Why do so many gamers dislike Halo?

Msxbox-World takes a look at the reasons why some gamers seem to have a disliking for Microsoft's Halo series. Is the hatred justified, as we've had three games in the series with many gamers feeling that the latest game didn't have as much impact as its predecessors.

[Rob0g0rilla]

Halo 3's campaign was so boring until the end. I got through it though and beat it since I brought it. The ending of Halo 3 did have me wanting to see what happened to Master Chief when he was headed toward that planet. I can't get into Halo's multiplayer though. I don't see what's so special about it. I always wanted to like it but I just can't get into it. Call me a hater but Halo isn't my cup of tea.

[mesh1]

THis articles go it a little bit right but the real reason all halo fans play halo 3 1 million people play that game on xbox live is because the insane physics and "gameplay" options there is so much optioon to change to kill people in that game and to top that everything in halo has amamzing physics there is no next gen multiplayer games that uses the type of physics engine halo 3 uses none this is why bungie won awrds for halo , the weapons are very well thought out and fire how you would wish for very realistic and the controls while doing it are second to none the only flaw i had for halo 3 is the anti aliasing and 640rezz but a game that has that type of a.i you see in the single player everything thing in the massive lvls are not scripted ill give you an example when yu play a lvl on halo3 record 2 mins of it on the halo video store the play it then strafe all over the map you will see al enemy's are present in the map nothing is scripted in halo 3,you can bash it all you want but the game is the highest rated game this gen to my knowledge on metacritc and gameranking and is the biggest selling exclusive title to date.

[gaffyh]

Yeah I agree, I don't hate Halo, but I don't love it like all the fanboys do either. IMO it is way overrated, and when I played I was getting annoyed by the backtracking you do in almost every level.

Plus the story was kinda crap (all I remember was there was a guy wanting to use Halo rings to take over the Universe, and you kill him). I liked the music though, it's good music for hyping you up.

[NintendoWTF]

"I got through it though"

Exactly how I would describe my play through. Dreadfully mediocre game.

There is really two classes of Halo hate:

PC fps fan hate for what would otherwise be a completely forgettable fps if it had to compete in the PC games market.

General gamer hate for having this damn series rammed down everyone's throats night and day by Microsoft's marketing department. I remember people screaming "not another Halo 3 hype story!" everyday on various web discussion forums with stories like "Interview with Bungie's janitor about his thoughts no Halo 3 - he loves it!!!"

More hate comes from the BS Microsoft pulled buying review scores for the games where they were caught handing out those 900 dollar or so 'gift bags' to reviewers.

Also it comes from Halo fans who feel the need to invade every single fps news story or discussion and spam Halo hype and crap all over every other fps with the disgusting attitude that the more people think every other fps sucks the better Halo is in comparison.

The same goes for all the Halo fans who have gotten themselves jobs at review sites seemingly for the sole purpose of handing out their automatic 10/10 for everything Halo and absurdly low review scores that are pretty much nothing more than 'this game isn't Halo'.

Now that Bungie and Microsoft have split and the relationship between the two companies seems to be pretty bad it seems many Xbox owners have backed off the Bungie/Halo hype and moved on to other games.

For most gamers I don't think really hate the series as much as just don't want to hear about F-ing Halo ever again.

[FreeMonk]

it's all about a persons preference.

I loved Halo: Combat Evolved when it came out on the original Xbox for the Single Player. It felt new and fresh on a console, with controlling vechiles, a melee system etc.

I loved Halo 2 & 3 for it's multiplayer though. They Single Player was ok, but nothing spectacular. MP was for me.

Now there are people out there who love Call of Duty 4 MP, and there are people out there who love Gears of War MP, both of which I don't really enjoy as much as Halo.

It's all about your playing styles and what you are looking for in a game.

Unfortunatly, the millions of people who bought Halo 3 shows how popular the game is, and as someone mentioned, it's rated 2nd on XBL probably behind COD4.

I think Bungie, if they are making a new Halo game, need to forget the Single Player Campaign, and contentrate on a full on MP game or if rumors are to be believed, an MMO.

[StephanieBBB]

I feel exactly the same way. I can't put my finger on why I dislike playing halo but it's somewhere based around my three consumptions:

A. Slow pased/not enough action (as you said, it feels like you play in constant slowmo)
B. Too childish (mainly halo 2 and 3, halo 1 was more adult entertainment)
C. The weapons suck

[HateBoy]

I think I'm the opposite of most people in that I really like the single-player campaign, the pacing, the epic battles etc are all awesome. The story is retarded, but oh well, who cares. But... contrary to popular opinion, I think the multiplayer is amongst the worst I've seen in high quality fps's, its just random, and it is BORING.

[jadenkorri]

Halo 1 was great, Halo 2 and 3 are just sequels, same graphics, engines, just new levels and weapons

[Ben1054]

it gets too much hype than it deserves, the new halos are almost the same as the old halos and xbox fanboys always bring it up saying its the best games ever and all that.
still a good games though

[dantesparda]

But the game is just WAY to overrated. It is nowhere near as good as its mde out to be. And if you think im just bullsh!tting, just check my gamercard

[plenty a tool]

because it's not on the system of the haters! simple as that. if this was a franchise on anything else, it would be applauded.

although the campaigns of 2 and 3 didn't match the brilliance of the first, they were still better than most which are around. but it's the multi-player were all three have shined. and no console game has seen as much on-line play as this franchise. but the problem for the on-line is that it's no place for people without skill, dexterity or quick reflexes. personally, i dont play the game anymore for a number of reasons.

1st being that being in europe, and getting placed in games with the host the other side of the atlantic is terrible for the obvious technical reasons, and secondly i dont like the fact that having one team dominating the weapons, and therefore the match makes for fun games.

with cod4 you choose your own weapons and kit. and as long as you're not with idiots i.e the whole team sniping on say headquarters, you can have decent games.

bottom line, most if not 90% of the hate eminates from sony fanboys. why, because i's a massive franchise that isn't on there system.

[stevenhiggster]

I agree with 1.3 the only reason that the game was ever liked was because it was, for many xbox console fans, their first taste of an fps If it had first been released for the PC then it would never have become so big as compared to other PC fps games it really was nothing special. It would be like showing someone who had never seen a car before, a Ford Fiesta, they'd be all like 'wow it's so amazing', when someone who has seen a car before would just be like 'just another crappy little car'. So yes, basically what I'm saying is Halo is a crappy little car of an fps, overhyped by an over rich company, and some little kids who had never seen an fps before. FACT!!!

[Chubear]

WOW! So very well said. Bubble

[RememberThe357]

Frist off, from the way your writing that you sound like your hating right off the bat. So let me make this clear; The game is over hyped for what it is. Halo 1 was one of the best shooters ever, but the next to were nothing compared to the first. Your a fanboy, and thats OK, we all are in a sense, but your seeming to take this a little personally. Your argument that people hate on Halo because its not on "their" system is way off base. In fact many of us who feel the series has let us down own a 360, so it is on "their" system. I was eagerly awaiting Halo 3's release because I was hearing that they had addressed all the things that pissed me off about Halo 2. Then the game releases and there are not many improvements above a slight graphical upgrade, I felt let down. As the media kissed the games ass to all hell, I was slugging through a game that kept making me think that it could have been done way better. Halo 3 did not deserve any 10's at all. This made me realize that the Xbox exclusives have a lower level of expectation to them. They just don't need to be as good as the PlayStaion or Nintendo exclusives. You may not agree but you also come off as a simple person with simple needs, and that sucks. Because of people like you the Xbox is not pushed to improve. your just happy with what you got. And you know, thats not all bad, as long as your having fun. I think you need to not take this so personally. Every group of fanboys has the people who talk sh*t, we're all used to it, you should be too.

[RemmM]

But Halo 2 and 3 killed it. They made it too easy by, adding dual wield, easy to contact melees and other stuff.

[whoknew]

They don't do they? I mean didn't halo 3 sell 8 million copies? The only people that don't like it is the people who don't own a 360 or don't like that kind of shooter. Even if your a big FPS fan your not forced to like the pace of this game.

I would say the main reason I don't play it much is because of all the little kids that constantly scream down the mic at me for being a noob. :)

[athlon770]

Before I purchased my 360, we would meet at a friends house and crowd around his 360 and play Halo2. Had a lot of fun. Then I joined the 360 crowd in the Christmas of '05 and waited impatiently for the Halo3 bomb to drop. Hype and build up were a great thing and I don't think I have ever been so excited about a game (including the televised launch(can't beleive I stayed up for that)). Anyway, I got the game thinking this is going to be cool, started it up, and the let down began. There have been a lot of people say Halo3 should have been named Halo2.5! I think they are correct. We were told this game would take advantage of the 360's powerful graphics, yet really looked no better than when we played a Xbox designed game (Halo2) on our 360! I kid you not by this next statement, when I started playing, my wife came in because I said "well ain't that a load of tihs", she came in asking what was wrong and I said "this looks no better than Halo2! All the game reviewers were hearlding this game from the heavens and I spend $60.00 on Halo2.5! Not cool. So I play the game, getting to about mid way through when I start to ask myself "why am I playing this game?" So I trudge through it to the end, watch the lame 'floating through space' ending and think, "wow, at least it has multiplayer" as I think about all the fun we had playing Halo2...I have only played the co-op and two (2) online multiplayer matches. That is it. This game was not worth the hype. This game is not worth all those 10/10 reviews. This game is just not worth it.

[Monchichi025]

I loved the first one, Loved the 2nd one and LOVE the third one!!!

And I'm not the only one, MILLIONS of us do! Just here in my hometown, Halo is still the game everyone's still playing. We get together every other weekend and play the hell out of it.

And I can't wait till the next one comes out!! I'll again be one of the first inline to buy it!

[lessthanmarcus]

Plain and simple. What FPS's are loved by everyone? COD4? Go figure. I can sit there after spawn and hold my trigger and rack up a positive ratio. Halo is for skilled FPS gamers, therefore the majority of gamers (that happen to be casual) won't like it.

[BWS1982]

don't have a 360, so won't comment on the third, but the better campaign was actually 2's for me, because 1 was so bland and repetetive, all those rooms that looked the same, copy and pasted, pissed me off. But, I'd give the first a 7.5, and the second one an 8...the first one's final driving climax where Master Chief had to drive through the entire area to safety was one of the most aggravating levels in my video game life. The second had the dual wielding, bigger environments, and a little more variety. The games are just good, but not great...there's like what, 6 weapons? Even Rare's GoldenEye had like 4 times that from 1997. I've played multiplayer, it was alright, but Timesplitter 3's MP was leagues better, Halo's MP wasn't much more entertaining than say Red Faction 2's, or Pariah's MP, which means fun, but not classic.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating, I'm making a case for it being a "good" game, and not great or epic.

[resistance100]

I don't hate it, its just far overrated, and have never been able to see what the critic's love so much about the series.

[AlterEgo]

Exactly.

The story isn't interesting (IMO), and Halo came out when I didn't have an XBOX. I had a PS2. HAAAATED fps games with a PASSION and was never interested in multiplayer games.

If it wasn't 3rd person...get it out of my face.

So Halo 2 comes out...still don't have an XBOX, still hate FPS.

But I gave it a try because of the things I was hearing. Played it...(singleplayer), I was truly shocked at how boring it was.

Ever since then, this scar of overratedness stood with me and Halo.

When Halo 3 dropped, (by now I have a 360 ANNND like FPS games because of cod2 and rainbow six ANNND love multiplayer gaming because of Warhawk), it still just didn't wow me.

I like realistic shooters like SOCOM, GRAW, Rainbow Six, Call of Duty type games. The alien/monster laser plasma blasting thing isn't my cup of tea.

Real guns, real humans = fun for me...

Fiction only goes so far in my book. Obviously everybody has different taste's and mine just don't include much sci-fi. I loved Uncharted until the very end when the monster/demon/alien things came out and I looked at the screen with a blank face...

Honestly, MGS is just about as far into the sci-fi scene as I can call myself a 'fan' of...and probably GOW can be added to the list. But still, there are no aliens and laser beams in these games. I'm a gun enthusiast and love to hear REAL guns, see their in-game modeling and how developers rendered the look and feel of different real-life guns. Not some super-human made up gun. Maybe it's boring to everybody else, but that's what I like.

THAT's my reasoning...I don't know about anyone else's.

[AlterEgo]

Oh, and for the record...

Splinter Cell was the sh!t until Double Agent came out

Conviction (I hope) will be firrrreeee

[KingArth]

instead i can't understand how can many gamers LOVE halo

[Stryfeno1]

Maybe because it's published by MS...We all know by now it is a fad to hate MS.

EDIT: It's the second most played game on XBL..So what does that means?

[ExcelKnight]

It can mean one of two things:
1. People don't have anything else to play online.
2. People play other games single-player only.

You won't be seeing games like Eternal Sonata on that list, you know.

[Stryfeno1]

Are you serious?

1. People don't have anything else to play online.
-So out of the huge 360 library, you mean to tell me there is nothing else to play online.

2. People play other games single-player only.
-People also play Halo single player mode.

[Tarasque]

I for one could care less about singleplayer. But yeah the single player was average at best. The game made itself as a great multiplayer in halo 2 and it keep the tradition going with halo 3. The game has sold what 10 mill, well if there is alot of hater's then there is alot of people that love it also.

[Jinxstar]

No offense but "Huge library" doesn't mean "Quality library". Take nintendo for example... A few really good games but most are horrid...

[tatotiburon]

oh really?? c'mon lets check metacritic and see who have more quality games

[Jinxstar]

@ TAtotiburon

Take away Sci Fi games and your left with bioshock(Kinda Sci fi too) which is multiplat. Take away FPS games and your left with gears... Variety is what counts for me. Can't match Uncharted or LBP or Flow or Elefunk or Echochrome or Resistance 2 or MGS4 or RAtchet and Clank or any number of games that are offered on PS3. Viva Piniata and Banjo wont cut it for me...

Don't get me wrong I enjoyed my 360 while I had it. After 2 red rings and a great line up from sony I traded mine in so I would have more cash for the 20 or so games I will be buying before Xmas... As much as I would like to play gears 2 or fable 2 I will wait for the PC ports... Especially with Bioshock going to the PS3 now... I really see no need for owning a 360 anymore. To each his own though.

