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Halo 3 Review
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All About Halo 3
Over all review
Halo 3 is an awesome game and well worth the R599 you pay for it (SA only). Everything about it is almost flawless. The A.I is very good although the characters friendly or not have a very "lone wolf" type mind set. Even in groups they will not work together to take you or your co-op partner down and think of nothing if their frag blows you away. But still as a whole it works well and makes game play challenging rather than just a plain shoot em up. Graphics are amazing and I have yet to see models merging into each other, the xbox does have problems from time to time where models will appear flat n mono tonal but it quickly recovers. One downfall which lies not in the game but the machine itself is that without an HDMI cable and TV or projector (Recommended) it looks crap, everything is down converted and squashed which makes it rely hard to change settings as the txt is very small soft and fuzzy cramped and soft, makes it hard to pot enemy's from a distance too. Obviously projected image is worse down converted.. This problem occurs for all xbox 360 games going through composite cables. Don't use composite on a projector rather just a very big TV. The game play is very different compared to the first two games. Everything's faster, faster weapons faster punches faster vehicles faster run speed faster everything, which is a big relief. It makes for a more enjoyable faster more exciting Halo 3 experience. Game content was vastly updated there's a load of new stuff in the game to a point where it's a bit much, none of its consistent, there's a lot of guns/vehicles you only get to try a few times through out the entire game and some weapons make others pointless.. a lot of the old weapons that were abundant are now rare n replaced by bazooka weapons(big guns) however everything seems a lot more possible in the game when in fact its harder to do, for instance taking down a scarab. A lot of the time you get given tasks to do but not the means to do it like say a flying vehicle to get somewhere would be nice and fun, unfortunately they don't supply one. Yes it makes it more challenging but not as fun or exciting and very frustrating when the check point is a while back. Check points... check points have triggers attached to them which to be honest is old now, a lot of the time you'll miss them because you didn't kill that one grunt hiding in the waterfall. So that added to the badly designed difficulty which is realistic weapon damage in an unrealistic game where you are ment to be all powerful makes you switch off. That is if you're playing heroic or legendary. The one thing where I thought Bungie would have corrected by now is the vehicle to Spartan damage ratio. Basically if your warthogs tire gets shot you take some damage, this makes getting into a vehicle suicide at times. One other thing is the new achievements the xbox 360 has, in Halo 3 most of them can only be completed during online play which is very annoying seems you just bought the most expensive game yet and you cant even unlock all its content. So most of the above can be avoided if you put in the right settings and buy the right stuff. That is a HD TV, HDMI cable and internet. Also put the game difficulty on normal or lower.
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All About Halo 3 Over all review Halo 3 is an awesome game and well worth the R599 you pay for it (SA only). Everything about it is almost flawless. The A.I is very good although the characters friendly or not have a very "lone wolf" type mind set. Even in groups they will not work together to take you or your co-op partner down and think of nothing if their frag blows you away. But still as a whole it works well and makes game play challenging rather than just a plain shoot em up. Graphics are amazing and I have yet to see models merging into each other, the xbox does have problems from time to time where models will appear flat n mono tonal but it quickly recovers. One downfall which lies not in the game but the machine itself is that without an HDMI cable and TV or projector (Recommended) it looks crap, everything is down converted and squashed which makes it rely hard to change settings as the txt is very small soft and fuzzy cramped and soft, makes it hard to pot enemy's from a distance too. Obviously projected image is worse down converted.. This problem occurs for all xbox 360 games going through composite cables. Don't use composite on a projector rather just a very big TV. The game play is very different compared to the first two games. Everything's faster, faster weapons faster punches faster vehicles faster run speed faster everything, which is a big relief. It makes for a more enjoyable faster more exciting Halo 3 experience. Game content was vastly updated there's a load of new stuff in the game to a point where it's a bit much, none of its consistent, there's a lot of guns/vehicles you only get to try a few times through out the entire game and some weapons make others pointless.. a lot of the old weapons that were abundant are now rare n replaced by bazooka weapons(big guns) however everything seems a lot more possible in the game when in fact its harder to do, for instance taking down a scarab. A lot of the time you get given tasks to do but not the means to do it like say a flying vehicle to get somewhere would be nice and fun, unfortunately they don't supply one. Yes it makes it more challenging but not as fun or exciting and very frustrating when the check point is a while back. Check points... check points have triggers attached to them which to be honest is old now, a lot of the time you'll miss them because you didn't kill that one grunt hiding in the waterfall. So that added to the badly designed difficulty which is realistic weapon damage in an unrealistic game where you are ment to be all powerful makes you switch off. That is if you're playing heroic or legendary. The one thing where I thought Bungie would have corrected by now is the vehicle to Spartan damage ratio. Basically if your warthogs tire gets shot you take some damage, this makes getting into a vehicle suicide at times. One other thing is the new achievements the xbox 360 has, in Halo 3 most of them can only be completed during online play which is very annoying seems you just bought the most expensive game yet and you cant even unlock all its content. So most of the above can be avoided if you put in the right settings and buy the right stuff. That is a HD TV, HDMI cable and internet. Also put the game difficulty on normal or lower. For more on halo 3 and others (coming soon) Visit www.CineHD.biz/Halo_3.asp