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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 7.7 hrs on record
Posted: Aug 23, 2015 @ 7:43pm
Updated: Jun 29, 2017 @ 5:10pm

6/10
Purchase if heavily discounted

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Pros

Challenge
In Spartan Assault you quickly find out that this isn't exactly a walk in the park. The game challenges you every chance it gets and has a satisfying difficulty to augment the gameplay.The A.I suprisingly tries to flank you and uses different tactics to flush you out of cover. The brutes actually function as brutes and try to smash your body into a pulp and the grunts suicidally charge into battle with little regard for their own life.

Keyboard support
This actually suprised me but the game functions spectacularly with mouse and keyboard. The character moves fluidly and doesn't get hung up on objects at all.

Cons

Vehicle Controls
Spartan Assault features multiple vehicle sections where you can pilot tanks,speeders,and other such craft.They definitely break up the monotony of the game itself but they control so terribly that all I wanted to do was get them out of the way as quick as I possibly could. When in the Scorpion tank for example,you can only move in 8 directions in environments clearly not meant for such a control scheme.This results in you getting caught up on rocks and cover that litters the ground and making you an easy target for covenant soldiers.

Graphics
Spartan Assault plays from an isometric viewpoint and,as typical of other isometric games,has horrendous texture quality since they believe you can't see it close enough to tell. This problem plagues Spartan Assault in a particularly bad manner as there are many areas where you indeed can see the textures up close and when you do you can tell that they look abhorrent.

Amount of Content
One of the first things you should know about Halo:Spartan Assault is that the game is short,as in 30 levels short.The game is clearly designed like a mobile game and has levels that you can complete in 5-10 minutes each. There are 6 chapters in the game and 5 levels within each chapter but seeing how quick you can complete each mission there really isn't a whole lot there.If you were wondering,there is no co-op or multiplayer mode in this game,though I feel it would be a very welcome addition and could fit well with the style of gameplay.

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