Halo 3: ODST
Halo 3: ODST is a first-person shooter set in New Mombasa during the Covenant invasion. The campaign follows the Rookie, an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, as he searches the city and reconstructs the events that…
Halo 3: ODST is a shooter developed by Bungie, released 22 September 2009 on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 15 hrs to finish.
What Halo 3: ODST is
Halo 3: ODST is a shooter game developed by Bungie and released in 2009. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Halo 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Taking place in the Kenyan port city of New Mombasa, ODST follows a squad of elite Marine Orbital Drop Shock Troopers during the Covenant invasion of Earth on October 20, 2552. Knocked off course due to the Mombasa Slipspace Incident, these five ODSTs, accompanied by an ONI officer, fight through the waste-filled, destroyed streets in order to link up with each other, evade the Covenant, and execute a top secret mission. The game occurs directly after the events of the Halo 2 level Metropolis, when the Prophet of Regret performs a slipspace jump in New Mombasa.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction, stealth and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Halo series
Halo 3: ODST is the 17th of 55 entries we hold in the Halo series. The next entry was Halo 3 + Halo Wars in 2009. Its critic score of 78 is 3 points below the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Halo 3 at 91.
How it was received
Halo 3: ODST holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 411 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i7-975 | AMD A12-9800 APU, 2 GB RAM and GeForce GTS 450 | Radeon R7 Graphics. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 20GB.
What it launched against
Halo 3: ODST launched on 22 September 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat and Pokémon SoulSilver Version. All of them reviewed better. It was a Xbox One launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Pokémon SoulSilver Version.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Halo 3: ODST yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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