I'll have to chime in with Dowly here - Halo = boring shooter, and has the most hype of any boring shooter short of DaiKantana. I've never seen so much hype for a sub par game.
I've played most shooters released, and can say that I was absolutely bored playing Halo. It offered nothing new except somewhat decent physics. I take that back - I did have some fun with Halo since it had good physics at a time when physics was only rudimentary in other games. It was fun to see how high one could blast things with a grenade. As for gameplay - boring!
Halo 3, as reported by most reviews, has below average graphics by todays standards and offers almost no new gameplay over Halo 2. Sounds about as exciting as getting the dog water.
One thing is greatly apparent though - You can buy excitment and longing for a sub-par product I see. And they said that money can't buy you everything. It seems to me, you can definetly buy emotion!
-S
PS. Here is a review on the graphics portion:
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The graphics department is where Halo 3 falters. When I complained about the graphics of Halo 2 I was always told, "It isn't about the graphics it's about the gameplay". I'm not buying that this time around. That works with games like Guitar Hero where the gameplay really is everything but in a first-person shooter it has to be about the graphics. Halo 3's graphics aren't offensive but they don't always impress. I held this game to a higher standard than most because Microsoft kept telling me how it would change my life and that it was the best game imaginable. If that's the case the graphics better blow me away and they don't.
The terrain is blocky in places, some areas are desperately in need of a pass or two of anti-aliasing, and a few indoor areas don't have any real shadows. Rather than rendering the shadows dynamically they're just painted as dark areas into the textures. Even in the outdoor areas the environment shadows don't always lay over other objects (like people and vehicles that pass under them). The thing about the visuals is that they are good enough. They won't take away from the game experience but they only shine in a few places.
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