I never played Halo 2 and my only experience of Halo 1 was on the PC a long long time ago, so I wasn't familiar with the story or anything. I read up on some spoilers so that I could pick up Halo 3 where they left off.
The grunts say some hilarious stuff when you're shooting at them, it's just a shame that you miss a lot of it. "Ow! You bully!" But Halo 3's online modes are great. The only downside is not being able to select a specific mode like CTF. I've only noticed lag a couple of times and it was specific to those games, so I blamed someone's lame connection. I don't use any preference options to keep my net wide. The only real downside is the achievement whoring that goes on sometimes, but that's not too big an issue yet.
But I've not been back to H3 since I got CoD4. The single-player tells a really good story and has some real "I am never gonna make it out of here" moments, like the end of the Pripyat flashback where you have a sniper rifle and 50 zillion enemies to kill. Great stuff.
And the multiplayer has so many options I've not even tried half of them yet. Ranked Captain 2 right now, level 31 in case anyone cares
Create-a-Class is a great idea and the unlocks don't create an imbalance at all - you can kill just as well with the starting rifle as you can with the higher level ones. Better in some cases. Just don't think you can hide behind a wall if you've been spotted by a sniper
Bah, now I wanna play it
The grunts say some hilarious stuff when you're shooting at them, it's just a shame that you miss a lot of it. "Ow! You bully!" But Halo 3's online modes are great. The only downside is not being able to select a specific mode like CTF. I've only noticed lag a couple of times and it was specific to those games, so I blamed someone's lame connection. I don't use any preference options to keep my net wide. The only real downside is the achievement whoring that goes on sometimes, but that's not too big an issue yet.
But I've not been back to H3 since I got CoD4. The single-player tells a really good story and has some real "I am never gonna make it out of here" moments, like the end of the Pripyat flashback where you have a sniper rifle and 50 zillion enemies to kill. Great stuff.
And the multiplayer has so many options I've not even tried half of them yet. Ranked Captain 2 right now, level 31 in case anyone cares
Create-a-Class is a great idea and the unlocks don't create an imbalance at all - you can kill just as well with the starting rifle as you can with the higher level ones. Better in some cases. Just don't think you can hide behind a wall if you've been spotted by a sniper Bah, now I wanna play it
