Dizzy Games

Once again Master Chief has found his way back to Earth but this time aboard a Forerunner ship which is controlled by the Covenant. The game starts with you plummeting to Earth which is once again under attack by the Covenant. Master Chief jumps to the front line to fight the Covenant and fight his way to the main Covenant Ship alongside the Arbiter who has now seen the error in his ways in blindly following the Prophets. A more dangerous threat arrives in the form of the Flood, a parasitic race of creatures which take on attributes of their host and basically devour every living thing. The Flood were encountered on both Halos and have been led to Earth by Cortana who was trapped in the Covenant mobile homeworld High Charity which was overrun by the Flood in Halo 2. The Flood have used High Charity to come to Earth, a fabulous new food source. Master Chief soon changes priority when he finds out that Cortana is aboard High Charity which has crashed to Earth and he rushes to save her from being destroyed by the Gravemind, a being which controls the Flood. It soon becomes a race against the clock as it is realised that the remaining Covenant still loyal to the Prophets have found another way to activate the remaining Halos which in turn will eliminate all life in the Universe and the heroes Master Cheif and Arbiter must go to a Forerunner installation known as The Ark to save the entire galaxy.

The campaign for this installation is through Master Chief's eyes with the Arbiter there to back you up and whilst the graphics are better the gameplay is similar to the other 2 Halos and they have kept the dual wielding of one handed weapons from Halo 2 and added a few extra weapons and some cool new vehichles to play around with. Multiplayer is much the same with the addition of customisable maps so that you can change positioning of weapons, vehicles, movable terrain and even respawn points, making it so that you can make games much more interesting. The addition of the Mongoose, a quad bike vehicle, has made for faster capture the flag missions and also has taken dinking to a whole new level, allowing for a rider and a passenger on the back who can shoot at enemies as you ride by. There is also the addition of the Hornet, a VTOL like vehicle that is kinda hard to control at first but has an advantage of missiles that track players. Halo 3, like Halo2, has the option to play online, but also has the ability to record videos of you playing Halo3 or take screenshots and show them to other people on Xbox Live.

Halo 3 is a great game and I recommend it for any fans of the Halo series, as well as any fans of shoot em up games. You don't need to play the first 2 Halos to play this one but if you want to follow the storyline it is definitely recommended. I give Halo 8/10, slightly lower than the others because the meanies left the ending wide open, making me wanna find out what was next.