Since being a fan of the original Halo, I was very excited about the whole hype about Halo3. To be honest, I'm the gamer who does not care about story lines...I just care about gameplay. Even in the first Halo, i never bothered with the story...I just played and fell inlove. Halo is one of a few games that shows off single player & Multiplayer, and yet again Bungie continues to pull out a bag of trix. Halo2 delivered an awesome online performance with adequate matchmaking. In Halo3, the X-box live community is now able to use forge(customize maps), being able to save replays of matches/campaign. Bungie also put in new vehicles with apearances of new weapons. taSo did Halo3 meet the hype or deliver?
Starting off with the campaign, the chief is found with his crew basically frozen and about to begin the fight. (mind you, i dont pay attention to the story). As the opening mission begins, you are partnered up with Arbiter making your way in some jungle like atmosphere with many enemies already. I did find that my AI teammates were more of a cosmetic than a help. The variety of enemies were very suprising as they have different weapons and some of them actually use bubble shields. Very tacticle when playing on legendary. Stages are well designed with proper positioning of checkpoints. Skulls are to be found secretly in each mission that will open up cheats. Single player delivered properly especially with a friend offline or online.
On the graphical side, Bungie has done it again delivering spectacular visuals. I'm not a tech freak... and I could care less about 720p/1080p crap... Halo3 looks spectacular runs very smooth with out tearing and hiccups. The textures on the walls and caves are sharp but the look on the faces of your teammates just looks like Halo2(edges are bad on the faces). errrr.
Sound..check... the bass when ships fly by you and the sound of the needlers just shooting away. The sound of bubble shields and side equipments are spot on and do add to the evironment. Background music is great especially on the opening theme.
Enough of the single player.. lets get down to pwning. Halo3 has possibly the best multiplayer online and offline. Playing Gears of War and Forza2 and the many x-box live titles has made me very VERY Rusty with Halo3. Luckily, Bungie does a geat job with assorting matches and making sure everyone is at the same level. Matchmaking is even and often puts you with players of higher ranks to see if you can rank up. The Player matches are for people who just wanna have fun and not be too accountable for team losses. Big team slayer on Sandtrap is good and the maps are decent. Bunjie has also put in Forge which lets you customize official maps and use them in social matches. Ranked matched are hardcore pwning. (You might win some but you will lose one). Addicting as ever, Bungie balances the gameplay perfectly and really bringing the shine to each weapon in the game.
Over all,
Halo 3 pwns! Besides me being a fan of the original Halo. Bungie has made the first Nex-Gen game that delievers the WHOLE package. Online, Offline.... You have fun either way. Probably the only things that are negative is when you nitpick. ex, lack of custom armor. ai is gay. The different modes you can play, theatre, ranks, forge are the reasons why Halo3 really meets the hype.
Not every Halo game has been a banger, but the franchise still has a raft of the greatest games of all time.
Infinite is a dumpster fire and as much as I like ODST, in no universe it ranks above Halo 2. This list is trash.
Best to worst: Halo 3, Halo 2, Halo Reach, Halo CE, Halo 4, Halo ODST, Halo Infinite, Halo 5.
The Xbox 360 was a fantastic console in its day with some truly classic titles, but what are the seven best games for the console?
I'll go with,
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Culdcept Saga, Shadow Complex, Ace Combat 6 with the flight stick,A Kingdom for Keflings, A World of Keflings.
Bonus Kinect Games: Happy Action Theater and Sesame Street.
*Skyrim was so bad on PS3 that it almost deserves to be #1*
Ah yes, Shadow Complex! Good indies back in the day. Summer of Arcade. I enjoyed Trials Evolution as well.
Was this made by a.i.? No human being would put Shadowrun, Fable III, and Splinter Cell: Conviction into a list of the 7 best Xbox 360 games.
Would love to play Ace Combat6 on PlayStation, but Xbox decided to buy exclusivity and keep it off a competing platform.
The only mainline game I never played except for one level at a friends place. Game sold less than any other in the series if I remember correctly.
360 had Namco hitters AC6 and RR6... both quality titles. You should at least bust out the 360 for AC6 if you can score the flight stick. Its great.
When the current gen XBOX offering is so lacking people need to refer to games released two generations back....
It's a nostalgia peice same reason we get thousands of YouTube videos on sega genisis. Something people have fond memories for but the era is long gone.
It's xboxs golden year imo it was their genisis years the time where they stuck it to the market leaders Sony.
They stuck nothing. Sony screwed themselves giving Xbox an opening. They would have gotten the usual smack down if the PS3 had launched at $399 and was easier to develop for.
The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.
Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.
The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.
I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces
Generous score.