Will Crysis, Bioshock, and Call of Duty 4 steal away Halo 3's limelight?

These games are going to come out around the same time-span as Halo 3. And arguably, these titles have more potential to receive higher ratings, reviews, critical acclaim, and cult status more than Halo 3...yet, Halo 3 will sell more by name alone.

Anyway, what does everyone think? Will Halo 3's hype be quenched a bit under these other highly anticipated FPSs? Crysis will take the PC world by storm, Bioshock will be revolutionary, and Call of Duty 4 has the potential to win the hearts of the critics.

Halo 3 has some stiff competition...and honestly, I'm much, MUCH more excited about Crysis, Bioshock, and Call of Duty 4 than Halo 3, even though I'm anticipating to play as Master Cheif one last time.

Your thoughts.

what's really special about Halo?

ok it's a great game with alot of fun , but....

it's not original , a great FPS nothing more

But crysis , Bioshock and Call of Duty 4(it's war way is very original) all three have their own way , original!

In terms of sales, I think its possible Halo could sell more than the other 3 combined. Its impossible to say which will be the best quality game, but I'm certain there will be many hundreds of posts on the forums dedicated to that dicussion.H3LLRaiseR

No doubt Halo 3 will sell the most because of the hype, the name, and the anticipation from a lot of people on being eager to find out how the trilogy ends.

Also, games like Crysis, for example, will only cater toward the hardest of hardcore because of the steep system specs. Bioshock and Call of Duty 4, and I'll throw in Killzone 2, will have potential to put up Halo 3 numbers because they're all on consoles, but doubtful it can beat out Halo 3 in sales...maybe they'll get higher reviews, but that's about it.

short answer: yes

long answer: ....yes

what's really special about Halo?

ok it's a great game with alot of fun , but....

it's not original , a great FPS nothing more

But crysis , Bioshock and Call of Duty 4(it's war way is very original) all three have their own way , original!

-Gray_Fox-

Thats why people like it. It improves at what its good at. If I played Halo 3 online and it was not a Halo I and MANY others would be raged.

When you play Mario you expect the same thing but improved from its past games.

Its like watching the Simpson for 10 years and then turning it into an anime....A lot would not be happy.

Other games are different because they have to.

Crysis and COD4 don't interest me at all personally.

Crysis and COD4 don't interest me at all personally.

gaminggeek

Crysis is a good game. Yu kno NUTHIN!!!!!

Personally, ITHINK Crysis, Bioshock, and COD4 all are better than Halo3. The Halo franchise is very standard for a FPS. Now COD4 is heart pumping. Bioshock is very interesting and undoubtly very fun, lets hope. And Crysis is just a very very good FPS like FEAR and Farcry. All better than Halo3. Those 3 should be in the limelight, and I think they are.

As far as a past track record is concerned we know Halo 3 will outsell the other titles. However as far as pushing boundries and advancing the quality of aFPS experience is concerned Bioshock and Crysis look set to really steer the industry into a new direction. The problem with sequels is that the standard has already been set from the first game and people will always compare to their experiences earlier in the series, whilst the new titles have a chance to start fresh and really innovate and invigorate a genre that, lets be honest, has gone a wee bit stale over the last year or so. Personally, although I am looking forward to Halo 3 I am much more looking forward to a fully more emersive experience with Bioshock.

End of babble.

Halo 3 was easily the second biggest franchise last gen, but when a new generation hits, things tend to change. In the past two generations, new franchises have dominated each generation on non-Nintendo consoles. Sure, Halo will make its money several times over (which is why the unimpressive graphics of the E3 build were a bit eyebrow raising) but I doubt it and GTA will reign in perpetuity. Some really brilliant game like Bioshock might come out of left field and become bigger than either of them.

Sales wise, I think that neither of those games pack the punch to touch what the Halo franchise represents, if only because the core demographics of Halo are far wider than the ones of those games. Maybe CoD could do something about it, but that would depend of the quality of the multiplayer experience.

From a critic standpoint, well, that's another story.

I think that Halo 3 well sell very well, I will wonder if it can do the same success as Halo 2, cause I don't see the same kind of hype out there, or maybe I am sheltered. But for me I can say that I am not looking forward to Halo 3 as much as Bioshock and to name others like Mass Effect or Assasin's Creed.

I believe that Crysis will do well on the EA name, Call of Duty 4 on the name itself. I am interested to see how Bioshock does, as I believe it isn't just a normal FPS as it will deviate a little. So it will be a interesting week when Bioshock and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption both come out. Both are very innovative.

