Alright, so that funnest game part is a lie. It's also terrible grammar. But I do love ODST, for a myriad of reasons.
1. Firefight. It's by far the best game mode ever. If you've played Gears of War 2 Horde mode, or Call of Duty's Nazi Zombies, then you've played something similar to Firefight. But unlike those two games, ODST wins harder than both. IT'S TOO MUCH FUN.
2. Instead of being the unstoppable super soldier, Master Chief, or the tragic hero of the Elites, The Arbiter, I get to be an ODST. ODST is an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper. So you can't charge into a group of Covenant and expect to come out alive. It's possible, but improbable. Tactics, teamwork, weapon usage, and level knowledge plays a huge part, and makes it infinitely more fun.
3. Getting to fight a bunch of different Halo Covenent species, including Brutes, Drones, Grunts, Jackals, and Hunters, along with the different weapon classes these enemies can come in means that variety runs rampant. Bungie also included a relatively unknown new race called Engineers, who serve no actual combat role but give Overshield to any unit within a certain range of them. Ultimate support units, these Engineers, and they can really ruin a team if not taken out quickly.
4. With the addition of "skulls" to Firefight, it vastly changes the difficulty from round to round, meaning that a team not working together can get royally fucked when a skull like "Enemies have 2x health" comes on.
5. And of course, the new campaign is extremely fun. It differs from the last Halos by concentrating more on a self contained story about the ODST squad instead of the entire war. I actually cared about what happened to all my squad mates. Also, the ambience and atmosphere of the campaign is top notch, giving an extreme sense of loneliness when playing as The Rookie in destroyed New Mombasa, and the classic Halo feel when playing as a different ODST like Buck or Romeo.
Buy this game if you even remotely liked any Halo, if you like Nazi Zombies, or even Horde Mode on Gears 2.
My gamertag again is Nightwing1191, add me and we'll Firefight it up. ODST out.
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