Pete_LeGrant September 27, 2008 Features, Xbox 360 1 views Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

Disclaimer: this won’t be complete, and parts might be somewhat uninformed.

So, Bungie has monkeyed with nearly everything in Halo 3. Many maps and weapon spawn points have changed; although I haven’t played this specific map yet, Epitaph is very different, from what I hear “on the street.”

Snowbound’s energy walls have been removed in a variant called “Boundless.” Totally weird. You’ll behave as though the walls are still there, running for their cover like a whelping puppy.

The most notable difference is the ranking system. Everyone got rolled back to the apprentice level, with your former ranking left intact as your global ranking.

My three-man crew ranked up faster than we ever had before in team slayer. It’s really tempting to think, “Yeah, we should have been at that rank a long time ago and were getting ripped off all that time.”

It’s probably more like: “Caesar (i.e., Bungie) is appeasing the masses.” Maybe they’ve made it easier to rank up just to keep gamers in the fold.

What do YOU think about the new changes in Halo 3?

I will be dropping nuggets on this topic as I procrastinate play more Halo 3.

-PLG