At long last, Rare has finally released information on the much anticipated threequel to the Banjo-Kazooie franchise.

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts(as it is now called) will take the series in a new, innovative direction. Rest assured it will still be a platformer, but this time around much of the gameplay will involve crafting your own vehicle and using it to perform various tasks( like finding Jiggies of course). People will have the option of choosing hundreds of different parts and building their own car, boat, plane or helicopter…How cool is that!

The story of course sounds Banjo-esque and is sure to include all that wacky British humor. A higher power (dubbed the Lord of the Games, who apparently created every video game ever made) holds a contest of sorts between Banjo(and Kazooie) and Gruntilda for the ownership of Spiral Mountain(the hub world from the previous games for those who aren’t familiar with Banjo). I assume Banjo(being the good guy) competes for ownership to keep things as is, while Gruntilda(now reduced to a skull in a robot suit) wants to construct shopping malls and whatnot, destroying Spiral Mountain in the process. Quite wacky indeed.

Rareware has also announced that the game will have multi-player via xbox live! Players can take their customized vehicle online and challenge others to races and other competitions.

So as you can probably tell I’m pretty goosed up for this game, but how could I not be, it has Mumbo Jumbo in it!

Halo 3 is (obviously) the third and final (doubt it) game in the extremely popular Halo trilogy, and as such, it had a lot to live up to. The question is; did it live up to the expectations? Well…Yes..but it didn’t really surpass them either. It’s more or less the same as the other 2 games with a few new additions and better graphics.

Gameplay-wise, not much has changed from the previous installments. It’s still the same, staight-forward “shoot the alien bad guys” gameplay from before…Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, but a little more originality is always welcome at the house of yams. The big innovation, however, is that the game records anything and everything you do, whether it’s a triumphant victory or a humiliating defeat, and allows you to replay them, rewind, fast-forward, pause or any of that fancy stuff. Its a nice addition to the game but when it comes right down to it it really doesn’t add much to the actual gameplay.

Multi-player is, as always, where Halo shines. Chances are you’ll play the campaign mode for a while, get bored (with all those plot holes and whatnot) and go straight to xbox live. Some glitches are still present (why is it when I pistol whip the back of this guy’s head I’m the one who dies?!) but it’s a small price to pay for how much fun it is to frantically take your enemies’ flag back to your base while bullets fly over head. The aforementioned camera is also most fun when reviewing your past online matches.

Graphic-wise Halo 3 is easily the best looking Halo game, all of Master Chief’s armor looks smooth N’ shiny, the people look more realistic, grass blows in the wind, all that jazz. The music is high quality as well, even if most of it is recycled from before.

So all in all Halo 3 is a very fun game, but its basically Halo 2 on xbox 360. So if you like Halos 1 and 2, then you will like Halo 3, but if Halo isn’t your cup of tea, may I suggest Gears of War?

Master Chief is still a stupid name…..

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