what makes halo 1 so great?

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Seriously, what is so good about halo thats not in other shooters? On gamerankings it beats gears of war, god of war, GTA (all of them) i mean whats to great about halo?

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it was a luanch title and it had a pretty good cenematic feel to it

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T’was sexy,

t’wad awesome story.

T’was Original

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For the time it was quite a revolutionary step in the FPS genre. ANd it did it in the right way. But it got beat out by it’s competition in Metroid Prime which totally redefined how an FPS game can be made and played and setup.

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Actually, I like to think of it as two different genres,


Halo was a run and gun no puzzle solving and whatnot, war style game.


where as MP was a MILDLY slow passed FPS with puzzles and bosses.

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i never even heard of metroid till i came to this site, i doupt metriod did anything special

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No they are both under FPS. We can’t pick and choose haha. No difference in genres. It’s just Metroid Prime, in my opinion, actually puts some tactic in beating a game rather than simply running and gunning and whoever is the most brutal wins.

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Well seeing that the original metroid was one of the most revolutionary games ever maybe your just not a hardcore gamer haha.

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But Metroid was never a huge mass market game cause it’s really for the hardcore gamers ya know. It’s not meant to be an easy man’s game ya know. Easy in terms of strategy. Thus because the series was not meant to be mass market it only got minimal sales throughout the board. Yet still very successful in sales and critical acclaim.

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nintendo is always trying to claim they had the revolutionary game, theres so many games of theirs they call revolutionary, even tho they clearly arnt, games like eye toy and singstar are revolutionary

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story was pretty unoriginal... and the game itself was not very original in the FPS world.

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are there any games that arnt unoriginal? let me guess a nintendo guy will say that nintendo has heaps, well guess what they suck!

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Nintendo really is the innovator and other companies usually take the same concept and just change it slightly (just about every platformer has some variation of coins or stars)

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Halo 2 had an incredible storyline

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aliens
super soldier
super doomsday weapon
zombies

oh yeah, fantastic! It was just Star Wars+Robocop+Resident Evil.

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go check IGN.TEAMXBOX or Gamespot or any other place

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The story of Halo 2 is told through in-game dialogue as well as cutscenes; the back-story to the game can be found in the game manual. The game opens with Master Chief and Sergeant Avery Johnson receiving awards aboard Cairo Station, a MAC gun platform orbiting Earth, alongside Miranda Keyes. Miranda is the daughter of Jacob Keyes, who died during the course of Halo: Combat Evolved, and Miranda is accepting a posthumous award for her father’s bravery.[15] This ceremony is juxtaposed with the judgment and torture of the former Covenant Elite Supreme Commander of the Fleet of Particular Justice, who is being punished for his incompetence. Both events are in response to the destruction of Halo during the events of Halo: Combat Evolved. The Master Chief and newly promoted Sergeant Major Johnson are awarded medals for their bravery and sacrifice, and the unnamed Covenant admiral is being tortured for his inability to prevent the destruction of Halo. It is also revealed that the Covenant’s interest in Halo lies in the belief that the activation of Halo would bring about the “Great Journey”, which would cleanse the universe of lesser lifeforms (including the Flood) while providing salvation for the Covenant.[16]

Soon after the commencement of Master Chief’s ceremony, a Covenant fleet jumps out of slipspace near Earth. The Covenant proceeds to send boarding parties towards a battlecluster of stations. These boarding parties are secretly carrying explosives designed to take out the MAC (Magnetic Accelerator Cannon) guns which protect Earth from attack.[17] Master Chief finds and disarms a bomb located on Cairo Station with the help of Cortana, while the flagship of the Covenant fleet speeds past Earth’s defenses and heads toward Earth itself. Master Chief and Cortana join the UNSC ship In Amber Clad, which is en route to New Mombasa to deal with the Covenant flagship.

Before reaching New Mombasa, Cortana decodes transmissions revealing that the flagship carries the High Prophet of Regret. The UNSC successfully repels the Covenant invasion force with the help of Master Chief, and the Covenant ship begins preparations for a slipspace jump to an unknown destination. The ship makes the jump, and the city is destroyed in the shockwave. To avoid destruction In Amber Clad follows, and discovers a second Halo installation dubbed “Delta Halo”. The crew of In Amber Clad learns more about the Covenant’s belief regarding the Halos, and Master Chief ultimately slays the High Prophet of Regret while Keyes attempts to secure the Index to prevent the activation of Delta Halo.[18]

The action switches to the condemned Covenant fleet commander assuming the role of the Arbiter. His first mission is to silence a heretic who doubts the Prophets' teachings, in turn starting the Arbiter along a path which ultimately results in Arbiter doubting his own beliefs. Seeds of discord are further sown within the Covenant when the Prophets decide to grant the Brutes the job of protecting the Prophets instead of the traditionally favored Elites. During his missions, The Arbiter realizes the danger that the rings represent: they are weapons designed “to destroy all sentient life in the galaxy” according to the Oracle, not the religious artifacts the Covenant believes them to be.[19]


The Arbiter (left) and Master Chief, the game’s protagonists.The Master Chief and the Arbiter meet upon the release of the Flood from Delta Halo. A mysterious Flood creature called the Gravemind sends the Arbiter and Master Chief in separate directions to prevent The High Prophets from activating Delta Halo.[20] Master Chief finds himself aboard the Covenant Holy City High Charity, a gargantuan space station, and pursues the remaining Prophets. During his mission, he finds himself in the middle of an erupting Covenant civil war between the Brutes and the Elites. After capturing In Amber Clad, the Flood, led by Gravemind, arrive at the city and begin to consume and infect the populace. The only remaining High Prophet, Truth, escapes on a Forerunner vessel hidden in the core of High Charity. The Master Chief stows away on board while Cortana stays behind in order to detonate the In Amber Clad’s engine reactors to destroy Delta Halo and High Charity if Tartarus activates the ring.[21]

The game comes to a close with the Arbiter’s mission to stop the firing of Halo, aided by fellow Elites as well as surviving members of In Amber Clad’s' crew. Together, they pursue and kill Tartarus and his Brutes in Delta Halo’s control room. Tartarus, however, has already succeeded in inserting the Index, making Delta Halo fully operational. After the Arbiter kills Tartarus, Miranda Keyes manages to pull the Index out of Delta Halo’s control panel, thus halting the firing sequence as the Oracle mentioned. Despite this success, Delta Halo’s deactivation sends a signal out to the other remaining Halos, sending them all into a “standby” mode so they can be remotely activated from 'the Ark'.[22] Meanwhile, the Forerunner ship that Master Chief has stowed away on approaches Earth. One of Earth’s remaining orbital forces contacts him and asks what he is doing aboard the Forerunner ship. He replies, “Sir, finishing this fight," ending the game with an abrupt cliffhanger and setting the tone for Halo 3. After the game credits finish rolling, a scene appears in which Cortana and Gravemind are conversing. This is meant as a further teaser for Halo 3.

VERY GOOD STORY

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blah blah blah

aliens, zombies, soldiers, seen it.

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its on the pc

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metriod prime, shooting, bad guys, seen it all!

zelda, sword fighting, couple of puzles, happy ending, seen it all!

mario, jump, colecting stuff, defeat a big boss, seen it all!