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Originally Posted by Lasereth
Forget the fact the game is fun...forget that it has beautiful graphics and perfect controls. Forget that it has an awesome main character, great voice acting, and a cool plot. Forget it all and concentrate on one thing: WHERE'S THE INNOVATION!!! MY GOD IT'S A LOT LIKE HALO 1!!! JESUS THIS GAME SUXX!!!!
Some folks know how to review games and some don't. You don't rate videogames completely on innovation, you rate them on their experience and fun factor. I applaud Something Awful for making fun of those out there that do the former.
-Lasereth
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Uhm, I thought all those points you mentioned where what made the original Halo good? :P
In all seriousness, I think one game, ever, deserved a perfect ten, and that was Mario 64, simply because, even to this day, it's stood up as the pinnacle of it's genre.
While it'd be acceptable if it had a rediculously high score, like 9.8 or 9.9, giving it a perfect ten in every category IS NOT GOOD FORM. Especially when in the review
they mention where it could go with some improvement. Case in point, as lpj8 mentioned, the cutscene graphics are sub-par. In any other game, that'd knock .5 or so off the score. Why should Halo be any exception? My guess it's publications wanting to keep in good standing with Microsoft, or they're just plain bad reviewers.
Upon release, nearly every review on GameRankings, bar GameSpot's, was a perfect ten. Now, once people have received the game after release and are not risking any backlash, it's dropped from the second best title do down, just underneath the original. Where it, in my (and quite a few others) belongs.