Player’s Club: Halo 3 ODST review
Halo 3: ODST
Rated M for Mature
Released Sept. 22
Xbox 360
Published by Microsoft
WHAT IT IS: Master Chief returns yet again with… oh wait, thats right, he doesnt. Like this springs Halo Wars, the newest Halo first-person shooter is entirely without the series iconic lead character. It’s like those Queen reunion shows without Freddie Mercury, although ODST’s Nathan Filion isn’t nearly as acceptable a stand-in as Paul Rodgers. Originally announced as a value-priced expansion of Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST arrives with two discs of content and the standard price tag for a new release. The second disc is entirely recycled, consisting of Halo 3s multi-player mode and all the various map packs that have been subsequently released through Xbox Live. So ODST rests on the first disc, which offers up an original Master Chief-less solo campaign that should take you less than eight hours to play through and the new Firefight multi-player survival mode. Theres a lot happening with Halo 3: ODST, then, but is it enough to justify the price?