Bah, I tried making a lovely and attractive post yesterday, with pictures and a fancy layout. However even after putting it through a HTML editor and checking it was all working Gamespot said my code was bad....yeah well....your downloads are bad!

Anyway, I finally caved in and bought Halo3 yesterday. Jesus, it's an expensive game. I don't think i've paid over £30 for a game in a couple of years. The reason I'd put off buying it until now was the rationalisation that it was probably just a shiny Halo2. I was right.

When I put the game in I started playing it on Heroic difficulty solo. Seeing as I hadn't played Halo2 for about a year I died far to often and reduced the difficulty. This was my first indication that this was nothing more than Halo2.5. I was annoyed that Normal mode removed half of the enemies instead of scaling their A.I, a cheap dirty trick and it really ruined the atmosphere quite a bit. I ploughed on though, and noticed more and more odd things, I shall list them for effect!

1: The textures have the most odd properties, e.g rocks should not be so shiny they look like they have a layer of soap all over them. Foreground textures looked low res compared to background and the character models look rigid. I've played Bioshock, I thought some of those textures were shiny, but that game puts halo to shame.

Oh, will continue my Halo impressions after the jump. Rugby World cup semi-final is on soon...to the PUB!