This commentary is designed to get me more involved with the Destructoid community and I'm hoping to make a regular feature of it. I have a tendency of posting a ma-ha-ssive project in here once every six months, to then fade back into obscurity because I'm so bloody slow [and good looking.]

All feedback is welcome, even the negative stuff, but I will secretly hate you for it.



In the words of Foo Fighter Dave Grohl, the “Halooooooooo! God only knows and so does everybody else” combat evolved anniversary edition was finally made public at E3 this year. My little sister has kept better secrets. (And called me better names.)

Unfortunately, Microsoft delivered this good news with so much enthusiasm, that their announcement felt more like a confession than feigned surprise. Instead of being told, “We’re going to Disneyland!” we got a defeated shrug and “You’re father and I are separating. Happy Birthday.”

In the revealed trailer, special care was made to mention that just seven of “the greatest multiplayer maps of all time” were being remastered, whereas the original game actually shipped with thirteen. If you’re the type of person who spends their evenings with a cat on your lap instead of a girl on your arm, it’s likely you’ve already dismissed this as nothing more than a sneaky business decision, and one designed to sell us the rest of the maps later – maybe?






Like a fed up mother desperately pleading for her eldest son to get off his lazy rear and find himself a job, our introduction to Halo 4 began with Cortana tugging furiously at Master Chief’s bed sheets and throwing open the curtains; anything to help him find that initiative to get out of bed.

When he does eventually find the courage within himself to crawl out of his pit, his newfound strength manifests itself into a Jetpack. A power he’s had all along I suspect, and not one he brought with the benefits he’s been claiming the last three years.



Echoing a past discussion we’d heard at the start of Halo 3, Cortana previously revealed she had chosen “I’m thinking of [sleeping] my way out – mix things up a bit” as her partnered Spartan because he was lucky. Well thanks to our now informed participation in the events that led to the fall of Reach, we know that wasn’t the case at all. She’d chosen Noble Six and had only got lumbered with Johnny-boy because he’d overslept on the Pillar of Autumn that morning.

MC Sleeps-a-lot has proven time and time again that’s he’s bone idle and 343 Industries should be applauded for nailing a crucial component of his character.

I’m now convinced this new trilogy* is in good and capable hands, as the team clearly know their source material.