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Halo 3 - Review
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Halo 3


Game Information
Release Date : 9.25.07
Developed By: Bungie Studios
Genre: FPS
Platform: Xbox 360
Age Restriction: 17+ (M)

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Synopsis (Wikipedia)

Halo 3 is set in a fictional science fiction setting during the years 2552 and 2553. According to the backstory, humans developed faster-than-light travel and colonized dozens of planets before encountering the alien Covenant in 2525. The Covenant declares humanity an affront to their gods and begin destroying human colonies by bombarding the planet with a barrage of plasma, turning its surface into glass. Despite efforts to keep the Covenant from finding Earth, a Covenant fleet discovers humanity's homeworld during Halo 2.
"Halos" are massive ringworlds, several hundred kilometers in diameter, scattered across the galaxy. These rings were constructed thousands of years ago by a race known as the Forerunners as weapons of last resort against the parasitic alien species known as the Flood. When activated, the seven Halos would destroy all sentient life in the galaxy, thereby depriving the Flood of its food. The Forerunners disappeared after they activated the rings. In Halo: Combat Evolved, a small human ship fleeing the Covenant stumbled upon one of these ringworlds, Installation 04. The humans manage to destroy the ring, stopping the Flood once again; the Covenant, unaware of the destructive nature of the rings, attempt to fire another ring during Halo 2 in order to fulfill their religious prophecy. One race in the Covenant, the Elites, learn the truth about the rings, and join forces with humanity in order to stop the firing of the ring. Though they are successful, the unexpected shutdown of the installation triggers a failsafe protocolall the rings are ready to fire from one single location, referred to as the Ark. Still oblivious to the true nature of the rings, the Covenant High Prophet of Truth and the remaining loyalist Covenant proceed to head to Earth, where they believe the Ark is buried.
Halo 3's protagonist is the Master Chief, a surgically-enhanced supersoldier known as a "Spartan" and one of humanity's greatest warriors. The Chief fights alongside the Arbiter, a disgraced Covenant Elite commander. Two other Elite characters, N'tho 'Sraom and Usze 'Taham, appear as the third and fourth players in cooperative play. Supporting characters introduced in previous games return, including human commanders Sergeant Major Avery Johnson and Commander Miranda Keyes. The Forerunner artificial intelligence 343 Guilty Spark, who tries and fails to stop the Master Chief from destroying its ringworld in Halo: Combat Evolved, also makes an appearance. Filling an alternating antagonistic/helpful role to the player is the large Flood entity known as "Gravemind"; encountered during Halo 2, the leader of the Flood escapes from confinement on Halo by invading the Covenant mobile city of High Charity and capturing Cortana, a human-created artificial intelligence, in the process.

Campaign

When Bungie made the Campaign it was Epic! It took place right after where Halo 2 ended where Master Chief was falling right out of the sky in the drop pod thing or whatever. The Campaign has many things available in it including Collecting Skulls, lots of fun Easter eggs, an outstanding Story line and a lot more. Your Main Objective : Finish the Fight! Mostly everyone who had played the Halo 3 Campaign enjoyed it. You finally get to destroy the Flood. Even though mostly everyone dies like Sgt. Johnson, Miranda, Oracle, The Flood, Covenant and almost everyone else it summed up to be an Exciting Game. I Personally enjoy the ending the most where you have to escape to the Frigate =D

Multiplayer

The Halo 3 Multiplayer was made very well. Especially after the Update in 2008. They Organized it into 2 Main Sections which are : Ranked and Social.
Ranked - It's where you earn your Rank and you try and earn your Max Rank which is a General (50) and more of a Competitive play and playlists include :
Lone Wolves
Team Slayer
Team SWAT
Team Snipers
Team Doubles
MLG
While the Social Playlists is more of a "Fun" Game mode where people don't take things as seriously. Those playlists are :
Rumble Pit
Social Slayer
Social Skirmish
Multi Team
Social Big Team
Action Sack
Team Mythic
Overall, The Halo 3 Multiplayer is really fun and still thousands of people play every day. Not as much with the Huge Game Titles being released over the past 4 Years but it's still very fun (=

