Critics lavish praise on the Big One: With a number of prominent online publications waiting until the weekend's conclusion late last night to publish their Halo 3 reviews, it is with the Monday morning still bleary in our eyes that we're able to sit down and dissect the critical response to Halo 3 thus far.
Not every Halo game has been a banger, but the franchise still has a raft of the greatest games of all time.
Infinite is a dumpster fire and as much as I like ODST, in no universe it ranks above Halo 2. This list is trash.
Best to worst: Halo 3, Halo 2, Halo Reach, Halo CE, Halo 4, Halo ODST, Halo Infinite, Halo 5.
The Xbox 360 was a fantastic console in its day with some truly classic titles, but what are the seven best games for the console?
I'll go with,
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Culdcept Saga, Shadow Complex, Ace Combat 6 with the flight stick,A Kingdom for Keflings, A World of Keflings.
Bonus Kinect Games: Happy Action Theater and Sesame Street.
*Skyrim was so bad on PS3 that it almost deserves to be #1*
Ah yes, Shadow Complex! Good indies back in the day. Summer of Arcade. I enjoyed Trials Evolution as well.
Was this made by a.i.? No human being would put Shadowrun, Fable III, and Splinter Cell: Conviction into a list of the 7 best Xbox 360 games.
Would love to play Ace Combat6 on PlayStation, but Xbox decided to buy exclusivity and keep it off a competing platform.
The only mainline game I never played except for one level at a friends place. Game sold less than any other in the series if I remember correctly.
360 had Namco hitters AC6 and RR6... both quality titles. You should at least bust out the 360 for AC6 if you can score the flight stick. Its great.
When the current gen XBOX offering is so lacking people need to refer to games released two generations back....
It's a nostalgia peice same reason we get thousands of YouTube videos on sega genisis. Something people have fond memories for but the era is long gone.
It's xboxs golden year imo it was their genisis years the time where they stuck it to the market leaders Sony.
They stuck nothing. Sony screwed themselves giving Xbox an opening. They would have gotten the usual smack down if the PS3 had launched at $399 and was easier to develop for.
The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.
Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.
The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.
I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces
I think ppl without a good internet connection or without internet will strongly disagree.
Todays games rely too much on online gaming IMO. Why dont they consider that in their reviews? Do they assume that everybody has a +2mb/s connection and live gold?
No game is perfect.
I know I am gonna get alot of disgree's and flames from the xbox fanboys, but after reading most of these reviews it just seems alot of reviewers are giving near perfect to perfect scores due to the hype. ITs starting to feel like a halo 1, 2 hype all over again.
Im sorry but how can you get a near perfect score, when even the reviewers themselves state that 1) graphics are not all that 2) AI is not that great 3) campaign Is short and not the most inspiring thing.
All the reviewers fall back and say the multiplayer is totally awesome, yet all the gamemodes that are presented seem rather generic and nothing is brought new to the table i.e. deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag etc.
It is also kindov contradicting when these reviewers will mention that the single player campaign is not that all inspiring..... yet they would go on raving that coop campaign is totally awesome like its next best thing to butter.
I would understand had most reviwers pointed out the single campaign is pretty dam good , and the coop campaign is even better.... but this is not the case from what I read from most reviews. Its like a polar effect campaign is meh but coop campaign is totally awesome.???
Its funny with even gamespots review, they would give halo 3 a very high score then they would basically imply halo 2 was not ALL that yet they also gave that game high praises.
Lastly, it just seems that the reviewers are raving about the multiplayer but there are no specific details as to what makes it so good. More importantly there are no great changes implied that makes this game revolutionary in the multiplayer front.
After reading all these reviews I can honeslty say this game will only cater to the ppl who liked halo before, because it just does not seem there is any change... Unless your a extreme fanboy like one of my friend's.
Conversation between me and my friend
me: get r6v its the best shooter game right now
friend: nah I really dont like shooters, plus im not good at it
me: so i guess your not going to get halo the most popular franchise on xbox
friend: im for surely getting halo
me: but you just told me you dont like shooters
friend: but its halo
me: OKKKK have you ever played halo
friend: nope
me: OK
thats how the conversation ended. I get an odd feeling that alot of these reviewers are xbox fan's and are they are suffering the same halo effect as my friend.