Gameplay
Campaign: Halo 3: ODST has pretty much the same take on the action as other halo games, but the way the campaign plays out is somewhat different. All of the guns you have come to know are here, including the fuel rod gun, assault rifle, sniper rifle, and rocket launcher. You start out as a rookie that is being shot down into a covenant carrier attacking the African mega city, New Mombasa. However, things suddenly go wrong when you and your squad are sent off course and land in different parts of the city. About half the game is you playing as the rookie and looking for clues as to what happened to your squadmates. Once you find a clue, like a broken helmet or a bent sniper rifle, you then play a action packed mission and get to see how the item you found got there. There are also audio logs that shed some light on how the covenant invasion got started, and supply caches that you can find across the map. The action missions vary from driving a scorpion through the city and blowing the crap out of anything you see, to leading a warthog charge through a covenant-occupied park. As I've said before, it is pretty much the same gameplay as you've always had with the series.
Firefight: Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach both feature a gamemode called firefight. In this mode, you start out with a certain amount of lives, and you have to survive as long as possible. Each round you have to survive is split up into the initial wave, and four waves of reinforcements that are deployed on the battlefield via phantom dropships. When you complete a round, you gain one life and all of the medkits and weapons automatically respawn. You can choose to enable the secondary skulls if you want before the game starts, but the primary skulls are automatically enabled as time goes on. Firefight is a great way to kill some time if you're bored.
Multiplayer: If you bought the campaign edition of Halo 3: ODST on the xbox live marketplace, the game does not come with any multiplayer. However, if you buy a physical copy from gamestop or order one online, it will come with a seperate multiplayer disc, which includes the Heroic and Mythic DLC map packs, plus the built in maps for regular halo 3 multiplayer. If you have halo 3 already, there isn't much new here besides the free map packs.
Price
If you buy from the xbox live marketplace, just the campaign and firefight will cost $14.99. If you buy from gamestop like I did, the campaign, firefight, and multiplayer plus DLC will only cost $6.99. On amazon the price is about $15. Check it out below:
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