Warhawk on Sony PS3 vs Halo 3 on Xbox 360

I played Halo 3 many times. Years ago when it was released for Xbox. I think they just called it Halo back then…

Yeah, I got one of those friends who sucks the saggy Halo teet night and day. He also thinks blue is a delicious color and that biological warfare is a twinkie on a fishing line. I absolutely hate sitting and playing Halo 3, erm, I mean, Halo with bloom effects and turrets, with this guy. It’s not even him. I mean, oh great, you can play their awful campaign online with four people. What is that supposed to be? It’s not as great as single player, and it’s not as great as multiplayer. It’s just a hybrid which really did not satisfy at all.

Everybody is just in denial. None of you who went out and waited in line for six hours for a copy of Halo (with bloom effects and turrets) wants to admit that they were overhyped.

Warhawk? It’s just great. Nice to see a game that focuses on the multplayer aspect. If I wanted a complex campaign with a twisted story, I’d only play RPGs, like Final Fantasy.

FYI, Sales don’t indicate the amount of people who like a game. Once you have a PS3, you aren’t going to buy another, unless you’re either irrational or a big LAN enthusiast. Sales have actually gone very well for the PS3, but people are actually playing their PS3s, instead of repurchasing their faulty 360s so they can live in denial with everyone else they know who overhyped for Halo, but with bloom effects and turrets. Also, not only is the vast majority of the gaming public unaware of Warhawk’s existance, but many people can’t buy it due to the fact that they don’t have an internet connection to play. Halo 3? My idiodic friend has bought three copies and the legendary copy. I’m sure he’s not the only one.

Seriously, if Halo wanted to finish the plot, they should have just went through with the movie. Go read the book or something. Maybe they could have just made expansion packs instead of charging people $60 each time they wanted a simple patch.

Heh, I remember when Halo with the energy sword came out. The friend I spoke of earlier waited in line for hours for it, as if it was in short supply. His response to my verbal hazing? “BUT THERE IS NO FALL DAMAGE NOW!!!1!@ This is the same intelligence I’ve come to notice for every Halo 3 fan.

For god’s sake, it’s a game with a generic nameless character where aliens want to destroy earth. Quit acting like it’s the most original game in the world, because nothing was ever original about it. It was fun when it first came out, but they keep releasing the same thing with a patch over it! Who charges $20 bucks for a map pack anyway? Most map packs are just free, and I just refuse to stick out more than $10 for something that should have been in the game in the first place. Halo with energy swords and Halo with bloom effects and turrets should have both been single player expansion packs in the bargain bin for $20.

Halo fans are no different than the “common” Nsync and Hanson fans. Those girls just giggle at those words and bad mouth everything else. Their ignorance is astonishing.

“@ one

you just said youve played with forge and skulls how bout the theater mode. theres three new things right there that halo brought. and yes bioshock was stupid and gears was old after a week. no staying power at all for either game.

NOTE: if your gonna respond atleast know what your talking about before wasting everyones time”
- Greg

I’m sorry. I laughed so hard when I read that. That was so stupid. I’m sorry. I feel bad now that people are flaming you. You shouldn’t pick on kids who ride the short bus.

Why is it that all these Halo with bloom effects and turrets are self-declaring victory and asking to delete the blog? None of you have made any valid points! The game sold because it was a fad, the game wasn’t original, and I personally did not find Halo with bloom effects and turrets very fun (since I played it twice before).

Example: Dan1581
“It must suck tryting to justify a $600 blueray player…”
At the time of your posting, the PS3 was $400.

“…especially since the first real game the Sony Fans get behind is multiplayer only warhawk.”
I know, we got lucky. I actually feel bad that I get to play it and many people don’t.

“I mean a $40 game…”
$60

“…versus Halo 3…”
You mean Halo, but with bloom effects and turrets. Right?

“…get real and stop kidding yourself. Warhawk is mercanaries with futuristic crap that you can play online whhhhooooooooaaaaaaa…”
Futuristic? Oh yeah, I forgot. We didn’t have the flame thrower in WWII. Them flyin’ majiggers are tew complex fer us. It’s just a different style. They have things that we actually could produce if we found them economical or useful in current situations. In fact, practically everything that’s in the game has practically been used in warfare. By the way, Halo is probably the more futuristic of these two games.

“Halo on the other hand has 1. made FPS a viable genre on home consoles”
Not even most Halo fans get that ignorant in arguments. You have a lot of Doom and Quake fans to argue with.

“2. brought multiplayer to the masses on home consoles”
…Didn’t you just acknowledge that Warhawk was Multiplayer? Games have been ONLINE multiplayer since Dreamcast!

“3. has 4 player coop for the campaign…”
Hundreds of games have created multiplayer campaigns… In fact, I think Contra did it better than Halo did.

“…Film saves…”
You can get Madden 2005 for a dollar at EBGames…

“…Forge…”
A buggy map editor with few options and no ability to actually alter the map? Yeah… yup… I think Unreal Tournament did it better long before.

