Bungie: A Plea

Dear Bungie,
I am a 26 year old gamer who loves First Person Shooters, owns a variety of systems from the Atari 2600 to a High End Gaming PC. The reason why i write this letter is i see you are releasing a little known game for the Next Gen Console, the Microsoft Xbox 360.

You see i have played many a game over my insignificant years from the gaming delights of E.T on Atari's wooden box to the sheer joy of Rise of the Robots on the humble Commodore Amiga (those graphics , eh?)

I bought Halo after playing the demo featuring the interesting "Silent Cartographer" map which was well designed and interesting enough that anyone who played the demo would be astounded by your amazing talents.

So how come the rest of Halo and the entire Halo 2 is filled with hateful and lazily designed levels. Instead of making clever ways to interact with the environment or AI Bungie just adds more enemies. Or the clever way that the controls are like treacle that any quick response needed to react to any kind of threat is futile. Or the Oscar winning Story? Or that terrible threat to Mankind, The Flood? Obviously a name that strikes fear into our hearts, Why not call them Soul Eaters or Nasty Things fuck, Even The Bunnies would have been more evil sounding.

But it's the game play that matters Right? Wrong
I may as well play that old family favourite "Matching Pairs" as that's all the game is: go into level, see enemy, die, remember where enemy is located , start again.
Now i remember an employee of Bungie being quoted as saying Halo is "20 seconds of fun, repeated again & again" or something like that. When the quote should of been "it's 20 seconds of fun & umpteen hours of boredom, and anger at having to do the same thing over and over again because of rubbish game design!"

So, Halo 3. let's have a look at the features.

1) Amazing Graphics
Rubbish it's the same textures but in high resolution. pfft.

2) 4 player co-op mode has just been announced.
Great, now i don't need to suffer i can make others suffer with me.

3) New Weapons announced: Flamethrower & Claymore Grenades.
Because we've never seen those in a computer game. Must have taken hours to think up.

4) a button to silence voices in online gaming
yes we've got those as well their called mute buttons

I'm not even going to continue but let's just say I'm not impressed at the proposition of fan boys defending a game that Doom did better umpteen years ago.

So Bungie prove me wrong, i know in your heart of hearts that you love me dearly for who i am and not for my money. Make the game i know your capable of, the one that would make us cry salty tears of joy and would destroy the whole gaming industry with your awesomeness that no one will make another game for fear of it not being quite as good as your god like game.

Yours,

A Gamer


PS. Anything less than Half life 3 will be met with burning effigies of Master Chief at the next E3 :p