Halo 3 In a day

With the impending release of the soon-to-be smash-success game Halo 3: ODST, I felt it my duty to pull the old Battle Rifle/Plasma Pistol combo out of mothballs and get my "headshot" on with a little help from the Xbox 360's only addition to the franchise, Halo 3.  Now much has been lauded and much bemoaned about Bungie's third time at bat with the Master Chief, and despite having beaten the entire game on Legendary difficulty, finding all the skulls and terminals, and pwning a n00b or two online, I felt that in the scheme of things, I spent very little time with game.  Perhaps the time I'd spent merely paled by comparison to the semesters of college I spent combing the back-faced polygons of New Mombasa and sword flying into the skyboxes with Halo 2 (if you understand a lick of that, you know where I'm coming from), but I've always felt a bit remiss that I did not give Halo 2's HD brother the same kind of consideration.  So last weekend I locked the doors, ignored the shower, ordered the Domino's, and spent a lovely Saturday in the cold, dreary depths of my apartment finishing the fight...again.

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