Variety is also a key factor in gaming that MS doesn't have. Mii's Lips and XMB and a ton of other carbon copies are now part of MS's scheme to win people over. That my friend is lack of innovation and selling out. I could care less how many Sci Fi games rate a 9 plus on meta. After Christmas let's have this talk again.

[Spydr07]

Sony have more quality games than MS. Check PS + PS2 + PS3 vs XBOX + XBOX 360. :P

[Rob0g0rilla]

Not everyone likes this game.

[Stryfeno1]

Of course not....Not everyone has the same taste. But you have to acknowledge Halo has a huge fanbase. Like it or not.

[thewhoopimen]

Yes why don't we? With Bioshock now on the PS3, there isn't any AAA advantage for the Xbox360 anymore.

[Pedobear]

"Everything its done has been done before and better. Its definitely not as good as bioshock"

[kevnb]

Bioshock is a massive downgrade compared to System Shock 2.

[Impact]

as a PC gamer, I agree to this.

[1stKnighT]

Jealousy.

[Fishy Fingers]

Or nostalgia, Halo 1 being so good on the original xbox people are very forgiving on its predecessors? I like Halo but I'm more than happy to admit halo > halo 2 > halo 3 (IMO obviously).

Oh and coming from a PC background concerning online gaming, this whole "matchmaking" thing it created I'm not keen on at all. "shotty snipers" again...?!

[Ghoul]

halo > halo3 > halo2

[-M4verick-]

And you're right, Halo doesnt suck and everyone knows Halo doesnt suck. If you even try to pretend Halo isn't on the level of a AAA shooter...it just shows how jealous you are lol.

MLG uses Halo 3 as their flagship competitive title for a reason, no not because it's on the XBox 360. Because its an amazing and polished experience that is unique and plays like Halo with tons of modes only in Halo.

[1stKnighT]

Yes that's right. Their is a reason why MLG gave up million dollar contracts to Halo players. Because it's the most balanced competitive FPS available. Nothing else comes close.

[GametimeUK]

1stknight a lot of people would agree that CoD4 is superior to Halo 3

[-M4verick-]

And alot of people wouldn't agree with that...including Major League Gaming who uses Halo 3 as their flagship title.

-Very few more and COD4 is newer than Halo 3. ; ) Halo 3 is awesome

[GametimeUK]

judging by popularity online CoD4 is superior with more people logging on to play CoD than they are to play Halo

[Rico_Suavez]

@5.4
@5.3
I agree Halo is a great series, but the only reason MLG is using Halo is because Microsoft is the Biggest Sponser...

[Nolando]

ever since the first i love everyone of them, but after playing H3 solid for over a year now, its a great game (WAY BETTER THAN 2) and i would give it 9.0/10 in my book, but compared to halo 1 i find myself frustrated idk why. i think i just wish a few more things were like halo 1 in H3, i mean i think dual wielding and equipment are great additions to the gameplay i love them, and boarding vehicles is awesome as well. but thats what they should be JUST ADDITIONS TO GAMEPLAY, there was no need to change the halo 1 gameplay so drastically like they did in halo 2 and 3.

but my MAIN complaints are with just how the combat system is a little off from the original which in truth i think is the best of the 3, first i HATE the grenades in halo 3 why did bungie feel the impulse to make grenades weaker in each iteration of halo, when i throw a grenade in a room i expect the room to be cleared out like in halo 1, and if they only have a quarter shields they should be dead, none of this oh well it took the rest of their sheilds out... BS. melee system eh, i dont like the leap punch, i think it should be like halo 1 where u have to actually go to his face and aim for once (not that u dont have to aim in halo 3). and none of this leaping 5 feet.

but eh there are a few more but in the end i think halo 3 is great and i love playing it (sometimes i get frustrated and i want invite my friends to play halo 1 LAN, aaah good times) but i really think bungie is just getting farther from the source that made halo so great in the first place. anyway i look foward to more iterations of halo cause i love the universe and a MMO/RPG would be cool plus im looking foward to Halo Wars :)

i know in halo 3 they tried to return to the feel of halo 1 a lil more (and they did a little bit, i see it) but if and when the enxt halo FPS comes out i wish they return to their roots just a little more and make i more like the original with a bunch of other stuff thrown in.

[Spydr07]

I know, 1stKnight, that's why a Halo player is the spokesperson for FPS games, right? No, wait, I believe the biggest name in FPS games belongs to, Jonathan Wendel, aka Fatal1ty. I didn't know anyone who played Halo had computer hardware with their name on it.

Not saying Halo isn't a great game, it is. But you're just being a fanboy...what a surprise.

[1stKnighT]

Actually Halo 3 has more individuals playing than COD4. But those silly multiplayer graphs don't count guests in Halo 3, just games played. Their are actually about 3 times more Halo 3 individuals playing than COD4. Microsoft and MLG have nothing to do with each other.

And for those who are bashing. Name one game that has created so many millionaires? T Squared, Ogre 1, Ogre 2, Strongside, Walshy, etc... all signed huge money contracts from MLG to play Halo 3. Name one game that has done that????? Anybody? Is that crickets I hear?

[devilhunterx]

Why would a pc owner be jealous?

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

@5.12

Still, you have 100+ million PS2 owners that don't give it a crap.

People, it's not about hate Halo, and for sure not about the game sucking. There is those that played Halo 1, liked it, and just got the same game twice, this makes the game look worse, just remember Tomb Raider's fall, the games was always the same thing, so people start to get sick of it.

This for those who played it and now are the ones complaining. For most gamers, Halo don't have ring a bell even being good game, ok, many great games come and go without being much noticed, but I don't think those people are the vocal haters we heard on the net and which this article is talking about.

And for sure, there is the MS overhyping side effect. Those who don't digg it, will just plain hate it, because you don't like it but have to heard about it all the time regardless, just like an annoying music.

[JEDI WOLVERINE]

I really dont know why people give Halo a hard time.

The gameplay - improving over each game - is beautifully balanced.

The graphics arent anything special
The music and sound effects are superb
The online multiplayer is something incredibile.

I still remember my first online game of Halo2 - Rumble pit on lockout with Rocket starts for everyone! Talk about a baptism of fire.

The story is cliched but then invading aliens against earths mightiest has been popular for ever......

Maybe because its not a modern day or world war 2 shooter that people dont like it.

[kevnb]

thats enough for a game to get hated.

[littletad]

So true. It's funny how people think of capitalism when "Microsoft" is mentioned, yet they think another company is somehow... "different".

[Spydr07]

Very true, Sony would do it as well if they could.

[TheColbertinator]

A Halo fan who has seen the truth as well as the few Halo 1 fans.Congrats on the smart article

[BLUR111]

It's a great game to play while drinking Pat robertsons protein shake

[Pain]

First and Formost Halo was and going to be a Apple Mac Game.

Then M$ being greedy and well M$ couldnt let its 'Idea Machine' get anything so it bought Bungie.

Then M$ Wanted a pice of that oohhh sooo sweat "Console Video game market" it jameed overpiced PC parts in to a Case and called it a Console.

Then M$ used a 'good at the Time" PC FPS as "Money maker and worked" but then came the ugly..

Halo Became a Franchise!!!!!! and was all about the money.

From books to Movies deals to drinks ect, they rushed Halo 2 with a wtf Vague Story and so on~

Then....Halo 3 Finish the Fight!!!!!................. but to be Really Finished with Halo 4 on Xbox 3 and mini fights over there with Halo Wars!!

So more or less thats 1 way other is...Its just a FPS with a Bland Generic Gameplay..

Halo 1 story was the only thing that got me but after 2.3....

and after Playing RFOM 1 it story KILLs Halo's and pretty sure that manly a Reason anybody plays games..for the STORYs unless u a Retard that pushes buttons. err a money mabey?

[Fart In Your Mouth]

If you hate MS so much then you need to stop coming on this website. Look at the URL in your browser....see that .aspx???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Dead give-away that this site is built on MS technology. You should write MS a thank you letter for their technology brining you this webpage. Just remember, everytime you visit this webpage you are supporting MS. Suck on that one fanboy.

Edit: Also, un-install your copy of windows before you preach @ssface.

[TheColbertinator]

I am a huuuge fan of the original halo on xbox and PC.But the series has declined and it has'nt had the same feeling or approach as the original.This is 2008 and there are better choices than Halo 3 out there.You want a shooter with a phenomenal story and grand length?Check out the orange box.

You want a shooter with constant twists and exciting surprises?Check out Bioshock.

You want a faster FPS that has powerful weapons and kick-ass vehicles?Check out Unreal Tournament 3.

You want an FPS with a clean customization system and modern military?Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty 4 is the way to go.

You want a badass shooter with gore and Over-the-shoulder stop and pop gameplay? Gears of War should satisfy you.

Do you want 40 player lag-free matches in huge maps?Resistance is definitely a good option.

Do you want to create a maps from the ground up instead of changing someone else's map?Unreal Tournament on the PS3 and PC,The Orange Box on PC,and pretty much any other PC game wins that bet.

Halo 2 and 3 are'nt bad,they are just outdated.I heard some people saying some people dislike Halo because they are jealous.Sony who sold a 120 million PS2s is jealous?Nintendo who have sold over a billion consoles in their history is jealous?For gods sake,Pokemon has sold more than Halo has.Simply put their are better options on your 360.Check out Mass Effect,you'll thank me

[karlostomy]

Thanks for that poignant and true comment.
So many MS haters forget that on a daily basis we all have MS to thank for the large number of conveniences of MS published technology that we use transparently everyday at work, and for leisure.

Bubbles up.

[kindi_boy]

I have no idea how someone can justify something so subjective the whole article is a peace of crap.

I LOVE the 1st one of my best 1st person shooters.
HATE the 2nd because it should be an additional pack not a stand alone game.

loath the 3rd coz the game doesn't justify the hype.

[Omega4]

Because its one if not the most successful exclusive game ever, and the PS3 will never have anything which can compare with it.

So in short its jeaslousy mixed with a bit of envy rather than hate.

[Pedobear]

GTA IV outsold Halo 3....

[darkequitus]

Have you conveniently forgotten GTA4 is on two platforms? And how does not that mae it on of the most successful franchises. If no PS3 or other 360 games come close, are yo going to say it is a failure? Grow up

[Pedobear]

Numbers are numbers.

Besides I was simply saying that halo 3 is not the MOST successful game ever. There are plenty of games with much higher sales then Halo 3.

[Omega4]

GTA is multiformat, and tell me a game which has sold more copies at launch than Halo 3 because i guess that record they broke was clearly a lie

[Tarasque]

There has never been a game on single platform that has sold more than halo 3 in the first week. Not COD4 Not GTA4 Not nothing, the only thing that will break it is GOW2.

[Pedobear]

"Grand Theft Auto IV sold approximately 3.6 million units on its opening day with a retail value of approximately $310 million globally."

So enough of that. GTA IV did outsell halo 3.
http://www.gta4.net/news/si...

[Omega4]

i'm going to say this one last time..

Halo 3: EXCLUSIVE!!!!!

GTA 4: MULTIPLATFORM!!!!!

Get that into your thick teddybear shaped head OK

Halo 3 is the best selling "exclusive" ever, PERIOD!!....unless there is some special super game i may have forgotten about

[Pedobear]

Big deal. Numbers are numbers regardless of the status of the game in question.

[Rico_Suavez]

Hmmmm .. Nothing that will compare to Halo on PS3..
Looks like someone is blinded by the Light coming from the ring...

[Spydr07]

I didn't know first week sales were more important than total sales. What a joke. That's just a measurement of hype. Oh, Gran Turismo easily outsells Halo. :P Each game has sold over 9 million copies. No Halo game has sold over 9 million copies. Sorry to kill the fanboy in you.

[thewhoopimen]

Hey Omega4 don't listen to them. I agree with you that Halo3 was the most over-hyped game ever. Look at the 1st week sales... that's what we should all be looking at as fact. Not total sales, because total sales means nothing.

[Tarasque]

Gt Prologue hasn't come close to selling 9 million copie's. Show me stat's where GT has every game sold 9 million copie's or more, i can not find anything on the net that say's that. And you better check your stat's again about halo 3 and 9 million copie's.

[sean-nirvana]

there's MUCH better games than it, i don't think it deserved as much credit as it got or it's series either. that last game was a disgrace compared to 2

[Nolando]

once halo 3 came out there is absolutely no reason to back to two, its halo 2 but like WAY BETTER,

i find it surprising though how much fun i still have with the original, i mean me and my friends occasionally will have halo 1 LAN parties and i have more fun than i ever had online i either halo 2 or 3, i think halo 1 is just one of those games that holds up well even with age(for me at least)

[BlackCountryBob]

I don't hate Halo, I bought an Xbox for the first game and really liked it; I just think that Halo gets an undeserved level of praise, it is certainly a good game but its poor sequels taint it. A good game yes but it is certainly not at a level to be spoken of as a top 10 best ever game and none of the games after the first game deserved a score higher than 85%. Perhaps it just gets praise due to the legacy of being the first FPS to work well on a console.

But then I love Metal Gear Solid so I know a little bit about loving a game which others claim is over-rated and undeserving of praise.

[Ali_The_Brit]

on halo 3..

Halo 3 is CRAP ok, the single player i didnt even play attempt more than twice because the medeocreness pissed me off.

Online is O-K but there are so many better experiences out there like COD4 or Warhawk imho

the only good thing about it is team doubles, i play team doubles with my friend sometimes and its pretty fun.

[PirateThom]

Because it was never a good series. It proved that FPS games could work on consoles, but it didn't do anything that hasn't been done a million times before in the FPS genre - bar prove reviewers are idiots and can be taken in by hype.

Also, it tries to present itself and Microsoft try to present it as a dead serious game but it's still just a guy in a green Motocross suit fighting some of the worst enemies in video game history. Are the annoying voices really necessary?

[icechai]

I think people hate on this game so much due to it being hailed as bringing all this innovation to FPS (numerous console reviews in the early Halo days) when it was merely tweaking Half-Life and mods into a sci-fi console friendly game. Every PC Gamer I know vehemently hated on this game, until they played 2v2 at some friend's dorm, and then it was raised to the level of "it's alright..."

