I got the opportunity to meet all the 343i staff at Gamescom, you guys are fantastic and I really loved to meet you here.
So I played multiples matches on Halo 2A MP: Sanctuary and Ascension all over the week.
This is quick my impression on the MP of the game:
The gameplay is “slow” it feel like Halo 2 (jump and speed walk) but neferd:
- The dual wield specially the combo plasma Rifle and SMG are not so strong anymore,
- The BR is good but more balanced (longer reload time)
- The needler (solo or double are completely useless)
- The SMG got sort of bloom and a spread delay that make the feeling a lot less enjoyable personally.
- The Carbine shoot slower than the original game specially for the feeling in 60FPS.
- I did not like the melee I think now a punch now remove half of the shield instead to be one shot after the first punch but still kill in 2 punch and the punch lock of Halo 2 disappeared too it is more similar too Halo CE.
- The MA5C of Halo 4 is present and it is enough powerful I will compare it to the original SMG of Halo 2 but it is not dual wield
- The sword got a battery
- The rocket and sniper feel the same and feels good.
- You can spawn choosing sort of loadouts (smg + UNSC grenade, pistol + UNSC grenade and plasma rifle with plasma grenade as start)
- Banshee seems identical to Halo 2
- The waterfall for the bases in Sanctuary is really a nice addition.
Maybe I forgot some things but for now it is all that I have in mind.
Anyway all of this was from a build of the game far from be final, so all of this is maybe subject to change.
At the end the game feel like an Halo 2.5 next gen (less Halo 2.5 than Halo 3 for example) and it is enjoyable but maybe too much nerfed sometime the fight are a little frustrating, technically the game is fluid and very clean (no aliasing) but a little "toy" as style and it appears that the game is still full of surprises but this will remain secret for now I guess
Halo 2 ACampaign: I saw a brief passage of Halo Delta and the High charity final cutscene, not much to say on it except that both are amazing, you probably saw them on internet already anyway.
Halo 3 1080P 60FPS: I also saw a brief passage of Halo 3 in 1080P 60FPS, the game is like your remember but in super smooth way and with no aliasing at all that made the game far from be ugly to be honest just a little polygonal for some models but it is really ok. I did not notice any graphics particular change otherwise.
I also asked some questions like if they will be the 3D, Kinect, instant switch for Halo CEA, dedicated servers for campaign or not, if the dedicated server will split the players by region over the world like Titanfall but I will reveal this later to keep this info for my website first but first it is time to take the airplane