I think that Halo 3 well sell very well, I will wonder if it can do the same success as Halo 2, cause I don't see the same kind of hype out there, or maybe I am sheltered. But for me I can say that I am not looking forward to Halo 3 as much as Bioshock and to name others like Mass Effect or Assasin's Creed.

I believe that Crysis will do well on the EA name, Call of Duty 4 on the name itself. I am interested to see how Bioshock does, as I believe it isn't just a normal FPS as it will deviate a little. So it will be a interesting week when Bioshock and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption both come out. Both are very innovative.

Kiprusoff

Halo 3 has a big advantage in being the final game in the trilogy, in that all those people who bought Halo 2 wants to see how the whole thing ends...I want to play it for this reason alone.

Halo 3, will be the must own title for xbox 360 owners. Bioshock and COD 4 are the only games that can actually be consider in this catergory being as Crysis is a PC only, as of now. not every xbox 360 owner owns a high end PC to run Crysis. with no official release date it's hard to say if COD 4 would even be released close enough Halo 3 to steal it's glory. Bioshock is being released a good month and half before Halo 3, so it's doubtful that it will dent Halo 3's impact. if any game is going to steal the glory from Master Chief, personally, it's going to be the most influential franchise of the last couple years, GTA4. GTA4 will be release two weeks after Halo 3 crash lands on the 360.v1cious04

With the exception of GTAIV, I guess the thread was more about FPSs, and pointing out how Halo 3 has some tough competition this time around...and a heck of a lot to live up to.

[QUOTE="v1cious04"]Halo 3, will be the must own title for xbox 360 owners. Bioshock and COD 4 are the only games that can actually be consider in this catergory being as Crysis is a PC only, as of now. not every xbox 360 owner owns a high end PC to run Crysis. with no official release date it's hard to say if COD 4 would even be released close enough Halo 3 to steal it's glory. Bioshock is being released a good month and half before Halo 3, so it's doubtful that it will dent Halo 3's impact. if any game is going to steal the glory from Master Chief, personally, it's going to be the most influential franchise of the last couple years, GTA4. GTA4 will be release two weeks after Halo 3 crash lands on the 360.ASK_Story

With the exception of GTAIV, I guess the thread was more about FPSs, and pointing out how Halo 3 has some tough competition this time around...and a heck of a lot to live up to.

Greatness.

Me thinks some of you are sick of hearing so much about the franchise and underestimate Bungie, who've proven many times over that they really do have the talent to make Halo 3 outshine all of those games, even from a critical perspective, if they are firing on all cylinders.

I think I'll add one more to the ol' hype meter just to make the detractors even more irritated with its greatness. Halo 3 is going to be sooooo sick! :D

[QUOTE="ASK_Story"]

[QUOTE="v1cious04"]Halo 3, will be the must own title for xbox 360 owners. Bioshock and COD 4 are the only games that can actually be consider in this catergory being as Crysis is a PC only, as of now. not every xbox 360 owner owns a high end PC to run Crysis. with no official release date it's hard to say if COD 4 would even be released close enough Halo 3 to steal it's glory. Bioshock is being released a good month and half before Halo 3, so it's doubtful that it will dent Halo 3's impact. if any game is going to steal the glory from Master Chief, personally, it's going to be the most influential franchise of the last couple years, GTA4. GTA4 will be release two weeks after Halo 3 crash lands on the 360.v1cious04

With the exception of GTAIV, I guess the thread was more about FPSs, and pointing out how Halo 3 has some tough competition this time around...and a heck of a lot to live up to.

I respect your opinion as well as everyone elses` views on this board, but with that said, Call of Duty 4 is certainly NOT garbage.

For all the "Yeah, it'll sell more, but such and such shooter is obviously going to be the better game" people, remind me not rub it in too much when Halo 3 ends up critically better than the majority of these games listed.:P

The greatness of this game has just begun to be realized with the 4 player co-op announcement. Seriously. If they were saving annoucments like this for AFTER E3, I think it's pretty safe to assume that Bungie has systematically and methodically planned to underpromise and overdeliver. This game is on its own announcment schedual. E3 was lucky to get that morsel of single player coverage.

The averagevideo game playerdoesn't know Crysis or Bioshock exist. Many Call of Duty fans don't even know who Infinity Ward is. Halo 3 is the game that even the loser who playsMadden on his360 knows about, and if he buys a game in the coming months, that is what it will be.

