Probably the most critical Halo 3 review this far.

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Its not from a big gamer site or anything, its from a Swedish local paper, read and enjoy :)

 

http://www.st.nu/noje/recensioner.php?action=visa_artikel&id=672606

 

“Halo will kill them all”. The line comes dragging. It crawls forward through a stock of unpredictability that only can be beaten by a movie with Jean-Claude van Damme in the leading part. But this is not Universal Soldier. This is Halo 3, and it is not good.

The intention was of course that Halo 3 would become the magnificent ending of the series that the entire gaming world has been longing after. It was to become the world's best game, ever. It is not. It is a flop.

Halo 3 has been going on of a massive hype and marketing campaign. The security is rigorous in order to nothing will trickle out about the games story. Why can I not for my life understand since the story in Halo is equal unintresting as… the story in a Jean Claude van Damme-movie.

It is the shooting that you want with this game, not if Master Chief is Cortanas father/lovers/brother in law or forgotten toy. Everyone - the exceptions are extremly few -  that plays Halo does it together, either with or towards a friend. They literally spoken don't give a fuck about the story. As long as the opponent bleeds.

I have not tested the multiplayer part of Halo 3. Just since it is Halo 3 and a ridiculous protected title I've only been able to play it on Microsoft offices in ten hours. And the playing cracks in the joints from the beginning.

 

I am thrown in in a history that nobody of the newcomers to the series will understand. One must have played earlier parts in order to get anything out from the story. It is beautiful as an expensive painting, but, the game play, its just, yawn, boring.

Shoot space monsters, druive space cars with poor control, shoot more space monsters. Your so-called co-worker has not been endowed with intelligence when it comes to vehicles and they drive you happily into both mountains and other obstacles. It feels gameplaywise like you've been transported back to the Nintendo 64-era

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The Story is a broken collection of bullshit about disappeared artefacts and one always reappeared sworm of insects. The music is enervating meaningless. It is too much transport stretches and very little of the magic that I had waited myself to find here.