Halo 3 DailyGame Review: 8.8/10

Bungie has insisted for years that the final chapter in the Halo franchise was going to be the game the developer always wanted to make. From refined combat and great graphics to a map-editing tool and robust online features, this was going to be the ultimate Halo experience. For the most part, Bungie has delivered on those goals; Halo 3 is without a doubt the most beautiful and feature-packed Halo game to date. It just doesn't have enough gameplay ingenuity or compelling plot elements to keep up with the rest of its assets.

[MK_Red]

The battle between Halo 3 and BioShock's average score on MetaCritic is getting more and more intense with each review. Funny how 2 of the best games of 2007 are competeing with each other while they're both on the same platform. Can Mario Galaxy, Call Of Duty 4 and others join the fight?

[ParaDise_LosT]

DrakesUncharted and Mass Effect....
those 2 are big hitters too :P....
H3 vs Bioshock vs Mass Effect(and possibly uncharted)
for GotY award :O

[Texas GMR]

Bungie... ...WTF was that! Bungie ought to be ashamed of that game. (campaign mode) That was the worst of the series if you ask me, and I thought the second one would be the worst.

Is it just me or did they put about 30 hours of storyline into 6+ hours of game play. They left me with more questions than answers.

Don't get me wrong, I love Halo and what it could be, but that deserves a 9 at the very most.

Maybe I just need a little sleep and to go through it again. Just not what I expected.

[MK_Red]

MoRal_ParaDox, I believe that Mass Effect and Uncharted will be superb games as well as Rock Band, Assassin's Creed and others. They will hopefully get high scores but none of them seem to be 10/10 material. And even COD4 seems more like a 9/10, just like COD1.

The biggest battle seems to be between Mario, Master Chief and Big Daddy. (My personal favorite is BioShock though, worship that game)

[CRIMS0N_W0LF]

xbots will come and flame this review even though its true. Game is good but not great it deserve 8.5 MAX

[Daz]

8.5 means great and above 9 in awesome lol

[Douchebaggery]

for everything that H3 offers this game is more deserving of 10/10 than even bioshock is

[lonestarmt]

he says a lot of negative things, yet it gets a 8.8??

[xhi4]

You either love halo, or you don't. If you get caught up in the FAD, you most likely love Halo, those who are much more critical and analyitical don't really see the 'love' for Halo. I'm one of them.

I mean yes, the first game was extremely good. It hit all checks for a fps, brought nothing new, but hit every checkbox for an indicitive fps shooter. But one thing that was revolutionary, i must say, was the online for the time. It set console fps's up against PC's for the first time. But then Halo 2 came out.....more of the same just matchmaking, which is an extremely intuitive design and Bungie must be commended. Although with Halo 3, for those who love Halo, is just what they want. And that's good, solid online, short but satisfying single player. Although, Halo 3, is more of the same. But that's okay,it wil sell like crazy. Microsoft = Great Marketing, and now, you think of xbox, you think of Halo. That...is extremely...extremely great marketing.

So enjoy your Halo 3, you will have fun, I will verse you online, but I won't be extatic like many others, for it is more of the same, nothing new, but that's okay, because well.......its Halo.

[_insane_cobra]

"brought nothing new"

Stopped reading there.

[reaperxciv]

the silent majority has spoken!

[Douchebaggery]

halo fans (myself included) are not silent, H3 is the sh!t and i'm so f*cking piss that i can't play it yet

[Real gamer 4 life]

i guess microsoft forgot to pay these guys off. Because halo is not a 9.5 game.

[TheMART]

Aha. That's why trusted reviewers like IGN gave it a 9.5, right?

Big, trusted reviewers don't let themselves pay off for a high review. Their credibility is at stake.

I can imagine as a PS3 fandroid you're glad with this 8.8 while all the other what, 10 or 20 reviews gave it a mark which put it close to Bioshock's high average review score.

[synetic]

TheMART halo 3 is not a 9.5 game i already played the game ( pirated copy lol ) and its not a 9.5 .. but again you just a stupid xbot

for single player halo 3 gets 8.5 for multiplayer 9.5 .. final note 9.0

[Daz]

8.8 is a good score everyone got there own opinion.
i think reviews are a waist of time anyway for any game, if i like a game i like it. To many people rely on reviews.

[mesh1]

stoped reading this review when he said halo 2 had a excellent story line hahahahaha halo 2 was garbage i got my copy of halo 3 and its a great game all throw its not perfect but i give it a 9.7/10 the game is a killer app when u play it on ur hdtv and stop watching reviews and game trailers from bad cams ull have a smile on ur face

[kss]

halo 3 is way overrated

[goodganja]

It's about time the truth came out. So it looks like Halo 3 is just a regular slightly above average FPS shooter. Gameplay isnt as deep as resistance and it shows. Halo couldnt even break into the 9.0 average which means it's nothing but hype.

Microboys aint trying to hear that their precious little Halo is nothing but a run of the mill game that will get dominated on PS3 with Haze and Unreal Tournament.

Even before you Microboys talk about UTIII coming to 360, that just means that Halo wont even be the best FPS on your platform. Call of Duty 4 will pwn that game.

