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Rating of
5/5
"Halo 3: ODST"
Megadrive - wrote on 04/28/2019
A kind of "below stairs" story set in the same world as Halo 3, you fill the combat boots of each of a squad of grunts fighting on the front line of Earth's defence against the Covenant invaders. It is not as brash and operatic as the previous games, feeling more like a Call Of Duty war game as you sneak through the atmospherically deserted city streets using hit and run tactics and scanning the rooftops for snipers. Extremely atmospheric with a cool story employing a disjointed timeline that works really well, it may not be the measure of the original Halo 3 but it's a nice change of pace.
Rating of
3.5/5
They even made Buck LOOK like Nathan Fillion...
Jonzor - wrote on 08/29/2011
What started as an expansion to Halo 3 got promoted into it's own whole game. And now we get a chance to find out whether or not the Halo universe is fleshed-out enough to survive without its star player: Master Chief.
And the answer is a triumphant, "I guess?"
A lot of your Halo standards remain untouched. Those things include gameplay basics like the flow of combat, most of the weapons (though there are a few additions), the enemies, and most of the controls.
Most of the additions come from the fact that you're not playing as a Spartan anymore. This time around, you're an ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Trooper). As an ODST, you fall from - you guessed it - orbit in your single-soldier-delivery-coffin anywhere on a planet's surface. The idea is for highly-trained troopers to be …
