When a video game series is as wildly popular as the Halo series, which includes Halo 3, of course, then it’s bound to result in there being many screenshots takes. This article concentrates 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 figures 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 make screenshots. A lot can take place in 90 million hours, and with all the image-uploading websites online, a great deal of it has been uploaded.
One of the issues in Halo 3 that has often been documented 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 people, because he does not really have one.
Another one of the top Halo 3 screenshots appearing in the 10 most popular 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 totally correct.
The designers of Halo 3 decided to make it much easier for people to take Halo 3 screenshots and to share them all over the Internet. To accomplish this they created a saved films feature right inside the game. This feature permits 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 takes place in the game, so it can later be converted into videos are screenshots.
Yet another feature that has a little bit 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 images or video, they’re actual game data. This means two things: A] the file size is very small and B] the whole game can be replayed from different angles on the Xbox 360.
Which means to say that a person can replay a game again and again, finding new things in new places every time they replay it. That’s a lot better than simple Halo 3 screenshots.
If you like Halo 3 and are interested in finding out more about it, why not go over to Halo 3 Screenshots on our website entitled Halo 3 Insider Secrets