Re: Halo Reach Review GameTrailers 9.3


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> I ripped it to my YouTube account

> Not really any spoilers that I can see, but take heed anyway
> Halo review 9.3
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4As_jH-5f54

> Halo Reach Red Carpet Trailer
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-6G18zCQWs

I saw the review at IGN earlier, and it was a 9.5. While seeing that MP
may
be tweaked (firefight mode matchmaking, yah!, etc) and there are
different
offerings in MP, which may appeal me and also make it possibly fresh
again.
But, I somehow feel I am not going to like the campaign too much and I am
hoping I am wrong. Stories in games are important to me. Considering
playing
the series through 3 (I skipped ODST). I feel like I already know what's
going to happen, and the first Halo already told that story and hopefully
the gameplay will offset that. I read where they tweaked the difficulty
in
campaign coop mode too, where the more coop players there are, the game
scales to the enemies being more difficult. Playing Halo 3 on legendary
with
4 players made it a snap.

You should consider playing ODST. True, it is short, but I really like
how they told the story. It's going for $27.99 on Amazon. It's worth
playing.

I believe you too, but I cannot get past the Halo 3 name on it and I was
sorely disappointed with it. Nearly all of my online buddies say I would
like it. But since the firefight mode has no matchmaking in it, I don't see
the value of just going through the campaign.. Maybe in the future I will
get it, but I think I'll be happy with Reach for now, it definitely looks
promising.

One of the beg negatives about Reach, for me at least, is that's there's still no matchmaking
for customs. There are a bunch of very fun but narrowly focused customs variants that'd
be greatly improved if matchmaking were available. People spend so much time and effort
making wonderful maps and fun game types, but then no one but their friends ever experiences
them.

There are leagues built up around some of the more popular customs, but with that you end up playing
the same people endlessl and it gets boring.

At least Firefight has matchmaking this time.

Yes, Firefight has matchmaking, that's a huge plus. I think in the video review it is stated that custom games cannot have matchmaking. I am unsure why, maybe it is not possible since you would forge the scenes yourself and then it would have to upload to everyone else, and that would take up serious bandwidth as well as time, as opposed to already pre-created maps that everyone will already have access to. I am just guessing this though, I admit.

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