- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Sporefrizzle
Halo 2 and Halo 3 feel like a completely different series than Halo 1. I've stopped playing the Beta and just kept playing XBC Halo 1 because it's far more fun and way more satisfying when you get a win. Halo 3 is really easy and not all that satisfying. I'll play a game and go like +30 but it's still not even that much fun, I don't feel like I'm earning kills. I miss fighting for power ups when I play Halo 3, the pace of the game is just really monotonous and slow. Spawn at the opposite base as the other team, grab BR, go through man cannon, get spartan laser, then get jumped by two people and since every gun takes over 3 seconds to kill its impossible to take them both out.
Halo 1's pace was so much better thanks to more powerful weapons, better nades, harder to use melee (but at the same time stronger), and power ups that actually matter. The Halo 3 maps are so much more 1 dimensional than any of the Halo 1 maps. Even High Ground, which is what I would consider the most technical map in the Beta, pales in comparison to maps like chill out, dammy, pris, or HeH. Each of these maps played differently. The gameplay was drastically different map to map. In Halo 3, the battles seem pretty much the same on every map, but the surroundings are just different.
I was playing damnation today and I was on the green side, coming out towards the teleporter when I see I guy come through. He gets a couple shots on me, so I drop down by sniper and grab it. I jump out by OS, land on the ledge and jump from slope to slope to get underneath red base. I go through the teleporter and snipe the guy in the back of the head, because he still thinks I'm on that side. You don't see that kind of stuff in Halo 3, it's all very 1 dimensional. See a guy, shoot, get close melee (which is pretty much an instant hit because its so damn easy thanks to the lunge).
Maybe once we can play 2v2 ts with no radar and maybe carbine starts the game will start to look better, but at this point I'm really disappointed in Halo 3.
you got that right. halo 1 was just an unbelievably amazing game. i just wish that bungie could replicate that awesomeness in halo 1. but it will never happen.
as far as my thoughts on the halo 3 beta..... it is defintely way better than halo 2, but it is not even close to as good as halo 1. but i was not expecting it to be. so it is pretty fun, but i find myself always quitting after about 3 hours of playing it. it just starts getting very boring. I could seriously play halo 1 for days and days and never get bored of it. i wish someday halo 1 will be on XBL. i would pay anything for that.
my Halo ratings
Halo: CE 11/10
Halo 2 4/10
Halo 3 beta 7/10 (this could change once the final game comes out. i think the campaign will be awesome, but i'm not holding my breath)
[Edited on 05.29.2007 2:21 PM PDT]