A Roundup Of Halo 3 Reviews

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Review: Firingsquad
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This is going to be a very unusual review for FiringSquad. I'm going to review just the single player aspects of a certain game without going into the online multiplayer features. The game I am reviewing is, of course, Halo 3, the long awaited Xbox 360 first person shooter from Microsoft's internal developer Bungie. We got an advanced copy of the game to play a couple of days ago and have played through the entire single player campaign. We have also checked out some of the very impressive online community features as well as the Forge multiplayer map editor.

Review: Eurogamer
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Let's cut the crap. Cut the platform advocacy, cut the ranting of Internet storm-troopers on behalf of multinational corporations who don't care if they live or die. Cut the agonised wailing and gnashing of teeth over whether something is "game of the year" or just "really good".

Review: Shacknews
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To play Halo 3's campaign as a single-player experience, the game lives up to what one would expect from its title; it is very much "the third Halo." The core Halo gameplay is here as strong as ever--sometimes stronger--and everything that fans love about the series almost seems to have been magnified or reprised, but it also is very much a sequel. It does feel as if this is what you might have played if Halo 2 had kept going, and while some of the series' rough edges have been smoothed out, traces of them remain.

Review: Worthplaying
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The epic saga continues with Halo 3, the third chapter of the Halo trilogy, Master Chief returns to finish the fight, bringing the epic conflict between the Covenant, the Flood, and the entire human race to a dramatic, pulse-pounding climax.

Review: Gamespot
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Regardless of how you felt about its cliffhanger ending, there's no denying that Halo 2 was a gigantic success that raised the bar for what we, as a game-playing society, expect out of a good console-based first-person shooter. In the years that followed, plenty of games attempted to duplicate the Halo formula, with varying degrees of success. But there's still nothing quite like the genuine item. Luckily for all involved, Halo 3 is a positively amazing package that offers extreme satisfaction across all of its different parts. Maybe now you can finally retire your Halo 2 disc and really move into the next generation of games.

Review: IGN
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US, September 23, 2007 - My father once told me, "Never start a fight you don't intend to finish." Master Chief's pappy must have said something similar to him long before John-117 became a Spartan, because in Halo 3, the iconic action hero does indeed finish the fight. There is no cliffhanger ending that will have you screaming at your television, no doubting that this is Chief's tale and everyone else is along for the ride, and no question that it is a worthy conclusion to the most successful trilogy in videogame history. But just like that girl you dated in college, Halo 3 has some issues. Don't' worry; the good far outweighs the bad. This is Halo 3, and it is indeed the game you've been waiting for the past three years.