#REDDIT HALO 3 PC ONLINE SERIES#

#REDDIT HALO 3 PC ONLINE SERIES#

Following a religious prophecy, the Covenant plans to activate a series of weaponized rings known as Halos, which eradicate all organic lifeforms in a set solar-system. Taking place in the distant future, Master Chief must save Earth from total destruction after a religious pact of aliens known as the Covenant invades the planet. In many ways, Halo 3 defines a very specific period of my life - but what is special is that in its latest incarnation on PC it remains as good as it ever was.In Halo 3's main story campaign, players control Master Chief, a super-soldier in the United Nations Space Command military. I was in deep back then the hype, that incredible diorama advertisement, the cat helmet limited edition. I bunked off and skipped endless lectures to grind out gleeful wins, close-fought losses and the occasional shaming curb-stomping online. When Halo 3 first released, I was just gearing up to start university. Part of this is undoubtedly rose-tinted glasses. I'm not sure Halo will ever feel quite right on keyboard and mouse to me, but that's a philosophical thing - it plays just fine. Just a few minutes into my first few matches of Big Team Battle on Valhalla and I feel at home again. In multiplayer, too, Halo 3 is an absolute joy. It advances the series, and while the changes it makes are less profound than many offered by later Halo titles, each change, like the addition of one-time-use equipment skills, feels significant. It's through this that Halo 3 both avoids being obtuse and conceptual - for it's a natural evolution of what came before - but also avoids feeling too familiar. In an era when many games were embracing the on-rails, scripted type of cinematic gaming, Halo 3 offered these hair-raisingly cinematic and yet entirely off-the-rails segments, exciting player and AI-driven action elevated by an even more thrilling score. Bungie pioneered not only a better-feeling class of console shooter, but also a different type of sandbox, something that's perfected in Halo 3's memorable Scarab takedown sequences. It's a greatest hits tour of the things that made the first two games great. What you get in Halo 3 is in a sense a victory lap. As the biggest thing in video games at the time, it's astonishing just how good and sharp Halo 3 is. This is usually when you get ego-fueled and obtuse concept albums, or brainless, soulless recreation of what came before as creatives burn out. You see, with two successes behind you, there's always the risk of hubris. There's always a danger in the third of anything in the music industry the concept of the 'difficult second album' looms large, but in fact the third is often more challenging still. Players come to realize the Elites aren't just monsters - that there are two sides to this conflict.Дespite this, to me Halo 3 is the special one. There's a risk here of going a bit George Lucas in the Star Wars prequels, shoving unwanted political bargaining and hostile takeovers into an action franchise. Think about the bait-and-switch of having you play the Arbiter, and having the player experience the intricacies of the politics of the Covenant. It's hard to make a sequel to a break-out hit, but Halo 2 is a confidant, brilliant expansion of the first game's ideas. While the infamous cliffhanger ending is now banded about as a meme that highlights the elements of that game that were clearly rushed to store shelves, it's also an incredibly special game. But as its addition to Master Chief Collection on PC has reminded me, Halo 3 is the real series pinnacle. When people talk about the Halo series, the second entry is usually the one spoken about with the most reverence.

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