Being extremely busy kind of sucks.
Like millions of other people, I bought Halo 3 on its launch date, waiting all of 30 minutes at the local Meijer to get a copy. However, unlike many of those individuals, I only have small chunks of time to actually play the game. Everyday I play for about an hour a day, and every day more people I know call me telling me they just beat it. Unfortunately, I find myself quite a while off. I JUST finished the floodgate stage.
However, I will give a first impression. This game is the worthy successor to Halo. Halo 2 was decent, primary the multiplayer aspect. But, it felt more like a testing ground than anything else. There wasn’t really anything cool ore different that really made great. In fact many of the changes made to it actually made it feel less like a Halo game.
Halo 3 seems to be a bit of a mix of Halo and Halo 2, where they tried to take the best elements of each, and take the entire experience to the next level. When I first opened the package I dabbed at the normal difficulty to confirm that it was too easy. It is. Don’t play on normal unless you are trying to get gamer achievement points or something (since you get 125 for finishing each difficult level). I have been playing on heroic, and I have to say it is quite the difficulty ramp up.
The gameplay actually works out to be a lot like Black. Where you are constantly fighting entrenched enemies, running out of ammo, and get killed if you aren’t careful. And, then, there are the re-enforcements. That adds a whole new level of insanity to everything. On the road stage, I reached a point where re-enforcements just kept coming and I literally crouch walked while hiding behind stuff to walk pass the army of brutes to get to the next checkpoint.
I have been having a good time though. I’d say if Halo was a 10, and Halo 2 was 7, then Halo 3 is a solid 9 so far.
More later, after I “finish the fight.”
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