I always wonder how light brighter then the Sun shining off of every object constitutes as "Good lighting". You don't go to a movie and say "Wow! Did you see that guys glass armor shine when all the light started pouring in!?" "No dude, I couldn't see anything at all during that scene!" "Awesome!".

Some of Halo 3's environments are truley remarkable, but the fact that you can't explore more then 5% of each one kinda ruins it. The models are pretty bad, which I guess alot of people can't tell because of the sun shining off them. The water is pretty nice, I almost enjoyed it as much as Bioshock. Anyway, Call of Duty for sure. "Photo Realistic" or not, the overal appearence is off the charts. The levels are perfect, to the point of astonishment. Every model in the game is perfect, the vehicles and scenery are extremely detailed. The gunfire and the guns themselves are easily the new peak in shooters (Gunfire for sure, I havn't seen all the guns in Crysis). I dunno guys, it's not really much of a contest.

No one has anything to say about my Halo 3 post? Seriously?

I was expecting more, guys = (

Granted I havn't played too many games on the 360, I don't own one myself, but of the games I've played I think I least enjoyed Halo 3.

Unlike the other guys I'll explain myself a bit because I'm bored as hell. First off, I'd like to ask the people here why it's becomming such a fad to say that the Halo series has a 'good' story? From playing through all three games it's become painfully apparent that it's the same aliens attack scifi story that's been done over and over again. They try to throw in a little twist in the third game where some aliens help you to kill other aliens, and you're doing all of this because we human beings hate aliens so damn much. Normally this wouldn't be such a problem, but you also have the worst assembly of characters to grace a video game. I mean...the most well thought out character in the entire game is a computer AI that doesn't even have real feelings. The main character who has risen to super stardom is a faceless emotionless drone whom the creators made sure has no real bio so the consumer can make whatever they want out of him. Again, who cares right? He's master chief! I care when main character in a game shouldn't qualify as a character at all. So, Story = Pretty bad. (If you're going to make a comment about the novels, save it. A video game shouldn't have to have smarter individuals writing books to make up for the lack of coherent story and backstory)

The main game is pretty bland guys. I havn't been throughthe hardest difficulty(although I have on the other games), so I won't comment on the difficulty of it, but from what I played it's an overly easy game (very much like the previous installments). So easy infact, I almost felt like giving up the controller because I wasn't having fun anymore. Normally bland gameplay can be made up for with good story (nope) and a cool assortment of interesting weapons. Unfortunatly after 3 games the list of available weapons is still painfully small, not to mention boring. You have several weapons that do, for the most part, the same thing. You also have the weapons that seem to plague almost every shooter that no one EVER uses, because they're useless. In Halo, most every weapon falls under that category besides a very select few.

So yeah, after a 5 hour shooter (it took us 4) with mostly weak action and mindless storyline, I was pretty upset. And this is me, someone who didn't even buy it. I felt like I wasted my time.

Incase you're wondering, certain aspects I enjoyed = ) Fighting the scarobs kepts things a little interesting, and I appreciate how well the multiplayer aspect of the game was addressed....Though I don't believe multiplayer should be looked at when rating a game. OH, and the small amount of music used in the game was all very nice, even if the sound effects of everything else were pretty weak.