{"id":117,"date":"2007-05-17T22:33:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T06:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/17\/my-halo-3-multiplayer-beta-first-impressions\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T22:33:59","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T06:33:59","slug":"my-halo-3-multiplayer-beta-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/my-halo-3-multiplayer-beta-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"My Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta first impressions &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For me, it feels like Halo 2, just better, which is good actually.<\/p>\n<p>I like the new equipment stuff, especially the bubble shield, not only does it look good, but it has very tactical uses. I saw this guy drop off the bubble shield and wait inside it with a shotgun, as soon as somebody steps in he drops them. <\/p>\n<p>I also like the man canon, and the 3rd person view while carrying large weapons. I don&#8217;t like that weapon pickup and reload is not X any more, I keep doing that by mistake, similarly I don&#8217;t like that Y is not what you use for vehicle\/turret entry (both are the right bumper now). That will take some time to get used to.<\/p>\n<p>The graphics are much crisper than Halo 2, but still not what I expected, I expected it to look better than this, especially after the nice trailers they had released. Only the water looks good, but other textures seem low res to me, not what I expect from a next gen console. The under water sounds are just perfect and I love that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; amr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, it feels like Halo 2, just better, which is good actually. I like the new equipment stuff, especially the bubble shield, not only does it look good, but it has very tactical uses. I saw this guy drop off the bubble shield and wait inside it with a shotgun, as soon as somebody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}