Archive for February, 2010

Hopefully Halo: Reach gets the Modern Warfare treatment

February 28th, 2010 by ep

Take a second to look around and you’ll find a lot of Halo love on this site.

It is a fantastic series created by fantastic folks. Bungie says they’ve retooled the engine for Halo: Reach. Hopefully that includes the multiplayer, too.

I find Halo’s multiplayer to be a more refined and, from a pure gameplay standpoint, better experience than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (or Modern Warfare 2).

However, I keep going back to Modern Warfare 2 because it does many things better than Halo 3. The XP system and unlocks are the carrot dangling in front of us that is always just out of reach, until we reach xx-level XP. But that accomplishment always unlocks another, better carrot. Continue reading ‘Hopefully Halo: Reach gets the Modern Warfare treatment’

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Borderlands is an absolutely great game

February 15th, 2010 by ep

Many of you come here looking for Halo news, and with the new Halo: Reach ViDoc release and the two Halo games that released last year, you might expect to find some Halo in this post.

Instead, let’s talk about Borderlands… and Halo. Borderlands is the first non-Halo game that has had a Halo affect on me.

After completing one playthrough with one character (there are four characters and two playthroughs for each), every day the urge to dive back in for playthrough 2 AND the beginning of an alternate character beckons.

Few games have the ability to grasp the subconscious as strongly as Borderlands does. For weeks I talked about it to friends at work and on Twitter. It is so good at what it does — pushing that little start-quest, complete-quest, get reward button in the depths of the brain. Continue reading ‘Borderlands is an absolutely great game’

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