Ballistics Report

Pros

Polish
Spit and shine. Bungie and MS spent the dime and time to make Halo a deep, absorbing experience.

Sound
Not only beyond reproach, it’s beyond comparison at this moment. Blizzard, and only Blizzard, can claim a rightful challenge.

Singleplayer
Long but not drawn-out, thoughtful yet full of action, interesting without gimmicks – it just plain rocks.

Immersive
The environment provided by the overall graphical experience and sound is extremely immersive.

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Notice a common theme here? I die lots

Pistol sniping

Cons

No co-op
After 2 years, this is inexcusable. It would be the defining feature of the game if it made it to PC, but its mere absence simply makes us compare it to the Xbox version and sour our attitude towards all three companies involved.

Multiplayer
Teamkillers galore, and no way to stop them other than joining bunny servers. The sniper rifle is overpowered on open maps. The interface is laughable. This is all made worse by the fact that underneath all the crap is a great multiplayer game. Remove the sniper rifle, add a simple voting interface to boot teamkillers and create a proper chat window – and we might forgive all this co-op nonsense.

Graphics
The texturing is great, for a game released in the previous millennium. The models are blocky, though have great animation.

Death from above

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Perfect shot