I was actually off work last week (hence the lack of JKTrix presence here) and I got Halo 3. I kept getting friends coming over who wanted to play, and they kind of suck at the game so I was forced to either play co-op with them on Normal or Easy. So playing through the game like that was ok, but I wasn't particularly impressed.

I started playing through it on Heroic over the weekend, like I intended to from the beginning, and it really is *much* better. Instead of most action games (and possibly the older Halo games as well) where 'Harder' = 'they take less damage and hurt you more', in Halo 3 the enemies seems to get much smarter.

And the voices! The story cutscenes are kind of meh, but the random things that your marines and the enemies say in different situations is just brilliant. I got the 'IWHBYD' skull recently, which apparently unlocks even *more* random dialogue. One thing I have heard with that, one of my guys was shooting up a Brute but I ended up killing it, and the marine said "Aw man, and I almost got an achievement!" Can't wait to see what else I encounter with that on.