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Halo.....it is worth the wait to complete the trilogy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was able to get a copy from circuit city last night and stayed all night with a pot of coffee to keep me from wavering as i was ready, set and going forward. Just now i have stop to post here what i think of it thus far....WOW is the word that came out of my mouth time and time again as i was playing this game. Playing on my HDTV with the lights off and the sound up, it just doesn't get any better than this. Now i have played both Halo 1 and 2, and this one is much better in every way other then the campaign which the first one still hold as king but graphic wise, this one takes the cake. Those who don't like this game just don't understand what Halo means and will never understand it. You know what, forget it....i'm going back and continue where i left off because i want to see how long it take me to complete this thing so i'll finish this review once i'm done. Take care and let's Halo!

Halo 3 review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This product is a great product. When I bought this and ended up getting it a couple of days after everyone else I was ecstatic. I thought that I was going to have to wait for a while before I received the game. If I was ever to buy something like this again I would definitely do it.

fun, fast faced, customizable

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game. Especially at LAN parties. The customizable game types and maps is really fun. And the gameplay has been improved from the last game.

Halo 2 > Halo 3

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This was one game I couldn't wait to play. But as I was overseas during the release, I was away from my 360 for an extended period of time, and didn't come to own this game until well after the initial hype had gone down. By the time I finally played it, I approached it with a bit less enthusiasm, and more of a perfunctory attitude.

Perhaps the game just did not live up to the seemingly astronomical expectations, but I definitely did not have as much fun playing this game as I did with Halo 2. Everything about this game: the story, the level design, the cinematics, the enemy design, the dialogue, the multiplayer... all lack the level of inspiration that Bungie has been famous for. And while I find the graphics quite good, others have criticized it's lack of "Next-Gen-ness". All in all, I'd have to say that this third and final installment is a disappointment, mainly by the nosebleed-high standard that the series has set for itself.

With that being said, I'm still playing it now, a couple months after purchase, but the mileage certainly won't be quite the same as the last trip out.

wHEN THE tough get rough, you must pull out the stuff

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Halo 3 is a great single player experience. The Story is captivating. The enemy ai is entertaining. The scenery is beautiful.
The multi-player is fun. Just about everyone that plays halo 3 online is pretty darn good right now. So its very competitive, be ready for a challenge if you are playing this game for the first time. A lot of map to pick from.

Short solo game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I suppose Halo3 is a good multiplayer game, but I bought it (mainly because it was on sale) for the solo content. In that respect is is lacking.

* The solo game is short, I finished it in less than a week.
* The goals are confusing at times, without enough info to understand what they want...you end up guessing a lot.
* No map? You have all this high tech armor but no map of your location?
* The graphics are ok, but no better than Unreal Tournament II.

There is the rub. This game wasn't as entertaining as the old Unreal Tournament, and the graphics weren't any better.

If you want team based multi-player, this is probably a good game. Otherwise, it is mostly just over-hyped.

Halo 3

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is not that much of an improvement from the other Halos to me, it's the same old thing. This is not at all a story driven game its just all out crap, although it may have good graphics (if you call that pompous, delusional nerd's idea of "realism" good graphics or even close to just imitating real life) and an exciting live mode it's just not creative. You could take every cliche for the past fifty years and stir it into a gray paste to lather on the faces of the brain-dead hordes of morons that worship this game and it would be more beneficial for their poor, warped minds than to have them play this game. It sucks.

An actual quote from a frequent player of this abominable franchise; "I-LOVE-HALO... MUST-PLAY-HALO... I-STILL-HAVE-BRAIN-CELLS!!! MUST-REMEDY-AND-PLAY-HALO!!!" And just like the others of his kind and the legion of air-headed preteen girls sucked into the Hannah Montana vortex, his body, which would not yield to slavery like his mind had, promptly picked up the closest blunt object to himself and bashed his brains out...

Master Chief Comes Full Circle

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

There is no reason to state the amount of hype attached to this game, so I'm not going to. Let me say I've hardly ever seen a game that lived up to its hype fully. Many of the greatest games were sequels in an already great game series. The third and final installment of Halo (or so Bungie says) encompasses everything the game developers were looking to add to the second one. And in my opinion, they did everything very well. Here is a short mach up of the game's main parts:

Gameplay 9 of 10: The mechanics feel very good and a lot of the game resembles Halo: Combat Evolved. Everything is intuitive, no drastic changes but many small beneficial additions. Many of the serious physics problems from Halo 2 were addressed. I will say it is my favorite of the three in terms of pure gameplay. There is constant action and variation. The Arbiter is taken out of the gameplay for the most part. Only as a cooperative partner can the Arbiter join in. My favorite feature of the game is that a great deal of the enemies have changed. To begin with the Flood are only in two complete levels if I remember correctly. Nobody I know likes fighting them.

The developers took this to heart. A few things I've noticed about them: if you shoot the Flood part of the "infected" they go down easier, they are now able to be beaten into their constituents and they're just quite simply not as difficult to kill. In fact the difficulty levels are a step down from the first two games. Normal seems like an enhanced easy. Brutes are considerably weaker. A few shots to the chest now destroys their armor. This is explained by skulls which make the game more like the legendary setting of old.

