Sound and graphics

The game looks and sounds great. The music is your typical ‘unknown techno-electro’ fare but with the 360’s ability to play mp3s from your pc, this isn’t an issue. The cell-shading is not the flat type of shading you often see, it’s a more subtle effect than that and it works very well. The city streams in fast enough as you move around, and I’ve seen no pop-up or late texture loading to concern me. Explosions are pretty impressive, in fact as you get better at your explosives skill, they get bigger and bigger with large explosions easily sending 5 or 6 cars flying into the air. The first few times that happens, I know I physically flinched at it.

Overall rating

I can’t give one. Some people will hate it, some will love it. Some (like me) will weigh up the initial impressions from the demo on live and decide that the halo 3 beta swings it for them, only to go on and appreciate the game in it’s own right. Hopefully, the description of the gameplay above will help people make that decision.

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