Halo CE Anniversary

Developers (in order by size)

343i

Certain Affinity

Sabre Interactive

links to all web sites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/343_Industries 

http://www.certainaffinity.com/ 

http://www.saber3d.com/

Game plot :...... well its the same as halo CE

Whats new: first 343i solo release of halo upgraded graphics way point, fire fight and remastered maps for multilayer and the ability to switch between mastered and original graphics ( this is only available in campaign) and they have also added a few skulls. So all together they have taken the best of the best from all halo games and combined them in to one game. So you would expect it to have sold lots and lots of copies but the last number I saw was around 1.2 million copies which is a respectable number but no where near Halo one's 5 million copies sold. And i cant see it getting there with halo one's price down to $5.00 and anniversary being near the same game I don’t think Microsoft is going to anywhere near the projected profits from the game.

What I liked and disliked about the game

PROS

• you can see the difference between it and the original
• you can turn most of the new things off
• some of the new lines
• fire fight is decently hard and fun
• load times are fast

CONS

• they changed sarges look too much and toned him down a lot
• the game doesn’t pause while switching modes
• the “upgraded” graphics are not that much better
• the game mechanics are the same
• too many achievement (one for every level)
• reach controls while playing the original halo ?

I would suggest this game for a halo one player who only has a 360 other than that I would only buy this game on sale. 

This game gets 4 of 7 WASD controllers

Thanks for reading

G.C

Portal 2 Review

To start off with Portal 2 is a muticonsole game which I've played on both PC and Xbox 360 and I would say that its most definitely better on the PC. This is basically due to the slightly better graphics you can have and you can tune the controls to where your comfortable with them, and as we all know a game where the controls are not where you want will always lead to poor game play. This game seems to have paid a great attention to detail, in a lot of games you have to make a journey but don't remember the trip at all, but with Portal 2 you get a memorable trip and a great connecting of levels. Now some of the load times aren't that good and the load screen is rather boring but its loading  rather complex levels, not even talking about the graphics it has to load. Anyway I think that this is a very good sequel to the original portal which is a hard game to follow, but portal 2 took it all in stride. Now I am not really going to go into detail as to do that you have to give the game away. But I will say that the storyline gives you lots of options as to what to do, and it has a multilayer mode which is one of the best Ive played in a long while. And G.L.A.D.O.S. is still awesome and evil. 



Thanks for reading    G.C