They really crack me up..Kids that suck at shooters are strangely similar (actually the same people) to the people who hate Halo..
They scream power rangers and pink lasers all day..well guess what, the FACT of the matter is, that HALO IS the most complete, most competative shooter to date on any console. If you took the campaign off the disc itself the game would still be just as good. Halo is not about the the Story , its about MULTIPLAYER. There are no other games with the amount of thought put into the maps, the physics, the balance, the required skill..even the way the bullets travel through the air..
What other game can you Build your own map with infinite possibilities, Capture the videos of your matches, take Hi-def screen shots, create custome games with YOUR rules and weapon/spawn placements, effortlessly get in and out of vehicles on the fly etc (the list will go on for pages).
And lets talk about support for the game..you can log into Bungie and see stats, recent games, download updates (yeah dev that actually still works on the game), new maps, crazy player map maps from all over the globe, insane once in a lifetime videos of people pulling of stuff you might never see again (1 shot sniper overkill as an example or a barrel blowing up shooting a parking cone crosss map that nails a guy and kills him). Mix that with the Best online service out there and you have the best online experience bar none.
Also take a little peek at MLG. What other console shooter has a whole league using it as it's flagship game? Halo tournaments on the MLG pro circut awards hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money, get thousands of dollars for player sponsorships (Gilbert Arenas even sponsors his own team..and to you uber nerds, he's an all star NBA player), mass media exposure (see EPSN,,yea i said ESPN! ,G4TV etc). Go pick up a bottle of Dr. Pepper and chances are you'll see the picture of a friggin HALO PRO PLAYER on the bottle!! HALO is huge and there is a reason why. Hype fades, over hyped games get forgotten but true works of art stay in the spot light for a long time. HALO 3 (not combining hal 2 or CE in with that) Has just reached its BILLIONTH online game played. People will be playing Halo while copies of COD4 through 100, KZ2 , resistance and the other generic shooters pile up as returns at the local gamestop. People will not be playing KZ2 (playing that game is visually appealing but it's about as fun as stepping on a rusty nail that rips through your shoe and into your foot causing blood poisoning) in a year but they sure as hell will still be playing halo..you can see in the compairisons that Haters are scared..people will compaire halo 3 to COD5,6,7,8 etc.
Halo is far > all other console shooters to date in virtually every aspect
IT JUST THAT DAMN GOOD!
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