Bungie, the developers behind games such as Halo, Halo 2 and? erm, Halo 3 have made an announcement to all the people playing the leaked version of their latest game, Halo 4? I mean Halo: Reach.
Halo: Reach for the Stars is a first person shooter set somewhere in outer space and requires the player to climb various mountains higher and ultimately follow their heart?s desire. Okay, I may have confused the plot of the game with a song by S Club 7, but to be honest the plot is so ridiculously complex I genuinely can't be bothered going into it. In its most basic form it works like this: Man has gun, man has space suit, man go into space and shoot evil alien for arbitrary reason that serves as a plot device.
Somehow the Halo series has become the iPhone of Xbox games, except it came out before the iPhone and people who own it don't tend to try and show off their new copy of Halo by laying it out on the table at every opportunity. Well, some people do, but they're creepy and weird.
Anyway, being that this game is the be all and end all of gaming, the launch of Halo: Reacharound has encountered the same problem as every digital entertainment format in the last 10 years, it's been pirated to high heaven and Bungie have had enough! The makers of the game have said that no-one playing should get too attached to any equipment or credits they've garnered during their illegal little online romps, as everything will be reset when the game is officially released and Bungie have written the whole episode off as, ?beta testing.?
Cue rioting in the streets complaining on internet forums as players try to figure out a way to get around the reset, only to be told by Bungie that the second they connect to the Xbox LIVE servers they?ll be identified as a new user and reset to n00b status, this may or may not have been followed by the Bungie PR rep sticking two fingers up at the pirates, blowing a raspberry and telling them to, ?jog on.?
TLDR; Bungie steal from pirates, LOL!
Tom J says
I can’t believe they’re still flogging this crappy franchise. What’s the point of playing a shooting game that aims the gun for you? That’s like playing a driving game that automatically steers the car, it defeats the point of playing. It’s a Fisher-Price FPS, completely unchallenging console drivel. Couple that with the aging 360’s lacklustre performance and you’ve got a game that’s boring to play and uninspiring to look at.
Paul C says
In response to Tom J……complete and utter piffle. Just because you can’t play Halo on your PS3, you attempt to be dismissive of one the best game franchises by writing complete “drivel” yourself