"it's not all that impressive, just a boring, badly made FPS."
sounds like someone who's never played it. It may be generic and feel almost exactly like Quake, but badly made it is not.
It seems most 3d games these days that don't fall into the categories of "adventure" "platform" or "rpg" are all grotesquely short.
When was the last time you played a first person shooter that was long? It's been years I bet. It takes so long for developers to make things these days, due to all the copious amounts of time spent on 3d graphics and physics, that little time seems to be left over to make a long rewarding game.
I'd wish things could go back to simpler 3d or 2d again, but now even 2d games are getting shorter. New Super Mario Bros. for the DS, while wonderful, was way way too short. Like 1/4th of the length of Mario bros 3.
Part of me wonders sometimes if it isn't done on purpose you know? to make people want more and thus buy more. Keep them only slightly satisfied but always hungry. It makes me sad.
I miss when games had 30+ levels. Then 3d hit and now I miss games that had 8+ worlds to explore.
I fear a future where a whole game will be one single continuous level of only mild fun that costs 70 dollars to buy.
oh well. campaign mode on halo is better with co-op anyway.
deal-with-it
Yeah, I never thought much of the "Halo" series anyway, I could care less about Halo 3, don't know why its "The best game ever". I've seen NEWS ARTICLES on that games release, and to be honest, it's not all that impressive, just a boring, badly made FPS.