Without the Halo name and sound effects, Spartan Assault would be a colorful but otherwise barely remarkable twin-stick shooter. Aside from some annoying stability problems and dumb microtransactions, it’s competently made, but rarely memorable unless you’re playing the online-only co-op.
The top-down perspective turns the distinctive Halo arsenal into a bunch of pretty boring guns. Only the heat-seeking Needler has any real complexity to it beyond point and shoot, so most of them handle too similarly to make you play differently. Most of the variety comes from the armor abilities, like health regen.
A few of the 30 single-player missions get ambitious, allowing you to drive a Scorpion tank or hijack a Covenant vehicle. It could’ve used more of that kind of freedom, because the typical search-and-destroy and timed holdouts against waves of enemies get old pretty quick.
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