Download | Shownotes

It’s time for another regular Sunday edition of Podtacular! This week TerminatorLlama joins us from the far reaches of Llamadom to help us help you level up and stay ther in Halo 3 multiplayer. We talk about general game play tips and specifically how to kick arse on Guardian. Along with more enlightening subjects such as movies about roving bands of bloodthirsty sheep and what a zombie goat would sound like. Pod art this week comes courtesy of SGT Corona. Be sure to wash your hands before listening.

Rockslider famously rejected Halo 2, preferring instead to spend six years tricking the Halo 1 engine into delivering him continually more epic “megabattles“.

So, naturally, people wanted to know what he thought of Halo 3– did it return to the roots of the original game enough to keep his interest?

Now he’s provided the answer in typical exhaustive detail.

Since before I’d even managed to finish the fight on Heroic, let alone Legendary, people have been asking… “so, what do you think of Halo 3?”

Given the thousands of words I’ve hurled at Halo 2 over the years that seems like a rather broad question. When pressed, most people admit what they really want to know is what I think of the ending of Halo 3.

Even that can be broken down further. There’s the way the game resolves its central conflicts going back to the first game, especially those conflicts that involve gameplay challenges, and then there’s the denouement that the game gives us, the little epilogue.

My short answer is that Halo 3 handles both challenges with finesse and aplomb in a way that fits very well within the framework laid down by the previous two games, calling on the best elements of both, discarding some that didn’t work so well, and modifying others.

So if Halo 3 does indeed, as Frankie said, allow you to finish all the fights going back to Halo 1, what are those fights?

Warning, there are spoilers here!

 Click here for the complete text.