How not to pitch Halo 3: ODST
by Justin McElroy 
on Jul 28th 2009 3:00PM
Listen, we're sure
Halo 3: ODST is going to be a fine game, but Bungie's
got to get a better pitchman than developer Lars Bakken. When asked by
The Guardian about additions to the game, Bakken explained, "Obviously the things that have been brought over would be the weapons, the enemy types – those kinds of things haven't changed. Everything else is completely new: your character's health model, the fact that he doesn't have a motion tracker, he can't dual-wield, he takes damage when he falls off high surfaces, his health doesn't regenerate. All those things were not in
Halo 3. That's very different."
... So. It's like the
Halo everybody loves, except with the addition of taking things away. It's a shame Bungie's done with
Halo after
Reach -- we'd love to see them add things to
Halo until it's basically just a guy in football pads with a potato gun going against the Covenant.
