Halo 3 Screenshots

Rickder Six Screenshot

I’ve been a huge fan of the awesome additions Bungie put into Halo 3 like custom armor, cool achievements, Forge (Map Designing), film clips and more. The big one for me have been the screen shot feature. When you play a game on Halo 3 no matter if its campaign, multilayer, custom or forge, you have a chance to watch it in there brand new feature called theater mode.

In theater mode you can watch up to the last 25 games played. Theater mode does not record the whole game like as in an AVI, what it does is record the data from that game and stores it on your Xbox. What this means is that instead of some huge Video file that would eat up space on your hard drive and take forever to load, you have the game data which takes little storage space and loads vary quickly.

The data it pulls from the HDD in essence talks to the game engine when played back, what that means is that when you play the clip its as if the game is being played right as your watching it. This gives you the freedom to fly around with in the match like a ghost and take screen shots from virtually any angle you like. As your flying around getting your shots, you have control of the game frame by frame, regular play, fast forward speed and pause. This feature can get a little addicting, and sometimes I find myself using this feature more then playing the game.

Check out some of my favorite screen shots in my gallery

~ by Rickder Six on August 26, 2008.