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Am I the only person who didn't like HALO 3? Sometimes it feels like it, although Zero Punctuation's HALO 3 review gave me hope that there were people out there as underwhelmed as I was. I bought HALO 3 on the strength of the reviews I had read, but on playing the game found it to be ordinary in the extreme. After persevering with it for a day or so (and really wanting to like the game), I could put up with it no longer and traded it for Tom Clancy Rainbow Six Vegas. Now there's a decent game! 
Compared with HALO 3, I didn't have any trouble getting into Call of Duty 4. COD 4 grabbed me from the first moment, and it hasn't disappointed since. The single player game is absorbing and the multiplayer is intense- and with a real strategic side to it. I was preparing myself to be let-down by COD 4 just as I was by HALO 3 (and COD 3 for Wii, come to think of it...), but it looks like the game reviewers got this one right. :)
(images from got-next.com and activewin.com)
