This game is catastrophically bad. And god forbid if I was playing the PS2 version. "Halo Killer" my ass, I'd say it's rightfully so that they've ditched the whole franchise, especially after ShadowFall.
- The Performance is simply awful. And I have seen footages of the PS2 version which runs even worse. Severe framedrops (and I'm not saying anything in the range of 30s and such. It's much lower.)
- The story is super generic along with its characters. The only thing and the only reason I'm giving this an extra half star is Hakha which was the only good character of the game. (And Rico was much more tolerable than the sequels.)
- The sounds, especially in-game dialogues were brutally compressed to a point that I couldn't understand a thing if I were to play the game without subtitles.
- the gun balancing is worse than Halo CE's Assault Rifle's random spread; now get this, the guns will have higher accuracy based on how much your character is familiar with the guns. ISA's rifle have that accuracy bonus for all characters minus Hakha (since he's half Helghan); problem starts where there's also no ammo to be found for these guns, especially considering the enemy count. Hakha on the other hand has accuracy bonus with Helghast's assault rifles and the soldiers you kill along the way basically mostly have that gun; so you'll refill your ammo much faster compared to other characters, therefore making the other three characters pretty much useless to play as. (I have to be honest, Rico's special weapon kinda makes it up for that, but that too is very ammo hungry.)
- The Performance is simply awful. And I have seen footages of the PS2 version which runs even worse. Severe framedrops (and I'm not saying anything in the range of 30s and such. It's much lower.)
- The story is super generic along with its characters. The only thing and the only reason I'm giving this an extra half star is Hakha which was the only good character of the game. (And Rico was much more tolerable than the sequels.)
- The sounds, especially in-game dialogues were brutally compressed to a point that I couldn't understand a thing if I were to play the game without subtitles.
- the gun balancing is worse than Halo CE's Assault Rifle's random spread; now get this, the guns will have higher accuracy based on how much your character is familiar with the guns. ISA's rifle have that accuracy bonus for all characters minus Hakha (since he's half Helghan); problem starts where there's also no ammo to be found for these guns, especially considering the enemy count. Hakha on the other hand has accuracy bonus with Helghast's assault rifles and the soldiers you kill along the way basically mostly have that gun; so you'll refill your ammo much faster compared to other characters, therefore making the other three characters pretty much useless to play as. (I have to be honest, Rico's special weapon kinda makes it up for that, but that too is very ammo hungry.)