After Halo 2, VVV didn't hold out much hope that he'd like the next installment, and he's found that the game met his low expectations. Check out his review for a counterpoint to all the pro-Halo 3 enthusiasm. He does like the game-- better than Halo 2-- but there's a bittersweet flavor to it for him.
First I'll start with the background info on these. There are 7 terminals and all of them are located on The Ark, The Covenant, and Halo. To get the achievement for getting all the terminals you have to read through the message until the terminal says, [b] "FRAGMENT ENDS" [/b] except for two occations where it says [b] "[35:52:75:63:64] xx01-83-244.53" [/b] and the other is [b] "ALL RECORDS CEASE" [/b] The Achievement you get is "Marathon Man" and I think it gives you the security armor shoulder. The Security armor is actually just a remake of the armor the main character wears in an earlier Bungie game, "Marathon". I also here there is another terminal however I haven't bothered to look. Sorry. Anyways on to the terminals.
Since I've been spending way too much time playing Halo 3, a lot of news has slipped by the last couple days:
Kotaku notes a new Xbox 360 bundle that includes Halo 3, destined for Europe.
TTL says Halo 3 is blam!ing awesome.
The Village Voice did find a few things to quibble with, namely that the game is too familiar, but they still did call Halo 3 the best Halo game ever, if not the best game ever.
I remember the months leading up to the release of Halo 2 still clearly. The date of release was firmly entrenched in my mind. After playing the Halo 1 campaign for three years all I could think about was that date. To be frank I was sadly disappointed. Thankfully for the third installment I had low expectations and now I am very glad of that.
Tough Luck is a gold skull. It is the first skull on the third level, Tsavo Highway. As a gold skull, it offers an achievement and 150% bonus on campaign scoring. In return, enemies will have much better luck dodging your grenades, needles, vehicles and plasma bolts.
After emerging from the end of the first shielded tunnel and onto the Tsavo Highway, walk along the edge of the gorge to your left. Jumping carefully down onto the bridge support, walk around the edge of the supports to your left until you reach a stone ledge with this skull.
The Black Eye skull is a gold skull. It is the first skull on the second level, Crow's Nest, and is in the same room you start in after the cinematic, high above your head atop a large pipe.
Getting to it is relatively easy. Walk to the end of the room, up a short staircase, and turn around and look for a green shelf. Jump up on that, up onto a girder, and from there up onto the large pipe. Walk back the length of the room to the end of the pipe nearest the video screens and claim this skull.
Put Lancaster Online on the list of sites that thought campaign was too short and that multiplayer is the real reason to buy Halo 3-- not to mention the reason to buy an Xbox 360 if you don't already own one.
GamesFirst thought the gunplay was excellent and the story "nonsense" but gave Halo 3 a score of 4 stars out of 5 anyway.
Iron is Halo 3's second skull and the second skull on the first level, Sierra 117. It is the game's first gold skull.
As a gold skull, it gives you and your cooperative play teammates the Iron achievement if any player picks it up during the game. After picking it up, it can be activated in the campaign settings page of the pre-game lobby.
When activated, this skull will force all cooperative players to reload the previous checkpoint if any of the players die, and will force a solo player to repeat the entire level if he or she dies.
Like its Halo 2 counterpart, when activated the Blind skull removes all interface elements from the screen. It is a silver skull, and provides no achievements or campaign scoring multipliers.
It is the first skull encountered in the game. It is out in the open, at the end of a rock outcropping overlooking the river to the far right of the pool where the Phantom drops off the first Grunt and Brute reinforcements during the first encounter of the first level, Sierra 117.
The second item in Meyeselph's Halo 3 weapon guide is that all-around performer and MLG favorite, the Battle Rifle. Almost makes people forget the Halo 1 pistol.
Almost.
| Clip size: | 36 |
| max capacity: | 144 |
| rate of fire: | ~6 rounds per second (3 round burst fire 2 burst/sec) |
| rounds to kill(body): | 21 |
| rounds to kill (head): | 12 |
| rounds before melee kill: | 9 |
| (same for head, no damage difference for headshots until shield is down.) | |
| bullets before close frag nade kill(body): |
Frankie does a good impression of Officer Barbrady while talking to Game Informer about the Microsoft-Bungie split:
GI: Are you at all surprised by the response to this?
Something Awful reviews Halo 3, and for once, it's a real review (sort of) and not just an excuse to crack some poop jokes. Except, there are a few poop jokes.
Generally the review falls into the "single player is crap but multiplayer is good" except they also hated multiplayer. What do you expect? It's Something Awful.
They do manage to slip in a couple of the PC-centric prejudices that seem to characterize many of the reviews, such as: