-fi shooter version of the Justice League or X-Men, a gallery of multi-talented superheroes kicking alien ass across the doomed planet until they were finally brought down by sheer numbers or overwhelming bosses. Or perhaps a campaign take on Team Fortress, with different Spartan skills being required at different moments"-That is a rather stark contrast between expectations Mr Barret. Never the less, I will entertain them. The reason Noble Team isn't like the Justice League or the X-men. Is because they are not the Justice League or the X-men. Did you not just complain about bungie being un-original with their characters in your earlier paragraph? Your just upset that the developer didn't pander to what you wanted. "Alas, no. You can still die easily at the glowing hands of a kamikaze Grunt, your toughest opponents are still Hunters or Wraiths and your armored, specialized friends – outside of cut scenes – don't offer that much more help than the Marines or ODSTs."-Here you are complaining about the difficulty. Which is fine. If a game is so hard it bends you over and beats you with a steak tenderizer then you have every right to cry foul. But don't try and say that the developer has done a bad job when they simply did not pander to your needs. Some of us like high difficulty situations. Where you work harder and die more frequently. It makes the reward that much more worth it. "Reach's campaign is better than ODST's. Not as much as we all had hoped, and not as good as the campaigns in the main Halo trilogy, but definitely an improvement over last year's installment."- There is nothing wrong with this statement the author is giving his opinion and I respect that. I disagree with it immensely because ODST's campaign was ten times better. The story did it's job which was to get me to the next bit of shooting aliens without me having to use halopedia. Multiplayer Verdict: 9/10 ("Awesome")- Ok, I'm sorry but I read your review twice and not once did you mention why you only gave the multiplayer only a nine out of ten. A review is is supposed to tell me how you rank a game, and why you ranked it the way you did. If you praise the multiplayer for the entire review not saying anything negative about it why would you give it a nine out of ten? Nine out of ten explains that you found found something you didn't like. Not saying what it was that you didn't like makes you seem biased. That's why so many people are upset by your review. Let me finish by saying i respect your opinion, and i hope you understand why some people are indifferent to your review.

Man, finally an honest review about this game. Thanks a lot for this review Gamesradar, IGN's 9.5 out of 10 sounded way too high and retarded for what amounts to halo 3 but without Master Chief (which is like one of the best parts of Halo!) I love this game sight, fuck IGN, they gave Castlevania Lords of Shadow the shittiest, most biased review ever just because Konami didn't give them any advertising money, but Halo Reach they give an awesome score since microsoft paid them off! IGN has sold out, Gamesradar, your my new favorite game site!

yay. another soulless shooter with huge uninspired locales and cliched helmet wearing meatheads and weightless weapons and oh wait! We got armor abilities now! that everyone else can use! and dont make a shred of difference! because you'll never be as good as the kid who screams halo every day! and cries himself to sleep knowing he will never shtup Cortana. I miss real shooters like Oddworld's Stanger's Wrath, or Timesplitters. Those were inspired, awesome shooters, but because of the mouth breathing population these days, no one gives a shit about a game that has soul. halos and cods are the worst thing to happen to the gaming industry.

Mr. Barratt I totally agree with you statment in podcast 119 about this meaning something to the people who have read of of the novels and fiction in accordance with this universe (which I am a part of), but to all of the other people who haven't this campaign feels less than epic. And even I, having read ALL of the pieces of fiction in accordance to this universe, felt this campaign was light at points. I don't totally agree with your review, but I understand where it came from.