ODST was intended from the beginning to be a filler game between Halo 3 and the release of Halo Reach and to the day of its release lived up only to an expansion, though you'll pay full game price for it. Afterwards, you'll be returned to the Rookie, who with new knowledge of what has happened can progress further in his search.īungie wastes no time introducing characters, which is one of the downsides to this game. When you find one of these clues, you'll be launched into a flashback sequence unique to the item and what happened to its owner this is achieved not only with dialogue and cinematics, but also by shifting your control to that specific character, and allowing you to play as him up to a certain event. Your objective is to re-unite with your missing squad mates, and you'll do this by exploring the streets on New Mombasa and finding clues left behind by your now absent platoon. While anyone who play Halo 3 will be more than comfortable with the control scheme, as mentioned before ODST has taken on the form of a detective game as well. And yes, you'll have to take down a couple Scarabs. You'll also get the opportunity to use many of the series' staple vehicles, like the Warthog and the Scorpion, as well as the Covenant's Ghosts, Wraiths, and Banshees. During your rendezvous mission, you'll encounter several familiar Covenant faces, including Grunts, Brutes, Chieftains, and Hunters. Naturally, this makes your survival in the alien-infested city all the more challenging. You have no over-shield, no increased jump ability, and no advanced warfare tactics (which means no dual-wielding SMGs). You are merely a solder in the UNSC, not a Spartan like Master Chief. This is where the game makes its pivotal change from main title Halo 3 to expansion title Halo 3 ODST. Rookie awakens from his pod several hours after the crash, and embarks out alone to find his allies. As they enter the city, the drop pods are attacked and the entire squad is separated among the city. Your drop zone is, of course, hot, and it doesn't take long before thing start to go awry, as they often do in those situations. The game begins as your troop is responding to a Covenant attack on the Earth city of New Mombasa, an event taking place between the timeline of Halo 2 and Halo 3. Instead, you'll be taking on the role of detective as you play through the eyes of the Rookie, one of the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (or ODST) in your platoon. The game plays just as though they copied and paste that programming from Halo 3 to ODST, but your objective isn't simply gun-and-run. Whether it was predetermined by Bungie or simply an act of better judgment after no doubt endless entourage of hate calls and email, ODST is back to first-person shooter format, though the developer's have refused to give up their ambition of opening the minds of their shooter-stubborn fans.
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