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2007 – Xbox 360 (Microsoft Game Studios)<\/p><\/div>\n

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My old friend Josh and I started University in September of 2001.\u00a0\u00a0About two months later, many hours\u00a0probably intended for studying were instead\u00a0lost thanks to two games; one was a third-person shooter by the name of Brute Force <\/em>(which we thought was awesome, but\u00a0totally ended up forgetting about), and the other was the sci-fi shooter Halo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It was the perfect\u00a0evolution of Goldeneye 007,<\/em> an FPS with endless hours of multiplayer fun, perfect for\u00a0smack-talking\u00a0your friends.\u00a0 We were lucky enough to have more than one Xbox, so we’d split up into groups at his house and spend hours just shootin’ and blowing each other up.\u00a0 It was fantastic!<\/p>\n

The single player campaign, however, I\u00a0found bland and repetitive.\u00a0 Enter room, kill all enemies.\u00a0 Travel down a hall to next (very similar) room, repeat.\u00a0 Repeat.\u00a0 Repeat.\u00a0 Oh, there’s the Flood!\u00a0 They’re gross.\u00a0 Repeat.\u00a0 Repeat.\u00a0 Nothing special.\u00a0 The sequel tried to give the formula a good kick in the rear-end, but despite a few major twists to the plot and gameplay, it all felt quite familiar.<\/p>\n

Along with the new generation of consoles came the clamoring for a Halo<\/em> sequel.\u00a0 When we finally got it,\u00a0almost two years had gone by since the Xbox 360 was released…\u00a0 would it really\u00a0live up to\u00a0the astonishing amount of hype?<\/p>\n

Well, it kinda did, actually.\u00a0 Controls didn’t feel as clunky (they always did to me, anyway; maybe it was the controller), the graphics – more specifically, the lighting –\u00a0made it feel\u00a0like it was truly a next-gen experience, and the action…\u00a0 ohhhhh the action.<\/p>\n

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