When a video game series is as widely popular as the Halo set is (which includes Halo 3, of course) then it’s bound to result in there being many screenshots takes. This piece concentrates on some of the weird and wonderful Halo 3 screenshots.
Before we mention 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 so far. That means that if every person who bought the game plays for only 10 hours, there are more than 90 million hours of game time from which to select screenshots. A great deal can take place in 90 million hours, and with all the picture-uploading websites available to people, a lot of it has been uploaded.
One of the issues in Halo 3 that has frequently been documented in Halo 3 screenshots is what Master Chief looks like or more specifically, what his face is like. If you use a search engine to find the top 10 Halo 3 screenshots, you’ll find a picture of Master Chief lying dead on the ground, clearly not revealing a face inside his helmet. This explains why we never see his face, say many players, because he does not actually have one.
Another one of the Halo 3 screenshots featuring in the top 10 Halo 3 screenshots is the one of a Marine getting hammered on a floodgate. Someone posted that it looked a lot like Han Solo when he was frozen in Carbonite. And guess what? – they’re absolutely correct.
The makers of Halo 3 wanted to make it a lot simpler for players to take Halo 3 screenshots and to post them all over the Internet. In order to achieve this, they created a ‘Saved Films’ feature in the video game. This feature permits players to slow down the action, or even to freeze it, change the camera angles and even move the camera around to get exactly the screenshot they would like to see. Generally speaking, the ‘Save Films’ feature records all the action that occurs in the game, so it can later be converted into videos are screenshots.
Yet another feature that has a lot to do with Halo 3 screenshots in the ‘Save Films’ feature, is the viewing 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 whole game can be replayed from various angles on the Xbox 360.
Which means to say that a person can replay a game again and again, seeing new things in new places every time they replay it. That’s a great deal better than simple Halo 3 screenshots.
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