I don't have all that much to say about it.
Halo is a great series and I'm loving Halo 3.
Is it overrated? Probably. It's not doing too much different then Halo 2 did.
But why fix what ain't broke?
Theres a noticable graphics improovement in there, as you'd expect.
The game looks sharp in pretty much all areas of the game.
This won't change the fact that walking through eerily familiar
hallways and areas throughout the campaign is a tad bland, no matter
how pretty these clone halls look. To be perfectly honest with you,
I've only just begun with the campaign so theres little else I can say
about it though it seems to be shaping up to be like Halo 2s. Fun and
it advances and in this case concludes (?) the Halo story, but your not
going to play through it more then once if you can help it. Fortunately
the multiplayer is fun.
My only real complaint lies with that it doesn't seem you can
'matchmake' for custom games. So unless you have like 16 friends or at
least are good at making them (which I'm not) your not going to be able
to milk the custom games, which arguably is the most fun you have in
multiplayer.
I've played some ranked games, albeit only in the Lone Wolf play list
as I'm not that good a player and I don't wanna deal with people
whining at me if I play a ranked game on their team and stuff up.
I've played some team games on the social play lists however.
Big Team Battles mostly. For 12 players and up.
And it's a blast.
Capture the flag.
Assault. To a lesser extent VIP. Fun game types, to be sure.
Territories I don't find to be fun, but that could well be just me.
Then theres the forge, which you can use to subtley edit your maps.
While the modifications you can make are generally limited to what
items are in the map, where they are, where you spawn and stuff like
that they can still make for some drastic changes in gameplay and if
you're creative you can do a lot with it. Alas, I'm not.
Also theres the theatre which I like and would will that more games in
the future make use of such a feature. You see your most recent games
in the list and you can go back and watch them. The beauty is it's not
just a mere recording. In this playback you can see the action through
the ideas of any other player or get an entirely new perspective with
the free roam camera.
You can save your matches for later viewing or just snip out a few
choice moments to brag about. You can even take screenshots, of which
you can then grab off the bungie website and post around to show your
friends (or like me, use as wall papers) which is just brilliant and
possibly the best new feature in Halo 3.
I'm going to sum up now.
This isn't a game you're going to really buy for the single player.
It'll be fun while it lasts, but you can take comfort in knowing that
it offers up some of if not arguably the best multiplayer on the system
and in my oppinion, the best Halo game to date.
