I'll admit it up front and say i haven't owned any halo game. Ever. In fact back in the day i was anti-xbox (well mud on my face now...stop staring at me eltie, u e74'd on me b4 the covering of them) and thought the game was pretty silly and dumb. I mean the only impressions from it i had were via TechTV or later G4Techtv. when games were still on the channel.

But i digress, we were on about halo. 3 to be exact. when 3 was coming out i considered getting it so i could play people, but then i saw COD4, and decided that the only shooter i needed was that. and so it was. and i enjoyed it thoroughly.

roll around news of a halo expansion at discount. w/ full multiplayer. i was intrigued. I played the halo3 on 4 player co-op long b4 i had an xbox 360. It was mildly fun, in that context anyway. Any real gaming online with it brought about a level of indifferance that wasn't fun at all. i mean sure flying a ship around is fun. and sniping people is also fun. but flying off the maps and sniping people? wtf is up with that? how is that fun or challenging, or rewarding for that matter?

at the time when the lower price made it seem cool it was barely on my radar. A few month's roll by and here it's a full game now, with it's own horde mode. Yea? idk i mead there's a level i think. and just adding one because you think it helps justify the game as somethng new is downright absurd. i'm happy cod6 (modern warfare 2) doesn't have something along those lines.

Jst because it was in one shooter, doesn't mean all shooters need them now.

Moving on, this summer i actually played halo 3 a fair bit. along side of some other decent players and one in hidden league gaming if anyone knows what they are.

And it was growing on me, slowly till it got to the point where it just became tedium and rushing. I mean all multiplayer has these in some regard, smash bros's items being "notorious" as far as torney-fags are concerned. And power weapons in gears 2 in the middle of the map, usually river....or well you get the gist.

it isn't a matter of wheter or not the game is "good" or if everyone is playing it. I'm not going to try and bash halo 3 now. it's been done before and better most likely. what i'm saying (at least i think i am) is that it was bland. and unfullfilling. like a mint pie. shure it was a pie, but it tasted like toothpaste, and what kind of person liked toothpaste pie? well a lot seem to, so maybe something less exotic, more along the lines of white bread. All these people out there are eating the white bread, some toasted, others using it as sandwich-ends, and some even with jelly.

but i don't want white bread. bread for the sake of bread. because everyone must enjoy it here's the blandest thing we could make. I'd rather a pumpernickel or maybe raisinbread. or perhaps multigrain for the nice texture.

what i'm getting at is that while halo 3: ODST is essentially a great, solid shooter that expands halo's already well established formula some more. it's just so expansive and conventional, that it is wholly unremarkable as well.

I can't just look forward to buying the game and competing against the players on iit who have experienced halo online since it's inception, if they are die-hard enough.

now mw2 looks to evolve the ideas from mw1 in a new and interesting direction, not jst saying "here's the game u bought as few years ago and pay 60 bucks a month to be called a**licking-chickenf***er, or something like that. It has some notable expansions other than returning old favorites and adding a phone'd in full game price.

playing the demo for odst didn't impress me to be frank. (no not that frank.) it felt like it's halo, and i should be excited, but i'm not so i must be some form of xbox-resistance dream cycles.

so yes this was an anti-halo 3 blog for those who say TLDR. but then again why are you on a gaming site, let along the blog section. leave now and go play your haloz while i do some more college work.

ROCK ON!!