Possibly my biggest letdown as well with all the hype, mind you overhyped games usually do that and the reviews are misleading, sure it was a 9-9.5 for online play but at most a 6.5 - 7 for campaign mode.
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2 points to make here........
1. Yes, not the best halo but still a good game..... 4 player co-op on LEGENDARY whilst chatting to your 3 other buddys is a joy to behold.....
2. Multiplayer on Halo 3 is 2nd to none, TONNES of maps, tonnes of modes, forge, theatre ect ect, recording entire replays of your multiplayer match, a good matchmaking system, FUN FUN FUN
did it deserve 9.5.... no.... is it a AAA game as a package? (ie single player and multiplayer) HELL YEAH
So basically what everyone is saying OP. Is that you are right, the single player campaign is pretty crap.
I never played it online myself, the only online Halo I've played has been a couple of times on Halo 1 between friends.
(I'm more an RTS fan...)
| 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 Eh, honestly, that's not a good start to an "impressions" mini-review. It's the 2nd sequel, obviously it assumes you've played the first 2 or else it'd waste alot of time on catchup. I'm replaying KH2 at the moment and the cutscene recap at the beginning is pretty damn confusing if you hadn't played the previous 2 games. With MGS4, so what if you know the persons name from the start? Instead of saying "who's that random guy" you'd be asking "Who the F is Otacon?", if you don't know the story, then you don't know the story. 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. I tend to agree with that, except I'm not sure what you meant by crawling things? also, I'm pretty sure gears and uncharted had it's fair share of "crawling things" which were impossible to get headshots on. What I liked about Halo 3 over those games was that you could take off the armour of enemies with your weapons in order to expose the weak flesh underneath. Also, the lack of a look down the sights button really annoys me. It's Halo, and alot of other FPS aswell. How do you feel about unreal, Half-life and doom? It's just the traditional. I don't like the lack of down the sight views either buttttt having said that, do we really want every FPS to play the exact same way in a different setting? 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. I might be wrong, but I think the manual provides some details about weapons, enemies and vehicles (could be wrong because I can't remember which is which from the 3 halo games). Basically, I found the game to be really average, though I will play it through to the end. I would not say it's ground breaking, but it's not an average game (if it were average, then MGS4 and R2 are the only AAA exclusives on the PS3 atm and the rest are average) 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. The gameplay is only average because you've played other console FPS that took what Halo perfected and refined it. The reason why Halo 3 gets so much love was because Halo was the first genuinely excellent FPS on a home console, and Halo 3 is the same quality, but now the quality has lifted due to other FPS continuing from what Halo started. 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. I don't think they could sum up 2 games worth of story into the 3rd game. It is a trilogy of games, it's like, did the Return of the King recap on what happened in the first 2 films? Ditto Star Wars trilogies. 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'm not a big fan of the flood levels either, there's one towards the end that's just tedious. I'm guessing they just tried to change up the pace of the game before it got stale. |
I think it's a great game, certainly worthy of AAA status. It's not the best Halo (I'd say Halo is the best). Biggest let down with this game is that it didn't step it up gameplay wise like you would expect from Next gen, it did just enough to make it a great game, but nothing else.
You've got a 360 so I'd definitely recommend playing Halo 1 and 2 first.
Oh and by the way, the "MGS doesn't need to because it's so complicated" is such a lame excuse, the Halo universe (including the other media i.e books and comics) is so much more expanded then MGS is. MGS4 didn't do it because it assumed players had played the first 3 titles, not because it was too complicated. Halo 3 did it for the exact same reason.
Wow...a bunch of Sony Fanboys complain about Halo 3. What a surprise.
Halo 3 was my first halo game to play.
Initially I didn’t like it but as I got into it I really enjoyed it.
I would agree with you on the learning curve you are on your own.
The A I imo was very good.
On a side note you can download the original halo on live.
I have it but found it hard to get into having played 3.
In halo you never really do know what is going on. You have to go online on the net and read up on fansites to know. Halo has never been about the campaign its all about multiplayer. oh and forge is so much fun. But seriously you should have bought the game its the only reason to own a 360. On x box its about the players you play against and with not the story.
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i've played halo games alot, alot and alot.
Halo 1: was a really cool game, good story, graphics and it was awesome on both split screen and system link. I've spend weeks with that game and its one of the best shooters
halo 2: a even better game imo, although the campaign isnt as good as halo 1 it is still fun and story is interesting. But online is epic, the best online shooter game i've played. Split screen is epic as well. The weapons rule, all the combos, every weapon is useful. And while some may be overpowered i think they add some strategy into the game. The maps are awesome, there are some shitty ones but mlg on lockout, midship, warlock and sanctuary is genius. It sucks that they removed the clan thing though.
halo 3: a crappy game... It sucks, its sucks hard compared to 1 and 2. The campaign isnt remotely interesting, story sucks as well. Splitscreen is dire, its fun for a couple of weeks then it bores the hell out of you. Why? well there are tons of reason
the aiming isnt as good as halo 2.
they've fucked up the weapons as well. Like the br, the br was one of the best weapons on halo 2, this is not the case anymore. The combos are not that interesting and they've removed the noobcombo all together. The plasma pistol isnt good anymore, neither are the smg and the sword(one of the coolest weapons in halo 2) turned to be crap, crap, crap. Sniping is also bad, they've removed sweep sniping which was very cool and its almost as easy to nonscope as scoping. The hammer is one annoying noob weapon which hurts you even if you're not hit. All and all the weapons are not as fun anymore.
But the problem with halo 3 is the maps. There are none really good maps, and plenty of boring ones. Even lockout, the best map of halo 2 is crap on halo3. They've removed the jumping, and camping spots altogether in the halo 3 version and the map turns out mediocre at the best.
A couple of other complaints are the lack of clan match making and the level system. Its just to easy to reach level 50, which was nearly impossible in halo2(as it should be). All in all i am very disappointed with halo 3.
Staude said:
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.
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Really? I didn't play any of the previous MGS games and the only thing I knew about MGS4 was that there was a dude named Snake as the main character. Though I would tend to agree that Halo 3 was somewhat uninspired (single player campgaign is all I played), I would also say the same about MGS4. Having not played the series previously and not knowing anything, I found MGS4 uninspired, cliche-ridden, and boringly repetitive. I played the first 1/3 of the game or so and then traded it in. I didn't help that I knew nothing about the game. Had I known nothing about Halo 3 I probably would have ended up doing the same -- not finishing it -- as lack of knowledge of the previous games would have really hurt it.
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Odd choice for first post. :D
Personally, I liked the Halo campaign. Not the greatest thing ever, but it had plenty of cool moments, and it's obviously designed with co-op in mind. The first time you fight the Scarab in that canyon like area where it climbs over the building is worth the price alone in my opinion. Particularly when you go all Die Hard and leap from the construction crane onto the Scarab, raining fire down onto the Brutes on the Scarab Deck. Awesome. :D
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