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Some Quick Views On Halo 3 (Xbox 360)

By: Daniel Chubb | September 16, 2007 | 17 Comments

Halo 3

So we all know that Halo 3 is imminent, and its hype is at its peak; and obviously there’s bound to be a lot of opinions on the topic. Let’s see what we’ve found.

I personally can’t care less about Halo 3. I mean, the first game was good and it really sold the Xbox Console, the second just felt really shallow and the only appetising thing was the multi-player; fair enough. Halo 3 appears just to promise the same thing again; the story will be generic, the game-play will be generic and shallow as always, and frankly from what I’ve played of the multi-player, it’s just Halo 3; but it looks a bit shinier.

Well that’s just my opinion, now let’s look at some others;

David Jaffe and Adam Orth who worked on Full Metal lack and Calling all Cars had this nice little conversation on IM where Orth clearly said “F*** Halo”. Quite a clear opinion right.  You can read the full conversation here.

Marissa Chabon from Cinemablend.com says “No one actually hates Halo; you can’t hate Halo and call yourself a gamer… But what else will they give us other than shooting and running and throwing grenades?

And to be quite frank, she’s right. Halo 3 can’t offer us anything else other than what she’s just mentioned.

Well what’s your view on Halo 3? Will it live up to all its hype?

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  • Jimi

    You are all retards, you might as well shove your heads up your asses and fight for air. Halo 3 is something to believe in. It is the game that isn’t just about fun, it is about an experience nothing else can give you. There is only nine days left until the world changes.

    A HERO MUST RISE.

    BELIEVE.
    9.25.07

  • Master Chief

    Thats it.

  • phil walker

    yes all it is is running shooting and throwing grenades, but it is FUN and ENTERTAINING. just like football is just running and kicking a ball (in the uk at least) but its what you do and how you do it, and that is the beauty of halo x

  • JohnnyFACEHEAD

    yay. thanks to the internet forum world, us fanboys can get together and pour out our hearts, without fear of the usual beatings we would recieve for mentioning these subjects in real life.

    anyone who complains about the ‘hype’ machine doesnt understand marketing. i hate microsoft and think they are evil, but the only people who feel they are being bombarded with the halo hype are the losers (like me) who go on google and search for halo news every day. other than that, just dont drink that funny green coloured drink and you’ll probably miss it.

    (y)

  • JohnnyFACEHEAD

    p.s shooting and running and throwing grenades is every boys dream.

  • Alex

    This si such a stupid biased article just for the fact that you say “the second just felt really shallow and the only appetising thing was the multi-player; fair enough. Halo 3 appears just to promise the same thing again; the story will be generic, the game-play will be generic and shallow as always, and frankly from what I’ve played of the multi-player, it’s just Halo 3; but it looks a bit shinier.” THat just makies you look so stupid because first of all there is a robust saved films feature that lets you upload to Bungie.net and a map editor that you can use while a game is going… This article is so biased considering that all you played was the multiplayer (Beta) which is a joke compared to a full game.. and 3rd you havent even played the 3rd game which makes you look like a self assuming jerk.

  • Paul

    All roads lead us to the Halo 3 release..Its so much more than just a game. Its been a long road and we have put up with the Sony fanboy gauntlet every step of the way. We are on the cusp of putting down our arch rival. I think the suns gonna shine a little brighter, foods gonna taste a little better when Sony has been cemented into 3rd (last) place. We just have to Believe brothers :)

  • Adam

    What the hell? The name of your website is product reviews, not biased product opinions. You don’t even give counter opinions.

    Halo 1, revolutionary for its time, fantastic multiplayer, good story. Halo 1 sold the xbox.

    Halo 2, good story, but horrible ending. Solid online multiplayer for consoles and make Xbox Live viable. Sure it left a lot to be desired, but it was still good.

    Halo 3? The FPS to define the 360. You’ve got forge (a combo map editor and multiplayer feature), 4 player co-op (what now, Gears of War?), co-op scoring, saved films (to watch your greatest moments and others greatest moments), screenshots from saved films (you can even upload them to your computer), not to mention an amazing party system and online stats tracking. No other game out there now has what Halo 3 has going. Other games may do certain FPS elements better than Halo 3, but no game does everything well, which is exactly what halo does.

    You know what, “…shooting and running and throwing grenades…” sums up so many FPSs, Halo does it better than most with enough weapon variation, vehicle use, equipment use, support weapons (turrets, etc in halo 3) to make every encounter different and interesting.

    All I ask is that if your going to use opinion, do so by providing counter opinions. If you use facts, then stick to them. Your biased articles make this site soon to be worthless.

