Actually, as I said in my Halo 4 review series, once you peel back the layers you discover that the game is actually a love story.

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Well my point was not directed at Halo 4 individually, but AAA FPS titles in general (which includes halo).

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Halo appealed to me and my grown-up friends because of its cooperative play, which enables one player to drive a Jeep while another guy can sit in the passenger seat and wail on his machine gun.

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On 26 June 2003, I had my head shaved and then put into an iron "halo" to hold it still while I had an MRI scan, which the surgeon used to navigate the electrodes.

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Halo Reach and Red Dead Redemption were two of my personal favorites, from a gameplay perspective especially.

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