I bought Halo3 last night and me and my friend beat it, and i have to say that the game is way to short and over rated. I loved Halo, and Halo2 was great but still not as good as Halo1, but Halo3 is just a bad story. It took us just over 5 hours to beat it on easy, and we were screwing around for the most part. We will be beating it on the harder levels today but i would expect around the same time since now we know what to do for each level. I'm a big Halo fan, read all the books and beat all the games now.
The graphics are great, after all i heard about the game i thought it was going to look bad, but just the opposite. From the lighting to the textures the game is great to look at. The one thing wrong with the game is the character models, they looked old and done years ago. The game looks way better then CoD4 except for the character models.
During the game you get massive frame slowdowns, it was under 5FPS at some points. The game also warped one of us backwards a couple of times, which screwed us up due to all the different routes to take on some levels. The levels are really big which was alot of fun after playing CoD4 in all the tight spaces.
We tried to do the theater and forge but they were taking forever to load, which seems very odd since i don't think it loads anything to the HDD. After about 15 seconds they were still under 12% loaded.
My friend tried one match online, but after playing RFoM and CoD4 online it was confusing to find a game, their was no gameslist that we saw and it matched us in a 4player match on the snow level where one guy left, not very fun. Maybe you need to unlock different modes or something.
Overall the game was fun and no doubt i will play it for along time, but it just seems to be lacking. From the reviews the game had received i was expecting the best game ever, but found a game that was worse then CoD4 and RFoM overall.
How did everyone else feel about the game?
