Halo 3 Review

[Spartan-11755]

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Return of the King, September 25, 2007
By Michael Corona "Nemesis Legion" (New York City) - See all my reviews


Fun:
Halo 3 - Circa 2007


GOOD:
- Four-player online (or offline) co-op Gameplay allows two; three, or four players play through the game from start to end. A co-op player can come into the game at any time and leave at any time (note only one of you will play as the Master Chief, while another will play as the Arbiter, and the other two players will be Elites that work with humans)
- Great looking graphics and animation, that look even better then Halo 2, F.E.A.R. and just as good as Bioshock, while these graphics might not look as good as Gears of War do to some people these graphics still are some of the best seen to date.
- Intense multiplayer action online through Xbox Live with matches as small as one on one and as big as 16 players (and offline with out using Xbox Live using either spilt screen, or system link). Halo 3 is set up similar to Halo 2 in the sense that you're given a rank when you play multiplayer (this rank can go up or down at any time) this rank is representative of your skill and your matched with others of your skill type, that way new unskilled players and hardcore veterans will not often play against one another, unless they make a special match themselves that ignores rank.

BAD:
- Confusing plot to new players of this franchise - Playing Pervious games and read the Halo Novels will fill you in on the details, if you are incline to learn them.
- No Clan Support (like in Halo 2) - This might get fixed in a future patch
- Game is considered short to some (Campaign Story Mode).

IF IT FITS YOUR TASTE:
- A Sci-Fi First Person Shooter with quick pacing and vehicle combat.
- Co-op and online versus/team games is the big draw here.
- NEW MODE: Forge is a mode that lets you edit all the maps in Halo 3, while you cannot rebuild the maps themselves you can in this mode, add and take away any and all of the objects from vehicles and guns to spawning points and flag zones. This is all done in real time and you can invite friends to this mode while your customizing the map(s), they can play a multiplayer game while your doing this (instead of just waiting for you) and if you want you can forgo editing the map and join the game at hand as either a player or the map editor (who looks like 343 Guilty Spark), while playing as the map editor you can still add and take away any and all objects from vehicles and guns to spawning points and flag zones any time you want.
- NEW MODE: Theater Mode is a video editor that lets you record and play back any and all matches from Campaign, Multiplayer, and Forge modes from the point of view of any player either in first person or third person (even in a orbit-cam where the camera circles around the player) all in real time (you can also pause this at any time as well as fast forward and rewind), even use your camera to fly around the match and see the match from any angle you want, Don't forget you must save your videos before you turn off the game or you will lose said videos. Also you can take a picture at any time and save it to your Xbox 360 then download your picture at Bungie.com.

GAME ITS MOST ASSOCATED TOO:
- Halo 2 (Xbox)
- Halo (Xbox)
- Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3)
- Bioshock (360)
- Gears of War (360)

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- There are bonus items scattered through the Campaign Story Mode called Skulls getting these "Skulls" will make the game harder (by doing things like turning off radar for the rest of the Campaign Mode your playing it) but will also greatly increase your meta game score for the Campaign Mode.
- There are two different limited collectors editions of this game. One is called the limited edition, which comes in a metal tin and has a bonus disc (with behind the scene videos and such) and also comes with an art book. While the other limited edition (called Legendary edition) you will find an art book a mini poster two bonus DVDs (with behind the scene videos and such as well as a collection of all the cut scenes form Halo and Halo 2 and themes you can download to your 360) And the it comes with a plastic Master Chief Helmet to keep your DVDs in (Helmet as big a volley ball).
- At Bungie.com you can sign up and pay a small fee to upgrade your Halo 3 account (default is free) to hold more space on their serves for your videos/pictures/clips that you made. (Spoiler about the end movie highlight to better read) Ok so if you have played the game what do you think of the film after the credits I really think we can either look foward to some kind of sequel or its just a cliffhanger for something else what do you think?

[Templar Mikeel]

A friend of mine who bought the limited edition version got it yesterday, but because of crappy game casing, the disc was horibly scratched.

[Torquemada Coteaz]

No, not crappy game casing.
That just happened to a lot of the halo3s
Disks were scratched regardless of casing and edition.

It's still a graet game though.
My legendary edition totally worth 150$ CAD

and some Toys'R'Us's are gonna get TOTALLY BUSTED UP THE WAZOO for selling H3 several days early

Addition to halo 3 notes:

- Armour Permutations:
Achievements and skull collection unlocks different armour pieces (head/chest/shoulder) for various armour sets, allowing customizing for appearance

Addition to Associations:
-Half Life Orange, which released on same day as H3 and so NO ONE, NOT A SOUL even heard of it until much afterwards

[Templar Mikeel]

Oh, well, he said that it played normal at first, but now it's terrible.

[Spartan-11755]

on a side note I hate the flood and guilty spark

[Stubber]

On another note.

For those of you who haven't finished the game yet... watch ALL the credits and you may get a suprise in the end.

Or if you're a big reader of spoilers you'll already know what happens...

[Lord Commander Erus]

I'm still waiting to try this.. Whats the deal w/ the armor variants & pieces??

[Stubber]

Has anyone found any terminals in the campaign mode?

I found one, thought it was just a piece of fluff or something, later on I realised you get stuff for finding more of them.

[Ikarus]

On the last level, just check somewhere near the right of the mountain/hill or w.e. side. If you go to meet flood, you've gone too far.

Only found one.

[Torquemada Coteaz]

Currently i have:
6 terminals (out of 8, or 7 if you're only counting the Marathon Man ones)
10 Skulls (you really DO have to start from beginning of levels to get skulls. as i found out the hard way)

And Armour Permutations:
different feats and achievements (feats like getting 750 gamerpoints or unlocking all H3 achievements) will get you different pieces of armour

the coolest spartan armour is Bungie-related people GIVEN to them.
for Hayabusa Armour ther is a FOURTH piece unlocked by getting all H3 achievements (its a katana on the back)

Other armour are unlocked :
Head , Chest , Shoulder (though you can mix'n'match shoulders, each "set"'s shoulder is unlocked separately)
Also, there isnt always 3 pieces for all the sets, some just have head pieces or other ones