With the Halo 4 release just a matter of hours away, reviews for the highly anticipated game have poured in from every gaming website, publication, and blog in existence. Metacritic, which aggregated the scores of 63 reviews of the game, confirm that Halo 4 is magnificent, possibly the best in franchise history. Here is a roundup of the best and worst reviews of Halo 4 to whet your appetite before it’s released at 12AM tonight.
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Gaming Age – Score: 100 – It’s also hard to deny that Halo 4 is a hell of a visual step up for the series. Part of that comes from the art design, featuring bright, neon like colors that infuse the new world of Requiem with inorganic life. But the texture work and character models are a step above what Reach produced, and help to show that that 360 still has a trick or two up its sleeve from a power perspective.
Game Revolution – Score: 100 – Unless Black Ops II or Far Cry 3 manage to revolutionize the genre in astronomical ways, Halo 4 is the clear frontrunner for best first-person shooter of 2012. Heck, it may very well be the best game you play all year.
NZGamer – Score: 100 – A truly spectacular game. Of all of the possible results that may have sprung from the circumstances that now surround the development of the Halo franchise, Halo 4 is the most welcome (and surprising) imaginable.
IGN – Score: 98 – Halo 4 is a masterstroke everyone can and should celebrate, and its two guaranteed sequels instantly make the next-generation Xbox a must-own system, with Halo 5 its most anticipated title. Halo has been rebuilt. It has been redefined. And it has been reinvigorated. The Xbox’s original king has returned to his rightful place on the throne.
EGM – Score: 70 – It’s been an impressive run, but after a decade of the same basic experience, I can’t escape the feeling that Halo needs to try a bit harder. Fans of the game will have a blast here, and the multiplayer is something special, but if you expected Halo 4 to keep up with the Joneses, you might be disappointed.
