Screenshots from Halo 3
When a video game series is as wildly popular as the Halo series, which includes Halo 3, of course, then it’s bound to result in there being many screenshots available. This article concentrates on some of the weird and wild Halo 3 screenshots.
Before we get on to the Halo 3 screenshots specifically, let’s have a look at the figures that create all of this media. Over 9 million copies of Halo 3 have been sold so far. 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 make screenshots. A great deal can take place in 90 million hours, and with all the image-uploading websites online, a great deal of it has been uploaded.
One of the things 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 find the top 10 Halo 3 screenshots, you’ll find a picture of Master Chief lying dead on the ground, clearly not showing a face inside his helmet. This explains why we never see his face, say many people, because he does not actually have one.
Another of the Halo 3 screenshots featuring in the top 10 Halo 3 screenshots is that of a Marine getting hammered on a floodgate. Someone commented that it looks a lot like Han Solo when he was frozen in Carbonite. And guess what? – they’re absolutely correct.
The makers of Halo 3 decided to make it much easier for people to take Halo 3 screenshots and to share them all over the Internet. To achieve this, they created a ‘Saved Films’ feature in the game. This feature allows people to slow down the action, or even to freeze it, change the camera angles 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 takes place in the game, so it can later be turned into videos are screenshots.
Yet another feature that has a little bit to do with Halo 3 screenshots in the ‘Save Films’ feature, is the viewing of previously saved films. You see, the saves are not just images or video, they’re actual game data. This means two things: A] the file size is very small and B] the whole game can be replayed from different 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 look at it. That’s a lot better than plain Halo 3 screenshots.
If you like Halo 3 and are interested in learning more about it, why not pop over to Halo 3 Screenshots on our web site entitled Halo 3 Insider Secrets
