Halo: ODST
So after far too long by half the new first person shooter based on the Halo universe is upon us…… sans John-117 aka the MasterChief. Instead to are forced to play the roles of various characters from an “Orbital Drop Shock Trooper” platoon who whilst being super soldiers are not quite in the same league as the Spartans like the MC. However these shock troopers are superior to normal soldeirs in the same way that the SAS is a superior fighting force to a supermarket trolly attendant from Albania ( not that I have anything against Albanian supermarket trolly attendants and I’m surebthey make excellent combat troops but you get my drift). Anyway after a brief intro where the scene is set we find out that those pesky Covernant have been on a bit of a rampage killing off as many humans as possible and have finally found mans last great secret, the location of earth and one lone cruiser has started attacking. So on come the shock troops to the fictional mega city of New Mombasa.
Playing the game so far. ( and that’s been only a couple of hours ) it reminds me more of the original Halo: Combat Evolved than it’s sucessors and this is not a bad thing.