“…DM, TDM,CTF…”
YOU GOT ME! Halo invented them! I’m sorry! MY MISTAKE! They’ve NEVER been used before in history!

“…millions of other gamers to play with/against…”
Many games have many players to play against… and in all honesty, do you seriously need six million strangers whenever you’re only going to play against maybe 2,000?

“…and too top it off a freakin soda for Christ sake…”
So… If I play Halo with bloom effects and turrets… I get a soda? SOLD! I’LL GO BUY IT! But seriously. Did you actually buy that stuff? I mean, it was okay, but you DO realize that it existed so Halo would get hyped and that Mountain Dew would get more sales during said hyping process… Right?

“…so “jump in” or be left “waiting beyond”!”
What are you selling Swimming Pools? Waiting beyond? The Halo Train gonna leave us behind?

“…KAZ HIRA said it best “we can’t lowwer the price because we don’t have the content to sustain the system”.”
I’ll repeat myself. At the time of your posting, the PS3 was, in fact, $400, the price of a 360.

“Just think for the cost of a PS3 you could get a Xbox 360, Gears of War, Halo3,and Mass Effect.”
Um, actually, that first item you put on that list actually matches the price of the object you are comparing it to. 400 + 60 + 60 + 60 does NOT equal 400. Oh, and those games have also been released for the PC.

“That is just my choices there are plenty of other highly touted games in all genres except kiddy crap, as an ault that suits me just fine how about you?”
Oh, and by the way, Dan, your post above this one (which taking it apart would actually take too long) lists many games that not only exist for PS3, but have existed on the PC BEFORE the 360. Do you seriously believe that the 360 was where Oblivion hit first? Seriously? Are you actually serious? At the time of that post, I actually did have more superior games. Motorstorm is the only racing game I have ever enjoyed (besides Test Drive 6, but Motorstorm takes the cake!), and since it came with the console, it was nice and CHEAP. Resistance: Fall of Man was an excellent game. Warhawk, the game in question, has kept me busy for many months. Heavenly Sword was a really fun game with an interesting story. I do like how you threw Unreal Tournament 3 into your argument, since the PS3 version can run mods while the 360 version does not (and in reality, didn’t people play Unreal Tournament 2004 three times longer because of the mods? I did!). I’m eager for the release of Metal Gear Solid 4 and God of War III. Most of the games you listed were either generic titles or multiplatform. I don’t expect an intelligent argument from you if you ever reply. In fact, I don’t expect full sentences. I just expect abused words, false arguments, and poorly designed insults. The world laughs at you and people with that ignorant point of view. But hey, at least you have your Halo train, right?

So everybody doesn’t like comparing Warhawk to Halo with bloom effects and turrets because Warhawk hasn’t sold as much as Halo? Ok, well let’s try something different. Why don’t we compare the movie Titanic to Halo with bloom effects and turrets? I mean, some of the things people are saying, I wouldn’t be surprised if this turned into a whole new argument. Here, I’ll start it off for you.

To see Titanic, you only had to pay $4, maybe a little higher depending on where you live. Oh, but to play Halo with bloom effects and turrets? You have to buy a faulty 360 and a copy of the game, which totals well over $5. I didn’t even watch Titanic. My at the time girlfriend wanted to go, and way back when, we just sat and made out in the theatre for hours. Never did that with Halo with bloom effects and turrets. Closest thing to it was listening to everyone whine and cry about lag and “cheaters”. After “seeing” Titanic, I never felt cheated out of my $8 for both tickets, although the price for soda was crazy. I could have used that free soda that Dan mentioned earlier. Halo with bloom effects and turrets, though, a friend of mine was so disgusted that he paid for it, that we all drove to the local grave yard, put the disk on a big rock, and smashed it with a sledge hammer. All in all, Titanic wins, although I find it offensive to compare Halo with bloom effects and turrets to Titanic, seeing as Halo with bloom effects and turrets hasn’t been played as much as Titanic has been seen.

I guess I’ve rambled enough, however. So, in my opinion, Warhawk is the better game because:
1) Sony hosted dedicated servers make finding a lagless crowded game pretty simple.
2) Don’t like infantry combat? Snag a ground vehicle or a Warhawk/Nemesis. Being in an air vehicle is essentially a different game in itself.
3) Two million people aren’t on the internet spraying bad grammar and ignorance about it.
4) The game is extremely balanced. Infantry have their own defenses against larger vehicles and vice versa, while all weapons occupy a different niche.
5) Warhawk requires a lot of team coordination to be really successful. When I played Halo with bloom effects and turrets, I felt like players were ENCOURAGED to play “commando”.
6) I really enjoyed the style and sounds of Warhawk.

I can’t say that Halo with bloom effects and turrets is a bad game, but it really isn’t anything new or impressive. I prefer the Unreal Tournament series over Halo in position for greater multiplayer FPS.

warhawk all the way
way better grafics
more maps
more people online
more weapons, vheicles, planes, missle launchers
way more fun