Those of you even with a vague passing interest in video games can’t have failed to notice that Halo 3 came out recently for the Xbox 360. Apparently there were queues at midnight for it and everything. Even my friends list on Xbox Live was full of Halo 3 players for the first few days.
But, if you read my Gaming Diary, you’ll have noticed I’ve not played it. “But you own every game ever! Surely you bought Halo 3!” I hear you all cry. Well, no.
You see, I didn’t like Halo. Thought it was dull, difficult to control and a poor example of a first person shooter. It had pretty much all been done before (aside from the seemingly on-ice vehicles), and to a far better degree. Halo 2 was even worse. Yeah, it looked pretty, but it was even less fun to play, and multiplayer wasn’t my cup of tea at all. Even Agent Under Fire was better.
Yet, due to buying Crackdown, I got in on the Halo 3 Beta. I wasn’t impressed. For single player FPS games, you need to go a long way to beat the likes of Timesplitters 3 and Half-Life. For multiplayer, Goldeneye is still king, in my opinion, but Agent Under Fire and Timesplitters 2/3 are also amazing.
So, no Halo 3 for me. At least, not until I can buy it for 20p or something.
