And, of course, it finally cemented the right analog stick’s function to controlling cameras, forever changing how players would aim and look around in shooting games for the next two decades and beyond.
Its music reacted dynamically to the player’s on-screen progress and actions, a groundbreaking audio storytelling technique that’s everywhere today.
Faced with the limits of the Xbox console, Bungie would force players to keep only two weapons at a time, introducing a new strategic element to the shooter genre known for giving players dozens of guns at their disposal at any time. “Halo 2,” if anything, is impossible to forget.įirst-person shooters, including Call of Duty, would incorporate this game’s regenerating health system, forever changing the dynamics of the genre. And by exploring the enemy Covenant side of the story, “Halo 2” outlined important parallels across the war’s lines, including the reasons to fight. Although its linear levels betrayed the freedom offered in the first game, Bungie still experimented with the possibilities of the first Halo within level designs that felt far more confident. It’s remarkable, then, that “Halo 2” remains the best-written, best-acted game in the franchise, with the most memorable line readings in gaming history. All these decisions could be felt in probably the most frustrating cliffhanger ending in the video game medium, with the Master Chief returning to Earth and the story immediately fading to black. A documentary included with a special edition of “Halo 2” detailed much of the sleepless nights, scrapped plans and bad decisions that caused this game to get delayed several times. Production on this sequel became one of the most famous examples of big-budget video game crunch in mainstream consciousness. This is the only game in the entire series that feels unnecessary to play. But the intro cinematic, a noisy showcase of heroics reminiscent of a bad Marvel movie, is your first sign that this was a franchise beginning to lose its sense of self. It did address some issues from the fourth game, making 343′s new enemy type, Prometheans, more engaging to fight, as well as featuring larger levels. Instead, we got large maps filled to the brim with enemies with very little attention given to pacing, with controls and gameplay that mirrored Call of Duty. This game was a hodgepodge of ideas, developed around the idea of four-player cooperative action. The story instead split the focus between Chief and another Spartan, Locke, as well as a cast of six other characters, many of them known only from the novels. Skepticism of 343 Industries’s ability to shepherd the Halo series is strongly rooted in distaste for “Halo 5,″ specifically how the game was marketed as a “Master Chief gone rogue” story and the developers did little with that.
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