• Rewinding saved films doesn’t work quite like you’d expect it to
• AI-controlled Marines can’t drive to save their lives (or yours)
• Inevitable flood of prepubescent online players sure to hamper your enjoyment of the online modes.

Regardless of how you felt about its cliffhanger ending, there’s no denying that Halo 2 was a gigantic success that raised the bar for what we, as a game-playing society, expect out of a good console-based first-person shooter. In the years that followed, plenty of games attempted to duplicate the Halo formula, with varying degrees of success. But there’s still nothing quite like the genuine item. Luckily for all involved, Halo 3 is a positively amazing package that offers extreme satisfaction across all of its different parts. Maybe now you can finally retire your Halo 2 disc and really move into the next generation of games.