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Well, had a friend stare into a pane of glass for a few minutes looking at a civilian, same friend shot another friend with 2 12 gauge rounds, and I kicked open a door with a grenade that was strung up to the doorway.

10/10 Don't buy this with any regrets.

Personally I've played and owned all of these games since they came out in the console days so, for me a 'positive review' wasn't hard. I knew it was going into it.

However justifying the purchase? A different question entirely.

I find what encapsulates people about Halo is that there's a bit in it for everybody normally. And that may not sound like much, but if you're into just calming down and playing against AI with no intention to play Multiplayer, you can do that. Want to play with your friends in Halo 3 pretending to be school kids hiding away from an abusive sexual predator? You can do that. Want to play your own malformed Quake adaption with your friend to try and help him feel a bit better about playing the game? Yeah go ahead. Want to be bleach cleaning up the toilet? You can 100% do that.

Just want to survive against hordes of enemies to somehow pretend you're your own $5 bin bought game version of DOOM guy? Give it a shot. Infected or Firefight. (All be it they do work quite differently.) The point being, I find even if you don't get a kick out of what you're doing the game is quite a fair bit fun regardless of whether or not you have friends, whether or not you enjoy something that lets be honest was originally meant as a console game. I find normally regardless of any of that, you can still enjoy the game what so ever. DOES NOT MEAN you cannot get bored, just means there's a lot you can do.

Another thing, just because there's a select few types of weapons and vehicles in the game doesn't mean the game is inherently limiting, in fact the game actively wants you to think of your engagement like a puzzle piece with all of the available equipment you have right there and then. Best puzzle solver wins whether it be by pure luck, or by just general knowledge.

Halo is a sandbox all be it a simplified, streamlined sandbox that's easy to understand for the average person. It's particularly casual, and is meant to be particularly fun. The Story I'll be honest I never thought was revolutionary but I find it gets me by. "Enjoyable enough" I would put it at. The game can also have its own level of challenge in each type of thing you can do, PVE or PVP. Though for PVP part of the challenge is each other, for PVE, part of the challenge can stem purely from the campaign at the highest difficulty.

Quick side note, this isn't to say anything isn't broken, there's a lot of things that are just generally broken from Bungies side of things after the fact of Release, Halo 2 is widely known to have lots and lots of problems gameplay wise, (common joke Sniper Jackals) and 343 has been improving iteratively with each update they bring out for the MCC, they are not perfect but they are doing it and to me personally, it seems to be working out just fine. They haven't abandoned the project and as of this time of writing, they are planning on releasing the mod tools at some point in the future, to which. Yes there are already mod tools for Halo, but those are primarily community developed over the years of the console games AND this past year of MCC.

Coming off of the back of that right of passage. If none of what I described is for you then I've got some particular news for you, "don't waste your time nor money." But if it sounds like something that is worth a shot or is highly appealing. Give it a shot, I encourage it (all be it I know that means nothing). If you have friends that really wanna try it, and you don't, you might find an unexpected surprise in the game for you. It's not for everyone but, it does try.

The entire game is just a gigantic mess to begin with as it's clear the game is just under a greedy publisher which I guess was evident from the existence of shark cards. What's worse is that the game forces you into one of two boats which is either A: Grind out the games content for money be attentive to when and where there are bonus money events. Or B: Just pay for shark cards. There's no real middle man for people who just pick up the game and want to play for fun. Like come on, just look at the store page IT HAS PURCHASE OPTIONS FOR IN-GAME CASH, SERIOUSLY MAN.
Terrible, truly terrible.

It's not just the absurdity of the price tag or the shark cards, it's also the absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of a DRM that they've... Upgraded as of mid-late 2019, which I believe was partly responsible for consistent mid-game crashes regardless of what you were doing (the game would/will crash straight to desktop regardless of what you're doing.)

I think one of the highlights for me in all of my time spent playing this game, was when I wanted to mod the game. (Be prepared for a long story)
Now, admittedly I never get first installs right all the time whenever I'm modding a game that I have no experience in modding so respectively it's a bit of user error. As well as, I bought this game originally off of Greenmangaming, which didn't supply me with some sort of Steam code or anything and the installation itself was a tiny bit clunky, but it worked.
None the less, I tried modifying the game files to have some obscure weapon mod from memory, I managed to ♥♥♥♥ this up big time to the point where the game just didn't boot up at all. So as a result I just wiped my hard drive of any trace of the game, decided to reinstall in order for it to function.
So did it work?

