I’m probably a glutton for punishment or something - despite not liking like online multiplayer FPS genre I’ve gone and picked up Halo 3 and Unreal Tournament 3 (henceforth UT3). Why?

Well Halo 3 got a lot of love when it was released, I didn’t pick it up at the time as the prospect of playing a shiny space marine blasting shiny purple aliens a-la Halo 1 & 2 bored me to tears. However a £23 quid bargain price (zavvi.co.uk) and a burning curiosity to see what all the fuss was about resulted in me picking it up. First of all the plot/story/acting is laughable; after playing Half Life 2 this is like coming straight from Blade Runner to an episode of Hollyoaks, anyhow that’s not a major problem. The offline campaign seems pretty good, I’ll probably endure it to the end, it’s deserves at least that much of me. So what about the online multiplayer, the main reason everyone loved Halo 3 – shit! did everyone else get a different version of the game from me? I hated it, absolutely loathed every second of it. It was just a horrible, repetitive experience - enhanced greatly by being sworn at in French the whole time.

I just genuinely can not understand the appeal. TBH online play has never really been my thing, but you know this could (or should) have been the game to change my mind. The fact that I die within about 3~4 seconds of respawning clearly doesn’t help. All the other players seem to have some uncanny, magic ability to kill me with a single shot where-as I’ll be pumping thousands of bullets into them and they bearly flinch. Gahh life is too short of this kind of hassle, and I’ve got a pile of games to play in which I don’t spent 90% of my time as a crumpled up corpse.

Shite this has turned into a long whaffle posting, I’ll cover UT3 another day…