  • Adam

    Your article is biased and full of one-sided opinions. If your going to use opinions, at least provide counter opinions to make a fair article.

    Seriously, how can you call Halo 3 generic when it promises to be the most feature rich FPS on the market? It offers forge (a map editor cross multiplayer), saved films (to watch great gameplay moments), the best online party system, 4 player online co-op (what now, GoW), co-op scoring, and other features I haven’t time enough to list here. Seriously, wtf is your problem…

  • JohnnyFACEHEAD

    NO-ONE IS REPLYING TO MY commentZ

    DEFINE ME!!
    LOVE ME!!

  • Christian

    My comment linking this website to Sony was removed. Further proof this website is an extenion of Sony public relations.

  • Josh

    “Halo 1, revolutionary for its time”

    Haha, I love when Halo fanboys call either of the Halo games revolutionary.

    Halo was nothing special for the FPS genre when it came out for anyone who had been playing FPS games prior to it’s release.

    Is it one of the best console FPS released? Yeah, it is.

    Is it one of the best FPS released? No, it isn’t.

  • Adam

    I just assumed in the context of the article that PC games were not part of the discussion. But yes, the Halo was a great console FPS.

    And regardless of whether a console or PC gamer (or both), you can’t deny the success of the series. If the game really sucked, I doubt halo 2 would have sold 8 million copies plus…another 6+ million for Halo 1. A lot of people really enjoy halo. Whatever your opinion is, it certainly must do something right.

  • Johnny FACEHEAD

    ^^^^

    THIS GUY IS A PC GAMER SO THAT MEANZ HE IS 4 reALZ

    11!1!

  • Billy

    dude this article is so one sided, i mean seriously, halo did make FPS games what they are today ESPECIALLY the recharging shields, almost every game out there uses that feature now and whered they get it? Halo. Halo 3 campaign outa be off the hook, but multiplayer is gonna be sick, 4 playa co-op, forge IN game, and good old slayer. For you idiots out there that think halo is lame cuz it only supports 16 players is a retard, the size of the map makes 16 players perfect balance. And i saw a review earlier that halo is a rip off of metroid, LOL omg man jeez, the designer of Metroid prime took the idea of making metroid an fps FROM Halo: Combat Evolved. Post with straight up facts, or dont post at all.
    P.S. sadly i dont own a 360 yet and my Live membership just ended so i cant list gamertag…..
    =*(

  • Yickyuckyackersmack

    I dont know many fps’s better than halo 2, and halo 3 is gonna be halo:CE and halo 2 together + more so i dont see how people can say its just gonna be another run of the mill fps. Halo 2 was a big step up form halo:CE. The campaign was lacking but other than that it was a great game. Now halo 3. 4 player campaign co-op over xbox live. The final part to the chiefs story. Lots of new vehicles, weapons, gametypes + EQUIPMENT! which will totally change the way the game is played. Better graphics. Better gameplay balance for online. Forge map editor. Customizable armour for multiplayer. The skulls in halo 3 can be unlocked now. Not like in halo 2 where u shut off ur console and they were gone, in H3 once they are unlocked they can be turned off and on whenever you want. Even more destructible objects in the levels. You can take down dropships, scarabs, and even blow up those hovering sniper towers that the jackals use. O and people who say from what they’ve played of the game it seems the same old halo well the only halo 3 you could have played was the beta unless you work at bungie or were one of the few game review journalists or someone who got to play the finished game, and the beta was only an insy winsy itsy bitsy tiny fraction of the overall game so its not even close to fair to compare the beta to what the final game is going to be. And to all you halo haters out there we know your faking, no one can hate halo, everyone at the least likes the game. And to ppl who truly believe that halo 3 will suck….well tell that to the 1.5million or so ppl who have already pre ordered the game. And then you tell all the millions of ppl who are going to buy it the first week or so its out that halo 3 sucks…see what they have to say about it. :^)

  • Mike

    I agree. It irks me when people so blatantly bash halo. Regardless of whether you are a rabid fanboy or equally crazy halo hater, you can’t deny that the game is good. People have bee saying it for years, but Halo has tight gameplay, solid controls, and just plain works.

    And as others have mentioned, halo 3 add so many new things (forge, 4 player online co-op, saved films) that it looks to be an amazing FPS. Is it the best FPS out there? I think so. Regardless, whoever you are, you can’t deny the game is solid. I’ve got 15.5 million people to back me up (halo 1 sales + halo 2 sales + halo 3 preorders).