On "Halo 3: ODST"

About a year ago, Bungie Studios announced a mini expansion pack for Halo 3. Less then 3 month's later, the idea was scrapped, throwing the old name "Halo 3: Recon" away and replacing it with a story "Halo 3: ODST" It was then they made a campaign out of the idea. Being a Halotard myself, I thought "Cool. I get to play as someone other then the Master Chief. No overshields and what not." Right, so I got all excited and pre ordered. They introduced their new play mode called "Firefight". As they described it in the Bungie Podcast, I thought, "Okay, it's Gears of War 2's horde play mode" (Which turned out to be exactly right). They kept talking about how they always played "Firefight" in its early development and how they would always play on unnamed sites, calling them so because they didn't want to spoil it.

Well... About a month ago, the game released and Halo fans young and old picked up their copy. The girl at the Babbage's that I picked up my copy said that kids were skipping school, just to pick up their copy. I had to laugh a little because I would have done the same. I came home and waited, co-oping the game on solo with my brother that night. we played it on normal and like most games, It was the unknown that made the game harder. After we finished it on normal I solo'd it on legendary, something I'd never been able to do with Halo, Halo 2, and only half way with Halo 3. I beat it again in under 3 days on solo legendary. Sure the snipers were a pain but I knew what to expect. The campaign with Buck was annoyingly easy because after you snipe the snipers and kill the brutes, You don't even have to face the hunters. They run so slow you just run right past them, through the doorway and down to the drop pod.

The rest of the game was easy. After picking up my first partner, I found that the immortal bots are immortal. You could headshot them, stick them, laser them, hammer them, blow them up and as long as they didn't fall down a shaft, they did all the work for you. I had more trouble on firefight then anything else and that's because most of my partners kept dying. sure we each got 1 life more every round but they died every time we reached the "Black Eye Skull" round. I reached Par on all the maps, playing on easy with my brother. We would hit them within the 3rd set (5 waves to a round, 3 rounds a set, infinite number of sets.)(Par on all maps is 200,000 points)

Great. So now that I've given away some details on the game, I just have one last achivement to unlock and I'm finished with gaming for a little while. Just gotta wait for my copy of Left 4 Dead 2 to come out and I can play and review that and then save enough money to go back to playing Fallout 3. Hope I didn't spoil anything for ya guys.