Just completed Halo 3 playing co-op with my friend John having been forced to play the Arbiter rather than Master Chief.  We had fun playing it but felt it was very much more of the same compared to Halo 1 & 2 and like many others felt we had to play it to complete the Halo Triology and finish the story.  In comparision Resistance: Fall of Man felt like a breath of fresh air with the wide variety of terrains such as Manchester, London, the Cheddar Gorge and the military bases and the many different styles of weapons such as the Bullseye and Augar.  Epics such as chase the scarab from Halo 2 were sadly missing.

They’ve obviously left the end of Halo 3 open to allow them to have a Halo 4.  Will Master Chief fall to earth somewhere and be treated like a god.  What will he do about spare parts?  Will The Arbiter decide to go and find Master Chief and rescue him.

Halo 3 was good but not that good.  A good analogy is that Halo 3 is to Halo 2 as Killzone was to Halo 2.  Killzone as a good game but the co-op mode made Halo and Halo 2 really fun to play.  I’m hoping that Killzone 2 when it comes out will give the Halo franchise a run for its money.