Custom Games

The Halo 3 Custom Games are really fun to play if you find the right ones. I would like to play "Mexican Bull Run" or something on Rats Nest, "Fatboy" or "Fatman" on Foundry.. Or This WaW Nazi Zombies Gametype also on Foundry. They are really good and a lo of people still like these Gametypes. Including myself even though I can't play Halo 3 since I need to find a way to Install it to my HDD. There have been many Custom Content groups related to this kind of Stuff Created on Bungie.net that are currently mainly about Halo: Reach now, but some still enjoy Halo 3.

Forge + Theater

Now when Forge was first created it really wasn't fun. There wasn't any good maps, once Foundry was announced it changed people's minds. You could really create things. When Sandbox was made now you could really make things that had a lot of things in it like Race maps, MLG Maps, etc.I was always wondering how people made good maps and made objects go into each other then my friend told me about 'Ghost Merging'. It was hard to do but I got the hang of it. I started Forging more and got into the whole Process. Now mostly everyone knows about it and it's still hard to compete with good people but I like to do it just to do it and "Explore" my Idea's. It wasn't as Advanced as Halo: reach's forging but it was still very exciting to do and required a lot of time and effort if you wanted a Great Map. It was very well worth it adding "Forge" into Halo 3 and I think Bungie did an Amazing Job having it in this Awesome Game!

Before Bungie has added a Theater section into the Halo's it was hard to record things. Since you would have to be playing and recording, although not as much people recorded as they do now. With the Theater mode in Halo 3 it allowed many people to do different things. Like : Add Montages on Youtube, Take Screenshots (Which sooner Bungie Added Bungie Favorites), and Allowed people to have File Shares where you could have up to Six Spots and 25 MB of Space. Then Bungie created Bungie Pro where those 6 Spots went to 24 and that 25MB went into 250MB! In My Honest Opinion, Adding a Theater was a really good "Jump" for the people who played.

Graphics

For a game that was created in 2007 the graphics aren't really that bad. They seem pretty normal. I enjoy then and I don't mind them compared to other games as in Call of Duty 4 where I didn't like the Graphics but the Gameplay was fun. When I played Halo: Reach and went back to Halo 3 I thought everything looked so weird though. The graphics looked really bad but then I stopped minding them and just started playing again.

Controls

From playing Halo 2 on a regular Xbox controller then going onto Halo 3 with a Xbox 360 Controller things could really be confusing. I was very confused at first and it took me a couple weeks to get the hang of things. Then once I got used to it people started telling me to used 'Bumper Jumper' and I had never used it since it wasn't even in Halo 2. So I thought I would give it a shot, I actually started using Bumper Jumper because I heard you have to use it to Ghost Merge in Forge, so I used it for about two days and from there I went back to Default and only used 'Bumper Jumper' when I forged. Then, I played with Bumped Jumped and soon got the hang of it. So I use it whenever I played Halo 3 or Halo: Reach (=
The Controls are very easy to get used to. With the help of some XBL Friends and Custom Games and some Social Slayer, getting used to another Controller Button Layout, really isn't that difficult which I enjoy having =D

Rating

10/10

Since this was the game that I got with my First Xbox 360 I have to love it, since this game was the reason I got the Xbox 360 I couldn't stop playing it. Even though there is a very small number of Xbox LIVE players who probably hadn't played this game, if you one of the few. I Suggest buying it. There are still a good amount of people playing.

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Good Decision
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I would rate it a 10 too
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i like halo 3 ........
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robertoftw wrote i like halo 3 ........
Haha, Who Doesn't? =)
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my first favorite game before cod
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10/10, just like Reach.
Even now the game is great to hop on and enjoy.
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There was a reason why this game dominated Most played for three years.
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only a few years late haha, but i'd have to agree with ya, i'v been a halo fan since the first one came out when i was four and my older bro got it
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Halo 3 was one of the best Halo's out there and will still be until Halo 4 comes out!
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