[Official] Halo 3: ODST

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Brad.

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Thanks Colin. This thread could use a good cleaning. :)

I wonder how many people have been banned so far for playing this game early. Can't imagine a lot of people who want to play this game in French.

I've seen a few people saying they've been banned, silly people. :p

And for the record, it's pretty amusing in French! I completed it the another night and I was left, well, disappointed.

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Thanks Colin. This thread could use a good cleaning. :)

I wonder how many people have been banned so far for playing this game early. Can't imagine a lot of people who want to play this game in French.

I don't, nothing beats original english voice work ;)

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DR3AMxCATCHER

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Alright, here is my more depth review of the massive 10 minutes I was allowed to play of ODST.

When you first start the game you spawn on the top of a building, sort of like a stairs going downwards. The Covenant come down from covenant dropships. At first, it is a very slow slow beginning and through time it comes down to massive amount of non-stop action. The weapons that I used during the whole time where this: Carbine, Pistol, SMG, Sticky Grenade, Frag Grenade. The Carbine is just as good as it was in Halo 3, useless in Halo 2 unless you were playing swat. The SMG has a nice recoil on it when you spray it. The best bet for those who are going to use it like an assault rifle is to be VERY VERY cautious, you go through ammo in that gun like a fat boy eating cake that is brand new out of the oven....he's already finished with the cake by the time you lick a spoonful of the remaining icing you just finished spreading on there. (Sorry go ahead of myself on that one)

Without a doubt in my mind the AI is much more smarter, for an example: There was a few times I was down on the bottom of the stairs trying to get to the wraiths and couldn't, they had perfect accuracy even on the heroic difficulty. Those moments seriously left me with a blank stare saying what the hell does it take? Brutes were everywhere too and they also move fairly slow so for me it was an easy kill but for my teammates they struggled. A weapon that will be abused in Firefight is going to be the turret, people on the teams were just racking up points using it luckily since I have a great amount of skill I still managed to out score a kid using it on the set of screens that I was not allowed to see until after the 10 minutes was up.

In all reality, this is not HALO anymore...it just has the HALO name and the HALO characters. I wasn't sure how this game would be without MC and they delivered a very great experience in just 10 minutes. I have played a nice amount of Horde and a little bit on Zombies and I love Firefight the most.

Lastly, the sound effects are pretty much the same but once you see the game in person and play you'll be surprised by the upgraded graphics

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neoadorable

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so you have a great amount of skill hey? well we'll have to see about that muhahahahaha. ha.

but thanks for the review, not sure if it not being a Halo title anymore is a good thing or not in your view...you don't make that very clear. Am waiting for this to come out, hopefully will get a chance to play it soon. Glad you think the visuals are better than Halo 3, that should be something to look forward to. How did you get this chance to play it so soon anyway?

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so you have a great amount of skill hey? well we'll have to see about that muhahahahaha. ha.

but thanks for the review, not sure if it not being a Halo title anymore is a good thing or not in your view...you don't make that very clear. Am waiting for this to come out, hopefully will get a chance to play it soon. Glad you think the visuals are better than Halo 3, that should be something to look forward to. How did you get this chance to play it so soon anyway?

Most likely he played it on the ODST tour.

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Ironman273

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I guess that's different than the single player campaign shown on YouTube from the leaked French copy.

Also, shouldn't the cover art in the OP be changed to ODST instead of Recon? Just nitpicking...

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You know just to share a little story w/ you, my parents took my 360 away to concentrate on school more (which in effect is doing the exact opposite, I can't do well if you take things away that make me who I am). So will likely happen is that I'll buy ODST but won't be able to play till Winter break.

I'm about to turn 21 in a few months. It's a bunch of BS I have to deal with I know but I'm making this reference because you can't always get what you want. I know when ODST is released your ass will have the most happiest times ever spent in online gaming. TBH I feel sad in my heart I won't be able to join you. But maybe I can break the rules just once. You're right about one thing; Life is too short, it's especially too short if you're in fear of constant ridicule.

Let me guess you're like me and could get great grades but just can't be bothered to try enough to get them. I actually started trying this year and now if my parents try and say i'm playing games too much i just tell them to look at my grades and that they can tell me games are interfering with school when my grades are no longer as good as they are. It actually takes less time to get the grades because then you don't spend time arguing with your parents.

9 days to odst but i'm busy that night with marching band practice so no odst for me on release night :(

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Tharp Daddy

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Just went and full reserved my copy, i'm guessing that they give you the code for the firefight character after you get the game. I always do this, i hate reading about a game since i don't think i'll get it, but once i commit to getting it (reserve) i dive head first into any details of the game.

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