This will probably be my first insta buy for myself when released, I loved the game when i first played through it. :D

If it does, then i'm def buying this game. :)

Those 'reviewers' should have been shot. Seriously, the game was nothing like that. And Halo better than Blood? Did you mean to type that? If so I heartily recommend staying off the hard drugs.

Blood has a certain nostalgia to it that sets it apart from other shooters from that time. They just dont make games like that anymore. It also was fairly innovative at that time with flaming enemies and destructible environments...etc.
While Halo was good in it's own right, it doesn't hold a candle to Blood IMO.

Blood and Shadow Warrior were the best build engines, their level design was truly great and well, well, hmm, designed. :D Games' level design is now too linear, they might as well fill the levels with "this way" arrows everywhere.

Halo was never more than a mediocre/decent game at best. It's popularity is based on nothing more than screaming fanboy bullshit. In terms of being overrated, Halo has Blood beaten in spades. Halo 2 was too short, too easy and the multiplayer was a damn joke compared to the quality of the multiplayer in the original game. I haven't played Halo 3, but from the reviews I've read and the people and friends I know that did play it, it was a giant steaming pile of ass. I remember when I first got my original copy of Blood back when it was still on the shelves and everything about it just screamed instant classic. The destructive enviroments (which Halo doesn't have), the haunting music (which Halo doesn't have), the creepy enviroments (which Halo doesn't have), the dark sense of humor (which Halo doesn't have). The massive amount of references to popular culture (which Halo doesn't have). It was also among the first FPS to allow the weapons to have alternate firing modes (which Halo doesn't have). Anyone can who claim that Halo is in ANY way, shape, size or color better than Blood is a living testament to why drinking the bong water is a bad idea. And since you brought up the "great story" of Halo, lets compare it to the story of Blood and see which one seems superior.
Halo- Alien Invasion- Kill them all. WOWALIENSOMG. That's never been done before <cough snort>
Blood- Yeah, the concept of vengeance is timeless, but the story itself has never been replicated. It was deep, it was dark and it was excellent. Much more original than the Alien Invasion crap that is just plain tired and beat to death.

I only played the blood demo; so I am really looking forward to this release. But what I remember about the levels I played was the interesting level design and the innovative engine use which really pushed the technology at the time. It was more than just a shooter. I think there was a time where FPS forced you to think about where you are and where you were going that is missing now.

Yeah, I meant exactly what I said. And now, reviewers weren't short-sighted, I'm referring to the original mid-Nineties game-reviews I used to read when the Internet was anything but widespread.
And Halo, I'd like to remind you, was and still is a great story-focused FPS made by Bungie with distinctive traits like to ability to mount and productively drive many vehicles, a feature that wasn't exactly the norm back in its days....
And I still repeat: Blood is overrated.

Wow, I just typed a paragraph post up there and now its just an empty post box. What the fark? It took me like 5 minutes to type that out! <sadface>
Fixed- Just retyped it to the best of my memory. I wonder if there is some sort of glitch in the quoting system.

What new ideas did Halo introduce? Better graphics and you could drive vehicles. <snore>
In fact, all the new concepts that Blood introduced (alternate weapon firing modes, destructible environments) are oddly missing from Halo. The point of advancing technology is to build on the technology that came before it and improve it. Halo didn't even do that much, lol. Better graphics don't make a better game, All that glitters isn't gold dude, that's all I'm saying. How many games with great graphics turned out to be total shit? (Brute Force comes to mind)? How many movies with great special effects were complete crap? If I take a lump of shit out of my cat's litter box and have it plated in 24kt gold, guess what....its still shit! You can't polish a turd man, honestly.
Next he'll be telling us that Halo was better than Half-Life and we'll have to shoot him.

Much like Final Fantasy VII, Halo was pretty much just in the right place in the right time. There's not much more to say about it; it's polished, but boring, and the multiplayer is among the weakest I've seen in an FPS.
Those are just my opinions, but the point is, Blood is and always has been a cult game; even back then, it never really reached the same level of popularity as its cousin Duke Nukem 3D, at least not as far as I ever noticed. Regardless of quality, the idea that a cult game is clearly more overrated than the very face of modern blockbuster console shooters is a little hard for me to accept.

Don't get me wrong, I love Duke3D, it happens to one of my favorite games. And Duke in general is a pimp :) However, the only reasons that Duke3D got so popular was a result of all the attention it got over the level of violence in contained (which was actually less gory than Blood. And the large amount of sexual content it contained. The sexual content propelled Duke3D to a higher level of controversy than Blood reach over it's violence alone and as everyone knows, when parents hate something, it just makes their kids want it even more, lol. So Duke3D got more attention and as a result, made more money. Duke3D is a goddamn classic and I love it to death, but Blood is superior even to that. Halo is not only the most overrated FPS ever, it may well be the most overrated game of all time. I'd be willing to be you dollars to donuts that the reason behind this guy defending Halo so adamantly is because he happens to be one of the screaming Halo fanboys I mentioned earlier. You know the type I'm talking about, we've all met them. The ones that fly into a Halo-Emo rage anytime someone dares to suggest that their precious pile of shiny, boring crap is anything less than the God of all games. Please.

I'm not sure I ever even played Blood until some years after its release. I was aware of it - the iconic box art and a pretty memorable ad in PC Gamer made sure of that - but I missed out on it the first time around. For whatever reason, I wasn't really interested (maybe I figured it wouldn't be as good as Duke 3D, or maybe I thought the ridiculous blood and gore was actually meant to be taken seriously), and I never heard much buzz about it, either. One might argue that it's overrated among its audience, but overrated in general... I don't see it.
I don't own Blood in any form, so I'm looking forward to playing it again.

Well, my biggest request for GOG (next to System Shock 1 and 2 anyways) finally gets answered :)
Will be buying it tomorrow, for certain.