Halo 4: Ordnance

Halo 4: Ordnance

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As one of the three main facets of Halo 4’s Campaign mode, and a huge part of how successful the multiplayer side of things were going to be, this was a potential area for disappointment. Not only did any new weapons have to be balanced and Halo-ish, deciding which old ones to keep and which to quietly brush under the carpet must’ve been tough too. I was going to cover the vehicle selection in this post as well, but it’s standard stuff really. Apart from one new one, there’s just the basic, standard, (dependable) set in Halo 4. Mongoose. Warthog. Ghost. Banshee. Wraith.

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Halo 4: Enemies

Halo 4: Enemies

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I've played through the Campaign mode three times now, once with Jane on Normal (she doesn't like dying!), once on Heroic with Lewis, and once by myself, on Legendary, which was a slog! Those Promethean Knights sure have strong shields. This is what I thought of the Halo 4 bestiarum vocabulum. Caution: There will be spoilers! When Halo 4 was…

Halo 4: My thoughts

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It's been out a while now, I feel I've played it long enough to be able to write about it with knowledge and understanding. Over the next few days I'll be posting my thoughts on a variety of aspects of the game, all linked here for your convenience. Enemies Ordnance Campaign War Games Conclusion

2012

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2012 eh? The Mayans thought the World would end - fucking idiots. Not the Mayans, but the people who misinterpreted their calendar. It was a mixed bag - some good, some bad, but mostly good. I started with the misconception that I could code - what a lol. It was a mixture of getting a new, powerful PC and a…
Been playing…

Been playing…

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The Darkness. The lovely melatonin bought me this several years ago as a Secret Santa gift. I played it for a couple of hours, got bored, and stopped. Many years later I played Syndicate, a game by the same team that made The Darkness. Having loved Syndicate, I decided to revisit The Darkness to see if I was a little…

Halo 4 is here!

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Well, for most people. I ordered the Limited Edition from Amazon hoping to get it today, a day early, rather than tomorrow lunchtime, when the postman will most probably drop it through the letterbox. It's been so long since I've been this pumped for a game, it really has. Still, I'm playing Transformers: Fall of Cybertron to pass the time,…

Halo 4

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November is going to be awesome. Halo 4 and getting married? Sweet. Of the ten maps available at launch, 8 are known. One of which is familiar, the rest are new. Ragnarok - The new name for Valhalla. I'm very happy about this. Adrift - This was one of the first maps announced, it features a mech being built in…
Gamerscore target reached

Gamerscore target reached

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I hit my target of 80,000 Gamerscore today. I had until the end of the year, but it was playing on my mind a lot, so I just decided to get it over with before Halo 4 hits. And there are a few other games I want to play for fun in the meantime too, such as Deus Ex: Human…

Further Halo 4 speculation

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I've been thinking about the "threat unlike anything the Master Chief has faced before", and while shooting at actual, real Forerunners would be pretty cool, at the end of the day, they are aliens. The Chief has fought aliens before, The Covenant was 100% alien. Grunts? Alien. Elites? Alien. Hunters? Alien. What if this "new" threat is human? What if…