Halo 3 (360)

I think I like this quite a lot. I’m not entirely sure, though. There don’t seem to be many different units and there’s no way to manually make mixed groups of units that you can easily access. (When playing Dawn of War yesterday I was struck by how much I group units with Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2,

Last night was the first UGVM Halo 3 Monday. It’s a lovely game to play with a good group of people, it really is. We tried out some standard game types and then tried some new things – Storm The Beach and Zombies. Storm The Beach is the Halo 3 version of D Day, with

Started the evening with some Team Slayer action, which was good fun. I did okay, generally, though I was rubbish at Rockets on Narrows. Then played through level one of the campaign on Heroic difficulty. Well, some of it. I still wasn’t done after an hour and so had to save and quit. Good fun

Last night I played a lot of single player and got up to the penultimate level, level eight. Now, level eight is already infamous online with The Internet deeming it to be a rubbish level in an otherwise stunning game. In this case, The Internet is right. It’s bloody atrocious. Incredibly repetitive in the most

I’ve discovered something. Using the Needler and the shotgun is the way to go on Easy. Oh, and that sword thing, whatever it’s called. It starts to feel more Quake-like and is a lot of fun.