Recent reviews by shmorgus

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Better than the original in nearly every way, but that doesn't matter because it's bogged down by the maps alone. I have never seen such terrible, uninspired and unfocused map design in my life. There isn't any semblance of lanes, choke points, power positions, routing, flow, and more. It's just a million buildings, streets, and open areas. Nearly every position can get flanked from at least 5 different areas. The spawn points are also ages away from your objective, and you can also end up waiting 15, 20, 30 seconds to re-spawn.

I had better success playing this game like quake then a tactical shooter.

This would all be fixed if people actually worked together.

Game is fun but could use a bit of balancing, is promising so far

I really do want to recommend this, because this game does have some phenomenal ideas. The actual execution is debatable. The game can't strike a close enough balance between attackers and defenders, so it ends up being horribly defender sided and the only saving grace is having more lives than them. Some classes are just plain bad/overpowered on certain maps too, depending on the engagement distance. Some feel mandatory because of having good items like smoke grenades (which you WILL need) on attack, but it's locked behind a limited class slot, meaning that it is common to have idiots pick those classes first, and lock them for the whole game. The sound is also terrible. Not the effects, but the actual system. Everything sounds like it's all the way across the map, unless you hear a nearby enemy talking. A bunch of the maps also happen to NEVER have cover in the places you actually need it. It is common to attack a new point and just die 13 times in a row do to something you could have never been remotely ready for. The hit detection and frame rate are also like to do lines of coke mid match a lot.

If you still want to play this game then by all means go ahead. When its fun, its FUN. But when it isn't, it's one of the worst online multiplayer experiences you can possibly dabble in.

quake

I was quaking in my pants for this release. I felt doomed to have waited any longer. I felt the wait was, unreal. I would have fought in a tournament to get my hands on this game. Even if we went until we spilled blood. Now, after waiting from dawn till dusk, I will play till my hands stop functioning.

Let's get Furious.

Not as strong as I initially recommended, its a great first experience but there is the slightest amount of polish missing in its gameplay and I wasn't personally too interested in replaying for a while. Even still I think its worth for the presentation alone. The music and visuals are VERY strong. I have been addicted to the OST since the game's release.

My issues relate to specifically halo CE. I can't recommend this game in its current state no matter how badly i want to. the fact that both OG Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox one can all run this game smoothly whereas i get constant frame drops, audio issues and more. For ♥♥♥♥ sake, My crouch button will also pickup guns off the ground. This has gotten me killed more times than i can count. Will patiently wait for a fix, until then I can't rate this positively, even if its my favourite in the franchise.

(edit) on further playtime i have discovered that more niche mechanics of Halo CE don't function properly, or at all. For example, 343 took the lazy route and used the Gamespy PC version of Halo CE, which has many bugs such as JACKAL SHIELDS BEING INDESTRUCTIBLE. I don't think this has been fixed, or addressed at all. Another example, backpack reloading (a trick where you double tap reload, then swap to your second weapon. upon swapping back the primary weapon is reloaded.) still works, however the reload sound cuts out upon swapping to a different weapon. It still works, but it makes doing the trick with weapons like the rocket launcher a lot harder to use the trick.

this game ♥♥♥♥♥♥ slaps

Left 4 Dead 2 Is one of the greatest games of all time. I mean it 100%. The replay value is shooting through the roof. There is already a great amount of vanilla maps with free DLC, (sorry console plebs) 8 playable characters, a variety of zombies with different strategies to fight them and to effectively eliminate survivors, a wide range of weapons, grenades and melee tools and if that somehow wasn't enough the modding scene for this game is incredible too. you can actually ♥♥♥♥ every single part of this game over from the graphics, textures, sounds, the survivors, weapons, zombies, the list goes on. Many custom maps also. I don't have a single issue with this game. 10/10