The Escapist's Yahtzee reviews Halo 3

Warning: This video contains profane language and will tick off those who think Halo 3 is the perfect and most awesome game.
It's definitely NSFW. So don't blame me if you get fired for watching this. :P

Oh, and it's funny as hell.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/2304-Zero-Punctuation-Halo-3

(That being said, I still want to play it. It looks fun.)

Damn right it's a great review. After the salad tossing praise that G4 was giving the game before anyone actually played it it was the first real review of Halo 3 I've seen.

He said it. Mediocre. That's the Halo series. They're not great games. They're not bad games. They're just standard FPSs on a console. Apparently though the multiplayer is where the fanboys start spontaneously masterbating and that's really why the X-boxers go nuts for the damn game...but they hyped the damn story sooooo much you have to think...

Yahtzee and myself apparently have similar likes. I guess that makes me a game snob. So be it.

Is it because most (if not all) FPS games on consoles that preceded it were just simply that bad?
Or is it because there's a large number of console players out there that wouldn't know a good game if it crawled out of their dreams and strangled their cat? (Yahtzee's attitude is rubbing off on me)

I played Halo on the both the X-Box and the PC, and well, it was much, much better on PC.
Disregarding the fact that Gearbox can't port a game to save their lives, and you needed a PC with two to three times
the processing power of the X-Box that ran the game just fine a few years ago, it was enjoyable.
And it was much, much better on PC for one reason and one reason only: mouselook.
The only, and I mean only FPS games I've enjoyed on a console have been the Metroid Prime series. The third one especially, since the Wiimote is
pretty much the best substitution to a mouse for looking around I've seen yet.

Still, I'd rather be playing Half-Life 2. I can't wait to see if he reviews Team Fortress 2.

And yes it is every bit as mediocre as this review makes it sound. While there are certainly worse games out there, I quite simply do not understand why people love this game so much. My friend who bought it beat the single player game the first day he got it, and I played a bit of multi-player (the supposed selling point of the game) and I must say that all of the multi-player maps SUCK. If you want a great single player first-person experience get BioShock or if you have a Wii get Metroid Prime 3. If you want multi-player Team Fortress 2 is coming out any day now. Halo 3 quite simply is a overhyped waste of time and money.