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1. No Co-operative Missions

While Halo 3 allows you to fight through the campaign with up to three other players, once you’ve beat the game, that’s it. Games like Ghost Recon revolutionized multiplayer by letting up to eight players—whether perfect strangers or old friends—take on additional, self-contained missions against an array of computer-controlled hostiles. These co-op games aren’t tournament matches with a bunch of bots thrown in to mix things up, but squad-level skirmishes with an organized opposing force. And anyone who’s tired of getting killed by the same anonymous 13-year-old from the same camped-out position knows that human-on-human killing sprees shouldn’t be the only option.

Considering all of the effort Bungie put into the enemy’s artificial intelligence and morale, why not populate a few levels with dug-in Covenant forces, and let the players coordinate to take them out? Or what about an Alamo-like mission, where players have to hold the line against the Flood’s zombie horde? There’s still hope for co-op missions, at least in theory, since Bungie could always release additional, downloadable multiplayer levels down the line.



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17. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
Being able to play campaign with more than 4 people would be way to easy to beat it on legendary, some people prefer a challenge

16. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
yea #15 i agree. there's nuthin' wrong with the game. i love it. so far the most games i've played on my xbox are halo 3 and call of duty 4. i own both. they are both military games with high multiplayer rates. i've recently been playing call of duty a lot but still i personally think halo 3 is better based on your online options and better gameplay. o yea, about the buble sheild, its one of the best thing ever in halo. i love it, so i don't get why your complaining about it.

15. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
what an idiot... there is nothing wrong with this game

14. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
that's the one thing that's pissed me off about halo more than anything... Bungie was retarded in the fact that they removed my favorite (and easily the most played) multiplayer level. sidewinder was an incredible level. Boarding action was cool, took a lot of attention and you had to really know where your oppnent is, but bungie was def. retarded for not returning sidewinder....

13. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
Whoever typed this is a complete moron. To start, I've always been able to do co-op, and I did it before beating the game. Secondly, Halo doesn't need maps, the terrains are not that hard to navigate. If you want a map, buy the strategy guide it's what its there for. Thirdly, The bubble shield is a great addition to the game. It adds a whole new way of playing it. Also you can walk right through it! Most of the time the AI leave it anyway. Oh, and When you fight the single laser totting enemy, for one thing the bubble shield and the glass you're surrounded by(as the author describes,) isn't the same thing, and when you start out your left wide open without any source of cover. fourthly, Cortona's voice actress was great. Cortana is an important part of the story and should acknowledged kindly. I mean, yeah Her Invasions were slightly annoying but Bungie had to work her into the plot somehow after her and chief parted in Halo 2. Lastly, the falling platforms, ARE YOU A FREAKIN DINGBAT! YOU HAVE TO BE AN INFANT OR SOMEONE WITH NO MOTOR SKILLS TO THINK THAT THAT PART WAS DIFFICULT! Believe me, I'm not one of those Hardcore gamers who would snipe you instantly after spawning. I don't even have access to X-box Live. I'm just saying that part was not as difficult as the author describes. Bungie put a lot of time and effort into making this game. Think about the countless hours of failed testing thats put into a game and then complain about the little mishaps in it. Ok now that my ranting is over to RE number 11, Valhala is the remake of containment and blood gulch. the only big differences is the Mancannons, stream and Hillier geography. (in case you didn't know)

12. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
Y'all are too defensive. Staples? Huh? No, these are just areas of improvement. Nobody cares about the campaign? Sure, the majority of us do buy for the multiplayer action. But that is NO EXCUSE for a developer like Bungee to half ass a storyline. Personally I felt it ended okay, definitely better than some trilogies. Another thing, the author was NOT talking about the bubble shield when he/she referred to those indestructable glass walls (Replier number 3 obviously didn't read the article, or couldn't comprehend it, or both). Replier number 9 should listen to number 10, and WATCH the credits... you missed a big part of the storyline by not paying respect to the makers of the game. And I sincerely hope they don't bring out another Halo. Maybe a branch off of it, but not a Halo 4 if it goes FPS. Great series always seem to die when developers try to milk a title for all it's worth.

11. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
I have one more major complaint to add to the list. That is the lack of big multiplayer levels these are are so small there isn't even a map with a tank not to mention the human aircraft. I believe they should bring back a big level like Sidewinder from halo 1 or Containment from Halo 2.

10. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
They make credits for a reason, you should respect the peoples work, and the pay off for watching the credits, you find important info afterwards, like maybe he didn't die

9. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
Website: redvablack.wetpaint.com
does any one think that halo 4 will come out thers always a posibility even though he died i migh not know fully but, i saw the halo wars commercials and i know i saw spartains so they can make a clone of him.

8. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
Halo is a really good game...But Halflife 2 - approaches FPS perfection...

7. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
First people do buy the game for the campaign. the multiplayer gets boring after awhile and so does the campaign but it is a great game. about cortana jen taylor is a great actress and people will remember her. master chief and cortana have an ongoing story that is still not laid to rest. whoever wrote this article does not know what their talking about and should not be rating games.

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i love this game so much i want to buy it so bad

5. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
i just barley got my halo 3 and for some reason it says the following: CAnnot start game cannot read disc, please wipe with clean cloth (even tho it is a new game) and when i start a solo game, it replays the intro im not really sure what to do, i cant play at all

4. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
Website: www.deadyetliving.com
1. I agree that it would add a nice dimension. However, it certainly is not a tactical, squad based game. While cooperation is key in human team vs human team games, it is not an absolute necessity to winning such, as in GRAW or Rainbow Vegas. 2. I disagree with you about point two. Maps would shorten the game and reduce a players' ability to rely on sense and familiarity with terrain, which adds some difficulty to an already [aforementioned] shortened game. 3. Good point about the glass vs AI. Against human opponents it adds some difficulty. 4. Hmmm....maybe. 5. Well, it's like movies from Hollywood, TV shows, and Canadian sports teams. They start well but can't finish.

3. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
the thing is, NOBODY CARES ABOUT CAMPAIGN!! people bye halo 3 for the online multiplayer not the campaign. and the thing about the bubble shields is all they do is add an element of stratagy to otherwise repetitive and boring gun-fights.you lose at life, go die in a hole somwhere in the indian ocean

2. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
You wine too much...most of your points are rediculous and have been staples of the game since conception. If you didn't like them in the first Halo...then you should have strayed from the franchise.

1. RE: Nitpicking Greatness: Top 5 Gripes with Halo 3
My gripe with this game is that is tied to the X Box. It should be made available for Mac and PC too!

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