My impressions of Halo 3 (SP only)

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SHMUPGurus said:

Munkeh111 said:

Well I have rented Halo 3, and having never played a halo game before, I was expecting it to be good especially after such ridiculously good reviews, and I am very disapointed

To start, the game begins assuming that you have played the first two Halo games before it, so there is absolutely no explanation of what is going on, who is who, and any of the controls. This obviously puts me at a disadvantage because then the story does not make sense, and I do not have any idea who any of the enemies are. I like the setting etc, but I cannot really enjoy it because NO explanation is given for anything, which really does annoy me

In terms of gameplay, it is certainly nothing special, but with most enemies being weird crawling things, there is not much opportunity for headshots or anything, which does annoy me, especially after playing Gears and Uncharted where you basically have to get headshots constantly. Also, the lack of a look down the sights button really annoys me. Also with the vehicle sections, I just dont understand why games like this hate accelerator buttons. They make it so much easier to control, and the sections are good, but they could be a lot better. But once again, I have no idea what vehicles do what and which one is which, and again some introduction would help.

Basically, I found the game to be really average, though I will play it through to the end. I do appriechiate that playing co-op will make it more fun, but I dont have gold so that is not an option. Just a bit of explanation, introductions of weapons etc would help, but the gameplay is fundementally average. I also dont like the way that they just assume that you have played the first 2. I can understand MGS 4 not giving you a summary of what has previously happened, but just a little bit on info on what happened before would have helped. I have used wiki to find out some plot details of the previous ones, and that has helped, but it just assumes you know who people are, and I have no idea who they are.

Oh yeah, and what the hell are the flood, and why would they include them, I hate it when games do stuff like that and try and make a level of something like survival horror (Uncharted!!!! why would you do it) and that level was just rubbish. It does mix it up, but the vehicle sections do a good enough job of that

I basically stopped reading from here. No offense, but you can't really rate the third game of a series if you've never played the other ones to begin with. You can't even notice the differences between the games, which is, in my opinion, the best thing to do (and the best satisfaction you can get).

Also, why are you comparing Halo 3 to Gears and Uncharted? That's ridiculous! Just rate the game for what it is: A Halo game. It's like people comparing Battlefield: Bad Company and Call of Duty 4 (which is NOT the god of FPS games, please people)... o_o

you don't need to have played the first games of mgs. I didn't and mgs4 is one of the best games i've played this year.