Over-rated games?

[Cz]

For a lot of people, Halo was the literal definition of "next-gen". The Pillar of Autumn was the best opening level to any game I'd ever played (Probably still is). The FPS genre doesn't have a huge amount you can really do with it - it's all gonna be the same old . You run, you shoot stuff. 90% of any extra stuff is gimmicky crap that won't matter if the game itself isn't solid. But Halo did the same old in a retardedly expert manner, and at the time what it did was so shiny that it was doing new things - it was an FPS on an epic scale. Some popular games are overrated, certainly. And some games really are as good as everyone says. The original Halo is one of these.

And even if you don't like Halo, you can't deny the game's importance. Pretty much every single console FPS made since Halo's release has borrowed heavily from it, and iit's no coincidence that any half-decent shooter that comes along is referred to as a "Halo-killer". Most importantly, it put the X-Box on the map and helped it through its difficult formative stages, and thus made a massive contribution to Microsoft's entry into the console market. Oh, that and it's the best.