It deftly moves from small-scale, close-quarters combat to wider arenas, while always maintaining blockbuster tension and thrills – and that’s on top of the thrilling vehicle missions and a great use of the franchise-defining Skulls to turn the gameplay experience on its head. Doing away with the dual-perspective campaign of Halo 2, Halo 3 firmly puts players through their paces as Spartan John-117, channeling Bungie’s top-tier gunplay through a series of memorable encounters.
Halo 3 allowed players to finally finish the fight, with a trilogy-ending campaign that brings Master Chief’s story to a thrilling conclusion. Call of Duty campaigns typically range from serviceable at best to genuinely well-done, but it’s hard to look past Modern Warfare’s as the best of the lot. The list goes on, with the chilling realism of ‘Death from Above’ to ‘Aftermath’ and its brief but haunting glimpse of the devastating results of a nuclear blast. Highlights include the immediately gripping opener ‘Crew Expendable’ with its heart-pounding finishing race to evacuate the now sinking Estonian freighter to the now-iconic ‘All Ghillied Up’ and its eerie rendition of post-disaster Chernobyl. Modern Warfare’s story careens along at a mostly breakneck pace, but it’s a wildly entertaining ride from start to finish, with an enthralling set of missions featuring some of the most memorable levels of the entire franchise.
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