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Well Halo fans, I’d say you’re all in for a real treat in Halo 3: ODST! The story begins with a cut-scene where the ODST troops are being deployed into their highly-important mission, or for you, the campaign. A compelling story, the scene gives you some background information regarding some of the troops and even features an unimportant-rarely-mentioned-again love story. Cute huh?

As far as the game play, though, players will enjoy what may become the best single-player action shooter for the XBOX 360, and definitely as far as the Halo series goes in general. Although you will no longer be playing with characters like Master Chief or any of the Spartan Class you are all so familiar with, the ODST troops bring a little bit of new style to the Halo package, and also have much more humanistic resemblances.

So, immediately into the game something goes wrong, and your squad’s Carrier crashes and before you know it, you’re all by yourself in some building after waking up hours later. Oh, and surely enough, your crew is gone and will spend the rest of the game trying to meet up with them. Welcome to the new world Rookie!

Throughout the game you will encounter different rescue beacons that have been left by your squad. Each of them will give you a unique mission, which makes the gameplay of ODST so cool. It’s almost like a free-for-all Halo world where you, the gamer, design your own experience. Within these individual missions the gamer really gets to explore their strengths and weaknesses, whether it be close-quarter combat or vehicle driving escapades, Halo 3: ODST offers a variety of places for the gamer to reach pure satisfaction with the game.

So what’s new? Well, besides the type of troops you’ll be commanding and playing, really not to much. There are no new weapons, unless you want to call a couple tweaks to the SMGs a new weapon, and the vehicles haven’t changed at all either. This may be disappointing for some considering Bungie had originally promised some new stuff, but oh well, what are you going to do?

Ahah! There is at least one new addition to tell you all about, the all important visor! Now, not only is the visor really sweet and cool looking, it’s extremely useful. It helps you see in the dark, which comes in handy during your long overnight surge fighting enemies, but especially for identifying whats in front of you. Red are the bad guys, Green the good guys and Blue is for the weapons. When looking at a distance, the visor will help you decide which enemies are worth fighting or sneaking past.

The Multi-Player mode may not be anything to special, but something for gamers to really look forward to is the “Firefight” mode, which is very similar to Gears of Wars 2 Horde mode. In short, be prepared to kill or be killed. Against overwhelming odds, the Covenants will be coming at you in spurts of more and more trying to take you out. Emotions will run high, and you better be on top of your game if you’re going to survive this one. Graphically, Bungie is falling behind, but overall this game does not disappoint. Excellent gameplay, the music has changed to a more electronic feel and the story and narrative is very compelling.

Just keep this in mind when you’re playing: Halo 3: ODST takes the greatnessof the original Halo game and propels it to a new, higher-octane level. If you loved the original game, you’re surely going to be investing your time and money into this one.
9/10

Still cant believe they did this.

Its hard to find player to play coop with you…hopely the next halo will rock