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Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $42.99
You Save: $17.00 (28%)
New (36) Used (19) from $38.99
Rating:  445 reviews
Sales Rank: 36
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 7.5 x 1
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 9UE-00001
Model: 9UE-00001
UPC: 882224444477
EAN: 0882224444477
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 BEST GAME EVER!!!!! December 28, 2008
Diane E. Maiello (new jersey)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Out of all my games i play this one the most BY FAR. The campaign is fun but somewhat short. Online matchmaking is amazingly fun although it may seem VERY cheap after a couple of hours but you'll ALWAYS come back to it.
The crown jewel of this game (in my opion) is the forge and theater. Screenshots and videos prevent halo from ever getting boring. Forge gives you the opportunity to expand and express your imagination to the max allowing you to create maps and weopon/object placement. The new map packs allows you to take forge to the next level with platforms, mancannons, and much more. The graphics and controls are wonderful beyond belief and the story continues the previous two games perfectly.
Overall this game deserves FIVE STARS, 10/10, A+, 100 thumbs up, and whatever else describes perfection.
 Halo 2 with some awful parts December 27, 2008
D. Yates (Irving, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Other than a few new weapons and a couple of new lame vehicles (ATV and hover plane), I really didn't see anything new here. Add in a couple of really bad scenes (like the driving scene at the end) and it really doesn't deserve a four or five star rating. Maybe the online kill other humans multi-player part is what gets it a high rating, but the single or co-op play was disappointing.
overhyped...multiplayer saved it for me December 27, 2008
Clint F. Albee (Machias, ME)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I played halo 1 AFTER I played halo 3, and I liked halo 1 much better. It has a more serious tone. In halo 3, the enemies you are fighting sound silly as they talk. I felt almost embarassed as it sounded like I was watching a childish saturday morning cartoon. Halo 1 doesn't have this, and the music is much, much better in halo 1, it gave me goosebumps.
The graphics aren't even much of a improvement either. Games like COD 4 make this look stale.
The only reason why I still play this is because it's splitscreen online multiplayer. That means a friend of yours can play with you as you battle online with other people. I wish more games supported this.
Not so great single-player December 26, 2008
N. Ford (Hot Springs Village, AR USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
For a single-player game, I greatly preferred Grand Theft Auto 4 and Fallout 3. I wonder about people who claim to have played Halo 3 the first time through in 6 hours. It may be possible for someone who has already mastered Halo 1 and 2, but for the rest of us, it is possible to spend an hour or two just trying to get through one scene where you are almost out of ammo with no more laying around and tons of baddies rushing you, or where no amount of hits on an enemy seem to phase it/them and it takes a dozen or more attempts to figure out how to overcome it/them, especially those that require you to hit a particular part of an enemy or to attack it in a certain way.
The worst feature of Halo 3 is the way it saves (or doesn't save). When you die, it reverts back to just before you died, so you might think that it has saved that point, but if you save-quit and restart, it goes back to an earlier point, making you refight the same tough battles. So if you are half way through a difficult mission, pause the game and leave it on if you must quit; otherwise, be prepared to redo the same fights you have just struggled through.
And unlike other games, if you just turn off the Xbox, it does not auto-save, so you end up going back several scenes which you already spent a lot of time (and some luck) beating. Nor does it allow you to save the exact point you are at. Again, it just reverts back to the start of the scene/mission. So don't just turn off the Xbox without saving first.
Frankly, the first time through the game was so hard that I couldn't enjoy it. I'm playing for fun, not to have to work so hard nor to take a dozen tries to make it through a scene. It wasn't as bad the second time through because of understanding how things work, but it was no 6-hour walk in the park, either.
Another complaint about Halo 3 is the lack of sound control. Other games allow you to control the volume for music, sound effects, and speech separately, but not H3, so if you want to be able to hear the spoken instructions and hints, you have to put up with even louder weapons fire, explosions, etc., which others in the house may not appreciate. And turning on captions doesn't help that much because not all speech shows up in captions (even with All selectedc), plus a really stupid "feature" is that H3 does not save your captions setting, so you have to manually turn it on every time you turn on the game.
Halo 3 is better than Mass Effect, which spends too much time on talking/reading, and Left4Dead, which is too repetitive, but not as much fun as GTA4, in my opinion.
Halo 3-Best Multiplayer shooter for Xbox 360 (By Far) December 24, 2008
F. Simforoush
Halo 3 is my favorite game for the 360. It's pretty much the only game I play (and I have QUITE a few others). Do you want to know why? It's because of Halo 3's multi-player, which can be summed up in one word: fantastic. Bungie has created the perfect match-making system, and it works almost flawlessly. The single-player campaign is also a lot of fun, plus, this game racks up TONS of achievement points.
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