Screenshots from Halo 3
Posted by Casey Jones in Uncategorized, tags: computer, entertainment, films, games, halo, halo 3, happiness, microsoft, movies, other, super heroes, Uncategorized, video, video games, xboxWhen a video game series is as wildly famous as the Halo series, which includes Halo 3, of course, then the result is going to be many screenshots takes. This article focuses on some of the weird and wonderful Halo 3 screenshots.
Before getting on to 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 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 picture-uploading websites available to people, a lot of it has been uploaded.
One of the issues in Halo 3 that has frequently been copied in Halo 3 screenshots is what Master Chief looks like or more specifically, what his face looks like. If you use Google to find 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 one of the Halo 3 screenshots showing in the top 10 Halo 3 screenshots is the one of a Marine getting hammered on a floodgate. Someone said that it looked a little bit like Han Solo when he was frozen in Carbonite. And do you know what? - they’re absolutely right.
The designers of Halo 3 decided to make it much simpler for players to grab Halo 3 screenshots and to share them all over the Internet. In order to accomplish this, they created a ‘Saved Films’ feature in the video game. This feature allows people 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 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 lot 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 pictures or video, they are real game data. This means two things: A] the file size is pretty small and B] the whole game can be watched from different viewpoints 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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