Latest Famitsu Scores Including Halo 3
By William on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 at 1:56 AM PST In Halo, Microsoft
One of our favorite international magazines, Famitsu, has released their scores for Halo 3 and they aren’t too bad. I was expecting more 10s, but the ratings are still high.
Famitsu’s scores for Halo 3:
10/9/9/9
Will Halo 3 be the greatest FPS style game of all time? Only time will tell, but it certainly looks like it will end up being somewhere in the top 10 of all time. Halo 3 will be grand, but will also have strong competition from Call of Duty 4. From what I have seen, I would give Halo 3 a 10 myself, but COD4 is looking like a strong 10 as well.
In addition to Halo 3, the following games received ratings in the latest Famitsu:
DS
Tamagotchi 7/6/6/6
Quiz DS 7/6/6/5
Keroro 5/6/5/6
PSP
Wagan Midnight PSP 6/6/7/6
Coded Arms PSP 8/7/7/7
Wii
BLEACH 7/7/7/7
Bass Fishing Wii 6/7/6/4
Boku to Sims no Machi 8/7/8/7
Kekaishi 7/6/6/6
Agalest Senki 6/7/6/5
Via Total Gamer Zone
Greatest FPS? Top 10? Just what in the hell is the world smoking? It can’t be good for the gameplay- Halo is the ultimate in poor balance and terrible movement ability, making for some of the most yawn-inducing gameplay I’ve ever had the displeasure of fighting any one of a number of awkward control schemes to attempt to play. It also can’t be the story- unless you’ve spent all of your life not reading page-one, the story in Halo will seem familiar. Eerily familiar. Like, “poorly-plotted crossover fanfiction” familiar (Star Wars + Starship Troopers + Warhammer 40k = Crap). The only thing it has going for it is a huge marketing machine, a console with a failure rate higher than Detroit’s crime statistic, and graphics that could be considered par for the next six months at most (if and ONLY if you have the high-resolution display to actually play it in its proper resolution). And of course it’s probably going to be DirectX 10 only. Hope you’ve got enough money to buy the OS it requires you to have. Also hope you have the hardware muscle to still be playing after Vista hogs a fill gigabyte of your memory for no justifiable reason. since Halo 2..
orry Wyatt, but I’ll be playing it on my 360, so most of your argument is moot.
Only somewhat. The last two points are relatively insignificant compared to the critical flaws found in the actual content (as mentioned near the beginning of my post. You didn’t just forget that I had mentioned things aside the decrepit suckitude that is the newest MS operating system, did you? That would be tragic, but definitely supports my “trace consumption of mind-altering chemicals in the water” theory rather well. :/
honestly, the movement in Halo isn’t terrible. I’m not sure why so many people hate on the series. How many original Xbox games still have a ton of people playing on XBL like Halo 2? For the most part, a game’s online multilayer loses high demand after about 6 months.
From a technical aspect, it probably isn’t one of the greatest games, but Halo has a great story and obviously the right chemistry going to keep so many people playing. Even with Halo 2, there’s simply just enough of a chance for each match to play out differently, that it keeps the excitement up. Halo 3 will obviously be better than H2 in many areas, particularly in campaign mode.
It’s definitely not going to be a game for everyone, but it will be a game for most people. Halo is one of the few games out there that can really attract everyone from hardcore gamers to completely casual gamers.
Personally, all Halo 2 did was guarantee that I won’t be playing Halo 3. It’s not that Halo is a bad game. It’s just that as a first person shooter, it doesn’t make my top 20. There are plenty of other shooters out now, and coming out this fall, that I would rather play.
The two main reasons for the popularity of Halo are simple. First, it was THE shooter for XBox. That gave it an entire legion of automatic fans. Second is the disgusting amount of money that MS spends to hype and market it.
Were it not for the XBox and the 360, there would never have been a Halo 3. The market just isn’t there for a series of mediocre shooters. Of course, that hasn’t stopped people from trying. PC FPS titles have moved beyond the Halo formula, and did so years ago.
Of course, the ridiculous sales of Halo 3 will do nothing but insure that in two years I have to listen to ads for the ridiculously overhyped Halo 4 for the XBox 7200.