7/10

One of my favorite things is playing these games that shaped an entire generation, i played the original Halo CE in my childhood but never cared about completing it and rapidly abandoned the game; but playing today i have more maturity and sensitivity to art in general to understand what this game is and why it would be so loved... This game comes from an era full of creativity and inovation, and honestly, to this day there isn't any FPS similar to Halo in any form or experience.

The Game has a very simple yet impactful storytelling, it honestly serves as more of a backgroud for the gameplay, but they still menaged to make the world feel way bigger, i loved Chief and i loved Cortana, and even more i loved they being together.

Now let's talk about the real thing that made me love this game. Halo is a 90s Sci-fi Militaristic Space Opera. And the game realy wants you to feel the vibe with it's weapons, characters, cinematic sci-fi music, art-style, everything; and the way the execute this is making the player actually PLAY the game.
Every set piece, every badass thing that Master Chief does is the player manually doing, with an awesome gunplay that feels good to play this day, with every level being open, with a variety of vehicles to cross the map (this is specially cool with you play coop campaign) with despite the not so much variety in the weapons, every weapon being completely different and also, a different way to approach combat and engage with the enemy.

The game is already a classic, but the only thing the holding this game back a little tiny bit are the last levels, basically, almost everything after the Library is just repetition of the same passed levels, but backwards; you can really feel they were runninng out of budget and time to finish everything

But that's it, this game is a certified CLASSIC with the passion and creativity of the devs oozing out of it, Bungie set on stone with the game that this is the formula that every FPS Halo Game should follow and EVOLVE from it (and Spoiler: THEY DID EVOLVE)

Also the coop is awesome, the level design works perfectly for 2 players, since player 2 is basically a marine npc with sentience and a master chief skin, everything seems quite well balanced.



just a hint: while playing the Master Chief Collection version, play with the old graphics they fit the aesthetic better ;)

7/10

This game is a rarety in modern times, what do you mean the one game that won GOTY 2021 is a co-op stylized adventure that tells a very good and competent story about a couple reigniting their love for each other?

Now i do feel that the first 3 to 4 hours of the game drag a little bit until it actualy starts advancing the story foward, and that the game is so scripted in what the players must do that exists zero creativity in how to pass each puzzle, but this are some minor issues that aren't even issues, the game exceeds in it's proposal and was very fun from beggining to end.

10/10

I'm not goind to talk about how perfect is the writing in this game, there are hours of content on youtube just analysing the each character and it's to much for a quick review.

However i will talk about the gameplay. There are modern day games that tries to do bare bones stealth gameplay when this game did something almost flawless in the f*cking Playstation 2!!!
The levels are masterfully crafted, so many options of how to engage with each challenge, on higher difficulties you need to know what you're doing to stealth your way each section, it's a forever replayable game, be for it's narrative or for it's gameplay, one of the must play for the console, Kojima and his team are geniuses of game crafting

8/10

For what it does, this is a pretty f*cking good prologue.

Camp Omega is peak Metal Gear Level design, probably one of the best stealth levels i've ever played

5/10 = single player
7/10 = co-op

This game is pretty okayish however extremely fun playing co-op with a friend.
Some bosses are just unnintuitive or just boring to fight them, the enemys are ass (and trying to hard to copy RE4), i really liked the lore explored in the documents and i liked the story more in general more than past games.
Overall, fun game to play co-op with a close friend, but for the love of god never play this single player and don't expect to be as good as Re4 was, you can feel the loss of Shinji Mikami in this title.

6/10

This game has more soul than anything that came from Sonic after it and before Frontiers (with very few exceptions). it is the embodiment of what I consider "game 8 or 80".
Fact is. it was the worst experience I've ever had with Hack N' Slash, it's so bad I never want to touch that thing again, I felt pure anger.
However. it's the best I've had with the boost formula so far, it's clear that this game took a lot of care in development and deserved more attention. But I feel that for all the affection he had, they tried to execute things that were beyond his capabilities and it was an extremely half-assed (not to say bad) result regarding 2/3 of the gameplay of this game.