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The dialog devolves into typical Hollywood action movie stereotypes pretty quickly. While its not required that a good writer have military experience to sell a military story, the clichés should be avoided and Halo 3: ODST seems to embrace them and create a few more along the way. Too much of the banter and false bravado of the game felt written by a twelve year old who had never actually been a part of a team like the ODSTs. Its obvious that Fillian and Baldwin were comfortable with the Halo roles but the dialog let them down. Unfortunately, and maybe I am being a bit harsh, while all the actors portraying the human characters in the flashback sequences did a good job there were no truly outstanding moments for these thespians to really bring to life. So take the grade here and convert it to a score and we here at Gaming Nexus give it a 70% if you would rather want it in a numerical system. Editorial Note: For those that are saying this game scored a 42 and not going to the second page of this review, that is just the way Metacritic converts the grade. We follow the traditional school system grading scale so a C is an average game. The two actors have a sense of chemistry and I was looking forward to recapturing that camaraderie and banter in the game.
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As a fan of the Joss Whedon Sci-Fi series Firefly, I was pumped to discover that Nathan “Mal Reynolds” Fillian and Adam “Jane Cobb” Baldwin were involved with the voice-acting of this title. The members of the ODST squad the Rookie spends forever trying to find are far more fleshed out, but unfortunately even they suffer from generic casting. The fact I had to justify this in my head to keep running and gunning down the Covenant invaders for the campaigns brief 8 hours of story meant that unlike say Half-Life 2’s Gordon Freeman – who also never speaks but gains character thanks to his interactions with others – means that the Rookie fails as a storytelling protagonist for me. Since the Rookie is alone, there is little to no character interaction and in jest while playing I figured that the ODSTs had gotten so low on recruits through the extended Covenant war that they had opted to allow a more affirmative action oriented recruitment policy – including Mutes so long as they were physically fit.
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Much of ODST’s campaign is spent roaming through the atmospheric streets of New Mombassa unraveling clues and flashbacks that detail the fate of the city itself and the rest of the Rookies’ squadmates after a failed orbital insertion drop. Now I realize that in order to keep the game fun and interesting some element of reality has to be sacrificed – one shot incapacitation is no fun, no one wants to be dying all the time in a Halo game because a grunt hit you with a few needler darts, but don’t claim that this is something different when its not, the fans don’t really want reality in their tale of grand alien invasions anyway. Sure you can’t take as much damage at one sitting as Master Chief but the stamina system is just a poor version of the force field – it absorbs a certain amount of damage before dipping into the health of the character and requires you to sit out for a few seconds to allow it to rebuild. In fact, thanks to some odd storytelling choices, the characterization of the Master Chief is far more human than those of the faceless rookie protagonist of ODST. The problem is playing as the ODST rookie in this game is not so different from playing as a genetically engineered super soldier with a force shield in Mjolnir power armor. This was supposed to be the core of the difference between ODST the game and the previous Halo titles. Guys you could imagine starting a bar brawl while on leave or charging a Covenant Grunt barricade on the planet Reach. They’re just regular ole’ testosterone filled Alpha-male space marines. ODSTs, unlike Spartans, are not superhuman soldiers with force shields and Mjolnir armor.
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ODST’s or Orbital Drop Shock Troopers are the SOCOM of the Halo universe, paired with their Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) handlers these Helljumpers are crack military forces organized into small fireteams and sent into the mouth of hell to accomplish missions. Microsoft and Bungie deliver on the expansion of the Halo storyline with the core campaign of ODST fairly well. A love letter to fans who supported Bungie through the entire evolution of the franchise and was mentioned as a turning point in the series to show that Halo was not just about the Master Chief… it was about a whole conflict. ODST began life as an expansion of the last Halo FPS title.