Halo=Trash

Halo 7.4 review average from real gamers.

[Bathyj]

At least a few scores at high 8's show the reviewer put some thought into it and didnt just hand out a 10 based on hype as I believe happened alot with bioshock. Not that the game didnt deserve high praise but I think alot of reviewers were just going with the flow. At least this shows a bit of thought and honesty. And since when is a high 8 a bad score anyway.

I personally dont even agree with a 10 out of 10 scoring system. I like percent out of 100 and NO GAME should ever get 100% as no game is perfect. The problem with 10 out of 10 is it gives no where to go. A reviewer says GEE I gave CoD3 9 and its better than that. It must be a 10 when really it might only be a low 9.

Read Australias Hyper magazine. Only the absolute top tier gets over 95%.

[gololo]

Just played my first MP match this morning...and nothing I haven't seen before...

[shodown19]

8.8 seems like a solid score to me. An 8.8 would convince me into going to purchase the game for sure. In fact, I may pick up Halo 3 so I can finally give a honest comparison to my favorite fps right now which is Resistance.

[SL1M DADDY]

It would seem that there are a few that actually gave their reviews some thought rather than slapping the game with a 10/10 score. It's nice to see that some people can be unbiased about an MS game and give it what it really deserves.

Not knocking the game at all. I will buy it and love playing it but in the end, it is just more fo the same and it is just another shooter. 8.8 for any FPS is a great score since the market is flooded with them.

[kn]

I wasn't even a FPS fan until I played the FIRST Halo on my 360. I was amazed at how much fun the game was and was Hooked on Halo. I promptly got Halo 2 when I was finished with 1 and now I can't wait to dive into H3. I'm a true convert.

There are too many people in this thread and others that have never played the game saying it is "average". Find something else to complain about as Microsoft didn't pay off every reviewer and you know it. The game will speak for itself through Gamerankings/Metacritic. Nothing the haters say or do will change that. Move along now, nothing to see here.

[falconm80]

no offence here guys,, but think about it

The game is not revolutionary which makes it a regular FPS.
The game doesn't have the best graphics and some of it's stages are recycled from Halo 1 and halo 2.
The single player mode in the game is short.
The story is medicore.

So what makes it so speical beside the fanboyism love?
concidering the hype and the high expectation, it's only worth 8/10

[elijah510]

The campaign mode was so average its not what i expected i thought it would be intense and bloody like the museum tv spot, im dissapionted in the campaign mode but replay value is awsome and multiplayer

[eagle21]

It was ok when it started then it got funny! They said 10 million Halo 1's were sold in the first 8 months? Um, it took 8 months to sell 2 million Halo 1's. The fist Halo is around 6 million sold. The second Halo, a little over 8 million. Bungie even said the franchise has sold 14 million. It was good at the beginning, then even my bro, who likes 360 (but loves PS3 too) said it was getting scripted. Adam Sessler said this, "Most people bought 360's just for this night to come!" Morgan, "why not get the legendary, this is the reason you bought a 360!" I don't even "BELIEVE" that.(I feel 360 offers a little more than Halo by the way, but this is like a climax for 360, whether you believe it or not.)

[otherZinc]

Another no-name site trying to get attention, ok, you got it. Now go rate some garbage better & we'll see how long people play it.

Glad I dont know this site & I will never see it again, thanks.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Is that a rip off of Game Daily a respected site?

[DeadIIIRed]

Let me just remind everyone real quick that the first (and best) Halo scored an average 97/100 on metacritic, Halo 2 scored 95/100, and my guess is we'll see Halo 3 down at 93 or 92. So in that respect, Halo 3 can be as comparably good as Virtua Tennis: Sega Professional Tennis for the Dreamcast which has a 92/100.

[JosefTor]

First off... Halo 3 is a great great game and I'm glad it is out. I want to play devils advocate for a second here though since Halo 3 has a lot of fanfare and the developers should have put their highest effort into this game.

Now that Halo 3 is released... does anyone else feel that it is a little underwelming? I felt like going back to Call of Duty 4 after just a couple hours. For Halo 3 to not have a dash function is horrible. I get bored just running at the same pace.

Plus there is no way to see first person view from the enemy viewpoint. I find myself constantly thinking... I wish I could see the replay of this kill from his viewpoint and maybe even learn from it(Instead I just get a view of my lifeless body where I can do minor camera adjustments). I'm dying to know if people like the battle rifle zoomed in or if they are no scoping me. A kill cam would be nice or to have the theater show first person would be nice.

Graphics are pretty great but sometimes you see things (like character models) and water splashes and wonder why didn't they put more time into something so important.

Bugs: Being able to push my fellow marines and have them just slide in the same direction that I push them. No comment, no life... just a lifeless doll. Noticable game pauses/glitches. I even triggered a dialog between my fellow marines when I was too far to get to the scene to see what they were doing (when the guy had the wick of the bomb lit I assume). I was just like... who is talking to me? What wick? Then later I see the people who had been talking.

I think the veto cam should say how many more people needed instead of just 3/8 people so far have vetoed this map and realizing that the majority is 5.

Well... those are just a few negatives I've been seeing. Overall the game is fun.
-Joe