{"id":1298,"date":"2009-10-17T15:42:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T14:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2012-12-07T08:37:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T08:37:06","slug":"halo-odst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/halo-odst\/","title":{"rendered":"Halo ODST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"red\">XBox360<\/font>,<font color=\"orange\">FPS<\/font>,<font color=\"green\">4\/10<\/font> &#8211; <u>Sep 2009<\/u><\/p>\n<p>I loved the TV series called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firefly_%28TV_series%29\">Firefly<\/a>&#8221; and always thought it&#8217;d make a good computer game, so it seems Christmas had come early &#8211; Mal (Nathan Fillion), the Firefly captain is in the latest Halo game together with Jane (Adam Baldwin), and Wash (Alan Tudyk). I found the trailer REALLY exciting:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MakYUqx8OHk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was a massive let down. I played co-operative mode and we seemed to be wandering dark gloomy streets the whole time. The story line is set as a prequel to Halo 3 so I was expecting a Spartan to show up at some point, perhaps even <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Master_Chief_(Halo)\">Master Chief<\/a>, but no. It was really short too &#8211; I think half the total gameplay time was spent stuck looking for a object which turned out to be a broken rifle caught up in some overhead telephone wires.<\/p>\n<p>By the way the &#8220;ODST&#8221; stands for <em>Orbital Drop Shock Troopers<\/em> &#8211; don&#8217;t you just hate non-obvious acronyms that aren&#8217;t clearly pointed out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XBox360,FPS,4\/10 &#8211; Sep 2009 I loved the TV series called &#8220;Firefly&#8221; and always thought it&#8217;d make a good computer game, so it seems Christmas had come early &#8211; Mal (Nathan Fillion), the Firefly captain is in the latest Halo game together with Jane (Adam Baldwin), and Wash (Alan Tudyk). I found the trailer REALLY exciting: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-review","tag-halo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}