My Whole life I've played the Halo series and when I heard about the newest Halo game that everyone was calling "The Most Anticipated Game Ever", I had to pre-order it. The day it was delivered I put it in my 360 as fast as I could and the pre-menu video had me even more excited. One of the first features I tried out was the armor customization. I was astonished by the seemingly endless options of helmets, chestpeices, shoulderpeices, other accessories, and other special appearance options. The different options can be purchased by in-game credits that can be obtained by playing any game mode and most of the armor options can't even be bought until you reach a certain rank. Once I decided what to save up for, I dove into campaign mode. The campaign's opening video isn't that good but in it I saw that the character I'm playing as is the same spartan I had just spent 10 minutes customizing, which made me even more excited for the game. After playing the campaign for an hour or two, and frankly getting kind of bored, I had to try out the famous Forge World, an aspect that I could fairly say I was most looking forward to. After checking all the new objects that you can spawn (and the ones you can't) I moved on to something I couldn't do in Halo 3, build a replica of my house. The only thing that held me back in Halo 3 was the fact that I couldn't put objects through other ones and one of the things i heard first about Reach was the option to make objects phased. Phased means that the object does not interact with the other objects. So one could put walls through other walls, and for me, I could put a ceiling on the bottom floor of my house. Only one more thing stood in the way and that was that there is not a single flat area in Forge World except for an area that was hundreds of feet above the ground so I had to compromise and make my house floating a few feet off the ground. It was around then that I realized that the forge system was really the same as the system in Halo 3. After those disappointments I started to lose some of the faith I had in the game. The next game mode I tried was multiplayer online and, big surprise, its exactly the same. After almost all my hope left in this game was gone, I tried the last game mode left, Firefight. I tried it out and, who knew, its exactly the same. In conclusion, Halo: Reach is a great game, but if your like me and your expecting all the hype to be true and imagined it being a revolutionary awesome game, you will be let down. It's good, but not $60.00 good.