There are 13 skulls that can be found in various secret places in the game. They add things like: grunts throw many more grenades, all enemies have extra health, you have to hit enemies to get shields back etc. These also add multipliers to the Meta-game. In the Meta-game you are given points based on how and who you kill. Brutes obviously net more points. This is a fun way to compete with others via xbox live. So many features have been added to this game, it is hard to list them all.

Graphics 8 of 10: Very good visuals stand out even form other next generation games. Lighting and reflection is greatly superior to many other current games, weapons look more realistic than anything in the game. Much more time was spent on the textures and close up visuals. Colors are vibrant, everything has sharp and crisp lines as long as you have HD or I prefer S-video (because I'm lame and have a CRT)

Controls 8 of 10: Controls take an evolutionary step, with only a couple of buttons moved out of necessity for the special items. The basics are the same as first and second game and as always have little to no learning curve. There are more options on the personalization of the controls now. In my opinion Halo 3 has the best controls for a shooter game and has been copied before.

Music / Sound Effects 7 of 10: The music is just brilliantly done with a full orchestra was added and the original soundtrack has been seriously enhanced and expanded by Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori (the composers for all three games). With an orchestra in the background, the game just feels more epic and gives a human quality to the story. The sound effects on the other hand are nothing new or really better than ok, even with the volume way up it is hard to get the full experience. Many of the weapons seem to be toned down literally.

Weapons 8 of 10: Many, many weapons were added. Here is a full list: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Weapons There are probably more weapons in this game than the first two combined. Unfortunately many go by the wayside because of there ineffectiveness against enemies-especially on multiplayer. If you remember those energy shields you always see the covenant have and you always wished you had one, Halo 3 gives you the option along with a bunch of other new special items: energy drains, deployable cover, trip mines, bubble shields, flares, invincibility, incendiary grenades and a few more. The bubble shield is quite impressive-throw this out and a large sphere will encapsulate you and keep out any and all weapons fire including explosives. However, anyone can walk in.

Vehicles 8 of 10: a very well done fleet of both human, covenant and brute vehicles, quite a few new vehicles on every side along with mostly improved versions of the old ones. There are multiple versions of the Warthog. A new bunch of Brute vehicles such as the chopper enter the fray. And if you hadn't guessed, the Scarab is back. In fact you'll get to destroy four within the game. Phantoms are now destroyable. The tank now houses a separate gunner for the machine gun while some speed is added and evens out the slower rate of fire.
A full list of the vehicles: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Vehicles

Story 6 of 10: I must say my views on the plot surrounding Halo 3 are blurry. I've played through the game a few times now and cannot understand where it is going. It seems to be overly complex without explain much. The story centers around the Master Chief losing Cortana. About halfway through I really lost interest in what was going on with Gravemind and the Flood and said forget it. Maybe a primer should have come with the game or it did and I failed to read it. Honestly, if someone can give me a synopsis of the storyline I'd really appreciate it. However, the last few levels really pay tribute to the original Halo and gave me a nostalgic feeling. In fact the last level is called Halo and very closed resembles a level from Halo named "Escape from the Control Room" (I believe).

Multiplayer 6 of 10: And now for the thing that made Halo famous. Multiplayer has to be separated into two distinct parts: the gameplay and the matchmaking system. Let's discuss the bad first. Quite obviously the matchmaking system....which can be livable at best. So the process goes:
1) Go to the matchmaking lobby (lets say you have a guest).
2) Click on your favorite type of game (mine is social slayer).
3) Wait until the system finds people within your skill range, ok.
4) Then you get about half the players needed.
5) Then you wait some more and maybe you'll lose the search and have to wait to find another set of people, maybe you get all the people-awesome.
6) Load the map and you actually get to vote to NOT play the map.

Wait are you serious? I just waited like 10 minutes to get these people to play against and were going to have to possibly wait to load a map? Half of the time, the map gets vetoed. Crap. So now you could be 5-10 minutes into waiting before you even load the map you're going to play. Oh yeah, by the way you get stuck with whatever map and game they give you the second time. I don't know why the developers thought this was a good setup. Ideas for improvement: Instead of vetoing a map, why not have a list of acceptable maps and let people vote on which TO play. Matchmaking system is overly complex for unranked games, simplify so people can play more quickly.

Multiplayer combat is really very good. Physics are immensely improved from Halo 2 Everything behaves just as it would in the campaign. Most of the maps are well designed. Many old maps were brought back with visual improvements: Cold Storage, Valhalla (Blood Gulch variant back for a third time), Hang `em High comes back. A really impressive array of game types and number of maps makes multiplayer quite amazing. One gripe-Construct is the worst map in all three Halo games.

Conclusion
A very well thought out and truly fun game-which is something lacking in these next gen games. "Over-realism" is not fun. Videogames are meant provide an escape. Halo has this in spades. A genetically enhanced super soldier that fights aliens in a half ton cybernetic suit of armor-brilliant. And you get to play as him. Overall this game is the best Halo for your money. If you own an Xbox 360 I wouldn't think twice about purchasing this.

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: September 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is the reason why I purchased an Xbox 360 and Im very happy, Ill have to say that Bungie delivered again,
most fun Ive had with a console in a long time.

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