Hey, just came back from Gamescom in Cologne.
Got to check Halo OSDT multiplayer in the main halls.
The whole firefight thing.
And a 'behind closed doors' session of the single player.
They actually admit changing nothing to the engine.
It looked like a decent game, but... Well, I enjoyed Halo, in LAN-multiplayer with friends (heck, any game is enjoyable that way), but I don't know what it exactly is that the fans worship about this game.
Hopefully not master chief, 'cause he's out. ODST is with marines, starts just a little bit before the beginning of Halo 2, with the whole prophet thing. No life regeneration, no equipment (those deployable thingies from HALO 3, I believe), lesser moon jumping, No seeing the enemies on a radar, no dual weild.
Two new weapons though... and the visor-thingy that provides environmental analysis and night vision. Goin' a bit more tactical, eh? Wonder how fanboys and haters will reply to this...
The intro made me think about the beginning of Killzone 2.
Atmosphere was the stereotype oneliner-talk within a group of 'men', action-stuff, but team-ased. giving each other nicknames, you being the rooking, black guy offering comic relief... all clichés are there
Saying how they altered New Mombasa, switching the classic Halo-neon glow feel with a 'film noir'-atmosphere... Not completely sure on that one. Sure, the city - which serves as a hub, yet another subsides to the 'open world'-concept - is a bit destroyed and the lights aren't working. So?
Two discs by the way, one containing Halo OSDT, another one containing the multiplayer of Halo 3, just that, the multiplayer, with 2 or 3 new maps.
Pre-orders can play with sgt. Johnson in firefight.
Hold on to your disc by the way, 'cause it'll ensure you a a beta of Halo Reach somewhere next year. Cheap trick to stop people from the buy/play/sell-routine, I bet. They hate the whole 'second handed games'-stuff y'know, doesn't earn them a thing.
Also, the rookie (main character) is a 'silent type', you know what I mean. Hell, they even joke about it in game. I laughed, but I don't know if it was because of the irony or not. Oh, and the New Mombasa AI will help you, probably some Cortana-surrogate. Except it's in the environment, not in your suit...
Milking it out a bit, yes? no?