07-04-2018, 02:04 AM
Bought Halo 3 last sunday, so it's about time to continue my look at the series with this and Halo 4. Over thoughts: Meh. About a 6/10. I've played better and worse (Combat Evolved and Reach are still the worse of all four I've played). It feels like an overly drawn out epilogue to Halo 2. The last game set up the main conflict, had a big plot revil for both sides of the conflict, and ended before we could get any any resolution for anything. This game even opens up (what I believe) is right after the screen cuts to black. It's a fun game, I had fun with it, but it's just warping up every lose thread that 2 brought up.
The Flood where once again mostly wasted. That being said, they were kinda scary again. The next to last level made me feel like I did in the orignal Halo's Flood level. There was also a mission near the end involving the Flood that was really cool. Cortana and Gravemind's "Hallucinations" (best word I could come up with) were neat, but wore out their welcome almost instantly. My biggest complaint would have to be the boss fights. Spoiler:There's only one. The Prophet of Truth and Gravemind were built up as the main people we have to take down to save the world, but both were taken out in cutscenes. And the one with Guilty Spark is only layed out like a boss, but is more of a interactive cutscene.
I never realized how much I liked Cortana until I spent most of the game without her. It's really jarring when you finally get a voice that constantly talks to you when it's been mostly missing. The one thing that Halo always does have is great music. Most of the fight scenes and emotional scenes seem to hit a bit harder, even though I'm 95% sure most of the music I'm thinking of is from the last game. It's this music that I think makes the final mission my favrate level in the whole series.
In review, kinda good, just not the best in the series.
The Flood where once again mostly wasted. That being said, they were kinda scary again. The next to last level made me feel like I did in the orignal Halo's Flood level. There was also a mission near the end involving the Flood that was really cool. Cortana and Gravemind's "Hallucinations" (best word I could come up with) were neat, but wore out their welcome almost instantly. My biggest complaint would have to be the boss fights. Spoiler:There's only one. The Prophet of Truth and Gravemind were built up as the main people we have to take down to save the world, but both were taken out in cutscenes. And the one with Guilty Spark is only layed out like a boss, but is more of a interactive cutscene.
I never realized how much I liked Cortana until I spent most of the game without her. It's really jarring when you finally get a voice that constantly talks to you when it's been mostly missing. The one thing that Halo always does have is great music. Most of the fight scenes and emotional scenes seem to hit a bit harder, even though I'm 95% sure most of the music I'm thinking of is from the last game. It's this music that I think makes the final mission my favrate level in the whole series.
In review, kinda good, just not the best in the series.