Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: Halo, traffic lights, and more Halo.
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What we’ve been playing, here’s our archive.
Some games are better on the big screen. And I mean the proper big screen. I used to be a projectionist, back when that was still a thing, and for a while after every Saturday shift I’d take over the main screen, plumb in an Xbox 360 and have some friends around for an all-nighter. You haven’t really played Rockstar’s Table Tennis until you’ve done it with a 20-foot tall Liu Ping, really.
Playing games at near-IMAX proportions was a thrill, and there was always one game that made the leap to the big screen more capably than the rest. We toss around the word cinematic an awful lot in these parts, but Halo’s a series that really deserves the term – playing through Halo 3 in a 200-seater screen is proof of that, its impossible vistas and fizzing clouds of purple laser fire popping like a sci-fi spectacular. It’s where a series of that scope and vision belongs.