Screenshots from Halo 3
Posted By Casey Jones on December 20, 2009
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 many screenshots available. This piece focuses on some of the weird and wonderful Halo 3 screenshots.
Before mentioning the Halo 3 screenshots specifically, let’s take a look at the numbers 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 choose screen shots. A lot can happen in 90 million hours, and with all the picture-uploading websites online, a lot of it has been documented.
One of the issues in Halo 3 that has frequently 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 look up the top 10 Halo 3 screenshots, you’ll find a picture 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 featuring in the top 10 Halo 3 screenshots is the one of a Marine getting hammered on a floodgate. Someone commented that it looked a lot like Han Solo when he was frozen in Carbonite. And guess what? – they’re absolutely correct.
The makers of Halo 3 wanted to make it much easier for players to take Halo 3 screenshots and to share them all over the Internet. In order to achieve this, they created a ‘Saved Films’ feature in the video game. This feature allows players 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 want to have. 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 video, they are actual game data. This means two things: A] the file size is very small and B] 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 replay it. That’s a great deal better than simple Halo 3 screenshots.
If you like Halo 3 and are interested in learning more about it, why not visit Halo 3 Screenshots on our web site entitled Halo 3 Insider Secrets
