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September 21, 2009 Link to this post
Well, it's not ALL sweetness and light.
Ars Technica, and Ben Kuchera in particular, was pretty disappointed with ODST - there have certainly been negative reviews so far, but this is the one of the most negative from a large, reputable site. (He called ODST's music 'cheesy', something that 'sounds like the softcore porn they show on Cinemax after midnight'.) A well-known community watcher says that this is typical of Ars and Kuchera - but as far as I can tell, Ars never reviewed Halo (they were still focused on PC games in their gaming section in 2001), and their review of Halo 2 (also written by Kuchera) was actually quite positive. (Their Halo 3 review, written by Frank Caron, was focused on the campaign, which Caron found to be solid but disappointing.) Our forum has some discussion about this - chime in if you'd like! (On the other side of the fence, in terms of big-name sites that hadn't posted a review this weekend, Edge just put up their review (thanks to NeoGAF's ZAnimus for the heads-up), and they gave it a 9/10 - in their opinion, "ODST offers the most engaging and least flabby chapter of Halo's mythos.")
(Louis Wu 13:21:44 UTC)
