Halo 3 (Xbox 360, 2007)

It took me just one week to finish this game! And I didn't play hours a day either.

Here's a quick summary review:

Cons:
1. Way too short
2. No dual needler this time around?
3. Only Master Chief play, no FPS with The Arbiter
4. Gameplay is dull(get there shoot everything, come back)
5. Music is lacking. Halo 1 and 2 had great scores. There's nothing new or good in this one.
6. Very linear. No ample spaces to run around in like the first Halo.

Pros:
1. It's pretty. Graphics are great.
2. New vehicles are cool.
3. New weaponry. That gravity hammer rocks!

I'll elaborate on point number 4 of the cons. The cool thing about Halo 1 is that in many parts it offered different strategies. It was big enough that you could do a variety of things in different sections of the game: you could choose to bop the grunts in the head while they're sleeping, you could grab a banshee and fly up to an unextended bridge and pick the enemy from down below or you could just charge with guns blazing.

This game and the last has only offered "charge with all guns blazing". That gets boring quicky. Replay value is low because of this. In many ways it seems like the last 2 games were built by very different people from the first game.

A lot of emphasis has been put in the graphics and they look great. But the game play is flat.