When a video game series is as widely famous 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 piece focuses on some of the weird and wild Halo 3 screenshots.
Before getting on to the Halo 3 screenshots specifically, let’s take a look at the figures that create 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 take place in 90 million hours, and with all the picture-uploading websites available to people, loads of it has been documented.
One of the things 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 look up 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 showing in the 10 most popular Halo 3 screenshots is the one of a Marine getting hammered on a floodgate. Someone posted that it looked a little bit like Han Solo when he was frozen in Carbonite. And guess what? - they’re totally right.
The designers of Halo 3 wanted to make it a lot simpler for people to take Halo 3 screenshots and to share them all over the Internet. To accomplish this, they created a ‘Saved Films’ feature in 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 turned 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 actual game data. This means two things: 1] the file size is very small and 2] the whole game can be watched from different angles on the Xbox 360.
This means to say that a person could replay a game again and again, seeing new things in new places every time they watch it. That’s a lot better than plain Halo 3 screenshots.
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