[-M4verick-]

Because its just really popular. Its not the best franchise ever but it is without debate, one of the greatest FPS series of all time. Probably in the top 3 and definately in the top 5.

When you dont have that on your console it's easy to ignore how good the game really is and the reviews it got and say "Halo sucks...he he he Gaylo haz rainbows FTW"

[Gun_Senshi]

because its a medicore FPS that is aimed for Teens and kids.

[iNickk]

It may be over-rated but that doesn't mean it isn't good. The online is immense, it adds endless hours to the gameplay.

[TheXgamerLive]

The only gamers that hate Halo are called "sony fans".

Thank You:)

[thewhoopimen]

Right. Just like the only person who believes that statement is you.

Wait let me try your statement on for size.

The only gamers that Love Halo are those xbox fanboys in denial of being cheated out of their money by MS.

[Vito_corleone]

As a veteran PC player i have always found Halo somewhat boring and slow paced. It brings almost nothing new to the FPS-table but still, it's hailed as "Da dadda of FPS".

[PirateThom]

Exactly this, the online in Halo has never been as good as the online in say CounterStrike.

[-M4verick-]

"In your opinion"

[darkequitus]

As a veteran PC gamer also, are you saying the half life series is fast paced? system shock? etc...Saying it brings nothing to FPS table IE Forge etc is a down right lie.

Edit... part of a game not being as good as another does not mak that game rubbish. So I guess you will be playing counterstrike to the end of days

[PirateThom]

In the opinion of anyone who played games before Halo came out...

And forge? A level editor? That's all Halo has brought to the table? Something Excitebike on the NES had?

Edit: CounterStrike remains the benchmark for FPS online games, as far as I'm concerned, basically any PC can run it and it's a lot more fun than any console FPS. I don't care what the FPS genre thinks it is, but there's only a handful of truly great FPS games (Half-Life, Duke Nukem 3D) and most don't even bare a look in.

[-M4verick-]

lol don't be a troll, Nasim.

People knows how good Halo's multiplayer is and to say Counterstrike is better is such a joke. I have CS:S.

Just stop trolling. PS3 sucks. Get over it.

Counterstrike is addictive and great but its nothing like Halo. Halo has its own style. It has better physics. I dunno. I think Halo 3 is much better than Counterstrike which has gotten old now. COD 4 is better than CS:S now.

[shadow-sentinel]

No wonder... CS:S sucks as.

CS1.6>CS:S

1.6 is much more smooth. Its a fact, there are still more 1.6 players than Source players today.

[PirateThom]

This guy is getting a Bubble, 1.6 will always be better than Source.

[Tarasque]

Counterstrike is for noob's that can't handle real game's. Let me see what cheat do i want to use in CS today so i can pwn everyone. Cs is filled with noob's and idiot's that don't know any better.

[PirateThom]

Nah, all the noobs and tards already moved on to Halo.

[flash74]

It's like comparing apples to oranges when you talk about pc and console gaming. I realize that Halo was released on pc, but it was designed mostly for the console. PC games are designed to play much faster with the mouse and keyboard in mind. Halo was more of a port to pc. Lets consider the amount of money pc gamers have to spend on their systems to even play the newest fps's. A decent new video card cost more then some systems, and that's if you have enough cooling to not fry your board. You would have to win the lottery to buy a system that can properly play Crysis. With the investment pc gamers have to make, they damn well better be getting the best fps's by a mile!

[The BS Police]

Halo perfected the FPS controls for the console, Halo 2 set the multiplayer standard for all console online games with the online Party system.

Halo 2 also popularised if not created the rechargable health and shield system.

Halo 3 has saved Films and Forge which is an extension to all the cool features the game has.

[lil Titan]

the game went bad like sour milk, the first one was the best it was the reason i and many bought the first xbox and saved xbox in the same doing but then halo 2 came out, every one played the story and it was too short more as if we bought half a game with online support. and finally we got halo 3, with watching the CGI trailer every one was expecting Jesus to come back but later finding out in the beta we were let down but was promised better graphics and gameplay...we didnt get any of that it was the same old sh!t put on a new consle. halo's time was up and gears is now just beginning lets just hope it doesnt lead to the same fate as halo

[dro]

its mostly ps3 fan bois that hate halo, i like it but i dont think it is anything special..just because it sold millions people think is one of the best game in the industry but to me its not, its just another above average shooter that deserve a 9/10 not 10/10 .... but u have to admit the fun factor in all the halo games is AMAZINGLY fun.y i give it a 9/10 is because the single player game let me down a little.

[skullmcrex]

Because its an average FPS! Just because it was the best one of it's time on a console ( Halo 1 ) Dosn't make it a good game overall. Halo 1 was not bad but the sequels were just lame. The people who reviewed them and gave it 10/10 are people who have never played any of the twice as good FPS on PCs. Also they couldn't mark it down with the hype. Same as GTA4, which is the most overated game of all time due to the hype machine. Reviewers should be ashamed of themselves giving that 10/10

[N2NOther]

Why should they be ashamed? Because YOU said so? I think they should be proud to give that game a 10. Now what?

[athlon770]

So your opinion is this is a great game and deserves a 10. Why?

Does it have great graphics...no
Does it have a memorable single player...no
Does the single player last more than 5 hrs...no
Does it have a great multiplayer experience (above its predecessor)...no
Does it improve upon its predecessor...barely
Does it add new features over its predecessor...yes

So there is my list, I don't think the game deserves a 10 and never did. If I were a reviewer, I would put it more at a 9.0 to 9.2!

What did this game do over Halo2? That is my question to you. Beyond adding forge and recording your gaming sessions, what else?

We were told by Bungie that they put so much work into the A.I. of this game, and they made trailers of the developing team putting all these hours into building clans of enemies and creating a hierarchy where they gang up on you and out think you. That never happened to me! Maybe I am a better gamer than I think. I don't know, personally, I got board with the game very quickly and while I still have it in my collection, when some of my friends come over to play games, we always go to Gears or Marvel Ultimate Alliance.

[andron]

I don't hate Halo. This is my honest opinion. I have played the 2 first games, but didn't bother with the last. I think the Halo games are over rated. That's not hate. You can't expect everyone to like the same games...

Some reasons are:

Master Chief is just not a good character. He's probably cool if you are 5 years old, but not very interesting.

The story in single player wasn't interesting.

Art direction was to "colorful". I don't like "fantasy" sci-fi with green and pink.

Didn't care much for the online part. Partly due to the boring alien and laser weapons. Partly because I prefer faster action.

And lastly there are many other games I enjoy much more.

[Sheddi]

i hate how it is overrated and how the 360 fanboys brags about it

[thewhoopimen]

I agree. The coming the of messiah game it is not. I still remember trying to man a turret and the AI just keeps driving the warthog into a tree, rock, another rock, side of the cave, into a wrecked wraith, I give up.

[englandsbest316]

Halo 3 is a GREAT game, im not gonna say its the best but its certainly up there, halo 3's story is fine, the gameplay is great, the music is fantastic and the memories of completing the story mode in 4 player co-op legendary difficulty will be somthing i will always remember (great fun)..... the multiplayer is where halo really excells though, theatre, forge, putting objects wherever you like on your own edited map. tonnes of online modes, been able to record your last 25 olnine matches and watch them back through various angles, and the matchmaking system is second to none.... i strongly beleive that if it wasn't for call of duty 4 then halo 3 would not have gotten the rough ride that it did from people, call of duty 4 is multiplat, but name one exclusive FPS on ps3 that beats halo? HAZE? ha ha ha, resistance? i think not ect ect

[iGrenade]

Halo 3 is actually pretty fun with the co-op and multiplayer and all, but singleplayer sucks. so. bad. I think the 3rd Halo wasn't much of an improvement on Halo 2. Maybe that's why "we" dislike it? Having said that, the jump from Halo:CE to Halo 2 was epic. Halo:CE is still the best by far.

[shadow-sentinel]

Just like what everyone is saying, its just one of them generic shooters.

Its basically an enhanced version of Tribes 2.

[Citizen Cook]

But Halo 2 and Halo 3 did nothing for me. No innovation. There is something missing from the original in the two sequels. It seemed to get chaved up somewhere along the line. The story didn't interesty the same way Halo 1 did. It was just more of the same.

[Thoas]

Gameplay sucks rhinoceros scrotum.

[na2ru1]

its because its just a rehash of an already done game from 2004, Halo2 which equals outdated.

3 years - no graphics leap(no new engine?), same gameplay mechanics witth added items, story as bad as opera(no epic cinematic feel which COD4 pulled off very nicely). Mastercheif can't even sprint? switch weapons takes too long. Hog turret so so unbalanced, shotty unbalanced, ghosts unbalanced, f*cked up melee - dash towards u

And for Bungie to get away with it after knowing MS is on their side

[juuken]

I don't like it because it's a franchise that's going to be milked to death until the last drop is finished.

[StrikingDmc4]

SNAKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! stop you bs

[juuken]

The MGS series wasn't milked like this one. At least the series had an excellent storyline. What did Halo have? Oh, shooting aliens, aliens, and more freakin' aliens!

[StrikingDmc4]

how was halo milked ? all MGS has is dumb AI crappy dialogue and shoot giannt g@y robots

[zapass]

I don't like it for the same reasons I don't like britney spears.

[n00bzRtehgey]

Oh, right. You ever PLAYED a Halo game before, Jewkin? Beat any of them?

Shut your trap. You just owned yourself.

[juuken]

And have you ever played MGS4 n00b?

Have you?

Then shut the hell up.

I never played Halo but I don't like the fact it was milked to kingdom come. I also don't like when 360 fanbrats scream *HALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL LLLLLLLLLLLLLLO!11111* in your face when you mention a FPS on the PS3 or any other good shooter for that matter.

F*ck off n00b and go back to playing with your dolls.

[StrikingDmc4]

i have played MQS4 b4 and it was poor the ps2 cud pull that off seriously so you see halo franchise will always be better than MQS kay roflcopter!!

[josh14399]

when i bought my 360 halo3 came with it and i have to be honest i think its crap. the single player is really bad and the multiplayer is worse. i really enjoyed halo1 because it was fresh and different. the reason i dont like it is because halo3 single player was rushed and short and the multiplayer isnt tactical at all unless you think aticking a full round in the head of an enemy to kill them is skill.

i just like tactical online shooter because they take more skill.

[josh14399]

i hate it when people say halo killer because most recent fps games are much better than halo they mite not sell as much but msoft could make barbie horse adventure sell good.

[PimpHandHappy]

because it is advertised and hyped like Hana Monatana or any other kiddie pop music star! The average age of a 360 gamer is 20-25! The average age of a PS3 gamer is 31-40!

Thats why i dont really like it! To much hype and not enough WOW factor!

You cant really say why do "so many gamers hate it" because it has sold a butt load of copies but you can say its the most AVERAGE FPS's to get the 4star treatment! The story is lame and Master Chief is maybe the worst character in all of gaming!

Snake would murder Master Chief after he darted him from a distance! Just walk up to him wake him up then cut his throat!

Then he would call Otacon and make a joke about how all those fancy weapons didnt save him!

[juuken]

Lmao, Solid Snake FTW.

[StrikingDmc4]

try to get through his armor wait snakes back will probaly give out anyways xD

[Massive-Delusion]

Someone's mentioned it before but Halo's art is too cartoony and the AI is sometimes too childish. Halo 1 is great in my opinion- not brilliant, but I think it's better than the sequels. The art in Halo 1 is more gritty and more believable and the atmosphere more intense; which is quite absent in Halo 2/3. I think the textures and the detail in Halo 2 are very good- which you'd expect at the end of a console's lifespan; but again, the textures and colours just seem a tad cartoony; which is a pity, because the E3 2002/2003/2006 trailers (Of both Halo 2 and 3) had the game(s) looking a lot darker and serious.

I wouldn't really blame it on Bungie, though, as they were under pressure to get the game ready for greedy Micro$oft...

[Time_Is_On_My_Side]

"Without getting too political and seeming absurd, it's seen as cool to be against capitalism, the government and control."

- Lee Burton (Author)

"Then you have people, like myself, who enjoy Halo for what it is but know there is only so much more you can do in a series which seems to only follow one character."

- Lee Burton (Author)

Lol, Lee is saying it's cool to be against a video game because it is seen to the mass public as good. First of all Halo 3 doesn't even look pretty second, nothing has changed from Halo 2 - Halo 3, and last they (Microsoft) over hyped Halo 3.

With the second quote Lee most likely never heard of Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Toei Animation / FUNimation, or even Fresh Prince of Bel Air. I have typed these titles because they're well known names that have stories to characters that have been going on for a long time. It's like saying I can never improve on my ideas, if people thought this way video games / consoles / Technology would be at a standstill.

In the end I don't hate Halo 3 because I want to be against capitalism, the government, or control. I don't hate Halo 3 because you don't really do much with a story progression with one main character. I hate Halo 3 for standing so high on a pedestal so high it let me down. Don't get me wrong it's still a solid game but it's just more of the same things. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a perfect example of using the same game play mechanics but still adding a new experience.

[spirited]

only this 'IT IS CARTooNY'

but i think many more dislike metal gear series but dont care all of them love cartoons

[N2NOther]

GTA IV sold almost as much as Halo 3in week one but sold more in weeks two-six. Also, Halo 3 had the benefit of a Holiday season behind it while GTA IV had none. So yes, while Halo 3 has sold more, it's been out longer and with a Holiday plus it's the most kid-friendly M rated game ever. If GTA came out in October of this year we'd be seeing a different story I'm sure.

As for why I hate Halo. I actually LOVE Forge and I love FUN games like Rocket Race and Oddball. But Team Slayer is garbage. It turns into "Run. Shoot. Jump. Shoot. Melee. Repeat" and little else. COD 4 is way better.

[JasonXE]

is overrated by it fanbase. The game itself is above average "at best" and dig the story (read the books or watch the youtube halo trilogy).

[khellendros1]

My dislike for Halo stems from being a PC shooter fan first. Halo is just a slow generic shooter that would be middle of the pack when mixed in with PC shooters yet it sells millions and hailed as God's gift to gaming. I just don't get it. I've played Halo3 quite a bit with friends at work and I'm just not impressed.

