Halo 3 – Xbox 360

This is my favorite game of all time is so fun just the mission Cortana was terrible

Out of all the Halo games I’ve played, I enjoy Halo 3 the most…though the original Halo will always hold a special place. Halo 3 serves as the final game in the Halo trilogy…prior to the release or eventual release of Halo 4, 5 and 6 and that storyline.

Foremost, I believe Halo 3 has the best graphics and sound to date with a continuation of a fantastic soundtrack. Mjollinor Mix continues to this day on my iPod. The storyline was not too hard to follow, but required going back through the original Halos to shore up everything that was occurring. I would even say the story ended satisfactorily…especially considering the Master Chief is now back in action in the new Halo games.

Halo has always been my favorite game, next to Gears of War, because of the simple concept of pick up a weapon, kill your enemies, and move forward. Simple, straightforward, easy…until you increase the difficulties of your stupid enemies, haha. New enemies, new weapons, and new vehicles…each with their pros and cons. Very easy to figure out what you’re supposed to do and where you’re supposed to go. Save the world already!

As to the selling point on Halo 3, the multiplayer experience is/was just amazing. The matching, the loading, the maps, etc. Very few glitches and a whole lot of fun all nighters playing Halo 3. The worst part was paying Microsoft and having them try to auto charge you for the next month instead of letting you decide whether or not to pay.

Definitely a game I go back to and play often, whether alone or with friends. Probably still will if Halo 4 is all they have to offer down the line. Let’s see what Halo 5 can do!

I have been a long time Halo fan, though it happens I never owned an Xbox until recently. So, I decided to buy Halo 3, finally, so that I could play throguh it myself instead of watching online playthroughs of it. While the multiplayer is no longer very populated, with the release of Reach and Anniversary, there are still several gametypes to choose from, and there is a fair number of people still playing it. Unfortunately, you would be hard-pressed to find a match for your own skill level, overall. All-in-all, I feel that (finally) buying Halo 3 was worth it, and I will be going back and playing it now and then.

Flag-ship franchise. Why not? Love it!

Legendary many memories with my brothers

Overall this is a great game. I’m a hardcore Halo 1/Halo 2 fan and like many others, were quite disappointed with Halo 3. Since we have that experience of what Halo used to be like, we tend to underrate new Halo games.

Let’s go over some things…

Cons:

1) The Halo 2 multiplayer maps were perfect. Beaver Creek, Lockout, Ivory Tower, Midship – all amazing. The Halo 3 maps are disheartening. If you’ve never played Halo 2 then you have nothing to compare them to and thus are avoiding disappointment, which is a good thing. The Halo 2 map remakes (like Blackout) are another huge disappointment, as the changes they made were horrible.

2) Ranking up in online multiplayer is much easier than before. Great for noobs who play once a week – bad for skilled players who deserve higher ranks without being grouped with unskilled players. Halo’s advantage was that it was easy to rank down and harder to rank up. It seems they are becoming more lenient with the ranking up process and are making it more like other games (such as Call of Duty) where everyone can easily rank up.

3) No one plays online anymore. Since Halo 3, there has been “Halo 3: ODST” and “Halo: Reach”. Everyone is now playing Reach. In H3, it’s hard to find matches at times, especially if you’re with a friend with a high rank difference. It’s not unlikely for me to play with the same group of players all night long. This gets boring fast. It’s much funner when you know hundreds of thousands of people are playing online, all competing with each other.

4) The campaign sucked. I could care less about campaigns, but H1 and H2 campaigns were fun. H3 was boring and seemed re-hashed. I beat it in a couple hours.

5) Too many weapon additions. I like the idea of new weapons, but I don’t like what they added.

6) The sword was rendered almost useless. In H2 all you had to do was switch weapons and lunge. Now, you have to wait like 2 seconds to pull the thing out. Which means the only time you can use it is when you’re prepared to use it (such as when you’re behind a corner and have time to pull it out).

7) Last but not least, there’s still a huge amount of “BS!”. All games have it. It’s when you’re running behind a corner and some how they killed you even though you know you were at an angle they couldn’t have shot you. Or when you lunge to melee someone and some how they assassinated you while you are looking at them. Or how your sniper was centered in on their gut, 2 inches away, but somehow the bullet went through them? The list goes on and on. I love Halo, but I scream at my TV all day long because of all the unbelievable, unrealistic, “BS!” they have in the game.

Pros:

1) My biggest complaint with H2 was the button combos and the BR+Plasma Pistol combo. In H3, they made the Plasma Pistol less accurate (doesn’t follow someone around corners/from long distances) and not as much ammo. They also took out the button combos so people can’t cheat.

2) The “Needler” was improved and it’s much more of a go-to weapon, although I wish you could still dual wield them.

3) The biggest “Pro” of Halo 3 as well as all other Halo games is that it caters to skill. What I mean by that is a great Halo player that advances his or her skill can do things that aren’t possible in other games, regardless of how good you are. A great Halo player can win a battle that doesn’t start in their favor, such as someone shooting you first. In games like Call of Duty or Battlefield, when someone shoots you first, you almost always die unless by some miracle you can get behind a wall or cover. Skill in games like COD and BF are camping, waiting for people to run by, sitting in the bushes, staying on the outskirts of the battlefield and shooting others before they even see you. Skill in Halo is proper usage of your controls. Correct grenade timing. Maneuvering back and forth, jumping and what have you to avoid being shot or getting blown up. It’s melee’ing at the right times, crouching when necessary to avoid radar.

People that call Halo “Gaylo” or whatever are usually people that suck at playing. They’re used to games that cater to people who just pull the trigger to get good. Who sit and camp to get good. Those are not fun games. They’re entertaining – but you won’t find dedicated players like you find with Halo. Halo is in a league of it’s own, and it’s a shame more games aren’t like it.

To sum up Halo 3:

It’s a great game but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone new. It’s too late to play online multiplayer and the campaign sucks. Only buy this if you’re going through all the old Halo games just to play the campaign and say that you did it. Everyone else, get Halo Reach – that’s where it’ll be for the next year or so. After Halo 4 comes out, that’s where most will be then, and we can only hope they make it a great game as well.