Aug 17, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 11 segments
Mike and Matt discuss quite a few games, including the new/old Halo (good buy or goodbye?), Splatoon Raiders, Denshattack and The Mound: Omen of Cthulu. They then move on to review some good and not…
Built in Unreal Engine 5, not one of Bungie's in-house engines, most recently the Slipspace engine for the first time ever.
Yeah, it's a funny one to review because I've played that game, I don't know how many times in my life, many times, probably close to a dozen, I suppose,
in dipping
individual levels.
It's hard to evaluate it because I know the levels so well, and it feels different.
So I went back and also played some OG Halo, and I think the combat definitely feels much tighter.
In the OG.
Yeah.
yeah yeah for sure why that is i'm not quite sure the controls just feel a little bit better there are fewer enemies uh i guess because you know unreal engine 5 can handle more but it feels like the ai was better i mean you might recall that when halo came out in 2001 launched title for the xbox the game that saved the xbox as i'm
sure i've mentioned before yes yeah i was
i was on a box of mag uh at that time and then i later moved to the gaming mags And I was in the mailing, so I got an Xbox and every game that was released for it for the first two or three years.
And you could throw away every single one of them because they were rubbish.
Crimson
Skies, mate.
Yeah.
In the bin, mate.
I'm sorry.
Look, there were a couple of okay games
and
Built in Unreal Engine 5, not one of Bungie's in-house engines, most recently the Slipspace engine for the first time ever.
Yeah, it's a funny one to review because I've played that game, I don't know how many times in my life, many times, probably close to a dozen, I suppose,
in dipping
individual levels.
It's hard to evaluate it because I know the levels so well, and it feels different.
So I went back and also played some OG Halo, and I think the combat definitely feels much tighter.
In the OG.
Yeah.
yeah yeah for sure why that is i'm not quite sure the controls just feel a little bit better there are fewer enemies uh i guess because you know unreal engine 5 can handle more but it feels like the ai was better i mean you might recall that when halo came out in 2001 launched title for the xbox the game that saved the xbox as i'm
sure i've mentioned before yes yeah i was
i was on a box of mag uh at that time and then i later moved to the gaming mags And I was in the mailing, so I got an Xbox and every game that was released for it for the first two or three years.
And you could throw away every single one of them because they were rubbish.
Crimson
Skies, mate.
Yeah.
In the bin, mate.
I'm sorry.
Look, there were a couple of okay games
and
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