[Shankle]

It's too vanilla, the weapons and vehicles are unbalanced, you move too slow and jump too high, you have way too much health, the weapons are dull, it's overrated, but most importantly of all, it's xbox exclusive.

[pow3r of t3h c3ll]

A sensible article about Halo. I don't think the game is bad but its the Halo fanatics as the article says that make me start saying I hate the game because they just won't admit that its 8/10 material and not the be all and end all of gaming!

[mistertwoturbo]

People probably hate it because Microsoft made Halo 3 seem like it's the second coming of Jesus. Also the Media handing out 10/10s everywhere.

Then of course gamers who never played Halo thinks that Halo 3 truely is the second coming of Jesus. Only to be disappointed.

Me personally, I thought it was just "good." Not a masterpiece of gaming history.

[unjust]

The first Halo set the ground work for most people who hadn't played first person shooters other than PC gamers. Although original some how to myself seemed somewhat generic initially what I mean by that is that it didn't draw me in at first. I think the main reason people no longer care or like Halo is the simple fact that its a series that needed to be revamped graphically and playibilty wise as well. The 3rd one although fun co-op it wasn't fun playing single player and to be honest I was expecting a lot more from Bungie since its release on the 360. Halo needs to be a lot darker and less Disney like the Flood are not even intimidating the look goofy especially the little ones.

[Kleptic]

totally agree...I loved halo 1's local multiplayer, and it quickly became one of the best (especially control wise) shooters I had ever played for a console...
I liked Halo 2, especially with XBL going live, but didn't play it nearly as much as Halo 1...not for any particular reason...I just liked the weapon balance more in Halo 1...With all that said...I NEVER liked the art direction of the series...It has always very clearly been geared to 11 year olds...I honestly never understood why the game was rated M...there is basically no blood in the single player game (just purple crap from giggly idiot aliens)...and what little there is in the multiplayer is nothing compared to some T rated games...
Halo 3...Halo 3 is just as good as the others in the series...but only in terms of some community features...visually, it barely looks better than the originals, and was one of the biggest let downs of this generation in that regard (remember the beta last year?..."the final version will look better blah blah blah"...it didn't...at all...)

While its a great shooter...its definitely one of the most overrated games of this generation...competition now is much stiffer...CoD 4 easily wrecked Halo 3 with more intense gameplay, far superior visuals, and even tighter controls...that is something that Bungie/MS definitely weren't planning on...

[RAM MAGNUMS]

they never improove it. Bunjie is so afraid to take risk that halo has been the same gamer over&over again.
masterchief is a icon, halo is fun but its artificial.

[Mr PS3]

Was Microsoft's attempt to create a franchise that was as succsefull as The Metal Gear Franchise
And it Failed
All Halo did was Appeal to the Low end PC Nerd Brigade who absolutely sucked at FPS and in turn they saw this as an easier option
And as the Xbox SUCKED and had no good games and was a Cheap console for a Cheap Gamer who Sucked at Games it was a Perfect Match
And Was Born " The XBOT "
So in General We have a lot to thank Halo for ?
Because without The Xbot there would no one to laugh at on a Daily Basis
And How we Have Laughed at The Bots
So to say Gamers dislike Halo is a bit Strong
Without Halo there would be no BOTS
And how Boring would that be
Oh And Halo Sucks
Always has and Always will !!!!

[air1]

wtf? 9 million sold for halo 3 is a fail? we need a new word for mgs4 then since it will NEVER sell as much, EVER...

sony fanatics hate it cause they never played it. plain and simple, it's ot on their bull sh!t console

[StrikingDmc4]

thats why the halo franchise sells better and whenever developers make games halo is considered the bar to beat

[crazyclown]

because it copied unreal series like crazy

[chidj2]

I as a Real gamer with my PLAYSTATION®3 dont need this crappy games that only have brainwash publicity.
as real next gen owner with PLAYSTATION®3 its more than proof we dont need this stupid sequels trying to resurrect our console because we are only in our first steps and the competence is on the emergency room.
PLAYSTATION®3 its the only system to offer real sequels and true next gen and this because we have the most AAA exclusive catalog coming fall.

Play b3yond

[Infernus]

It's a well-known fact that Sony always go for originality and variation with the games for their consoles (Just look at their 1st party list for their consoles to date), now they have Resistance and Killzone 2 as the FPS games, LBP is completely in a genre of it's own and should be commended for it, Motorstorm and GT5 fill in the racing section, the PSN games are there for those true gamers who understand where gaming originated (In the arcades with Space Invaders and Pong) and may look less flashy but are what gaming is all about... GAMEPLAY. Then there's Uncharted for the action/adventure genre and MGS4 for the stealth action fans. Eye of Judgement is an amazing game for a genre untouched by MS and Nintendo, a camera-recognition card game (There's innovation for you).

The 360 was initially built around action and shooters. Halo and Gears are the two biggest reasons I've heard since the launch of the 360 for someone wanting an Xbox. Whenever I ask them what other games they think are good they usually come out with GTA4 which isn't even exclusive, so push your lists at me all you want but those 2 games are the console sellers and it's a shame a lot of people on here can't see that Halo and Gears sell so well because they're what MS wanted for the 360, action games that get people hooked fast and are simple shooters that anyone can pick up and play.

For example, you give a console noob MGS4 and they'll put it down in about 10mins because they don't have the patience. Give them Halo and they'll gladly sit there gormless for hours because it's a whole lot simpler. The reason I dislike the Halo franchise is because it's pushed out originality from the gaming industry, it's made the media believe that Shooters are the best genre to be in and brought on this onslaught of FPS games that I really don't want because they're the same as everything else. At least the 1st party devs for Sony aren't being dragged into the 'Lets make a shooter because it could sell like Halo'. Sony have Resistance 2 and Killzone 2 as their FPS's, but then games like the ones I mentioned above (LBP, EoJ) are unique, a company like Sony or MS can have 1st party shooters but should branch out into other domains and not just sit there hyping up the next big FPS game. I haven't seen that from MS at all.

As for Sony's 1st party shooters:
-Resistance 2 not only now holds the record for the largest number of players online for a console game but plays smooth online even with the tremendous numbers.
-Killzone 2 has an innovative ranking/levelling system, better than COD4, allowing the player to pick different abilities from the different classes (Medic, Assault, Engineer etc) and mix them together to suit their playing style. On top of that Killzone 2 is the best looking shooter produced on a console and MP looks the same as SP without affecting the gameplay.

I doubt any 360 fans here agree with what I'm saying, I completely expect that tbh, Halo and Gears are the equivalent of gods to 360 fanboys. They throw numbers out and have memerised the sales figures, but that means absolutely nothing to me and if you were true gamers you'd be the same. Being a true gamer has absolutely nothing to do with what sells well on a console, that's been lost in this 'console war'. I've picked up games in the past that barely anyone knew about but were such great innovations that I played them more than the huge titles at the time.

Halo could have sold 20 million copies and I'd be saying the same thing, too bad the majority of gamers are now so bent over with the sales figures that they've lost what's really important, enjoying gaming and looking out for the next big thing, the next game to bring something truly unique and support it. A lot of the people here have lost that now and it's sad.

[mistertwoturbo]

"-Resistance 2 not only now holds the record for the largest number of players online for a console game"

Until MAG that is =)

However I slightly disagree with your thoughts on Gears and Halo. Although yes they can be accessed easier by newcomers, there's still a surprising amount of skill that can be obtained. Believe me, I think I'm pretty decent when it comes to shooters. COD4 I'll generally get a good kill/death ratio and accuracy etc.

But my friend who always used to play Halo 2 online everyday (on the original xbox) challenged me to a game of Halo 3. Needless to say he whooped the living daylights out of me.

I guess you can say that about any other multiplayer game. But there's something about Halo that's a bit different. I cant put my finger on it.

However I do agree that the new FPS offerings from Sony like Resistance 2 and Killzone 2 are more special. Resistance 2's concept of 8 player co-op story and 60 player competitive multiplayer is fascinating. And Killzone 2 speaks for itself with it's visuals and the multiplayer still retains the graphical fidelity of the single player campaign. Killzone 2's multiplayer looks to be a blend from the best multiplayer shooter games of today. Battlefield with it's class/badges system. A little bit of COD4. and even a little bit of Halo 3.

[Raoh]

i remember when a friend bought his xbox. brought over halo. we played it night and day. co-op and against each other.

the second one? well, to us there was no difference so we never liked it. he sold his xbox and games after that.

when halo 3 came out, i felt (online wise) that was pretty much the same as halo 2, which i didnt like.

i thought the campaign mode was pretty good but really didn't like the online of it. teh only time i enjoyed it was playing with my real life friends. olaying against random people wasn't fun cause to me the game was that good.

i think the game is over hyped. its still standing on the reputation of the first one with new money and promotion.

its alot of colorful people jumping and shooting randomly (this comment does not include the serious gamer that plays an fps they way it should be played with strategy, knowledge of the map for vantage points etc)

i prefer cod4, socom, gears and resistance when it comes to shooters.

[TitanUp]

i couldn't get into halo 1 or 3 but for some reason i kinda got into 2 more than the others but still wasn't sure what was going on i hate how the main character only said one thing. just didn't like the shield system and i do not like the look of the aliens.

[fafoon]

Put it in my 5th Xbox
Watched the opening cut scene
Could not believe my EYE'S
What a LOAD OF CRAP
Turned off my Xbox
Packed it up
Went down to the Gameshop
Traded it in for a PS3
Knocked the Bot behind the counter Clean out
Because he asked me why i was trading the Xbox in for The PS3
Never looked back Since

[Shroomy]

And Solid Snake sleeps under my bed.

[IaMs12]

I lvoe them i wouldnt mind seeing another Halo game come around... but what i really think is a big thing is its associated with Mircosoft so a lot of people just hate it for that... if SONY owned it everyone and their mother would probably love it..

[Infernus]

I don't hate Halo.

I just hate what Halo has done to this industry, it's helped remove the challenge and the learning curves of gaming. In the past you'd have to learn how to play a game because it's new and unique. Now we have more shooters oozing out of this industry than we know what to do with. COD4, Halo, Gears, Resistance, Killzone, Battlefield, Left 4 Dead, Dead Space, BIA:HH, Crysis, RE5, and there are tons more.

You could say I can't really blame this all on Halo, but I actually can, if it wasn't for Halo and the stigma it's brought of being the 'best game' because it's a cool shooter and sold really well, we'd now have a much broader variation on all three systems although tbh the Wii hasn't got any real shooters and I commend Nintendo for that really, even though I dislike the Wii.

I couldn't go without a PC and the great games on it, Command and Conquer was the first game I ever played on a PC. Having played Space Invaders on a traditional arcade table (The one with the screen set into the table and the buttons and joystick next to it) when I was very young (probably about 5 or 6), moving on to an Amiga and playing Asteroids and all the other arcade games I could get hold of, even the side scrollers like Batman. I've always loved games, but for different reasons than a lot of people nowadays.

Everyone looks first and foremost at the graphics, they look at the back cover of game cases to see what it looks like (Go down to a game store and just watch everyone picking up the games, they all do it lol). I used to decide based on demos. Future Cop: LAPD, Unholy War etc, rare PS1 games that now cost over £40 ($80) online because they were left behind. Games I bought even though the majority of people said their were crap and pushed them aside in favour of Final Fantasy and the likes.

So you see, Halo is to me what gaming truly is not, you can give me sales figures, reviews and all the hype in the world but I honestly couldn't care less about all that. The problem is no one bothers to look anymore, or search for good games, they're told what's good and go along with it. Bioshock was preordered to the extreme based on the hype and screenshots, this site was filled with 'Bioshock is the best game ever' comments but what it really was was a shooter that had flaws and people ignored them in favour of the visuals once again.

Spore is the most innovative game of 2008 imo, will it sell more than Halo did? No it won't, but that's because innovation doesn't sell anymore, hype does.

[mistertwoturbo]

"Spore is the most innovative game of 2008"

Yeah, but it's going to be challenged by Little Big Planet.

BTW I like the way you think Infernus. Good posts, I enjoy reading them.

[SkyGamer]

Because it has the name Microsoft associated with it. People see Bill Gates and Microsoft as evil because they make a lot of money and people are jealous and people have no backbone and just follow what others say.

Why are so many people so mad at Microsoft when there are other companies just as bad or worse?!

Google - stores ALL info you search and sells them to other companies.

Exxon Mobil - Market Value of over 460 Bil. Makes about 92 thousand dollars a Min, PURE PROFIT.

There are so many other bad things and the only thing you can come up with is, I hate Microsoft because, just because with no research in modern affairs. You guys are blind and ignorant fools.

[Delive]

But the first one still has my heart. They made the weapons weaker after the first one and that took something away from it. Also, I seem to run into too many "hardcore" in the Halo online experience. It makes just going on for some fun matches a pain when your team mates are complaining because you don't follow their orders and others who feel like Halo can only be played by the Elite. I know this exist in other franchises too, but it seems more prevalent in Halo.

[MaximusPrime]

i dont "dislike" Halo.

I played both Halo 1 and 2 and they both are good.

I dislike the 3rd one because of three reasons:

- the game is similar to halo 1 and 2 with a tweak of close HD quality (less 720p)
- repetitive
- way overhyped. M$ counted on Halo.

[BYE]

... only Halo 2 and 3

[jcgamer]

I kept thinking how much better Gears of War's single-player campaign was when I was playing Halo 3...Halo 3 has its little moments, don't get me wrong...and has a certain charm and mystique that comes from the hype and the large dedicated fanbase...but Gears of War PWNS Halo 3...I don't hate Halo 3, I just know that, in my honest opinion, and regardless of sales, the KING of Microsoft's first-party games is THE FENIX...Marcus Fenix...360 owners don't have to choose between the two though...they get both :)

"I'm just my mother's shadow...don't look at me, don't listen...I'm not who I used to be" - spoken by Cortana, Halo 3 single player campaign (I liked that)

[tatotiburon]

the titile is wrong...why the sony fanboys dislike Halo?

[mistertwoturbo]

So a person who has an X360 automatically likes Halo 3?

Did they implant a chip in people's brain when you buy a 360 or something?

