When a video game series is as wildly famous as the Halo set is (which includes Halo 3, of course) then it's bound to result in there being thousands of screenshots takes. This article focuses on some of the weird and wild Halo 3 screenshots.
Before mentioning the Halo 3 screenshots specifically, let's take a look at the figures 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 purchased the game plays for only 10 hours, there are more than 90 million hours of game time from which to select screen shots. A lot can happen in 90 million hours, and with all the image-uploading websites available to people, a lot of it has been uploaded.
One of the things in Halo 3 that has often been copied 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 find the top 10 Halo 3 screenshots, you'll find a screenshot of Master Chief lying dead on the ground, clearly not revealing a face inside his helmet. This explains why we never see his face, say many players, because he does not really have one.
Another one of the Halo 3 screenshots appearing 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 correct.
The designers of Halo 3 wanted to make it a lot easier for players to take Halo 3 screenshots and to share them on the Internet. In order to accomplish this, they created a 'Saved Films' feature in the video game. This feature permits people 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 would like to see. 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 images or film, they are actual game data. This means two things: A] the file size is pretty small and B] the entire game can be replayed from various angles on the Xbox 360.
That means that a person can 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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