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Rating:  423 reviews
Sales Rank: 45
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 7.5 x 1
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 9UE-00001
Model: 9UE-00001
UPC: 882224444477
EAN: 0882224444477
ASIN: B000FRU0NU
Release Date: September 25, 2007
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 Review for Non-Gamers September 27, 2007
Greeper (Washington DC)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I'm not a gamer, just a regular 30something who wants an easy way to take out my frustrations. This review is probably most helpful to middle aged men like me, not hardcore gamers.
I have tried many other games but Halo is the only one that doesn't tax me too much with choices and complicated controller requirements. I give the Halo franchise 5 stars because it is so simple, one mission, kill everything in sight. You don't need to investigate, open your pouch, choose between a million weapons, read maps, or think for even a second. It's the only game I've found which I can stand for more than 5 minutes and which is completely uncomplicated. And you can skip the story and all that nonsense by just hitting the main button.
As compared to other Halos: I'm not crazy about the weaponry. The needlers run out of ammo and the other guns don't do much. You also need to press a button to reload some weapons, it seems, whereas before they would reload if you walked over the same kind of weapon. THere are 3 kinds of grenades, which is unnecessary and just harder to switch between. You can also only carry 2 of each instead of 4. Since the new grenades stick like the plasmas, they don't add much and just add another layer of choice and button-pushing. Too complicated. Also, the little bonus things like flares and landmines are gimmicky and add too much comlpication. Again, advanced gamers probably love it, but I'm too old to learn all this new stuff. Just give me a gun and some grenades.
In previous games you'd come across more types of things to do, like a lot of sniper rifles so you could sit on a hilltop picking off aliens or use other strategy. In this game you don't find a lot of useful weapons, so there's a lot more direct hand to hand, on the ground type combat. I've also found that it's easier to kill things and easier in general to solve the levels. Also, it uses the "follow me" arrow and the voice gives you suggestions if you seem to be missing the point, which I like, since in previous Halos I've spent hours wandering around wondering what I'm supposed to be doing. No such problems here. They've sufficiently dumbed it down.
I've had a few graphic glitches in this one, which has never happened before. I've also gotten stuck and unable to get out of things twice. THe sound and graphics are great, of course. I've never paid any attention to the story, unless it required me to, so I can't comment on that. Kusdos to Bungie for making it easy to skip over.
Overall, this is the same experience as the others, though it seems easier than Halo2. As little thought as that required, this one requires less. I've not had to think at all about weapon choice, strategy, or anything, Just pull the trigger and kill! I wish there were more FPS games like this -- fast-paced, completely intuitive hand controls, easy storyline, simple mission, and FUN.
 Halo series; it was good but could have been so much better September 27, 2007
Berlin L. Brown (Atlanta, Ga USA)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I would just like to say, I am a big halo fan. I do and still consider it one of the best console gaming series, neck and neck with Half Life (or maybe a little better). But Halo 3, the end of the series is "good" but could have been so much better. My short review really could be summed by saying that Halo 3 is Halo 2.1 for XBOX360. I think Bungie and Microsoft played it safe by just recreating Halo 2 with better graphics and sound. From a business perspective, it was probably a smart move. Literally, there were the same weapons, same ships, same friendly characters just super-sized for the Xbox. The enemy characters acted in the same way, going through the same movements. The sad part is that they didn't recreate those famous battles there were tough as h*ll. There were a couple of tough battles with the flood and that was about it, everything else was a cake walk. After about 2 checkpoints, I knew I had to go from Normal to Heroic.
I don't know, maybe I played Halo 1 and 2 too much, but Halo 3 just felt like a lackluster experience. The AI, to me, seemed a little weaker; there were times where I was actually waiting before the enemy would shoot at me and he never did. And my favorite enemy character, the Elites weren't present (I guess they are on our side now). That Halo 2 character was awesome and would act like a predator and hunt you down. Most of the characters in three were just dummy targets waiting to get shot. I remember playing Halo 1 - 2 over and over and over again trying find a better strategy. It is Sep 27 (2 days after the release) and I have already beaten Halo on the Heroic; it would probably take me 5 hours to beat it on legendary.