[tomfoolery]

But the Halos do have a magic recipe to the series that sells millions of copies.
Master Chief is a badass too!
He's way cooler than retarded characters such as grandpa Snake,
and such on the oriental PS3 Blu Gay fat chick system.

To my 360 bretheren..................... ....
I hate to beg for these reject bubbles,
but God darnit help this bot out if you could.
I've have lots to say to these droids and their POS failure of a 3rd rate whore of a gaming system.

tom

[ScottEFresh]

MAgic recipe like 100million dollar advertising campaign?

[King Kaz]

You Xbot PIGS have no standards! This last-gen piece of FILTH is not good enough for my Sony Samurai! GARBAGE like Halo is only fit for a.........PIG!
AAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! I am Kaz Hirai! My wisdom is infinite!

MWAH-HA-HA-HA!!!

[TwissT]

Lmao, look who's back.

[matpoo]

halo use to be a quality shooter now there are too many other games out doing it on many different levels

[Defectiv3_Detectiv3]

It really doesn't deserve all the praise it gets, it just gets sucked into the hype vacuum. It sells well because its one of the first multiplayer fps' for a console. Not to mention its kid friendly. Couple that w/ critics overrating the game (just like they do w/ all big games, MGS and GTA included), and you have a frenzy on your hands.

It doesn't matter how many features they try to tack on to the game, it will always be a twitch shooter in the vein of UT. The gameplay is only skin deep. You don't see people going around worshiping UT, and for good reason.

Let's not even get into how underwhelming Halo 3 was. Does anyone really think that game did the hardware justice? Can Bungie really come up with a better game by 2009?

And you wonder why they haven't made a movie? This is one of the worst plots I've ever seen in a game. It was taken straight out of a bad paperback novel in a bargain bin at a used book store, literally. The plot is dumb as hell and all over the place.

Please MS, just leave Halo to the little kids. Come out w/ a viva pinata version or something.

[dantesparda]

this was supposed to be a edit to my 1t post, oh well.

[DARK WITNESS]

lol... oh boy, yes i wonder why..?

well, i know and understand different people like different things. i respect that.

Personally i love halo. Halo CE is one of the best fps single player games i have played. I do agree that halo 1 was the best. Halo 2 and 3 were let downs for me.

they were still good, but not as good as halo CE.

everyone keeps saying halo single player was average. personally i think if halo is average, then most of the other fps games so far are way below average. then again, that would explain why i play them, finish them once or twice and get rid of them quick as !

Halo CE single player ....well if it had the next gen graphics to match this gen, i tell you know i would still be playing it and play it over any of the current FPS.

anyway, thats just me.

[jcgamer]

Bungie should remake Halo CE with updated visuals for the 360...they can make it a limited collector's item...make a limited run of 2-3 million copies...it will sell out...

[DARK WITNESS]

lol... to be honest i have been thinking that for a while. i really wish they would. bubble for you.

[the_RED_SCARE]

There are 2 haters out there:

PC FPS fans and PS3 fanboys. I tend to find the most hate coming from the latter. Most of the time, if a great game is released soley on the 360, PS3 Fanjokes will almost always dog it. Whether it be Gears of War, Halo etc...PS3 fanboys denounce it without playing it. Even when they do play it, they cut it for some lame excuse. My buddy PS3 brainwashed and his complaint was "you can't see when you shoot because the mussle flash gets in the way". I own all systems, PC, PS3, 360 and Wii so I am not any kind of fan boy.

I thought Halo (1-3) were good games but nothing insane. My biggest complaint was the twitch gameplay. I am a fan of the more methodically paced shooters where strategy comes into play rather than super fast gameplay. I tend to play multiplayer for most games, rarely touching single player.

[Infernus]

"PS3 fanboys denounce it without playing it"

I could say the same about 360 fanboys and MGS4 when it was released. First of all we've had the built up jealousy over the past year that MGS4 wasn't coming out on 360, then upon it's release that jealousy spiled out into articles on 10 minute install times, blown way out of proportion.

I've already stated my opinions of what Halo has done up above somewhere so I won't go over it again but I find it rather funny that no 360 guy would attack Halo 3. It's seen as blasphemy these days. Then we have Gears 2, if anyone says anything about grey textures you'll get your head bitten off.

It's the same both ways, Halo & Gears are what PS3 fanboys attack and MGS4, Install times & Home tend to be what 360 fanboys attack. If only everyone would stop competing and start playing...

I own a PS3 and not a 360 so I'm not going to sit here slagging off Gears or Halo because I have no 1st hand experience of either of them, I'm happy playing Battlefield, Warhawk and Burnout with my mates so why should I be worried about how well Gears or Halo sold? Or how well Gears 2 will sell? From what I've read and seen of Killzone 2 it looks like the ultimate shooter anyway so I have a great game to get stuck into just like those on 360 have with Gears 2.

[FKN Unbelievable]

PCfanboys hate halo because it re-invented FPS on Consoles and PC fanboys keep thinking that it reinvented it as a whole.

Sony Fanboys Hate Halo because its not on PS3 plain and simple.

I own Halo 3 and hate it because the online Multiplay in 3 is far to easy and really did'nt add nothing new. Halo 2 Multiplayer is the best and Halo 1 would have been the best if it was online.

AS far as Halo being overated goes.........When you have a Online Game as healthy as Halo 2 and a pretty good Campaign you can't hate.
I saddens me to see people aways claiming its overrated and never play and version of the Fuking game. I'll keep it official then if you hate Halo then you have no Bussiness liking Resistance other than the fact you a real Hater and Fanboy because they are almost he same thing. Halo was'nt shoved down your throat if you don't have a fuking 360 in the first place.

[HalfFireWater]

I totally agree with your statement, and I get pissed at sony fanboys talking so much shyt about xbot games. The bash halo like they were forced into buying it, when at the same time there were other FPS out there that didn't make the cut, **cough cough Killzone cough**, so why the hate, becuase they didn't get it when it was suppose to come to their system first. That is t plan and simple. And look at their arguements, the story is lame, what FPS shooter game story isn't lame, I go back to my systems of yore and laugh at the story but the gameplay still rocks. And actually the story was good enough to have books spun off of it, so that should tell you something. And please Sony dikriders stop talking about sony huge library, they had one back in the day on PS2 but this gen they are lagging pitifully behind. If you guys got your heads out of your arses and really looked at the games and not the bullshyt reviews you will see many diamonds on the 360, I am still playing Chromehounds along with at least 10,000 other people becuase their is no other game out anywhere that offers that style of gameplay. The reviews were all written before the online community got big and now they don't relect the truth about that gem.

[aggh im on fire]

I thought the first one was great. One of my favorite games of all time but i didn't like 2 and 3 so much. Number 3 could have been so much better but it was like a last gen game with better graphics. It was still a good game but i was expecting more.
The magic of Halo1 seems to have been lost in the latter games.

[vhero]

I dont hate it as a game I hate the fact so many people think its great just because it was an MS exclusive its got a bland main character who never shows his face and who looks like everybody else. Not to mention as an FPS its no differnt than the other 1 million FPS games out there nothing stands out unlike Say gears of war which is new and differnt

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Nobody hates it...

Everyone's just starting to realize how overrated it was...

There have been better FPS's out on the market for years. Even before Halo was out there were better FPS's.

It's a good game, it's just not Unreal Tournament or Wolfenstein or Call of Duty.

[HalfFireWater]

you do realize that the reason halo has a following is becuase it brought unreal style MP to the consoles. Be fore that the best CONSOLE shooter was, wait for it, wait for it, 007 golden-eye. Yes you may be young to realize it, but that game still rocks to this day. But it was not like unreal tourney at all, it was more like counter-strike to make a comparisson. So if you are soully PC, you either have 3 camps of FPS, you have the counter-strike style that has no roles to it, but the shooting is fast pace and realistic, you have the battlefield/wolfenstein style, that is role based, and brings teamwork more into it, or you have the unreal camp where spectacular explosions and jumping to dodge a rocket is the way to go. So what on consoles (XBOX and PS2) early on last gen matched those 3 styles. Counter-strike we had the counter-strike (but that came later) and we had um, yup just golden-eye and perfect dark, both n64 games, in the battlefield/woflenstein camp, we had those games pop up but we also had the ghost recons and the rainbow 6's, but not real unreal style game on any-system until Halo and Tribes showed up, so yes people are going to appreciate Halo a little more than normal, that is what the consoles were missing before.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Young? I'm 19. Of course I remember Goldeneye, dude! It was amazing! I'm aware that Halo is nothing like UT or most of the other PC hits...but it IS just like Tribes! I'm convinced that Bungie took one look at Tribes and said, "Let's do that."

Other FPS's out on consoles before Halo didn't have XBOX Live supporting them and a 250 Million dollar add-campaign. Agent Under Fire anybody? That game's MP was amazing! Grappling hook FTW!

Halo did nothing different...except become well-known. It didn't innovate. It didn't change the way we looked at anything. It just introduced many people to console FPS's...like FFVII introduced many people to RPG's...which is why most people consider FFVII better than FFVIII, which is blatently untrue.

[Infernus]

I just have to say Timesplitters was also a brilliant game (Same devs as Goldeneye), I had so much fun playing that over a friend's house with 4 player splitscreen. TS2 was better, TS3 wasn't much of an improvement. Can't wait for TS4!

The level builder was always epic in the TS games!

Edit: Agent Under Fire! Wow, that MP level with the cable cars lol! Awesome game!

[Rob0g0rilla]

Because if you don't like it, then your big ol PS3 fanboy because metacritic says this game awesome!

/sarcasm

Get over it. Not everyone likes Halo.

[NanoGeekTech]

Extremely disappointed with the rest.........................H 2 N H3 very overrated..

--it seems that Bungie focused more on online versus the story which suffered..

--The Graphics where very Blah for a 360 debut... I bought the special edition because of hype and sold it to the pawn shop for $45.00

--Halo just feels like its missing something...the first Halo was very good original great score and awesome graphics at the time...

--When Halo made its debut on next generation systems...it felt a little lackluster..especially the story mode..I never got into online with Halo..

[eddierivera]

but there was a question that popped up on the screen that asked the viewers What video game would you like to make a movie out of between Halo or God of War. 65% said Halo,, and I just laughed. It just goes to show that its pretty much just little kids or retards that own a 360.

[dutchdolo1586]

I owned the first halo on the original xbox but I skipped 2 and 3. I think the first was the best

[Spydiggity]

Halo 1 is the best single player. Halo 3 is the best multiplayer and co-op. and i can say that....cuz i didn't skip any of them.

This isn't about a difference in opinion. it's about declaring something is better than something else after also saying you skipped one or more of them. Kinda reminds me of rednecks spouting "America is the greatest country in the world" even though they've never been anywhere else.

[BaSeBaLlKiD721]

i played my brother's halo 2 and liked it for couple days then hated it... played halo 3 at my friends, HATED IT right away... i dont really see the big deal about this game. its just a generic FPS

[the_RED_SCARE]

Says the guy with the MGS4 avatar. Ha.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Says the guy with the "Anime Sucks" avatar...

Anyway, I don't understand it. I didn't like any of them that much until I played Halo 3. The multi-player was really fun on 3...at least that's what I thought. Then, I played COD4. Everything changed.

Personally, I prefer RFOM and COD4 online to anything. (Not including Counter Strike: Source, Half-life 2: Deathmatch, Battlefield 2, Day of Defeat: Source, and Crysis on my PC)

[Infernus]

Personally, I couldn't get into Crysis MP. It was missing a ranking system or something extra to make you feel as though you were earning something by playing it, getting something for all the kills etc.

That's where COD4 and Battlefield excel (My two most played online FPS's), unlockables by ranking. However, Killzone 2 will be the ultimate FPS next year due to the unlockables! Mixing classes and abilities to suit your playing style is the way to go, the best of COD4 and Battlefield combined, plus there's no set mode in an MP game you can play multiple rounds say CTF, then a Search and Destroy round then a Search and Retrieve round. All in the same game without loading again, sounds awesome to me.

[n00bzRtehgey]

They're not gamers (they are jealous droids). 'Nuff said.

[Mr Fancy Pants]

"I loved Halo 1
But Halo 2 and Halo 3 did nothing for me. No innovation. There is something missing from the original in the two sequels. It seemed to get chaved up somewhere along the line. The story didn't interesty the same way Halo 1 did. It was just more of the same."

--that's why everybody hates halo. 2 and 3 were crap but they got a lot of 10 out of 10 from a lot of reviews. halo it's an over-hyped piece of sh1t that keeps MS afloat. it's something like the waggle fest of the Wii, it's a piece of sh1t that the mainstream love for some reason.

BTW who is jealous? with all the FPS that are coming exclusively for the PS3, who cares about halo anymore? LOL

[n00bzRtehgey]

"Citizen Cook"?

try again. he has honored me by using my av.

[JosefTor]

When I went to "dash" in Halo 3 and they didn't have it... is when I started hating the franchise. To simply run at the same pace all the time is so boring with all the other major games offering a sprint or dash function. Plus... snipers are also too accurate that they make multiplayer a little stupid. They should make it like Call of Duty 4 where fights are all over... close range, medium range, and long range.

And then multiplayer games take forever to get into, hate the ranking up system which forces you to play with like players, not being able to pick good game types, not putting people in games that are currently playing (so many times people leave and it is me versus the other team... and I don't want to leave or else I get penalized). And people shouldn't get penalized much for leaving (like Call of Duty 4) since a new player would take their place. In COD 4 I can enter a game while waiting for my friends to be free, dominate it, and then midgame accept a friend game invite. Plus... starting at the beginning of huge levels and have to run to the other side of them is stupid. Call of Duty 4 have levels that I can get from one side to the other and help out my friends quickly and spawn spots are different in certain game types. Plus... people on Halo don't seem to coordinate well. On Call of Duty 4 a lot of people know exactly what the other person is going to do.

[Spydiggity]

but it's the best online fps in a long time. team fortress classic was great, so was goldeneye (for the time - 4 player split screen), and counter strike. But in terms of this generation, halo 3 just has by far the best balancing, the best pace, etc... every other game is just trying to copy its success.

