As a owner of all 3 consoles this is what I have to say that if lemmings want to enjoy the best muiltiplayer this fall, it won't be on their system. Sure Halo 3 SP will be good, but the MP holds no candle to Warhawk.
Warhawk MP destroys Halo 3 MP
1. Warhawk MP 32 players vs. Halo 3 MP limited to 16 players
2. Warhawk dedicated servers vs. Halo 3 P2P laggy online service
3. Warhawk's vehicles are a lot funner and better than Halo 3 Look at the Warhawk jet vs the Banshee, nuff said
4.Warhawk, Ranks, stats, leaderboards, In game rewards, vs. Halo 3 shallow stat system
5. Warhawk has much larger battles and maps, average Warhawk map is 3 times bigger than average Halo 3 map.
6. Warhawk's level of character customization, MP options makes Halo 3's simple, choose Spartan or Elite choice laughable.
Ace_OfSkies
First off, let me just say that I think that Warhawk looks like a really fun game that I want to play and would probably enjoy if I played it. Now, that being said...Warhawk MP destroys Halo 3 MP? Wow, your comparing one game that's multiplayer only with a game that's not even out yet and somehow you claim that you're not bias, right... Well allow me destroy everything you have to say point for point.
1.Warhawk MP 32 players vs. Halo 3 MP limited to 16 players
Amount of players does not equal amount of enjoyment. Halo 2 was able to have up to 16 players playing at once, but the fact of the matter was that the more players you had on a map, the more of a frag fest the game became. The most played games on Halo 2 were 4 vs. 4 games because fighting a small number of people was manageable and allowed for the development of true skill rather than being inundated with more players to fight than possible.
2. Warhawk dedicated servers vs. Halo 3 P2P laggy online service
Whatever kid, just because a game uses dedicated servers doesn't mean that it is lag free or that it doesn't have its own problems. I've played games that uses dedicated servers and its worse because of it, such as Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, this is a game on the Xbox 360 game that uses EA's dedicated servers to play online and has its own problems, such as when some one knows that their going to lose so they quit. Once they quit the game freezes and many times the game does not un-freeze afterwards. This results in having to go back to the 360 dashboard through the guide button or just restarting the 360, which is inconveniencing. It really depends on the players your playing with and what kind of internet connection that they use, and Halo 2's matchmaking put you in games with people who had similar internet connections as you, so the majority of games that I played did not have any noticeable lag.
3. Warhawk's vehicles are a lot funner and better than Halo 3 Look at the Warhawk jet vs the Banshee, nuff said
Funner? I think you mean more fun, and if that's the case then whatever. Warhawk is a game built around vehicles and if they weren't fun then it would be a poor game. Seriously, take away the vehicles in Warhawk and what do you get? A shoddy third person shooter. Take away the vehicles in Halo 3 and what do you get? A first person shooter that still plays well. The Banshee and Hornet are more aerial ground assault vehicles, similar to helicopters, rather than fighter planes. If halo was to have fighter jets in the multiplayer, (which they could if they wanted to because the game has one in the story, The Longsword), it would be completely unbalanced, the jet would be to fast and powerful.
4.Warhawk, Ranks, stats, leaderboards, In game rewards, vs. Halo 3 shallow stat system
What!? With Halo 3 you can check to see your overall experience through RP which translates into a Military grade rank. You have individual levels for each matchmaking set list, and if you must have all of your former stats you can go to the bungie website where if you just type in your gamertag it will bring up all of your stats, show you all the stats for all the individual pervious games you played, along with medals earned, metagame scores, kills, deaths, overall kill to death ratio, assists and more. Plus I heard that the stat tracking in Warhawk was buggy anyway.
5. Warhawk has much larger battles and maps, average Warhawk map is 3 times bigger than average Halo 3 map.
And the average Ace Combat 6 map will be 10x bigger than the average Warhawk map, your point? In Halo 2 the most played map by a very large margin was lockout, and that was the smallest multiplayer map in the game. Bigger doesn't mean better. With such a heavy focus on vehicular combat, warhawk needs the maps to be bigger, otherwise the game will be too cramped and just not fun. Simply put, what works for one game doesn't always work for another.
6. Warhawk's level of character customization, MP options makes Halo 3's simple, choose Spartan or Elite choice laughable.
Umm... first off kid you can do more than just switch a character model, you can add armor permutations which can change the looks of your Spartan (or Elite) from head to toe. Plus if you want to talk about customizations, then lets talk about The Forge for a minute shall we? A multiplayer-only tool, Forge will allow players to customize multiplayer maps, changing and resetting spawn points, weapon spawns, weapon timers, vehicle spawns and timers, vehicle spawn points, and add existing geometry to the map's existing structure in the form of crates, boxes, fusion coils, lifts, teleporters, turrets, etc. Now that's customization!
In short you fail. Have a nice day!
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