Halo 3
Amazing. The single player campaign is, so far, everything I had hoped it would be. The multiplayer is so flawlessly awesome that it practically bring tears to my eyes.
Let me just take you through a single aspect of the multiplayer: theater mode.
- The game keeps fully viewable records your last 25 online matches, meaning that for each of those matches you can watch the entire thing in slow-motion, from the perspective of any of the players, move a free roaming camera anywhere on the map
- Using these ‘video’ records you can also record screenshots and film clips
- Those film clips and screenshots can be uploaded to space provided for your user by Bungie
- Other users can browse those clips and Bungie makes finding them extremely easy. If I save a cool screenshot from a match, if I, or anyone else, looks up the detailed match information on Bungie.net my screenshot will be listed as ‘Game Assets’
After I have been beaten down (check out my Halo 3 multiplayer match record) I can view the game from the perspective of the player(s) I found most impressive and steal their tactics (which are hopefully not beyond the reach of my skill).
That previous link to my game stats bring me to another fantastic aspect of the multiplayer: stats. Some of you may remember the prodigious amount of statistics that Unreal Tournament meticulously tracked for each multiplayer match (wow, my character took 3768 steps during that match). I am pleased to report that, although Halo 3 does not surpass them, it does a fair job of rivaling them.
That’s my online character over there to the right. I’ve only unlocked the merest fraction of the upper level customization so far, but I’m pretty happy with my current look.
I’m “TheRealXyzzyB” on XBox Live because, believe it or not, someone else has the gamertag of “XyzzyB”. Obviously since I own the domain, it makes me the true personification of the handle. :-)
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