The dislike for halo was propagated by ps3 owners and gears of war fans. and the dislike for halo is only so loud because the like for halo is so loud. They still have about a million ppl playing roughly 3 million matches every day. I personally don't really play it anymore, but that's cuz i want my Seriously achievement in gears before gears 2 comes out, but i do pop it in from time to time and i love it. I just wish you didn't spawn with grenades.

EDIT: People call Halo 3 Halo 2.5, but then what does that make Call of Duty 4? Call of Duty 2.1? The only change they made in that game was adding a red dot on the scope...oh and "borrowed" Halo's ranking and stats system. Point is if the game is too different, it's not a sequel, it's a different game. So when Halo 3 came out, all the people who loved Halo 2 should have been thrilled with the continuation of the story, the adding of new weapons, the tweaking in balance, and new maps and vehicles. I'm not sure what else people could have expected? It's still Halo...and it's still one of the most fun online shooters and will be played long after the new xbox comes out, just like Halo 2 is now.

@the guy above me, most of those features you mentioned in CoD4 are exactly why Halo is better. It forces you to be good at everything and not know what to expect. That way nobody can have an advantage on the field. It makes the game fair, and since you're competing, it's a much better way to do that. also, you said how people leave in the middle of a game, but then you said you like that you can leave in the middle of a game. You most certainly should be penalized for leaving, that's how you make sure you get to keep playing. And i definitely disagree with you about being able to join a ranked match once it has started.

@the guy above him, there's nothing generic about it. But that statement was lame and typical, that's what everyone who doesn't play it loves to say, but they should probably look up that word first. What's generic about being able to jack vehicles? What's generic about spartan laser? What's generic about perfect combat balancing? What's generic about the matchmaking system that everyone wishes the other games have? and by generic, i mean your definition of the word, not the actual one. It set the standard in almost every way when it comes to FPS on a console. I'm not saying it's the best FPS ever, but it's easily a contender for best FPS console game.

[thewhoopimen]

it's generic. face it. halo1 was great. Halo2/3 are just lame shadows of the first game.

[Shepherd 214]

it really is hilarious to read all these comments, mostly because the majority of people you clicked on this article are halo haters or are disrespectful to a great franchise, and to hear them rant is funny.

Halo 2 and halo 3 had brilliant story, with all the pacing, imagination, and excitement one can expect from a great sci-fi story, so if your arguement is that halo's story isnt realistic enough, you have no place making an opinion, since halo is a sci fi franchise, no matter how good it is, your still gonna hate it.

If you didnt like halo 3's story, fine, but thats because you probably dont pay attention enough(i read a comment that said "All i remember is that an alien guy was trying to use these giants rings to take over the universe", when he is completely wrong, and no doubt there are thousounds like him that are posting comments equally as retarded as that.

Other haters spread from other platform owners, because halo is not on their platform. I only own a 360, but vastly enjoy playing smash bros on the wii, warhawk and MGS4 on ps3, and i still love to play Halo 3 and other games to this day, but some arnt as open minded, so when they are bored or fail to realize they need a girlfriend or a job, they trash the biggest game on the 360, halo.

Other haters spread from the fact that there are easier games on the market. Why spend all the time to work down just one guy's shield in halo 3, rather than kill seven within a few seconds, then call in an A.I. controlled helicopter to get them more kills in COD4? People like easier and cheaper things, and if im wrong, why are there so many glitchers in halo 2 and gears of war? (superjumps, kung fu flipping, etc.) They see a means to feel dominant by playing a game like COD4, or other shooters, simply for some of those reasons, so of course they would bash halo and call it a run and gun or whatever and say its gay, and that is truly the opposite if you face a level 45-50 opponent, then you will learn how to combine quick tactics with sharp reflexes.

but im sure at least 50% of the people who read this will not make it past the first paragraph of this post simply because they dont have the intelligence or attention span to read and understand, then consider a different view.

[Mr Fancy Pants]

and because you only have an X360 it's why you're glorifying so much that piece of sh1t. you called us halo hater but you're a halo and microsoft fanboy, so now, what's you point?

BTW you say that people like easier FPS games but you fail to mention that the health bar(or shield) in halo fills itself when you get cover for some seconds. my point is that halo it's like one of the easiest FPS ever. so that point of yours = fail. and thanks to that is that a lot of people got into Halo, because it was easy...

my English is improving?

[Shepherd 214]

You said in your post that the shield bar regenerates, making it easier, but you see, that ONLY makes it easier for the guy trying to take cover cause he's about to get a full bar again, but makes it much harder for the guy shooting him, making it so you cant throw down some extremely easy kills. so your post holds almost no weight, and i cannot be called the unoriginal term of "fanboy", simply because i love a game.

By the way, before i even had an xbox, i played my buddies ps2 everyday plying various games like MGS 2 and 3, GTA Vice City and San Andreas, and others, then eventually his ps3, until i finally got a hold of an xbox and simply could not go back

[dkgshiz]

Always has been, always will be. When halo 1 came out nobody really cared about that game. Thats why I,m still shocked they made a 2nd one. I guess they made the 2nd one because the 1st one sold a lot. But the only reason halo 1 sold a lot is because on the original xboxs launch that was the only game worth buying. So if halo 1 came out a year after the xbox launch. It would of sold probably like 90,000 copies or something. If that was the case your wouldn't be playing halo 3 right now. Bungie just got lucky with halo nothing more. Its not that its a good game, but it just got lucky and sold a lot, mainly from a mediocre xbox launch.

[power of Green]

Its not evny as much as it's fearing the power of the franchise and the sales it brings.

Also it's a trend in many cultures to hate or disslike what's successful or popular as some sort a personal social indenity BS/trip.

[Isaac]

"Also it's a trend in many cultures to hate or disslike what's successful or popular as some sort a personal social indenity BS/trip. "

So that is why xbots like you hate the PlayStation Brand. It must be sad to be you.

[juuken]

...PoG...your comment doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And Isaac brought up a good point. The Sony brand has been very successful and yet you hate on it. I still don't understand why 360 fanbrats hate Sony and the PS3 so much.

Were you programmed by Microsoft to hate the Sony brand?

[Homicide]

Because the game is overhyped and overrated. There are obviously better FPS out there. Halo 1 was pretty good.

[Tanner666]

Halo is too over rated for one thing
And they should have stopped making them after Halo 1
Halos 2 and 3 are just AWFUL

[_Q_]

I hate it's fanboys and all the hype to a mid level shooter at best.

[Matpan]

Most of the best things are polemical and generates likes and dislikes. Halo 1 is great! Halo 3.. very good. I don´t see why specific hating should be on this game rather than any other. Fanboyism works in misterious ways :P

[BoneMagnus]

that console owners could really be proud of compared to PC FPS games.
The controls were brilliant and created a standard for the console FPS.

The story was interesting, the environments, and the MP play all contributed to making console owners feel like they could have a great FPS too.

True, the game is not perfect - library level, abrupt endings and repeated textures...but I believe if it was not for Halo, there would not be a Killzone, Gears, Resistance and many of the other shooters we have today - including games like HL, Wolfenstein and Doom being brought to consoles.

Though there were predecessors, Halo was the thing that made the console shooter break through and be as popular as it is today.

This is what makes Halo, a very good video game all by itself, become a legend in the industry.

When I first played it, I couldn't even find my bearings - it was nothing like I'd ever played. I was blown away - in a similar was as I was blown away by Zelda: Ocarina of Time the generation before.

Since then I haven't been blown away in the same way, though I've played some great games.

This is just me, and I think people hate Halo because the attention it gets implies it was the best game of all time - it wasn't, but it was a huge transition leading to the games we have and the way we play today.

[thewhoopimen]

You've got to be kidding right? Halo the progenitor of FPS on the console systems? What about GoldenEye for the N64? I'm sure that FPS was just some fluke fly by night operation huh? Nevermind that it had 4 on-screen MP?

[Infernus]

Seriously, if you think Halo was the first console FPS you've missed out on a LOT lol.

What about GoldenEye, Agent Under Fire and Timesplitters? Three of the best MP party games of the last few gens!

The Halo series just took what other games had already produced, mixed them well enough and added online capabilities. The real reason the Halo series took off was because of the hype of Halo seeing as it was the only game pushing the Xbox lets be honest and then the online capabilities of Halo 2. It brought online FPS to gamers and set a standard of playability, but that standard was surpassed by COD4 last year and too many people are blind to that now. Halo 3 was surpassed in player numbers by COD4, now we're not talking exclusive V multiplatform here, those were based on the numbers solely on 360.

So people had moved away from Halo and onto COD4, COD4 is currently the best online FPS, not Halo.

[SolidSnake93]

Halo CE> Halo 3> Halo 2

[Splenda14]

i just hate that they the same game every time it comes out and I think its good that Bungie is making a 3rd Halo

[Defiantmac]

Most people dont dislike Halo, they just believe that Halo 3 is an overrated game, and it is...

The game is still good, but its not as good as most Halo fanboys make it out to be.

[Morgue]

You can only be tea bagged by straight guys dressed liked Master Chief so many times or milk a cow dressed like one before it gets a little old. Halo is a joke. I never finished the first, too repetitive and boring, the second, can't even remember what happened at the end and I beat it. The third. No Comment except a big waste of time. Thats why ( IMO & maybe others ) M$ can only steal exclusives because they can't create they're own. How much money did they buy Rare for and look what they've done. I've enjoyed some games that M$ has released but in the end, if my 3shitay died right now ( again ) I could care less.

[air1]

it's crazy when ppl say "i don't like halo cause of all the promo" wtf? you sony fanatics get lower and lower. i guess it's that the sony camp isnt used to sony promoting there games.

halo is a better shooter than anything the bs3 has out right now. and dont try and call out cod4 lets keep it exclusive.

you're bs3 is trying to be like the 360 this gen with shooters now but we all know halo owns them all and if you dont think so then we got gears to back it up.

you sony fanatics are just sad, hate all you want on a shooter you wish the bs3 had

[kadosho]

Campaign was alright, but gameplay was missing that "shock" and "wow" value. The only times you ever get excited, is during a cutscene. It shouldn't be that way, but also in the gameplay. Why show something so awesome, and completely forget about the player?

And the way the left each entry hanging, is just frustrating. So if you push on legendary, 50/50 you might get rewarded. Which is a dumb idea.

Not to mention the online multiplayer is a mess. Only times you can enjoy the game, is with friends. Random players are a nightmare, and including those kids who keep hollering in the mic, or those college doofus party animals that ask if a girl is on a team.

If they want a new audience, they definitely need to try something else. If Halo were to continue, they won't have the same fanbase.

[funkysolo]

The graphics are horrible for a 1st party game. I finish the single player in 5 hours and had no desired to complete it again. I played the multiplayer for about 2 hours before I felt like I was playing Halo2 and I got bored real easily..Halo3 has horrible A.I., graphics, single player compaign..I have played all 3 halos and can honestly say the reviewers were bought because there is no way halo3 deserve anything above an 8. COD4 puts it to shame on every level but M$ has deep pockets that's why it sold so well..

[ThichQuangDuck]

every since Halo 1 I have come up dissapointed. Halo 2 was great in multiplayer but single player was weak once you got to the elite in my opinon. Halo 3 single player better but still not on par with halo 1 , not even close. But halo 3 multiplayer is good has level editor but gets old fast considering the maps in the game are not as of high quality like usual. Halo 4 I wont be buying I just cant based on what happend with halo 3 and all the reviews said it was good. Halo ODST third person shooter rumored to be amazing, I will believe it when I see it but Im slightly interested.

[Monty_The_Great]

Halo. many fanboys dislike halo. i mean, over 8 million people bought h3 alone, so i guess if by "dislike" they mean "sells incredibly well and is one of the most played games online and has a gaming league that uses it as the flagship title." then yes, many, many gamers "dislike" halo.

[DJ]

But we were just disappointed with part 3. There was the fake CG trailer that was announced to be Real-time footage; that really started the bandwagon. Part 3 just wasn't a big leap from Part 2, and I didn't like the fact that the arbiter was placed as a sidekick more than an individual character (i loved playing as the arbiter in part 2).

We were expecting greatness, and instead received mediocrity. That's why part 3 was hated on. Microsoft just raised our expectations way too high. If you're wondering which "CG Trailer" I'm referring to, I've included it below:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=...

[Rapture333]

But now it seems to me a bland repetitive game that for some reason is held in such high regard which it shouldn't be when theirs such better FPS out there!

[Fux4Bux]

Halo:CE is prettymuch my favorite console game of all time. Spend hundreds of hours coop and LAN parties.

Halo2/3. Utter mediocre garbage. Awful campaigns. Multiplayer lost most of the depth and unique subtleties that made the first so fun in LAN. IMO completely ruined the series. If Halo:CE had online multiplayer you would all see what garbage 2/3 are.

[Ps3Fanboy777]

I hate the pace at which you run/walk its so freakin slow. Take a bit from Unreal Tournament you move quickly.

It just makes the game a tiny bit to slow for me.. If they were to speed up I honestly think i might like it...

I mean you can jump really high, have this cool suit, and yet you walk around basically, its annoying.

Thats my only gripe. AI is surprisingly good, editor and replay were cool, kinda has a cartoonish kid feel to it but i can overlook that but not the speed of the game.

[darkdoom3000]

I played it once at my cousins, friends house. was pish. nothing special but then again we only played 4 player multiplayer...

[Figboy]

i just lost interest in the series after the first one.

i had a blast playing Halo 1 with the guys at Activision, and with my friends using LAN, but i just realized that i'm not that huge of a multi-player gamer, and the campaign mode of Halo 2 and 3 just didn't keep my interest.

i respect what the original did for console FPS titles after Goldeneye on the N64 redefined them, but other than that, i don't know. Halo's not really my thing anymore like it used to be way back when.

[Tru_Ray]

I played the first Halo on Xbox (briefly but enough to acknowledge that it is a cool game). I am also a PS3-only gamer and I can tell you why Halo gets so much hate.

There is this arrogance about Halo fans and 360 fanboys when it comes to discussing other FPS games. In their minds it is on another level and any FPS has to be immediately compared to Halo as if it is the benchmark.

How did Halo achieve this lofty status? It is simple. Popularity and marketing. MS is well aware of the vocal and passionate fan base for this game and they have spent millions of dollars in advertising to program the video game community into believing that Halo is THE fps on any platform.

