Major changes:
Firstly, loadouts are available in multiplayer. You can now choose to play with one of five special powerups that you can activate every once in a while: Sprint, jet pack, armor lock, active camo/radar jammer, and hologram. The only one I really like using (or playing against) is Sprint; however, quite a few people like the others.
The battle rifle is now the DMR, and has longer range and an expanding reticle-if you fire too fast you lose accuracy.
Duals are not duals anymore. My least favorite change.
No more spike grenades. This was because, according to bungie, it was too much of a pain to switch between spike and plasma when they do roughly the same thing.
Health and shields now exist. Shields always regenerate; health only does if you're an elite, but there are healthpacks for spartans.
My favorite addition in Reach? Elite slayer. It includes the ability "evade" which allows you to dodge around 5 meters in whatever direction you want, and a few others, but evade is my favorite by far.
The maps are all very large, sadly. I'd say that there are about three Halo 3 maps smaller than the smallest Reach map. Playing with three or two people is a pain, even on the smallest maps.
Despite the few things I disliked, it's a great game overall, a lot of fun to play, and different enough from Halo 3 that it seems like a whole new game.
You can pick it up here: Halo Reach
First Person Shooters offer strangely really good replay value for doing something so basic. It's very odd.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I have played for 3-4 hrs a day since I got the game
ReplyDeletei fucking hate FPS
ReplyDeleteI dont like halo reach, it copied too much from call of duty
ReplyDeleteStill variation in the series eh? I kind of lost interest after the first one, it seems like they've just been rehashing the same stuff and adding a couple new features.
ReplyDeleteNormally I don't like FPS games but I really like the direction the halo series has taken. I only played the beta for Reach (Playing the campaign later today hopefully) and I just had a blast playing it. It's like tribes, only more chaotic and smaller scale.
ReplyDeleteIt still is much more like halo, you still have a ridiculous amount of health.
ReplyDeleteI'm tired of the series tbh
ReplyDeleteReach might be more fun for you since it's very different from H3
ReplyDeleteI'm considering getting Reach but I think I'm going to wait til Black Ops comes out to choose between the two. (Black Ops will probably win)
ReplyDeleteBTW some walmarts give you a $20 gift card if you buy reach, I got that off mine. Good deal.
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