Nope, it took a lot of screwing around with just to even function at all, and by the time I even had the game functioning, it was throwing me a DirectX error that I just didn't understand outside of "DirectX something or rather here's a bunch of numbers you don't understand."
So it was at this point I had given up all hope of trying to fix it myself, all of the error fix videos on youtube failed, Google supplied me with nothing helpful and, to rub it all in I was out of ideas.

In my infinite quest to try and make the game work, I filed a support ticket being the ABSOLUTE end of my road here to try and make the game work consistently for more than... 30 minutes at a time...
At the time my specs weren't the best either but the game did in fact run perfectly prior to my failed modification.
(AMD 6300FX with a GTX 760, worked for a time, threw it out the window recently... Metaphorically speaking.)

Now, I told their customer support the exact details of what I did. "I failed to mod the game, reinstalled the game can get it to function for 30 minutes at a time get a directX error." And for some reason, EVEN WHEN I had told them "the game ran PERFECTLY before this" they opted for the easiest answer of them all.
"Check the game specifications."

Needless to say, I bought the game on Steam at this point because neither the developer nor the software functioned properly for some reason.

tl;dr Player fails to mod game re-installs only for game to function 30 minutes at a time and gets told to "get an upgrade" by the developers.

So in spite of saying tons of negative stuff, do I have anything constructive/positive?
It's designed in such a simplistic manner that it being enjoyable to a monkey wouldn't be surprising at all. The guns use ray casting, (except when they don't do that for obvious reasons, Missile launchers ETC) the cars have unique handling characteristics that aren't actually too hard to get a mastery of. It's casual game, so it gets the usual casual stuff thrown at it. Don't expect be some 'professional racer' or some crap. Take this at your own whim as to whether or not you'd like it.

The Story was enjoyable, made sense where it should've (at times) and in it's typical fashion was comical at its best. But don't expect the story to hold a majority of the content, as you should ideally be playing the game for either the Online or Mods.

Honestly, if you've ever heard the whole "it's about the journey not the destination" then I think this games online component captures a bit of that. It's somewhat grindy and requires a high level of consistent attention to it, at least until the point where you're loaded. However this is dependant on you're outlook, as once you're loaded with cash you can spend it on stuff like A-10 warthogs, and other forbidden military/high tech hardware to kill players with. However bare in mind, this is only if you decide to go about it the hard way.

At it's peak Online is also entertaining when played with friends, as randoms actually make this game not only tedious but an absolute chore to play, so be sure you have people you know playing with you.
Of course there are instances where playing with randoms is your only option, but don't expect it to be 100% either or. Just bare in mind that in the instances where randoms are, they often add a high level of stupidity to the game often making osmium look far less dense by comparison, with comments like "I can't do this without my minigun!"

Look even when I'm trying to find something positive say about this game, I really can't find anything other than "if you're bored give it a go" but honestly. Keep your 40 (AUD), as this game is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ horrible, and I'd only recommend playing it with friends. There's no legitimate reason to want to play something like this outside of that.

They use Australian Voice Actors much more extensively in this game.
And as an Australian, I am obliged to tell you that...










The voice acting is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awful.
And we're very sorry.

I spent my first few matches shouting "Allahu Akbar" while team wiping with an RPG-7.

were tha fugg r teh loot buxes

I've almost spent 2,000 hours on this game, and all I've gained is a will to throw myself down a flight of stairs.

I was going to have a whole essays worth about this game, but. I figured it'd be better to point out my two major complaints like this.

- Controls feel impractical
Don't get me wrong, the mechanics presented and given to you are pretty well done however the controls feel even a little bit confusing after an hour or so. One I continuously still have trouble with (autistically enough) is the reloading, as you have two different keys mapped to take the mag out or put the mag inside the gun. It seems like it'd be a lot more practical to just have one button for handling the magazine.

- AI health seems inconsistent
Honestly, I haven't done a whole lot of testing but based on what I've seen I think the game is just generating random variables for the games AI which feels kinda cheap as the AI is killing you in one shot. That and you're killing the AI in either one shot or an entire magazine of a 1911, either one kinda feels... Extremely strange.

Passed that, I think it's kind of challanging in its own way. Haven't finished it and, I'm not entirely bothered by it. But it's worth a shot if you're in for something new and somewhat different.

Face it, it's another bad RPG this time only with guns, sponge like enemies, and to top it all off. A few interesting concepts that practically go nowhere, buy the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game and give into the demon that lies within.

Reviewing Dark Souls is kind of like reviewing Shrodingers cat. It's good, but it isn't. It's good because of the depth of the Combat, and the Enemy design. (not visually, mechanically) But it's bad because the PVP is one of the worst things you will witness. Think of Battlefield 4 on Launch day with absolutely no one complaining about how bad the servers are and shouting 'git gud' instead.