Personally, I think that Resistance 2 and Killzone 2 will own Halo 3. Should be interesting...

[Infernus]

Resistance 2 and Killzone 2 are better than it in different way.

Resistance 2 has a crazy amount of players online, most games support 24 or 32 players (E.g Battlefield:BC or Warhawk) but Resistance has 30 players on just one team! A 60-man MP match will be brutal! honestly, you have to admit R2 has the numbers on it's side here, there's only one thing that'd make COD4 better and that's more than the 18 player limit. If we could have 18 players on each team in COD4 it'd be much better and more epic, but R2 will have even more than that!

Killzone 2 will be the best FPS this gen by a mile, those of you who've read up on the details released at E3 will know what I mean. Normally you have a ranking system and a class system seperate as in Battlefield:BC. So you can play in a Support role or Assault role and switch freely, but in KZ2 you get rewarded for playing in a certain role for a length of time. So if you're a medic for long enough you'll get the ability to throw out medikits to allies. That sounds cool on it's own, but you're allowed to have 2 abilities working at once, so you can mix that medkit with the ability to build turrets as an Engineer and you see where I'm going with that.

Killzone 2 will be an epic MP game due to the depth of the multiplayer experience, the unlockables, the stat tracking, the class system and of course the amazing visuals known to KZ2.

Halo 3 has been beaten by COD4 in terms of the player numbers online, but Killzone 2 looks like it'll take both to the cleaners. KZ2 will be to the PS3 what Halo 3 was to the 360, only on a much deeper scale.

I just love the fact that KZ2 allows you to build the abilities around your playing style and R2 has enough players in one match to fill up at least 4 matches of Halo 3 or COD4.

[xboxLOLnewayz]

First off i think you need to work on your grammer skills alittle bit.
now that we've cleared that up, i cant believe that your saying Halo is better then anything on the PS3.
ahah, Halo is a low rate shooter, with a sh*tty story, and lame ass characteristics. On top of that it is so overrated, it makes me sick.
but for you xbots thats your pride an joy huh?LMAO
xbox's number 1 seller, and the funny thing is its nothing at all compared to any shooter on the PS3, are you forgetting Resistance?
That 1 game alone blows all 3 Halo's out of the water.
not to mention MGS4, oh the glory, both exclusive to the wonderful PS3. you seriously made me laugh, cuz your acting like you know what your talkin about, but really you have no clue.
BUT im not all without sympathy for you, your right when you say you got gears to back it up. Gears is a badass game. ill give you that.
if i ever get a junkbox 360 ill deff get that game 4 it.
I dont know why everyone is so stuck on this franchis, i mean all i used to hear was Halo this and Halo that, whenever i finally sat down and played it, i was disgusted within the first hour!
Maybe its cool for some people, but not me.
dunno people have opinions, and this is not reall my type of game....
at all....

[Shroomy]

You have to be joking, Resistance was a glorified PS2 FPS with shiny graphics, nothing special.

Halo 1 alone was a lot more fun than Resistance. Maybe Resistance 2 will bring something worthy to the table.

[air1]

that's how small minded you sony fanatics are. yea maybe the story was so so and the graphics wasnt cutting edge but the whole package (online play) crushes mgs4 and resistance, that's the reason why 9 million ppl got it NOTHING the ps3 has out right now can compete with halo online. maybe story and graphics but no shooter comes close to what halo does online, nothing on the ps3 so get over it. mgs4 will never last as long in the online as long as halo 1 2 or 3 did. are ppl even still playing resistance online?

mgs4 might be a great game, resistance might be ok but they will never be played online as long as any halo 1 2 or 3.

good thing it's not you're kinda game you wouldnt stand a chance online. now move along and go watch you're 8 min cut scene :)

[SpartanZero]

I like halo I play it with my buddies 4 players on the same console. Its the only game with 4 player split screen that we like and enjoy it better than cod4 for some reason.

[Big Jim]

The art direction. I like a gritty, dark feel to my shooters. Halo is all bright purple, green and pink everywhere. Also, I can't stand the grunt's little kid voices.

[demonikon999]

played Halo 1 on Xbox at a friends when it came out, also played Halo 3 beta when it was with Crackdown. i didnt think it was anything special, im definately not a fan when a guy in a supposedly "heavy space suit" cannot run, however can jump 30ft in the air. (exaggeration of height of jump)..plus im not really sure why people like the small multiplayer...16-24 at the most..even on the high powered 360 why arent they making more options for this seeing as how this game is HUGE..

[cyclindk]

Because it is undeserving of the hype...it's only good because, originally, Xbox titles of any real quality were few and far between (capabilities of the Xbox not at fault, just the devs); Halo series is, at best, an average bunch of games to me; Bungie gave Xbox loyalists what they always wanted but never really had until Halo and so they idolized Bungie for it, thus was born the legend that is Halo.

And as legends often do, with every telling, Halo is unjustly made to seem the mightier.

[Infernus]

...and I can see Halo still being used in 2 years time in comparison to another FPS because Halo is 'the greatest FPS of all time'

tut tut, Halo is only as big as it is because people keep saying it's so good. GTA on the other hand has earned it's status as an iconic game over the years by actually creating the freeroam genre.

A game is only truly an unbeatable game if it creates it's own genre. GTA, Eye of Judgment, Little Big Planet are just 3 examples of games in their own genre. LBP is a 'sandbox community game' whereby you create and share your own levels with others, you make the game yourself basically. It's not been done before to that extreme, LBP is revolutionary, 360 fanboys go mute about it because the 360 has nothing to compete to it.

There are tons of FPS's out there, but because of Halo's immense following all praising it as if it's the God of shooters too many people are missing out on innovative games that deserve a higher status that Halo.

[zodiac909]

THE REAL QUESTION IS...WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE LIKE HALO?

[Infernus]

...actually you have a point.

If the games have got worse since the first one then why has the hype grown? lol

[otherZinc]

1. SONY doesn't have it.

2. Nintendo doesn't have it.

3. PC gets it late.

And, for all you M$ advertised the hell out of Halo people; No! Halo 1 sold off pure word of mouth.

The game is Spectacular or 500,000 people wouldn't play it every night.

SONY struggles trying to get its Flagship title MGS4 to 700k in the States by packing the game in with the PS3.

You fools can hate all you want, HALO NEXT is going to kill the competition whenever it gets here. Now you fools have to deal with GEARS OF WAR 2. Resistance needs to move out of November before it gets embarrassed!

Drink your Hater-aid all you want, Halo will break records the next time its released, just like the Halo's before it.

[mistertwoturbo]

"MGS4 to 700k in the States by packing the game in with the PS3. "

Just to clarify, NPD stated that the bundles were not counted.

[AcidHorse]

"And, for all you M$ advertised the hell out of Halo people; No! Halo 1 sold off pure word of mouth."

Actually I bought Halo 1, because of a commercial I saw with the Warthog footage, and after that I asked around and it was recommended. So you get a big FAIL on that. Besides, how do you know why people bought Halo 1? Did you do a nation wide survey or consult a research firm? I mean atleast people claiming advertisement can atleast point out the commercials on TV and posters taped to everything in Gamestop.

[thehitman]

Because its OVERYHYPED. Halo 1 GOOD halo 2 Decent halo 3 SUXED!!!

Its incredibly overhyped and doesnt deserve the attention. If a game is more hyped than GTA thats how you know somethings wrong.

[Monty_The_Great]

that 8 million plus people bought it, and hundreds of thousands still play it everyday on live. i mean, if that doesn't sound like "overhyped" then i don't know what does.

[Surfman]

..be..cause... it's.... GAYYY

[EnforcerOfTheTruth]

Beacause it's a crap game where you shoot pink enemies. Can't get any more gay than that.

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

That's what you get for trying and milking on one good game... Halo 1 was really good. But MS has gone crazy, hyped the hell out of it, make Bungie the Halo only developer, the guys run out of ideas sooner than we all think and Halo 2 was crap... So came Halo 3, crap... Really, both are Halo 1 with new levels, some weapons, the alien crap story you get in a dozen games today that we never really cared goes moving and after all we got the same game...

This is not Halo exclusive effect. Many franchises goes for it, look at Tomb Raider, there is nothing really wrong with Angel Of Darkness, but god, this is the same damn old Tomb Raider game that we got bored about a generation before. So be DMC4 (not bad or hated, but not as well received as 1 and 3) or like there is people that really don't like sports and fighting game, since it's all repetitive all along the way...

One of the few games that I remember getting the sequels way right is Metal Gear. Even if it's always that same "goes to the goal, don't get seen" thing, it get so different one from the other...

You have the MSX experience: stealth game in 2D, not that different MG and MG2:SS. Anyway, creating a genre alone.

Than you get PS1 experience: going 3D added new ways to interact and stealth in the game, new 3D gameplay and mechanics, you now have to care about being seen and you can hide considering above and below, not to say the way they got into storytelling already good, now f*ckin awesome, with all the cutscenes, battling an huge mecha that actually looks huge (god bless perspective).

You get MGS2 experience: A whole new character viewpoint, many new movements, better storytelling (conspiracy, feelings), the whole new graphics whoring by the time.

MGS3 experience: being a prequel so you got the answers some questions (you already get it, the compelling story always getting better and deeper, always with new ways to be showed, make the series acceptive for sequels), some new gadgets, the fact that the environment is the forest and you are with actually animals that are not only rats and ravens is awesome. And you can even eat them to survive 'till getting to the objective. Not to talk about the camouflage needs in a forest.

MGS:PO: It's portable, it does integrate the main storyline and it doesn't suck for it! The recruiting thing is awesome and just when you want some more in the story.

MGS4... Well you just got blow out of the water few days a go, you should remember. It's all new (gameplay, characters, graphics, music, weapons, settings... and still feels like a MG game!), MG-like creatures engaging you ass normal enemies, mecha combat, tons of weapons and many are customizable, total revamped camouflage system, many locations... You say it, you have it.

The other one is FF. Not all of them, but some are great, and anyway you mostly always get something new in it playing big holes, even if it always remained (at least 'till XI) your usual JRPG. Going as far as XI being an Online RPG and XII being an action RPG. Even XIII is already expected to have a new battle system between the classic turn based and the more dynamical action RPG.

And there is just one thing both this games do so they can be great in sequels: Don't plan on a sequel if you have nothing new. Simply as that. Still everyday you got more and more games that barely launch on the first tittle and they are already stating it will be a trilogy...

[AcidHorse]

Cause everything after Halo 1 sucked :)

Im kidding, they all sucked. No seriously, I hate these articles. Nothing more than glorified fanboy fodder. What is good for some, might not appeal to others.

The Halo series isn't bad, just over hyped. Yes it's good, but for the amount of praise and attention.. well the game just isn't that good. Games like Resident Evil 4 was much better, but hardly got the notice it deserved.

Halo 3 was even criticized for having a poor single player campaign by the most flattering reviews. Some how Master Chief's legend is actually bigger than the quality of the games he is in. Something about a faceless soldier in a shinny (shoot me I'm here) green suit with a moto-cross helmet, that just doesn't appeal to me. The enemies and situation is VERY generic and how the f--k do they know English, much less speak it with their jacked up faces. The game is just a parody of all things sci-fi, and yet it still manages to be a decent game. Maybe that in of itself should be worthy of praise.

[denied]

1st it does not bring anything new to the FPS.2nd it to colorful u know like a rainbow.it actualy should have being called Halon's rainbow wars..3rd who is master chef oops chief ha..a hero with no name but a rank and everyone thinks they r him..huh!!!4th i have played all Halo game yes im not lying about it.a friend let me borough his console..Halo 1 not better than Golden Eye..Halo 2 not even close to Perfect Dark(((if perfect dark had online it would have blown Halo out of this wolrd)))5th Halo 3 was nothing more than hype u got robbed!!! call the cops..yes i said it..u got brain wash by a telletuby game like.action pack?where cuz if it was there i miss it,barney has more vilence than Halo..lol.not to be a FANBOY but then again..just seriusly look at what u bought and ask your self is this game really good?if u have a brain u would come to the conclution that its not a great game that why everyone called it Halo 2.5

[RebornSpy]

Seriously, you're not a fanboy? I was about to go into a big long rant about how wrong you are, but then I realized it doesn't really matter. You are obviously a ten year old kid who can't spell or use decent grammar, completely oblivious to anyone's opinion but your own. Your post is an insult to the English language and gamers in general. If you have good reasons for disliking Halo, either post them in a readable format or just don't say anything. Many people, myself included, love the series, while others dislike it for valid reasons. Others, like you, troll game websites, flaming games like Halo simply because you are a fanboy. Luckily for you, here on N4G anti-Halo fanboys often get more agrees and bubbles than disagrees. Could you please atleast go over to the open zone, with the rest of your kind?

P.S. Master Chief's name is John. It's in the novels...

[IQUITN4G]

Halo=sh!t apparently yet it's forever mentioned in just about any article with the letters FPS in the title.

Hate like this comes from mostly Sony fans or PC fps fanatics and is not in the least bit suprising.

If the Halo series really was so mediocre then you certainly wouldn't ever hear about it in countless article like this

Can't remember the last time i ever saw an article entitled "Why do so many gamers dislike Resistance"

Great things always get hate and then people jump onto the back of a story like this

Some people wont ever be able to help what they think or say regarding Halo as it mostly comes down to an ignorance and imaturity of the subject.

Only those that have played the game a great deal are in a position to offer a well formed opinion - on the face of it, almost all fps are the same and it is required you invest for Halo

It's not perfect but as a whole the Halo franchise has always worked very well as a piece of gaming entertainment - much more than most titles ever achieve

[Enigma_2099]

I think NintendoWTF summed it up nicely...

"General gamer hate for having this damn series rammed down everyone's throats night and day by Microsoft's marketing department."

[madjedi]

Well 15 million in marketing dollars, it seems worked too well, and turned many people off it by overhyping it. I bought the game fuel because i enjoy mountain dew, needless to say i had to force myself to finish it. When they release crappy soda to hype a game up, it's getting on the overboard side.

Since you wish to be an ass to another poster about his grammar, and spelling, do everyone a favor next time you post. Can you not make us have to read a wall of text, plz break up your post some thanks.