Also, I love how people forget that HALO 1 AND 2 BOTH GOT AWESOME REVIEWS! It seems like the hate pours out and everybody is out there to tell me it is very, very average. Halo is not original, Halo just copied the regenerating shields and 1-button grenede tosses from... oh wait, Halo was the first game to implement those features well...

In other news, The Orange Box will be better yet because there is no way Portal, Half-Life 2 and the 2 episodes, and Team Fortress 2 will all suck. At least one of those games will turn out awesome. The only bad part is that there will only be 1000 achievment points.

Halo is a known quantity so obviously it will sell well no matter what games are out.

Crysis is a PC-only game and will not affect the console market much.

I think Bioshock is the only one that will really affect Halo 3 in popularity because not only is COD4 a sequel, but it's also 'yet another military shooter' regardless of how brilliant it's storyline and gameplay.

Maybe for people on this forum, but if you are talking about gamers in general than no. I don't think even half of the people who have a 360 have even heard of Bioshock or Crysis (admittitely its on PC not 360).idontknow1110

I think this is spot on. For better or worse, I don't think anything will dislodge the Halo hype monster

Well I am hoping they are all great games, but I am most excited about Bioshock. I think it will bring storytelling back to console gaming.

But I think Halo 3 will remain untouchable as far as hype unless the gameplay is not good, which is doubtfull considering how many great people are working on it.

[QUOTE="v1cious04"][QUOTE="ASK_Story"]

[QUOTE="v1cious04"]Halo 3, will be the must own title for xbox 360 owners. Bioshock and COD 4 are the only games that can actually be consider in this catergory being as Crysis is a PC only, as of now. not every xbox 360 owner owns a high end PC to run Crysis. with no official release date it's hard to say if COD 4 would even be released close enough Halo 3 to steal it's glory. Bioshock is being released a good month and half before Halo 3, so it's doubtful that it will dent Halo 3's impact. if any game is going to steal the glory from Master Chief, personally, it's going to be the most influential franchise of the last couple years, GTA4. GTA4 will be release two weeks after Halo 3 crash lands on the 360.ASK_Story

With the exception of GTAIV, I guess the thread was more about FPSs, and pointing out how Halo 3 has some tough competition this time around...and a heck of a lot to live up to.

I respect your opinion as well as everyone elses` views on this board, but with that said, Call of Duty 4 is certainly NOT garbage.

He didn't say it's garbage. He said it will sell well EVEN IF it is garbage and then went on to say that, it's doubtful that it will be.

Bioshock will be really great the first time I play through it. I'll play through it once more before setting it down.

Won't get the chance to play Crysis and neither will the vast majority of gamers.

COD4 looks like a solid shooter but it doesn't look like anything but COD2 will modern wepons. The lack of co-op (let alone 4 player online co-op), single player leaderboards, and saved films will make COD4's campain boring after a single playthrough because it's just a series of scripted events. COD's multiplayer component has the greatest chance of challenging Halo's. Yet Halo has so much more variety with it's sci-fi weapons, vehicles, and arenas. Then there's Halo's saved films which will make custom games a blast.

That said, I'll be picking up Bioshock next week and both Halo 3 and COD4 later on.

simply put: no

Halo is to big a name for any of the games mentioned to keep up with

i mean lets all face it if halo 3 were to come out on the ps3 would any of us think of buying it after they bought crysis or COD 4

the only reason now there isnt alot of talk about it is because people are tired of gossiping over halo they've spent the last 2 years doing so and r just going to wait until it comes out.... Halo3's sucess wont be noticable from the pre talks oon forums or the flame wars or peeps gloating over it it wil just hit the markets bam and will be a major sucess

These games are going to come out around the same time-span as Halo 3. And arguably, these titles have more potential to receive higher ratings, reviews, critical acclaim, and cult status more than Halo 3...yet, Halo 3 will sell more by name alone.

Anyway, what does everyone think? Will Halo 3's hype be quenched a bit under these other highly anticipated FPSs? Crysis will take the PC world by storm, Bioshock will be revolutionary, and Call of Duty 4 has the potential to win the hearts of the critics.

Halo 3 has some stiff competition...and honestly, I'm much, MUCH more excited about Crysis, Bioshock, and Call of Duty 4 than Halo 3, even though I'm anticipating to play as Master Cheif one last time.

Your thoughts.

ASK_Story

In terms of review scores, Yes, espically Bioshock, but in terms of sales? No, matter of fact hell no.