Halo 2 > Halo 3 > Halo 3 ODST > Halo Reach > Halo CE
Based on campaigns.
Posted by: Sliding Ghost
ODST fixed a lot of things about H3. The carbine got a buff, the BR is gone (YES!), the pistol returned (the damage isn't that great but it is a really good pistol otherwise). And let's not forget the 4x zoom. Single shot weapons have been my all time favorite and this is one of the things that make me rank ODST above H3.
Of course, it made some minor changes that I disliked: no pet Jackals, Jackal snipers are even more nerfed by doing less damage, invincible friendly AI (at least we could swap weapons with them compared to Noble Team)
I also would have liked to seen marines with Reach's M6G and the standard SMG instead of marines spawning with silenced magnums and silenced SMGs. And there were no plasma rifles next to dead Elites. Both of these are minor but they break immersion from time to time.
Besides all that, the only problem with ODST has to be how short it was, how it could have been even greater, and how the hud gets blurry and stuff.
Also some of the friendly AI is unbelievably stupid, like Buck on Coastal Highway
And the lack of plasa rifles wasnt very good
And do you know what i hate the most? The ridicolous nerfing of the brute shot blade. The spiker and the mauler take your melee strength to spartan level, and the brute shot is WEAKER than the spiker. Its is pointless in ODST. 4 melees to kill a Brute Captain, 3 to kill a brute infantry, two to take down a jackal majors shield. Cmoare that to the spiker and mauler, 3 to kill a. Rte captain, two for the infantry and 1 for jackal shield.
The ONLY good thing about the brute shot is that it kills grunt spec ops in one melee, but that is it. It is so annoying how my second favourite weapon was been nerfed ridicolously, and also annoying how my favourite weapon, the plasma rifle is absent.