I played the multiplayer beta at my brothers house, couldn't melee after firing had to wait a second bs, and why is it a player can take half an assault rifle clip or more to the chest and still be living?
I played halo 3's multiplayer slightly, it's quirks combined with the retarded grenade throw angle, kills it for me, cod4, rfom, warhawk, rv6 all have better multiplayer to me.

The skull that removes your targeting reticule is just stupid to me. I would guess mc has a built in hud in his helmet's visor.

And they gave the character a name in the books, and i guess explained his back story ect. Well why didn't they put that information into the game, couldn't they give the character a personality, that way he felt human not like a machine?

[Enigma_2099]

... who in the hell are you talking to? What wall of text... AND WHO ARE YOU CALLING AN ASS?!?!?

[madjedi]

sorry i guess i should have been more specific, was addressing rebornspy

[denied]

understand what i said ur SIR are the DUMB one here..plain an simple Halo is a game for stupid people like ur self..u r fan of they game but yet u know the game trully sucks.hey if u like it thats ur problem not mine.

P.S. I don't care for the novel I don't like Halo it a crappy game

[StrboyM]

Im an admitted sony fan, and i can tell you my favorite FPS is halo1. Ive played halo 1 so much i cant play it on anything but legendary, and then its still only some what challenging. after getting halo 2 (and throwing it away) i went right back to halo 1

i waited on the Toysrus midnight launch for halo2, me and my bro played co op for 3 hours, we were terribly disseminated, the day before halo2 launched we sold halo1 thinking we would have no need for it, i mean after all 10's on every review site (what a load of sh!t) we thought it was the MOAB of video games. wrong!!

I dont hate halo, just dont think you can put the halo series up against most other notable series, and especially not Metal gear, every accolade and review was spot on, sales werent through the roof, only because the hype factor isnt what sells that game!!

[mrnjl]

I love Halo 3. And not just multiplayer. Its one of the few SP games I can play over and over again. Prob one of the best AI in a game to date. Play SP Co-op on Highest level with some of the skulls turned on and in my opinion not many FPS can match it.

[Defectiv3_Detectiv3]

It's funny to see people try and defend Halo, when actually good games, like MGS4 and GeoW don't need defending. And you know why, because those are legitametly good games. That's why you don't see as many people trying to call them out.

There are plenty of reasons for Halo's success, but the game quality is at the bottom of that list. People get sucked into the hype vacuum a little too easy. They fail to see that it is little more than a twitch shooter - the Hack n Slash of FPS.

I'll admit, the first Halo was classic, but the next two never matched the excitement of that game. Hell, the next two barely improved upon the gameplay mechanics. Bungie is so afraid to disenchant the fans that they don't take any risks, they don't change anything.

When you consider how much this game means to the XBOX brand name, it is infuriating how underwhelming Halo 3 was. Does anyone really think that game took advantage of the Hardware?

And I'm glad the movie never got greenlit. The Halo universe is just lacking an identity. There is no central character that pulls everything together, especially not master chief. Lets face it, the Halo story was taken from a bad paperback in a bargain bin from a used book store.

[blucas]

To me halo is firstly a multiplayer game and the campaign compliments that and imo anyone that does not have a skill level of at least 35 cant possibly give and informed opinion of how good/bad the game is.

So on that note i can tell you the game is good.

[Neo604]

I haven't finish the game so I don't know bout stry wise. The game AI is boring. then the rest are just sucks.

[onyxbox]

I thought this article was right on the money... personally I fall into the 'Loved Halo 1 and lost interest with Halo 2 and Halo 3 was a good game but massively overrated." camp.

MS should have given it a rest after Halo 3 but they'll milk the franchise to death and there will be so many Halo games around by the end of this generation that no one will care anymore.

I hope Bungie announce a new IP with an intelligent main character and story rather than another Halo game.

[Niclas]

Its not hate? its people being jealous.. Halo is like MS's main franchise, which will newer see the light on any other console, OFC every Sony/nintendo fanboy will trash it?..

just listen to people bashing KZ2? ITS NOT EVEN OUT YET, thats f'cking jealousy to.

[JeepGamer]

It's a decent enough game but it is highly over rated and given a lot of credit it doesn't deserve. It doesn't do anything that other FPS games don't do a lot better.

[mukeshrawat02]

Its really a cool..And they should have stopped making them after Halo 1
Halos 2 and 3 are just AWFUL

[Niclas]

Is this retardet webside just being flooded by angry PS3 fanboys at the age 8-14 ? .. wheres all the normal minded f'cking adults these days ^^

Ftr, im neither i own both a PS3 and an Xbox360, i used to be a hardcore PS3 fanboys, but much have changed since then, and i like both my consoles equally now.
For PS3 i own: RFOM, COD4, Uncharted, Warhawk, Motorstorm, Burnout, Devil may cry 4 and ofc MGS4 :P
For xbox360 i own: Bioshock, Fifa 08, Lost planet, Gears of war, Oblivion, GTA4, Mass Effect, GRID, Orange box, ninja gaiden 2 and ofc Halo 3

And its safe to say Halo 3 is the game i have spent most time on, EVER. as mentioned before, i used to be just like all you bitter PS3 fanboys out there, "duuh KZ and RFOM is much better, duuh the grafix arent good?, Duuh whats so special about it?, duuh ITS LAME"..

No I was lame. I havent played it for more than a couple of hours at my friends house, and bcuz of that thought i knew all about it!?.. we played online and i got PWNED and hated it.

But luckily today i know how f'cking wrong i was ^^.. sure its overhyped and all, its not the greatest game of all times, but its DEFENETLY the greatest console FPS EVER F*CKING MADE, and thats a fact.

The campaign is descent yep, i werent blown away by it, but it was still awsome, the scarab fights were nice, but the "cliffhanger" when you complete it on legendary, kinda pissed me off, but anyways. It was good in many aspect either way, The AI are propably one of the best ever seen, there are many, many nice weapons, grenates, vehicles, airplanes, and tons of other stuff that makes it great.

The grafix isnt fantastic, but werent you the same guys (retards) that flamed GeoW when it came out, with "Grafix dosnt matter".. but the grafix isnt that bad, it has its own style, and the lighting is still fantastic.

The online is where it surpasses everything else on the market. Halo actually invented the matchmaking system, that you all hope the future fps games will include ;).. The achivements in the game actually matter here, you get new armor parts when you get new achivements, so you can be an asshole online and brag to everybody about your "Super cool ninja armor" lmao XD (joking)
The weapons are VERY balanced you can actually own with every single weapon, but also be owned, which is great (i happen when in games like GeoW EVERYBODY simply spam runs to the f'cking sniper, and when they get it, they are almost granted victory? LAME), the maps are NICE, the vary in seizez, inveroments and styles, AND theres are lots of vehicles.
But the greatest thing in this game, it the 4 player online freaking splitscreen! Theres nothing better than inviting your mates over, to go pwn some n00bs online in halo3 :P the vehicles even made for this purpose, cuz more people can be in them at the same time.

Wtf is wrong with people b'tching about you can take alot of shots to the chest in the game?, how F'CKING retardet are you? really? are you 8 years old? i mean.. you have a overshield, and a heavy armor? does it really come as a surprise to you.. hehe i know you can run and just hold down the fire button, and make an insane killing spree like in RFOM or COD4, it actually takes skill to be good at halo, and thats what many people cant deal with..

And WTF halo 2,5 are you kidding me? hahaha yea okay, COD2,5 .. MGS3,5... GTA2,5... this is simply the lamest reason to hate halo tbh, would you have liked it if they had changed EVERYTHING in the game? and why should they? they already had a perfect game in halo 1, they then redid their mistakes in halo 2, and they changed the even smaller, mistakes from halo 2, into perfection.. STOP BEING RETARDET PEOPLE PLEASE

COD4: its very good indeed, i would defenetly say its the closest contester. The single player is fun and intense, but the online just isnt in the same league, i was one of the single people that actually played it before i played Halo.. and i played it ALOT :P but after halo it just semes shallow, theres no online splitscreen? which makes it useless when your not sitting home alone, theres no vehicles? which too was a huge letdown tbh.. the thing everybody likes so much about COD4 is its easy, i havent played it for a while now, but i bet i can log on again and own everybody, yea i've done it before, long breake and the come back and own. it simply takes no skill, you can simply aim at the head or chest and spray, and you get a kill ^^
if i take a 2 weeks breake from halo, i get PWNED .. you really have to keep practicing, because IT TAKES SKILL TO BE GOOD ONLINE, and alot of people just cant deal with that.

RFOM: i really cant see whats so freaking good with this game tbh, and i newer could.. it was the first PS3 game i bought (along with motorstorm, which i really like :D) and even back then i didnt really enjoy it.. after i bought COD4 i newer opent it again, and after i bought Halo3 i havent even given it a thought.. its so f'cking boring, the controls are very bad, the whole game has this grey headace colour, the grafix are MUCH worse than halo3's lol, the weapons are boring?! and WTF its WW2......... WITH ALIENS, its so lame i wanna cry.. the story seriously newer caught my interest.
The online dosnt even feature anything special.. no vehicles, no splitscreen NOTHING here either.. if ANY game is overhyped its DEFENETLY RFOM..

KZ2 and RFOM2: i oblviously cant comment on these titles, and neither should you guys, since they arent out yet ;) .. but i really have high hopes for KZ2 :P looks amazing so far.. PLEASE just give me vehicles and splitscreen in online, and then we will have a really Halo 3 contester.

And as i said at the top, this site i filled with PS3 fanboys that propably wont even read my comment to the end, and just dissagree halfway trough LOL, i dont care what you say, i have both consoles and the same games you promote over Halo 3.. i happen to know what im talking about here :P

[otherZinc]

I'm a FPS killer, I can play them all damn day and there is nothing close to Halo 3. I'm also a gamer since 1976 and Halo 3 has the most replay value for me of all the games I've ever played, be it Mission or Online play, most bang for the buck, ever in my book.

Its too bad people don't get the chance to experience the best in gaming because they are loyal to a company they don't pick-up a check from. Be a gamer, experience everything, then give us your perspective people, without all this blind hatred for a great game industry.

Again, great post Niclas.

[madjedi]

You found rfom boring with bad controls lol, you might actually want to try playing it because the chimera aren't exactly aliens and neither is it ww2. Yeah and halo 3 is the best online shooter on consoles and thats a fact, bullshit halo fanboy, that is merely your opinion.

Well you certainly don't make it easy for anyone, ps3 fanboys or not to read what you posted, if your going to call people retarded and call them 8-14 yr olds proofread your post prior to posting, it makes you look less stupid.

You want to attack rfom and say it isn't as good looking as halo 3, really lets think about this for a second. A LAUNCH title that was not as optimized as it could have been vs Microsofts flagship title that had probably no budget constraints, a 15 mil marketing budget, that also came out 10 months after rfom did.
Well with halo fans and ms hyping it up as much as it did, and when it finally came out people were like umm thats the graphics, uh it's decent but thats it. Again if you bothered to read anything on it, insomniac wanted close fast paced action, the decided early on to leave vehicles out, and concentrate on the regular combat.

The use of that many caps is unnesscary, the best part is pwning noobs with pals, joy another one of these guys. Okay cod4's storyline and play style is not made for coop single player, neither is the multiplayer made for vehicles. Cod4 is not large epic battles, it is small strike team action, different play style.

About holding down the trigger on cod4 multiplayer try that and see how long it takes another guy you aren't fighting at the time to kill you or run out of ammo and get killed reloading. Some problem you have with headshots and chest shots being lethal with 1 or 2 hits, sorry but not every enjoys a lame ass shield system. As well as enemies that jump higher than most professional basketball players. So being able to jump to avoid damage is skill, sound more like cheapness to me.

I got an idea my buddy was a big halo fan, try doing something a little more brag worthy and play with no shields on, his son refused to play it with him, because he would get murdered, too reliant on a shield recharge to save his ass.

You got to love a guy on the internet bragging about how badass he is at fps games lol, with probably little to no proof to back it up. Regardless not every gamer is as obessed with fps as others that have to be the best at halo, cod4 ect, would it be shocking to find out some people play it simply because it is fun.

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Does halo really need to have a coat of epoxy on things as much as it does, i am not a fan real shiny games.

[Enigma_2099]

you're the ONLY person who thinks you know what you're talking about... the rest of us think that you're not quite right in the head.

[grantps3]

i dont like halo 2 and 3 because people are too obsessed with it. yeah its a good game,but its not THAT good. a lot of people who love halo cant even except that halo can be anything but #1 and no game will ever be as good.and thats stupid

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[Destroyer229]

I love halo and all but i hated the 2nd one the 3rd one was more of a remake of 1 nothing new really still a very good game but same thing every time. like in halo 3 cortana tells you to find the cartographer i was thinking wait that was in halo 1 why the hell am i finding it again.

[xboxLOLnewayz]

how about i take that 8 min cutscene, and shuv it up your ass!
you cant even compare Halo to MGS4.
by the way, you dont think MGS4 is online to?
i admit, the online gameplay MAY BE slightly better for Halo, but still, as it all comes down to it, it takes more then that to have a good game. And resistance and MGS4 are just the ones that came off the top of my head.
All of us sony fans know that there are awhole lot more then just those 2 games better then Halo.
Im not downin your systems best seller or anything, i mean it might be good to all you small minded xbots, but whenever you compare this sh*t to the PS3, your damn near crazy.

[monkfish]

i love these comments......"it was just like the others...." etc etc
its halo3 the clue is in the name... i might as well say all star wars films bar the first are sh!t as its all the same space ships and darkside rubbish...

i think people hate on it because its a very popular game...people naturally tend to hate on something more when they feel its forced upon them and unfortunatley halo was everywere with marketing...so i do sort of understand. i hate big brother and try as i like i cant ignore it even by not watching it i still see an advert or article in the newspaper or a mention of it on the radio so i hate on that in a way people hate on halo.

for me though, i thought halo 3 was awesome...sorry but i did.

i get it if people dont think it was amzing or the best game ever....
but how many of these haters could honestly say halo 3 is a terrible game.....most of the hating i see is because people dont think it was the best thing in the world and unfortunately it was marketed as if it would be just that and some unfortunately believed it would be so naturally it will be critiqued (wrong spelling i guess) in the same light.