Halo 3 Review
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For my video game review, I chose to play the first-person-shooter game Halo 3. I am not really a gamer of any kind. I have liked a few games in the past, but first-person-shooter games have never really been an interest for me. I haven’t really played any video games in several years, so this experience was very interesting to me. I played Halo 3 on the Xbox 360 game console. This was my first time to ever play this console. I was very impressed. The wireless controllers are cool, and I got to play this game with impressive graphics on a beautiful high definition display. I really was impressed by the graphics. Although, I did not enjoy playing the actual game much. Apparently in Halo 3, you are like this cyber-enhanced super-human soldier kind of guy in a time of chaos and war several hundred years in the future. As this super-human soldier of the future, I guess it is your job to save the human race. Kinda ridiculous if you ask me, but I guess if you generally are into fantasy type stuff, then this is your cup of tea. Most fantasy movies, comic books, games, whatever, are not on my list of fun stuff, but that’s just me.
I don’t really know how to judge video games, because I have little to no reference of these kinds of games, especially in the last few years. As for the design of the game, I thought the graphics looked amazing compared to any other video games I have had previous experience with. Although, I still think the characters look weird and that the graphics could still improve a lot. I’m thinking I want to see a video game that looks as good as the Shrek movies do on the big screen, or people who look as realistic in appearance and movement as the characters in the recent Beowulf animated film. I liked the controllers and how they felt, and I thought that the movement of my character was pretty intuitive. The most fun I had in this game was driving and flying different vehicles. I think they are called Warthogs or something like that—these Hummer-like vehicles that I loved driving around in. I thought the gravity was fairly realistic when I would jump the car off of a cliff or something. I know I’m probably the weird one myself for enjoying driving the vehicles more than anything else, but first-person-shooter games are just not my thing. I’m also not very good at them. I’m not sure which came first: me sucking, or me not liking them, but they definitely go hand in hand. Add those two factors to me never spending any time getting any practice on games like this, and that equals me sitting out every single time friends of mine start playing one of these games. I thought that this game was very difficult, but that’s probably because I’m so bad at games like this. So, I just resort to fooling around driving the vehicles off cliffs and such. I know this game appeals to millions of people, probably mostly young men, but it just does not appeal to me. So, I would not recommend this game to someone else.
