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Re: Edge's best games of 2000-2009
Posted By: Bry <bmulheran@gmail.com>	Date: 4/29/11 12:54 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Edge's best games of 2000-2009 (Duncan) : Wow, somehow I completely skipped that text box on the first page with the : Griesemer quote. So yeah, that stuff was new to me. : I'll just pretend I already knew those neat trivia tidbits and stick to my : post on the lack of "astounding revelations." :P I think I've realised now why Halo didn't quite have the same impact on me as it did many others. When the article is saying: The titular, world-ending construct is an environment the like of which hadn’t been seen in games. That first glimpse remains remarkable: stepping from a cramped pod into fields and mountains, the sky bisected by a structure that goes on and on. The short and obligatory ‘abandon ship’ prologue exists purely to foreground what you expect from the genre: the confines of walkways and funnelled directives. Since Doom, the genre has shown snapshots of the outside world – distant cities painted in bitmap greys and brown hues – but Halo is the outside world. The environments are simply huge, and even the corridors give your seven-foot starship trooper a wide berth. Exploration isn’t encouraged by pickups or rewards – Halo has precious few treasures to be hunted – but is an end unto itself. It’s all a happy accident, because it’s a world that predates the Master Chief himself. This wasn't exactly the case with me. Because I had played Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis on the PC back in June, 2001. While it has crude graphics, was full of bugs and demanded almost absurd hardware at the time, the playspace and the freedom were considerably beyond that which Halo offered. Each of its islands was over a dozen square kilometres to explore. It was kind of like the forerunner to Battlefield really, being able to jump into whatever vehicles you happened to find, from tanks to helicopters to A-10 Warthogs. Halo was the first time I'd seen something come close on a console though.

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Edge's best games of 2000-2009	ElzarTheBam	4/29/11 8:46 a.m.
Re: Edge's best games of 2000-2009	Duncan	4/29/11 11:58 a.m.
Re: Edge's best games of 2000-2009	Louis Wu	4/29/11 12:10 p.m.
Re: Edge's best games of 2000-2009	Duncan	4/29/11 12:29 p.m.
Re: Edge's best games of 2000-2009	Bry	4/29/11 12:54 p.m.