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I prepared for Halo: Reach – the final instalment in the sprawling Halo video game series to be made by Bungie, its founding studio – in what might seem a peculiar way: By rereading a decade-old book. Erik Nylund’s million-selling Halo: The Fall of Rea...
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The really interesting thing about Halo: Reach is that we know how it ends - no one's walking away from this battle. It's the Total Party Kill of the Halo universe, an epic battle that's been referenced in past games and even written about in the novel...
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I’ll admit I haven’t read Eric Nylund’s Fall of Reach novel. I know I probably should have but, ya know, I don’t have unlimited time for my geeky tendencies. That being said I’ve played every Halo game, including Reach, and read every Halo comic so I...
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With Halo Reach, Bungie have finally made the perfect FPS… there I have said it.In case you are not aware of the Halo franchise, I will fill you in with a little history lesson, before explaining my opening statement. The original Halo: Combat Evolve...
The best first person shooter on the xbox 360, peerless multiplayer, no flood!...
Single Player campaign only 8 hours!...
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Tweet When did you lose your faith in Halo? Maybe you haven’t, or maybe you never had it in the first place. Maybe it was as far back as the tedious early sections of Halo 2, or the less interesting passages of Halo 3. Or maybe it was last year’s Halo...
Graphics, AI, gameplay, jetpacks, multiplayer...
A few quirks but nothing to really detract from the overall enjoyment...
Bungie might never make another game with the same impact as Combat Evolved, but with Reach it has made a game to equal it...
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“Remember Reach, remember where it all began.” These words have been haunting us the past few months as we've prepared to do battle in the final chapter of the Halo saga, Halo: Reach.Halo: Reach is a direct prequel to the previous Halo games and is the...
Halo: Reach is a fitting end to an amazing part of gaming history that has served as the vanguard of Xbox gaming dominance. Gamers are treated to a well thought out campaign and some excellent multiplayer options, providing a fitting farewell to an exc...
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And so it comes to this. Bungie has left the Microsoft stable and joined up with Activision to start an entirely new franchise. After the success of Halo, you can bet on Bungie coming up with a formidable title for Activision to add to its stable. However...
And so it comes to this. Bungie has left the Microsoft stable and joined up with Activision to start an entirely new franchise. After the success of Halo, you can bet on Bungie coming up with a formidable title for Activision to add to its stable. Ho...
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Product Code: B002BSH9JY An epic story, incredible pacing, and a spot-on mix of old and new elements make Halo: Reach the best Halo yet. Oh, and when you've finished the story mode, plan on spending a large chunk of your life in the massive online un...
If you play Reach only for the campaign which, by the way, also supports 4-player co-op with scaled enemy AI, you're going to get your money's worth. But if you go beyond the highly polished, immaculately produced solo story, you'll discover one of th...
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On paper, Halo: Combat Evolved read like it was destined for obscurity: In the future, a cybernetic super soldier defends humanity from an alien horde. It’s the sort of logline that reminds you that you need to take the rubbish out tonight. The develop...
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Name: Genre: Platform: When Bungie brought Halo: Combat Evolved to the first Xbox console way back in 2001, they achieved what was more or less then considered near impossible; they created a first person shooter that didn't just match the greats of...
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Halo: Reach is a fitting conclusion to Bungie's Halo series. Set before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved it tells the story of Noble Team, a squad of Spartans attempting to save the titular planet from the Covenant...
Trims the fat and delivers a Halo game that plays as homage to the series as a whole. Armour ability system is a great step forward. Expanded multiplayer options increase value. The planet Reach is a great achievement.
Fails to truly convey the drama of Reach's fall. Thin characters. Some over-developed Convenant weaponry. Some frame rate losses.
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Shortly before Halo: Combat Evolved landed like a Gravity Hammer on the original Xbox, a novel titled Halo: The Fall of Reach introduced fans to the sci-fi universe that would forever change the face of console first-person shooters. Nearly nine years...
Expertly paced storytelling and carefully crafted gameplay, delivers the best Halo campaign to date, multiplayer fans get even more bang for their buck with Reach's bottomless suite of online options...
It's still Halo -- so if you didn't like it before Reach probably won't change your mind...
An epic story, incredible pacing, and a spot-on mix of old and new elements make Reach's campaign Halo's best yet. Oh, and when you've finished the story mode, plan on spending a large chunk of your life in the massive online universe. Any way you cut it...
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Halo broke the mould when it was released on Xbox 360, convincing many for the first time that a first person shooter could be played effectively without a keyboard and mouse. Halo's controller-friendly interface took frustration out of the equation an...
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This is it. Ten years after virtually launching the Xbox brand, Bungie's Halo comes to an end. But despite the gravitas of the au revoir - and the fact that Bungie's final Halo game is basically a big tale of planet-scale genocide - Reach does...
Forge, Firefight, 4-player Campaign co-op and a more ambitious multiplayer suite make for one hell of a Halo package. But this isn't a normal Halo - it's a developers' last hurrah to a platform it helped build as a success. And it's for this reason we're...
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Halo Reach marks the end of an era. It’s developer Bungie’s swan song for the franchise, as it embarks on pastures and titles new. And with no true whole new first person shooter in the series since 2007’s Halo 3, it’s got a lot to live up to. Thou...
Solid campaign, comprehensive multiplayer. JETPACKS...
Spaceship dogfights are boring...
A fitting Halo send off for Bungie, and Halo 4 in all but name...
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Reviewing Halo games is hard.See, you aren't judging just one experience – this is the rare franchise in which campaign and multiplayer are equally popular, and must be considered with equal weight. You aren't judging for just one audience, either – th...
Multiplayer is better than ever, Armor abilities a bold departure from the Halo formula, Headhunter and Invasion modes are instant classics...
Campaign is more ODST 2 than Halo 4, Armor abilities not put to much use in single player, Story assumes you know every detail of the Halo universe...
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Knowing the difference between a good game and a great one is probably the biggest challenge any developer in the industry faces. It’s not helped by the simple fact that personal opinion largely forms the basis of any argument, but we can imagine desig...
We thought Reach would be something special, as it’s Bungie’s last Halo title. What we weren’t expecting was a game that had quite so much heart, a near-perfect gameplay balance and the clear culmination of all its work and promises over the years. Rea...
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You see, it's all too easy to start with that incontrovertible truth and work backwards - to imagine perfection as a solid, unachievable 100 per cent block, and then whittle away each glaring fault to reveal a true estimation. When reviewing, it helps min...
As a crescendo 10-years in the making, Reach meets and defies all the right expectations. The campaign may ultimately prove a little too nostalgic for some, but for those who have patiently awaited the true successor to Combat Evolved, Reach delivers wher...
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Halo Reach marks a defining moment for Bungie signalling the final instalment of the Halo series as it moves on to concentrate on other projects. Judging by interviews with the developer over the past year, to go out on a high is obviously important to...
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thestar.com.my Updated:
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TOUGH GUYS: In you are part of the Noble Team, a crack team of Spartans charged with the defence of Reach. Bungie goes out with a bang with Reach, the final Halo game by the developer that started it all. By CHONG JINN XIUNGintech@thestar.com.my HAL...
Engaging campaign; new armour abilities; cool new vehicles and weapons; new robust multiplayer modes...
Limited number of original multiplayer maps; Power of melee attacks and grenades have been downgraded; no penalty for quitting matches early.
While it is sad that Halo: Reach is the last Bungie Halo game, it is nonetheless a great FPS with a well tuned combat system with cunning enemies that will challenge even experienced players. The excellent single-player campaign will last a good 10 ho...
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