Halo 3 - Hip or Hype?

Best game ever, or best hyped game ever?

Halo 3 has been anticipated for a long time by its zealous fans. Once promised to release with the XBox 360 and later delayed, it's been in the making for some time and much anticipated. Is the wait worth the hype or is it just a flash in the pan? Halo has a reputation for being popular with "unsophisticated" gamers who value eye candy and light gameplay over a quality experience. Is this true, or is it just gamers being stuffy?

I'm sorry to report that to a degree, it's a bit overhyped. It's a solid game with good controls, but is basically just your average first person shooter with slightly better than average production values. Not to mention, using a controller to aim and shoot is difficult for those used to the more accurate controls offered by a mouse and keyboard, and the PC version comes out months after the XBox one.

Not to mention, well, Xbox Live. It's a fantastic service in technical terms, but like many things, we're not so sure about the people using it. Halo is great fun played with friends that you know and can wager with and exercise bragging rights over, but the jury's out on online matchmaking. The wide variety of people to play around the world of many skill levels is great, but we were rather appalled to hear what sounded like legions of 12 year old boys spew forth a legion of dirty words, some of which we had to look up. If you're looking for new and exciting ways to learn ethnic slurs, this is it folks.

Thankfully, you can mute people who get a bit obnoxious or simply play with people who are a bit more chilled out. When playing with people who keep the trash talking to a bearable level, Halo 3 is a solid and fun game and possibly required owning for every shooter fan that owns a 360. Those of us who are a bit more casually-minded, however, are still having a great time with Uno!

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