The Nerd Next Door

Halo is in sort of a rocky place right now, the franchises entire hopes ride on a return to the classic style with Halo Infinite after the disaster that was Halo 5: Guardians . But Infinite won't be the first return to a classic style, as little more than a year after Halo 5 , Halo Wars 2 dropped on Xbox and PC. With a more simplified premise, a return to a classic world in the series, and a new villain, does Halo Wars 2 outshine the first one? Halo Wars 2 is set 28 years after Halo Wars and about 6 months after Halo 5:Guardians ; after being lost in space at the end of Halo Wars , Halo Wars 2 sees the crew of the UNSC Spirit of Fire being awoken in orbit around a restored Ark from Halo 3 . However, the crew quickly discovers a Brute dominated ex-Covenant faction called the Banished in possession of the Ark after slaughtering the scientific survey outpost and Spartan escort that previously occupied it.  The Spirit of Fire, along with a new AI named Isabel, finds itself a...

With Halo: The Master Chief Collection nearing it's first test run on PC, I decided to take a look back at every Halo game as it was originally released... because I own all of them and can do that. First up is Halo Combat Evoilved on the original Xbox. Now this wasn't my first Halo, it was Halo 2, I got the Platinum Hits of Halo 1 for Easter 2005 when I was 8 because I had very lenient parents when it came to content. It was loaded with a Halo 2 teaser and Behind the Scenes disc and that's not important is it? No, what's important is does the original Halo hold up in 2019? Because I like beating a horse to the ground as I said the same thing about Jak and Daxter last week and that is also from 2001. I love Halo's story, it's a great tale both in terms of books and the games themselves, but we're not here to talk about the books. We're here to talk about Halo CE, which follows the crew of the United Nations Space Command starship Pillar of Autumn...