The Game thats been on my wish list for over a year and now that i have it i'm feeling some multiple feelings for it.
so i preordered this game a month ago feeling all the hype will come true. the day of its release i went and got my copy. once i got home i immediately put in the disk. from the get go i felt like this wouldn't be like any halo I've played. and even now thats mostly true. started the game on campaign with normal. the game itself took me about 7 or 8 hours to beat as said. it was a totally different game from halo 3. its more challenging, and has a real different atmosphere. the gameplay is fun like others and the graphics may be mistaken from being better or just a different style of graphics. I'm not saying its not beautiful but it isn't the revolutionary new graphics we'd hope for. the story is less fullness like your trying to save the world, more like surviving and looking for fellow ODSTs. the New Mombassa parts of the game are fun and really different then usual game parts. but for most of the flashbacks have some similar parts but really fun to play the levels too.
any way your probably thinking like firefight will seal the deal right? well your right! mostly. its rather fun to play a wave after wave alien deathmatch. but it feels predictable and restrained. you've ever wanted to kill craploads of aliens with a rocket! well you can its just very limited and in some cases not even there. you get a short variety of weapons and play until all lives are out. personally i wish you could have a freedom mode were you can change your ability or get more/less weapons and play until you want to end. but no. well in all firefight is still very fun and is. addicting aswell.
now if I've been acting skeptical about this game is just because the whole game and menu and everything seems to have no real soul and empty even with the second disk. also the background and music for the menu's are very undeveloped.
when i put in the second disk i was expecting a map downloading disk but instead i get a all multiplayer disk with all and more maps on it. i would have been thrilled if didn't buy all the DLC beforehand. yes you get matchmaking, creative game, forge and all other of that halo 3 stuff, except the campaign of course. heres the thing that turns me off about that. you don't have the convenience of both disks together. but before you go all, "but the second disk has all the maps and multplayer memory on it so it takes up all the room on the disk!" i know that, im just saying that it would feel more whole if both disks were together.
With all that said is Halo 3 ODST worth the buy?
yes it is. with that said with bungie saying that the campaign disk was worth the 60$ on its own lies. if it was not for the over twenty bucks of DLC and multiplayer on the second disk ODST should be a 40$ purchase. now you that don't even have the first Halo 3 should consider buying this because of the great deal of it all. but for the Halo 3 guys like me who bought all the DLC and Halo 3 too well maybe you should if you got all the cash for it but if not then rent it. but in all this game is good and well maybe replacing my Halo 3 disk. well see you when brutal legend is out hopefully. Peace!