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Halo 3

I'm writing an essay describing and analyzing the qualities of Halo 3's campaign and multiplayer experience. What a great time to do it too since it's the 25th of September (although I started this essay a week ago).

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  • 09.25.2011 11:46 AM PDT

Hope it's a cool story... bro.

  • 09.25.2011 11:59 AM PDT

If you think you're the best fluffy, gun shootin', Brute pwning guy around, you are sadly mistaken... Fear the dreaded "mew"!

Is that for school!?

  • 09.25.2011 5:23 PM PDT
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It's taken you 1+ week to write an essay? Do you have hands?

  • 09.25.2011 5:36 PM PDT
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Make sure you focus heavily on the AI. Understanding the AI is the key to absolute pleasure.

  • 09.25.2011 5:45 PM PDT
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I definitely believe every wildly inflated claim ITT.

Weow kid, do you even lift?


Skype: au-simon

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It's taken you 1+ week to write an essay? Do you have hands?
He probably just has better things to do....

  • 09.25.2011 9:48 PM PDT

Halo 3

ACtually it's my second college essay i'm writing. I focused on the campaign and the multiplayer. I focused a little more on the multiplayer going into the detail of what makes it so great. I went to the specifics of the game mechanics which comprised of the hitboxes, weapon balance, and kill times. I can write it out here if you guys want to read it. It has 1415 words, approximately 4 pages double-spaced. If I didn't have a word cap of 1,500, i'd get into more detail in the campaign and even the multiplayer.

  • 09.25.2011 10:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: x Foman123 x
Posted by: jaythenerdkid
I definitely believe every wildly inflated claim ITT.

Weow kid, do you even lift?


Skype: au-simon

Out of curiosity, why are you writing about Halo? Are you studying Game design?

  • 09.25.2011 10:37 PM PDT

Halo 3

It's for my Rhetorical composition class. Basically, it's writing for a purpose.

And it's to define Halo (Halo 3) and reinstate the popularity Halo 3 once had (to make people play it again). I chose to do this for fun and I know that it's not going to shift any of the population towards Halo.

It's just a college essay.

[Edited on 09.26.2011 8:04 AM PDT]

  • 09.26.2011 8:00 AM PDT

What does Y do?
Rocket Race for Life.

In The Memory Of Rocket Race 11/13/07-9/22/2008

GL you could say something about how the turned Rocket Race into a good game or griffball.

But i doubt anyone wants to hear about RR since it can be played at level's most people don't even think players could reach.

Here is One of the better Videos that was done by W.A.R.R. I think they still play but must get boring after 6 games.

  • 09.26.2011 10:22 AM PDT

We are timeless, bound as one, we cannot be silenced, as our song lingers on.

Posted by: Ben2974
I went to the specifics of the game mechanics which comprised of the hitboxes, weapon balance, and kill times.


This will be interesting, my writing style is more suited to argumental writing such as political debates or any important scientific or religious issues.

I personally would like to see this essay and I believe many people need to see it as well, people need to reinstate their faith and awe in Halo 3 just as they did on that day 4 years ago Yesterday.

I like reading about aspects of the Halo Universe such as canon story, characters/species etc. But no article is detailed enough to explain the pure mechanics of the game which only tedious testing and many hours of gameplay can reveal.

Here's a few random facts to help:

The Hitbox system is quite simply F***ed up, It focuses on frontal character models and is not technically 3 dimensional i.e Elites necks do not absorb any damage.

The weapons themselves are mostly balanced, what isn't balanced is player skill and the abundance of that particular weapon. Weapon damage is easier to rectify than the others so various patches have been released.

Kill time is always relative, much like everything in Halo 3, game conditions i.e lag are also different so make sure you include that there are no definitive results only very educated guesses. 4 shots to the head should cause a kill, but due to connection factors those four shots may not happen on the receiving players screen, then there is host domination etc.

I'm sure you've detailed some of this, but just make sure you put the last two paragraphs in a concise 2-3 lines.

  • 09.26.2011 10:44 AM PDT

Magik Mike

E-mail this essay to Nareth343@hotmail. I want to read it

  • 09.26.2011 11:33 AM PDT