Sadie Story

Hi there, so here I am again. Not as regular as Id like, but it could be worse. Couldn´t it?

////The Meta-Game
Anyway I completed the meta-game Sadie´s Story in ODST. And that´s what made me come here today. Its great. The "game" itself is not much. You´ll basically come across signals from The Superintendent while playing in Mombasa Streets as The Rookie. The signals vary from police car´s sirens and digital ads suddenly turning into arrows pointing a direction to ticket machines venting cash non-stop.

Sadie Endesha, the main character

Finding the clues using these signals its great and intuitive, you feel like you´re being directed by the city itself (Thanks, Vergil ^-^). Once found, a clue would be only a bit of audio with some images. I told ya, that´s not much. But those bits of audio tell the story of Sadie, a young girl from New Mombasa, and they do so from her in-universe perspective. For Halo fanatics like me having audio bits of Mombasa´s daily life and the Covenant´s assault from the civilian´s perspective is very interesting. Add that the story is well told, well connected and displayed as one of those old-school radio novels and its just too sweet for me to not go after each little clue as a hungry hound.

There were 30, and boy, one or two of them were really hidden. Were not for lil´s Superintendent help I would have never found them. The last one was specially diferent, and especially dramatic.

////It was a G-R-E-A-T Idea
Including optional information about the game universe in any game is something Dev´s should do more often. Bungie tried it a bit with Halo 3´s Terminals. Its a great way to expand the game universe while not anoying players with endless cinematics or tons of text they can´t skip. Of course if you like the game and the story, you´ll want to see what those bits have to offer. But if you´re the kind of (idiot) player who only wants to shoot at stuff with his laz00r you won´t search for them, and you wont spam the dev´s mail with tons of "your game rulz but to much cutzcenes!!!!" so, this way, everybody is happy. The story-loving fans and the gameplay-only dudes

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Sierra K-042 out!!