Halo 3

Like 1.2 million other people yesterday, I got my sweaty little hands on a copy of Halo 3.

I must say…it’s pretty awesome.  I skipped the whole Halo 2 thing so I don’t know how it compares or what’s been improved, but it’s an enjoyable game to play.  Very hard to put down.  I played it for about an hour last night and then again this morning (I was 5 minutes late to work).  Before you think I’m overly obsessed, this morning was completely Conner’s (My son)  fault.  He didn’t get to play it too much last night so I promised I’d wake him up early so he could play some today before school.  Getting him out of bed at 6:15am was never easier.  I need to try that every day.  As we were walking out the door I couldn’t help but kill a few covenant to kick start my morning.  (Better then coffee let me tell you).

The coolest thing to me was the feature that allows you to watch the “film” of your gameplay.  After you’ve killed or been killed you can go back and watch the tape of your best moments in slow motion from any and every angle and viewpoint.  What’s really cool is that you can even watch your opponents and learn from their tactics.  (I’m sure this will be helpful for me, pretty much being a Halo noob).  At this point I don’t see how you can view your film, or the clips you create from your film anywhere but on your xbox.  Reading the how to’s at bungie.net the film actually requires the games engine to render.  (If anyone knows a work around let me know.  I’d love to be able to post some video’s of me killing Srathe, PLozen1 & Ragdoll – whenever they get the game.)

But…one really cool thing is that you can capture screenshots from your film.  Check out this one from last night.  This is a picture of my first double kill.  Notice the lifeless body lying on the ground in the background as I give some guy name s1dNeYwiN a good old fashioned beat down.

Come on boys…I’m waiting.