Derek Robbins at 411mania recently scribed this masterpiece on the Top 10 Most Overrated Games of All Time. While he does well with most his picks, the point of interest is what he selects for the #1 spot: The Halo series.
Halo is my definition of a casual gamer’s game. It’s good for the industry in that people are buying videogames, but I think that most competent game developers could probably recreate Halo. Nothing, and I mean nothing, separates it from your run of the mill FPS. The only difference I see is publicity, so Halo gets more credit than it rightfully deserves. Fun game? Sure. If fans of Halo tried other first person shooters though, I’m sure they would see the franchise is lacking in comparison to other shooting franchises.
Right on, man. You’ve explained the way I’ve felt about this game since day one better than I could have. Halo is an average game that does a lot of things right, but it’s so generic among other FPS titles. If the original game was released on PC, and not on a shooter-starved Xbox console, it wouldn’t be as popular among reviewers and gamers alike.
Derek, you and I could be great friends. No, seriously, text me sometime.
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9 responses so far ↓
1 Bacontastic // Nov 26, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Great article; I agree with Halo 3 being hugely over-rated. It’s fun, sure, but it gets blown away by most modern shooters.
2 keith22 // Nov 26, 2007 at 6:15 pm
nice halo = crap
3 Silkysegal // Nov 26, 2007 at 9:02 pm
OK WTF. why didn’t all these people slag off halo 3 when it came out why wait until now too do that. Oh its not cool anymore, whatever i enjoyed halo 3 (mainly online) but since COD4 I aint played it for like 3/4 weeks but i still own it, but that dosen’t mean i ve god to say its a bad game to get points from my peers. Whatever dick head remeber back when you where sucking MC’s dick.
4 Monkeyboo2 // Nov 27, 2007 at 12:51 am
Yeah, the Xbox wouldn’t be shooter starved if MS didn’t starve it. Then MS give it an average shooter (other than SR) and make a bomb. They just starve it and feed it to make alot fo money every so often.
5 Sean "rothbart" Workman // Nov 27, 2007 at 1:06 am
@Silkysegal: He said “Halo” not “Halo 3″, read it again…
6 Dannisaran // Dec 10, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Mainly people play halo because of the book it is based of of and the story line, I still enjoy playing Halo, Halo 2, and Halo 3
7 An evil budgie // Dec 19, 2007 at 5:54 pm
@Dannisaran: Halo isn’t based off the books, the books are based of the game.
8 peter // Aug 3, 2008 at 1:13 pm
excactly how I feel
It’s sooo overrated
It’s so weak compared to other games
I own all 3 of the halos but haven’t played it since it came out
9 DGX Ultimate // Aug 16, 2008 at 6:40 pm
u know id like to know wut “other” FPS games ur talking about. u can obviously say cod 4 equals it but i dont see any other fps that rivals halo. and iv tried them. most are crap
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