CGI

Search in your heart, u will find the true answer there for your question.

Not automatically. But if someone should know it's you, cos you started calling me out for downplaying Sony all the time, remember? So I'm sure you know about this phenomenon. Really, it's not so hard to detect. It's everywhere, even on this site (which in heart and soul is a console war site, like it or not, but many of those kind of people are attracted to this place).

That proves not much though. Many in this gen have bought an X360 first and later a PS3 cus of obvious reasons like earlier launch and high PS3 price and whatnot. I will always be Xbox biased even if PS3 has the best games.

Sorry for quoting u as 8.2 while u in fact gave 8.6.

CGI

Theres different methods to downplay the competition, sometimes subconsiously.

And no 8.5 is not bad by any means. But it's crucial when the holy grail of Xbox is trying to take on MGS4's 9.5 score in this very game.

Oh my...I knew this thread wouldn't end well. Calm down people...jesus. I'd give it a 9.1 for the multiplayer alone. Don't count my vote though as I'm a huge Sony bot.

Erm, can we get back on topic and stop fighting each other now?

@ bolded, thank you

@ rest of post, well, I don't consider myself more a fan of either console

8.0

Multiplayer is fun, but it's still the multiplayer I've been playing since Halo 2. And the Single Player was god awful,

Well no, you name individual names, whether you stuck them in a group or named them one by one is irrelevant.

Furthermore, as someone pointed out already, Scifiboy i think, you misquoted his score and several other people in the group have refuted their position as Sony fans.  Solid statistics would involve getting the scores of all people in this thread who identify as Sony fans, not just the lowest ones you could lay your hands on. 

All that and your conclusion is based on the determination that a score below 9, is somehow invalid or must be influenced by fanboyism. Carl gave the game an 8.9(89), 5 marks below the Halo 3 meta of 94.  Similiary should we question the opinion of all those that gave a >9.9 or a >99%, because they are equidistant from the score that Halo 3 'deserves'.

People are entitled to their opinion.  You can question their opinion but you can't apply statistics to show that their opinion is somehow less valid. 

I can understand it's frustrating when someone can't see the quality in a game that you love or even people giving low scores to games that they have barely played but so far in all previous iterations of this thread, all scores have been included unless you could prove that the person hadn't played the game.

I would say a 9.9
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The graphics improved drastically without losing that "scifi feel" that Bungie started with Halo 1and carried to Halo2
Campaign was fun and challenging when played on "heroic" and it gave you more to the story.
Multilayer has been unrivalled so far.
Unlockables and achievements give so much more to the game.
Forge is a welcomed feature which allows users to create some pretty awesome maps.

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Campaign length (although, I think if they made it any longer, the whole thing would have seemed to drag on)
the Level Cortana lol