I finished playing Halo 4 today. Overall, it took me about 12-14 hours or so. I’m not a very competitive person, so I played it on the ‘easy’ level. That was hard enough, thanks.

And what did I think of it?

Pros:

Lots of action

Great art

The mantis robot is fun to drive

Lots of the gameplay is similar to the other Halo’s in the series

Cons:

Can’t save as you go without quitting too; I find that frustrating in long sequences

Missions were not always clear, which may have been related to the fact that:

Cortina is often hard to hear

Some messages were hard to see on the background because of the colours matching, or close

No introductory manual – I had to go online to find a wiki page to figure some things out, like the controls

Crawlers are the new flood; they don’t add much and they are just plain irritating.

In the end, it was fun, action packed and familiar. Pretty much what you’d want from the next in a series.

Now, back to regular programming.