Yesterday I picked up a copy of Halo 3 and I couldn’t believe my luck to get it a day early. I put in a good couple of hours, even though I wish I could have played more. First of all the new HD graphics are amazing and it’s so easy to see where all the extra time and effort has been put in and especially since I’ve spent the last few weeks hyping myself by playing Halo 2. To really take advantage of Halo 3 and all its greatness you need to play this next generation game on a high definition TV. This time around you can see the grass blade tear up when you’re driving the Warhog right down to the covenant’s dead bodies floating on the surface of the water.
Almost instantly I noticed some really cool additions to Halo 3. First of all you will notice Bungie quite cleverly tweaked the layout of the control system. Now X which was once reload is now used to deploy equipment. These items have various effects and functions, ranging from defensive effects (Bubble Shield and Regenerator), or objects which blind or confuse the enemy (Flare and Radar Jammer), to ones which can actually harm and kill (Power Drainer and Tripmine). My personal favourite has to be the radar jammer, because you can drop this cleaver little ball and run round freely without having to crouch walk like a turtle. The overall experience of Halo 3 is smooth, sharp and action packed and just like Bungie they’ve kept the 3 golden rules of Halo: Grenades, Melee and Guns.
This morning I was very disappointed to see all the retarded posts on Game FAQs and on the official Bungie home page. There were so many posts stating how it was over hyped and how they hate the story line. If you do get the legendary product take the time to watch the making and you will see instantly how much effort and time was put in to this fantastic game, film, amazing experience. Here are just some of the most exciting parts I’ve experienced so far:
- Being chased by a scarab with its own AI, not like the original one first seen in Halo 2
- The hammer is one nasty weapon, nothing more satisfing that slamming the hammer in to a pile of grunts and watching them fly
- Spartan laser, this weapon seriously rocks. Paint your target and 3 seconds later watch a huge beam of light turn it to rubble.
- Massive battlefields
- 4 player online co-op
- New equipment that’s going to redefine online team game tactics
- New AI, sometimes you can feel like the hunted and there is so much more I’ve yet to discover
Today the official online service are up, so tonight I’m going to give it a shot online. Personally I would easily give Halo 3 9/10 and if you don’t like it STFU, no one cares if you prefer the story line in Ratchet and Clank. Remember we’ve come a long way in computer games and believe it or not and Bungie have just raised a whole new bar for all other FPS to meet.
Love Bungie
