When a video game series is as wildly popular as the Halo set is (which includes Halo 3, of course) then the result is going to be thousands of screenshots available. This piece concentrates on some of the weird and wild Halo 3 screenshots.
Before mentioning the Halo 3 screenshots specifically, let’s take a look at the numbers that generate all of this media. Over 9 million copies of Halo 3 have been sold to date. That means that if each person who purchased the game plays for only 10 hours, there are more than 90 million hours of game time from which to choose screen shots. A lot can happen in 90 million hours, and with all the image-uploading websites available to people, a lot of it has been documented.
One of the things in Halo 3 that has frequently been documented in Halo 3 screenshots is what Master Chief looks like or more specifically, what his face looks like. If you use Google to look up the top 10 Halo 3 screenshots, you’ll find a screenshot of Master Chief lying dead on the ground, clearly not showing a face inside his helmet. This explains why we never see his face, say many players, because he does not actually have one.
Another of the Halo 3 screenshots featuring in the top 10 Halo 3 screenshots is that of a Marine getting hammered on a floodgate. Someone commented that it looks a little bit like Han Solo when he was frozen in Carbonite. And guess what? – they’re absolutely right.
The designers of Halo 3 wanted to make it much simpler for people to take Halo 3 screenshots and to post them all over the Internet. To accomplish this, they created a ‘Saved Films’ feature in the game. This feature permits players to slow down the action, or even to freeze it, change the camera position and even move the camera around to get exactly the screenshot they want to have. Generally speaking, the ‘Save Films’ feature records all the action that occurs in the game, so it can later be turned into videos are screenshots.
Yet another feature that has a little bit to do with Halo 3 screenshots in the ‘Save Films’ feature, is the watching of previously saved films. You see, the saves are not just images or video, they’re actual game data. This means two things: A] the file size is pretty small and B] the entire game can be watched from various angles on the Xbox 360.
That means that a person could watch a game again and again, finding new things in new places every time they look at it. That’s a great deal better than simple Halo 3 screenshots.
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