Platform: Xbox 360
Developer(s): Microsoft, Bungie
Release Date: 2009
Genre(s): FPS
Online/Single player: Online/Offline
Rating: 5/5
Info:
Halo 3 takes place about one year after the invasion of earth. Humanity has been completely pushed into a corner, and the Covenant keep pouring in. The flood also shows up, so now you have to deal with an alliance of powerful alien species AND a parasite that can instantly turn you into one of their own. However, since the Covenant betrayed the Elites in the second Halo game, they are now siding with humanity, which feels really good. Since the first game, the Elites have been your nemesis, but in the third installment, they're your most powerful ally.
Gameplay
HUD
The HUD isn't a lot more different than the previous games. The detail's a bit better, the shield bar is in a different location, etc etc. They did add two new HUD's, though. One for when you play as Elites, and one for when you play as the Guilty Sparks in Forge Mode.
Campaign
The Campaign is once absolutely stunning. Everything about it just feels so right, and the parts where you play side by side with the Elites is so much fun I can't even describe it. Halfway through the game you try to save Earth from both the Covenant and the Flood, but when you realize that it's futile, you desperately try to do something that hasn't been done in the previous Halo games. You light the ring. Now, if you played the first Halo game you should know that lighting the Halo ring will probably extinguish all life in the galaxy, but seeing as how the Flood is winning, you don't have a choice. I am not going to spoil any more of the game, because seriously, its amazing.
Weapons
Some new weapons were as well added in the newest installment of Halo. The Spartan Laser, which is a slow but powerful weapon that can easily one shot Scorpions (Scorpions are heavy tanks) They added the Flame thrower, which can only be used on one map, but damn is it fun. They added two new grenades as well. The fire grenade and the spike grenade. The spike grenade is similar to the hedgehog grenade from Resistance: Fall of Man.
As for the Covenant, they got a spiker, which is a weapon that fires spikes. It's similar to the human SMG, but its sort of cooler, and has a more powerful melee attack.
A new ability was added in that lets you tear stationary weapons off their post and carry them. This weapon makes you walk slower, and removing them from their station limits their ammunition, but nonetheless its powerful.
Equipment
One of the coolest things that was added in Halo 3 was the equipment you could use. There are many different equipments you can use, but my own personal favorite is the Bubble Shield. The Bubble Shield is what it's called: when you use it a bubble will spawn where you land it. This bubble will deflect any attack for a short period of time. Enemies can still walk through it, and be advised as vehicles can drive through it, killing you instantly. It is still a useful item.
Here you can see when Spartan 1337 uses the Bubble Shield to deflect an attack from Pluton.
The clip is also from the Halo based anime, Halo Legends.
New Cool Flood Ability
Although its terrifying, it is still really cool that they added in an ability for the flood to actually turn both humans and aliens into Flood Combat Forms.
If you play in Coop mode, you might actually see your own body being turned after you die and respawn.
Here you can see a marine soldier being overrun by flood Infection forms. He painfully but quickly turns.
Halo three, or any of the Halo games really, is a masterpiece that is recommended not only for FPS lovers but gamers in general.
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