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 thousands of screenshots available. This article focuses on some of the weird and wonderful Halo 3 screenshots.
Before we get on to the Halo 3 screenshots specifically, let’s have 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 screenshots. A lot can happen in 90 million hours, and with all the image-uploading websites online, a great deal of it has been documented.
One of the things in Halo 3 that has frequently been documented in Halo 3 screenshots is the identity of Master Chief or more specifically, what his face looks like. If you use Google to find the top 10 Halo 3 screenshots, you’ll find a picture 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 people, because he does not actually have one.
Another one of the top Halo 3 screenshots featuring in the 10 most popular Halo 3 screenshots is the one of a Marine getting hammered on a floodgate. Someone commented that it looked a lot like Han Solo when he was frozen in Carbonite. And do you know what? – they’re totally right.
The designers of Halo 3 wanted to make it a lot easier for people to grab Halo 3 screenshots and to post them on the Internet. To achieve this, they created a ‘Saved Films’ feature in the game. This feature allows 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 takes place in the game, so it can later be turned 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 real game data. This means two things: A] the file size is pretty small and B] the whole game can be watched from different angles on the Xbox 360.
Which means to say that a player could watch a game again and again, seeing new things in new places every time they replay it. That’s a lot better than simple Halo 3 screenshots.
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