this game is okay if you wanna play campaign.
to me at least, the campaign is much better then halo 3.
you don't play as mast chief you play as Orbital Drop Shock Trooper
which is what odst stands for. there are a few differences playing as an
ODST, such as you need to get health packs and you can not jump as
high or far as master chief could. there are many new good weapons that
you will either love or hate. there is a new addition called firefight
which lets you play a whole new way to play either by your self or with friends
in multiplayer by fighting waves of enemies. as for the multiplayer part is basically
the same, but a few new maps added. i think this game should have just
been an expansion pack, it's not really worth the $60 it's sold for in retail
stores. i think maybe around $30 should have been better for the price of this
game since the only real major difference is the campaign.

I loved the original Halo Trilogy, and once I finished Halo 3, it was as if a chapter had closed. I still liked the game, but figured Bungie was hanging it up. When Halo Wars came out, I wasn't drawn to it. "That was then, this is now," I thought. Something about it didn't seem right. I had moved on, and was afraid of being disappointed by that game.

Then I saw the various previews and trailers for Halo 3 ODST, and was intrigued. Before I bought it, I joked with some friends that it was like seeing an old girlfriend that you hadn't seen in a long time. . .and she looked really hot. Your mind becomes flooded with all the great memories you had together, and the temptation to have just one more go-round with her becomes too much to resist.

But as with an old girlfriend, if you give into the temptation, you're likely in the end to realize just why you're not with her anymore. That one last roll in the hay is disappointing, and you feel stupid for giving in to your impulses. You realize that indeed you have moved on, and if there was still magic there you wouldn't have gone your separate ways in the first place.

I was a huge fan of the original Halo. I wound up going to bed way too late on many a night to get to the end of the campaign, and of course I loved the multiplayer, even if it was limited to only four people (seems quaint and almost medieval now). The sequels were also excellent, though I was a bit annoyed that the campaigns for both Halo 2 and 3 seemed a little short. I figured it was due to the remarkably more complex online multiplayer versions contained on the same disk.

I thought that with a separate disc for Halo 3 ODST's multiplayer and campaign version, both would have ample room to reach new heights. This was not the case. ODST's multiplayer version is essentially the same as Halo 3, only with a few more maps. Why these maps could not have been downloaded via XBox live to the original Halo 3, I do not know. Even worse, it seems to have split up the online gaming population playing Halo. Many are still on Halo 3, while some migrated to Halo 3 ODST. Makes it take longer to fill up a match. Last night, there were only 6000 or so people online playing it. I remember when those numbers were six figures.

As for the campaign, remember that girlfriend, and how back in the day you'd spend an entire weekend in the bedroom? You'd only stop to sleep and get dinner? Well, you guessed it. While you had a good time (what's it they say about sex and pizza?) you're attempts to rekindle don't measure up, and you wind up doing a sad walk of shame home before midnight. I finished Halo 3 ODST's campaign in only two evenings of play. When the credits started to roll (with the requisite somber Halo music) it was as if the game had said to me, "That was nice, but I have to get up early tomorrow. I'll call you, m'kay?" Meanwhile, I thought we were just getting started. Like the multiplayer, I had thought that with a whole disc to itself, there would be room for a campaign to rival the original Halo campaign. What a disappointment. Especially at $60.

I am very upset with this purchase. I feel like this game should of been a game add instead of a real game. The game is very short. In addition, there are only 2 new guns which are terrible and uneffective. The firefight mode is terrible because you cant play with random people. So if you dont have a lot of people to play with then you will get no where in this mode. Lastly, the story line of this game is boring and stale. I have been a halo fan since halo 1 and this has been the worst halo game bungie has made. I will definitely rent Halo Reach before I buy it. Please Rent this game before you buy.

Overall the experience was delicately polished and very dedicated to backstory. I did not run into any issues with my game as it has been reported that Halo:ODST has some sort of from-the-factory disc malfunction.

If you enjoyed the storyline from the Halo series of games you will most certainly enjoy this one as well. As before there are special hidden data chunks to collect that tell another piece of back story that is related to the setting of the game.

As my title says I just wish it was longer then the 5-6 hours that it is. There is re-playability with harder difficulties and finding all of the secret caches of weapons with your hidden data chunks but the core of the lasting potential of the game is the Firefight mode. In Firefight mode you fight wave after wave of increasing more challenging enemies. Twists are thrown in with the activation of various "Skulls" which fans might remember from the previous games. This makes for a fun multiplayer experience if you have many friends that also own the game. A downside to Firefight is they did not give it Matchmaking capabilities. Why, I'll never understand.

It really is a fun game to sit down and play with friends though and you don't need to be an expert to win on Easy mode for the novice FPS'ers out there.

First and foremost this is a fun game to play. I played the main mission with 3 of my friends and had a great time doing it. The downside is that it will be over before you know it. Just when you start to get into the rhythm of the game your ending it. This is similar to the other Halo games as far as game play, nothing new or different. You play as a marine that is part of a group rather than the guy who can go in and take on everybody at once. You should play this game, now how long you will keep it after beating it depends on whether or not your going to play online using the second disc. Some people will find this to be the best part of the 2 disc set, I'm not one of them. I'm more about playing story modes with my friends then getting owned by a bunch of kids online.

this game is kinda over priced as there is no match making for fire fight forcing you to play with people from your friends list only and the campaign can be done in one day if you have friends to play with then this game is a blast