This week has seen the release of the latest Halo game, Halo 3: ODST. This new game is like no others before unlike all the other games, you don’t play as Master Chief. So this introduces something new into the Halo universe, but does it really stand up to the previous games? I would say no. The game starts off with your team of ODST’s (Orbital Drop Shock Troopers), they have just been given new orders to go down to New Mombasa, a super city, and begin attack on Regret’s cruiser. The way your team gets down to the city is via individual pods called HEVs, however, during flight the newly appointed mission leader redirects the pods, but before they…

I have always found that renting games is one of the best ways to play the most recent games. It’s good for a number of reasons, whether you are a little bit strapped for cash at the time of release, or maybe you are just unsure about the game. Even if it’s neither of those reasons, renting is still a good option, my example would be with the Lego games, despite being really great games, they are short, and with no multiplayer, I find myself completing them in a number of days. So I would much rather pay £5 to rent it than have to pay £40 and have it sitting on the shelf. This aside, renting games isn’t perfect…

If you look at the list of upcoming games online, you will see that on the run up to Christmas, plus for a number of months after it, there is a massive amount of games being released. Now this is a definite good thing because it will keep be busy. The thing about the majority of the games being released is that they are sequels as in either continuing the story of the previous game, like Bioshock 2 , or just another game in the series like Fifa 10. There is nothing wrong with this really because you obviously know the last game is good so you won’t shouldn’t be disappointed. The only downside is that with some of the games…

It’s been announced during an interview with games site IGN that after the completion of both Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach, Bungie, creators of every Halo game (except Halo Wars), will be moving away from the Halo franchise to develop a brand new game title. The interview was done by Lars Bakken, a member of the Bungie team who said this: “After Reach that’s it for us. We’re already working on a new IP that we can’t talk about yet.” It’s a shame nothing was said about the new title because with Bungie’s track record, we don’t know what type of game to expect. If you always thought that Bungie had only done Halo, then you’re wrong. Before Bungie started…

It appears that Microsoft really want us gamers to pre-order the newest game in the Halo series, Halo 3: ODST. Halo 3: ODST is a game developed by the guys over at Bungie which allows us to experience the battles that went on during the build up to the events in Halo 3, and this time, there is no Master Chief.  You will play as a brand new hero, an ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Trooper) in search of your team. However, our buddies from the Covenant are hanging around to make our lives so much harder. The new campaign and new heroes are not the only new thing that we are going to see in this game. There is also…