Halo: Spartan Strike

Hey kiddo, Handsome Jack here... and I just played Halo: Spartan Strike, and apparently someone looked at Halo: Spartan Assault and thought, “You know what this needs? More Covenant, more Prometheans, and exactly the same camera angle that makes you feel like you're operating a very expensive military-themed Roomba.” Honestly? I respect the commitment. You play as a Spartan running around from a top-down perspective, shooting Covenant and Prometheans, throwing grenades, driving vehicles, collecting weapons, and generally turning every battlefield into a small-scale alien extermination operation. It's Halo. But someone put it on a security camera. The weapons are still fun, though. Assault rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles, rockets, plasma weapons, all the classics. You can pick up a powerful weapon and immediately start feeling like the most dangerous person on the planet. Then five seconds later you walk into a group of enemies and realize you're actually playing a top-down panic simulator. And the Prometheans? Oh, good. Robots. Because apparently shooting aliens wasn't enough. Now I have to deal with teleporting robot dogs, floating robot things, giant robot things, and…

Fun twin stick shooter, much better than Spartan Assault. Fine addition to the Halo franchise, good enough to spend an afternoon or two enjoying it's gameplay. One problem I have with Spartan Strike is the requirement to get gold medals on all previous missions to unlock last chapter. It's not difficult at all but it's artificially making the game longer than it should be.

It's a mobile game ported to PC? Why would macrohard do this?

The idea of a Halo top down shooter could be genuinely awesome but Microsoft or any studio will not take the concept seriously and actually translate the games into an actual top down shooter that has depth. Other than it not really feeling like Halo or anything inspired. Its frankly kind of boring, Windows 8 store slop. There is nothing this game really does well or differently. Its not even that bad -- theres just nothing its actually good at.

Admittedly this 2nd game was harder than the 1st. They added a few more classic weapons, like the BR and the incineration canon, making it a lot more fun and familiar. Although its not like the FPS games I still felt the aura of Halo over me. You can even multi carry weapons and abilities. You cant T-bag which is not okay with me. I do wish that they added more skulls, since there is only 6 (some of them unique to this halo), which would make it so that skulls rent being used over and over for different achievements. Id like it a lot if there was 3rd game like tis at some point in the future.

Pretty good game if you like TDS & Halo. Despite missions being short-length, it still offers good amount of gameplay and pretty decent sandbox. Recommended to get it from the Halo: Spartan Bundle so you get Halo: Spartan Assault too.