On the multiplayer, so far it seems pretty good. Good maps, same Halo 2 like system.
In Summary:
+1. Great music, really set the tone
+2. Great continuation of story
+3. Great 360 graphics; you could see the bullets, blood, metallic shininess
+3b. So far, great multiplayer
-4. Horrible maps that were too linear and too easy
-5. AI lacked, I literally could stand there for a minute before some enemies would shoot me. Where were the Elites?
-6. New weapons and ships were cool but I was just fine using the older weapons like the assault rifle.
(-76b, pistol reaaaaaallly sucked this time)
In terms of the Xbox 360 games out now. I am not really a fan of Bioshock and think Halo 3 is way better. I might have to give Gears of War a better rating than Halo 3. Gears of War left you proud to have beat the game, especially on the hardest game setting.
I think Halo 3 will get a bunch of rave reviews and hold people's attention for a couple of months or a year, especially to new fans but I don't think it will satisfy the serious Halo junkie.
 Biggest rip off ever January 14, 2008
R. Thompson (Birmingham, Alabama USA)
11 out of 35 found this review helpful
If you liked halo 1 and halo 2 you might like this game because all it is is repeat of those games. Better graphics, but the same game. I would congratulate Microsoft in convincing all the teen fanboys to buy this garbage. So how bad is the game? Well let's put it this way, all the people who were so hot on buying the game a couple of months ago, no longer play it. Yes, those same fanatics who pre-ordered the game don't play it anymore. I played the game on the easist setting just to get through it but even then it was too boring. And online play? Horrible. Menu system? Worse ever.
I would suggest that colleges teach about Halo 3 in their marketing classes. To sell this dog turd at 60 bucks a pop is truly a great marketing accomplishment.
no keyboard and mouse no play September 25, 2007
R. C. (ny)
10 out of 82 found this review helpful
ill first start off with my history with halo back in november 2001 i was first in line at the local walmart awaiting the xbox launch i froze my panties off that night only to get home with numb fingers to play halo and after 10 minutes i turned off my new xbox and felt cheated the game sucked. then some years latter halo 2 came out i decided ill give it another shot no waiting this time the game was available and i had my xbox which had seen little play other than for max payne and d&d heroes it was relatively unused and again 10 minutes and again i felt cheated the game once again sucked. now the 360 came along i got to camp indoors for its launch for my local walmart had become a supercenter and was open 24 hours so i waited warmly inside this time no halo it was call of duty 2 a much better game but far from great and now almost two years latter comes halo 3 and i refuse to waste my $ on this one there is no keyboard and mouse compatability the game just sux ill stick with real games like bioshock and rather than use the mediocre 360 ill play it on my pc where games look far superior. bioshock yay halo 3 nay
 Same as Halo 2, Not that good September 25, 2007
Jonathan Eno (Woonsocket, RI)
10 out of 29 found this review helpful
I rented this game just out of curiosity. I enjoyed Halo and I was very disapointed with Halo 2. I was hoping that Halo 3 would be an improvement. Well, the graphics have been improved but that's about it. It's exactly the same as Halo 2 with a few new weapons and vehicles. Now I don't play multiplayer games, I never have. But it's pretty clear that's what this game was made for. Playing the campaign, it doesn't seem that they spent a lot of time on it, like Halo 2.
The story is not very interesting, continuing from Halo 2, which wasn't very interesting to begin with. The gameplay is very linear. All you do is go into an area and kill everything, collect some weapons and ammo, go to the next area and kill everything and so on until you get to a cinematic to let you know that the level has ended. The levels are rarely big enough to do any kind of exploring unlike Halo which involved a lot of exploring. The sound is not very good, nor are the sound effects, I can barely hear my guns firing while the enemy guns are really loud. I also have a standard 32 inch TV and the image is still sharp but the picture looks scrunched up like it was only meant for widescreen TV's. The gun sight is also very low on the screen and to shoot straight you have to look up, which is very irritating. There are some cool new vehicles, but overall Halo 3 is like almost every other FPS out there. I would say if you get this just for the campaign mode, rent it or wait till this is in the bargain bin.
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