When a video game series is as wildly famous as the Halo set is (which includes Halo 3, of course) then the result is going to be many screenshots takes. This piece focuses on some of the weird and wonderful 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 every person who bought the game plays for only 10 hours, there are more than 90 million hours of game time from which to choose screen shots. A great deal can happen in 90 million hours, and with all the image-uploading websites available to people, loads of it has been uploaded.
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 look up 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 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 do you know what? – they’re absolutely right.
The makers of Halo 3 wanted to make it much easier for people to take Halo 3 screenshots and to share them on the Internet. To accomplish this they created a saved films feature right inside 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 converted into videos are screenshots.
Another feature that has a little bit 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: 1] the file size is pretty small and 2] the whole game can be watched from different angles on the Xbox 360.
This means to say that a player could watch a game again and again, finding new things in new places every time they watch it. That’s a great deal better than plain Halo 3 screenshots.
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