Stands out, but not by much

Since there a loads of Halo clones/fan games out there already its kind of hard to make one stand out. This one does stand out in some ways.


Visually its mixed, the MC's sprite is too small, especially compared to the grunts and warthog. This takes away from the games overall graphical style, it also makes it a bit more frustrating, because it feels like it takes forever to get to places because of his small size and slow speed. The backgrounds are good looking, the opening cut scene was pretty cool. Hope you add in blood effects, the smoke effects were pretty incredible.

Audio was also mixed, it was great hearing the old style Halo theme on the menu, but when it changed to MIDI at the cut scene and the bad MIDI during game play it was disappointing. But I can appreciate that this may be because having MP3's or WMA's will increase the game size massively. Some of the gun audios felt weak and not believable, the SMG mainly, the others are fine.

Gameplay is pretty good, like I said before, it was a bit frustrating because of the MC's slow speed. The dialog was pretty bad, due to the fact that neither Johnson or MC talk the way you have them talk. Another small issue is when you pick up your first weapon, have it say "pick up" instead of "trade", mainly because it gives the wrong impression that you can only have one gun at a time. Also, put some kind of gap in the warthogs fire rate, when its constant like the way it is now, it doesn't look too good.

Overall, its good, very good for a demo but still has rough edges and some bits that are plain messy. Good luck with it.