Community Review: Halo: Reach

What’s better than one person doing a review? A whole community! Halo: Reach was released yesterday, and we’d like to know what you think. Considering picking it up? This is the thread you need to see. Already played it? Or perhaps just the multiplayer beta? We need your thoughts below!

For me, the first Halo was amazing. When the second came out, I took a day off work – to discover I only needed half a day. The third and ODST were much the same story. Nonetheless, my relationship with Halo has been like a child taking a bath at night. I never want to get it, but once I do, I don’t want to get out. I play the campaign through without putting down the controller, try out a bit of multiplayer, get teabagged and insulted by a preteen, and then move on to something else.

This is the first Community Review where we haven’t had time to play the game yet (oh don’t worry, we’ll make time), so there’s a few things we want to know.

First – what do you play Halo for? If you play it for the story, does Reach deliver? What about the multiplayer side of things?

What new things does it bring to the Halo universe or indeed the genre? How does it explain these new things, given we’re actually going back in time? How does the new Forge functionality work? What crazy things can you do with it?

Much has been made of the squad element – how present is this really? How much more enjoyable is it in co-op? And what of jetpacks and space – worth the hype?

Leave your thoughts below…

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