Monday, November 9, 2009

Video Game Blog

Halo 3 is an addicting first person shooter played on the Xbox 360. It is a great game, which has been part of a series ongoing since 2001. There has been a Halo 1 (2001), and a Halo 2 (2004), before it, and there has been Halo wars, and Halo ODST (2009) after it. The game was developed by Bungie, and the publisher is Microsoft. It was first released on September 25, 2007. The game was a very wanted game, and because of this, there were over 4 million copies in retail stores.

The story of the game has a somewhat complicated story. It consists of 9 levels, which take you through the story of Halo, continuing from the previous games in the series. The campaign mode can be played by yourself, or with another person on co-op. In the single player campaign, you play as master chief. If you play on co-op mode the first player plays as master chief, and the second player plays as the Arbiter. The Arbiter is a alien who has come to the Elites side, to be on the marines team. In the story mode you go through the 9 very graphic and beautiful levels. Encountering many obstacles, weather it be brutes, which are big aliens, or druids, which are the small ones. There are also many vehicles in the game, which you can drive with a teammate or on your own. They have turrets and weapons on them to destroy any enemies.

I personally like this game, not only for the campaign but also for the fact that it has online play. The online play makes the game 10 times better. In online play you can go on a server and play against people all over the world. Online there are many modes to play, such as slayer, capture the flag, king of the hill, and many more. Slayer is just every man for himself, and it can also be played in teams, Capture the flag is where there are 2 flags and you have to capture the flag. I think that if this game didn’t have online play, I would get very bored of it, because I wouldn’t want to play the campaign more than once. But since it does, I am still engaged and entertained from it,

I think that if I were to change the game, I would make a bigger variety of vehicles and weapons. There are lots of weapons to choose from, but I think that if there were more, people would like it better. Many of the weapons in the game are similar to others. There are a decent variety of vehicles in the game, but I think that if there were more it would be a better game, because the vehicles are a very exciting and engaging part of the game. The game could also be improved by making the enemies more elaborate. I found when playing the campaign that many of the enemies were very much the same, they had similar features. If they were different from one another, I think that would make the game better. Halo 3 is a very good game, which has a very engaging campaign, and an even better online experience that will make you want to play it more and more.