[/)eathKiller]

Halo, in a way is like a fantasy game, because it takes place on that magnificent ring world which was actually borrowed from a famous Author's Idea in his book: The Ring World [img]tongue.gif[/img] If you click on my homepage link and go to the bottom theres some info on Halo and it has some inferences to the Marathon Storyline, The way I see it, in Marathon, Durandal predicted the universe would cease to exist in 539.4 years, but in his calculations he forgot the carry the 7 [img]smile.gif[/img] this, in turn, meant that the universe had a greater timeline, and that the marine, who you play as in marathon, who was upgraded to seargeant and then cheif seargent and finally at the end master cheif, IS the MJORNAR Marine in Halo, he just has a more revealing suit [img]tongue.gif[/img] The lack of rippling facial muscles was pretty good actually [img]tongue.gif[/img] No more bat-man style helmet for him [img]tongue.gif[/img] well ok it wasn't that bad... anyway, The P'for race, being destroyed, and the JJARO, having moved their planets far far far away again gave rise to a newer, weaker alien race who were religeouse extremists and cultists, they, together, were known as the covanent, much like the one's in that famouse novel... very fantasy like IMO. Fantasy doesn't always have to take place in a pre-midevil world of elves and dwarves and dragons and castles and adventure and stuff you know, Phantasy Star Online proved that for me, it was just like playing with a D20 system excep the numbers had changed and made it a D200 system and the levels were much like dungeons, th emonsters distributed EXP fairly (though I didn't like needing 500 milllion exp to level up nearing the end with the largest amout i could gain at one time being 300 per kill >_<) and it takes aloit of commitment, also, chances of finding anything good are SO LOW that I'm amazed that I accomplished getting my hands on every weapon in the game [img]tongue.gif[/img] (It took 7 mules mind you) the 8 player classes are perfectly ballanced though RAMARS are too ballanced [img]tongue.gif[/img] they're Rangers but they're human, sounds like a good idea right? Well the other two rangers you can play as are Androids, and let me tell you something about androids, Rangers magic SUCKS to begin with, so Not having any and sacrificing the low-level spells for bizzarley HUGE ammounts of strenghte was the best idea IMO. THat's why I got a ranger android to level 200. Knights (knowns as Hunters) are Ok and all but honestly, they're too strong at the beggining and too weak nearing the end, Mages (known as forces) are really kept on their toes as they never really gain enough HP to fight the last boss, but their spells are SO helpfull and their casting points can go SO DARN HIGH it's scarry, My male force att level 182 has 28715 casting points and he's still not maxed out [img]tongue.gif[/img] So its a niceley ballanced game, EXCEPT FOR WHEN PLAYERS FIGHT PLAYERS, ok her'es where it gets bad, If all of my stats as an android were equal tot he stats of a force the force would win the fight because he'd have MAGIC @_@ all i could do would shoot him with a gun and MAYBE kill him, unless he casts some spell on me to make me lose DEX : / so i don't recomend the battle system, but thats why the game is based specifically on TEAMWORK, and boy, george, do you ever have that! There seems to always be someone who knows something more than you and also doesnt know something which you do... its quite a fun experience... the game is kind of a FPS because all classes can use handguns and machine guns while rangers get shotguns, bazookas, and rifles, (plus a very special weapon which rains death down from the heavens but it's special, like i said) most people prefer playing it in 3rd person though because then you can see if something comes from behind you, me included, i only use First person view when I'm backed into a corner actually *cough* but the game plays like an MMORPG... just no turns on the battle system, its more like Zelda with alot of players [img]smile.gif[/img]