Halo 3 -- More Bang for your Buck.

We're over the hump in Halo 3. I've earned all the achievements that can be earned in campaign and team multiplayer. I only have those left for solo matchmaking. Doing so required going through the campaign numerous times and a hundred or so rounds of team slayer in matchmaking. I had only completed the campaign mode of Halo and Halo 2 the original time. And I went into matchmaking in Halo 2 all of two or three times. Halo 3 has proven itself to offer far more basic value than the other games in the series. This is before I've even started messing around in Forge, the game's basic level editor. We still have hundreds of custom multiplayer rounds left in us at this point. Before the new map download content arrives that will spark a few hundred more. The best little extra that wasn't in Halo or Halo 2 would have to be saved films and the further integration of Bungie.net. You're able to watch your last twenty or so rounds in their entirety. You have basic control over the video. You can fast forward, freeze frame, and move the camera all around independently, or watch the game from another player in the round. You can remove the game's HUD for a clear view and take screenshots and or cut out a clip. You can upload these clips in your file sharing within the game. Allowing anyone else to download and view them. You're also able to share your custom game modes in the file sharing this way. At Bungie.net you're able to track just about every statistic you could imagine. It's an amazingly thorough system and an awesome little bonus outside the game. We're still learning at this point. We're still finding out little tidbits about the levels and weapons. That you can shoot one of the tools to cause damage to an enemy using it. How the levels flow and where the confrontations most commonly take place. Where Magus likes to hide. Where Neo will run for specific weapons. And as always cutting Riddel off from access to any vehicles. And we're developing strategies to deal with and exploit the traits of our fellow players. And of course we'll have to come up with an answer for their inevitable answer to our actions. We've still got a way to go with Halo 3. We won't go as far as we did with Halo 2 though, and that's mainly because of the rest of the season being filled with online titles like Virtua Fighter 5 and Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus. Next time should be a final opinion on Halo 3.