Halo 3:ODST
 

They've removed the motion tracker and according to an E3 video I saw on Xbox Live, have brought back the Halo 1 pistol. Thoughts?

I thought they were calling it Stretch or 'sumpin?

They must've dropped it after they realized that's what the 100th installment of this game was going to be.

Stretch? What?

Nub. There is Halo 3:ODST, and then also newly announced Halo: Reach. Not affiliated with Halo 3 in any way.

Explain the two games for someone that is out of the loop, used to love Halo, and would easily get rehooked again if a new game came out.

Halo 3:ODST is technically an expansion to Halo 3. You play as an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, not a UNSC Spartan like you did in Halo 1 - Halo 3. It looks really cool from the videos I've seen. Here's a gameplay trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3...o-3-odst/50010 -- I guess there's a "Firefight" mode which is essentially like Gears of War 2's Horde mode. Since I haven't played GoW2 that much I don't know what that means.

Halo: Reach was just announced at E3. There's not too much known about it yet although bungie.net has a trailer. http://www.bungie.net/Projects/Reach/default.aspx

Nice, now I'm excited.

Does that mean you'll start playing again?

No doubt holmes. I'll be married by that point, and probably looking for any reason to get away from the wife.

A bit of a trailer I stumbled across... An Uncut Live Action trailer for Halo: ODST that has gotten me uber-excited for the Halo movie that has been on hold since the 2 words were conjoined... x_x

Anywho...Halo: ODST Uncut Live Action goodness!

I jizzed my pants the first time I saw that. It's really badass if you actually play Halo 3.

Wow, looks pretty badass! I might just have to get it!

I'll probably be playing it this weekend at my friend's house if anyone else will be around... say maybe Friday(tonight) and then Saturday night. Then I'll probably pick up a copy myself at the end of next week - after my first battery of tests is over - depending on how good I think it is.

Do any of the old DE plan on playing it regularly? I know I saw JR and a few others playing it Tuesday night after its release. Does it just feel like an expansion and come up short, not worth the $50/$60?

I got it hours before it even released in the US :)

Have not opened it yet though... lol damn Aion.

It was shipped to my house yesterday, and I played it for about 3-4 hours last night. The campaign is terrible, at least from what I experienced. The missions are too short and the overall feel of the ODST solider ticks me off. I have not yet played FireFight, so I'm hoping this makes me re-think my stance on ODST but so far I am not impressed. FireFight better kick ass, if not this was a waste of $60.

The new Halo 3 disc, however, is pretty convenient. I like the 3 new maps. Longshore is my favorite.. because I love Big Team Battle. I'm a pro at that playlist. BTB > all.

I got it a few days ago just to play firefight with my friends around here. If any of you have it an want to play, just hit me up on xbox live sometime.

The second round of mythic maps are garbage, though.

Wrong. Citadel and Longshore are good maps. Heretic sucks, though.

Longshore is passable, but definitely not good. I don't see how you can even like citadel, it's a small lame symmetric map, not much different from heretic(midship). The only reason most halo players will get these maps is because bungie forces anyone who wants to play over a quarter of the playlists to buy the maps. If there were two identical sets of playlists, one for people with mythic maps and one for those without, only a small fraction of the players would probably buy the maps - not that they even have a choice to just 'download the maps' yet, or has bungie(Microsoft) put up a download yet? I haven't checked recently.

As of right now you can't download the second part of the mythic maps yet. I'm sure it will be made available sometime, though.

I like Citadel because it is good for BR battles and sniping. I'm a BR whore. I pretty much refuse to play without BR starts, which is why I like Big Team Battle so much. Oh, and the new ranked playlist, Throwback, is pretty damn fun. 1 flag, 2 flag, or oddball with all BR starts. Love it.

btw, check out my bungie page.