Cortana is good, it has the most flood with no repeatable rooms and nice level design. Send Private Message; Browse All Posts (3,067) Block; Blocked; Member Level 08 Blank Slate. Disorienting and repetitive, this level kills all momentum gained from the rest of the campaign. Your role as a moderator enables you immediately ban this user from messaging (bypassing the report queue) if you select a punishment. I didn't dislike it, it was just frustrating sometimes. Explosions erupt throughout the reactor room. I liked it more than most levels, everything else was easy, but Cortana was a good challenge. Annoyingly difficult, needlessly confusing, and very, very boring. The tentacle comes back and tries to ensnare the dropship, but the Pelican pulls free of its grip. We enter a Flood-infested High Charity in order to rescue Cortana in this eighth mission of the Halo 3 Campaign. The level prior, 'Cortana', was a massive slog (it always was, but this is just ridiculous). The Chief would have to insert Cortana so she could take control of it. [2] Originally, the level had a proper High Charity geometry completely different from the geometry seen inside the Flood-infested cruiser in Floodgate. Cortana slowly gets up. The Chief begins his journey through the hive, killing any Flood in his path. Cortana is easily Halo 3's most annoying and challenging mission. The original idea for the level Cortana was entirely scratched. For Halo: The Master Chief Collection on the Xbox One, a GameFAQs message board topic titled "Halo CE has the worst campaign and level design ever". The player's mission is to find Cortana in order to activate Installation 08. 0 0. I am SO sick of that word. I didn't have much of a problem with it, and I would like to know why people disliked it. Concept art of an encounter between the Chief and the Gravemind. Anyway, this is Cortana, and we have to go into High Charity (which now looks like the inside of a colon) and rescue Cortana. We can, indeed, agree that Cortana is the worst level of Halo 3 and perhaps the worst level of the whole series. I liked most of Halo 3's missions. People talk about The Library and Cortana but levels like Crows Nest and Keys are just slogs to get through. Upon completing the level on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary difficulties, the player will earn the "Cleansing" achievement and 30 Gamerscore; in Halo: The Master Chief Collection, this achievement, now only worth 10 Gamerscore, can also be obtained on Easy. Final levels in Halo are typically easier compared to the missions that precede it. Also, Cortana really isn't that big of a slog on legendary. The first three levels of Halo 2 are probably the best levels out of the first three Halo games, actually. But, without intending to sound snobbish, it’s also a game that I don’t think the bulk of its audience really thinks about, at least in terms of its narrative. The Master Chief leans closer towards the panel Cortana's on. I have defied gods and demons. For the human AI, see, List of campaign levels and multiplayer maps in the, Halo 4 : King of the Hill Fueled by Mountain Dew, The Art of Halo: Creating a Virtual World, The Great Journey: The Art of Building Worlds. What is the worst halo level ever in CE, 2 or 3? As she does, she begins to glow more brightly and the lines of code and equations begin to fall over her surface again. The player had to follow Cortana's footprints to know where to go. Member since: Mar. The section of the level after saving Cortana is called 'Nor Hell A Fury...', referencing the poem by William Congreve 'The Mourning Bride'. Upon completing it on the Normal, Heroic, or Legendary difficulties, the player will earn "The Key" achievement and 40 Gamerscore. It is unequivocally one of the worst designed levels I've ever played through in any game, to the point where I wonder if any play-testing at all was done on it. Once you get the rhythm of it (go slowly, wait for flood to pour out of walls, shoot whilst running backwards, assault rifle for the testes on legs and shotgun for everything else) it's not even difficult, it's just so BORING. Weapons aside from the DMR feel like pea shooters, worst feeling gunplay in the franchise. Anonymous 12/05/20(Sat)18:44:44 No. Also, Cortana really isn't that big of a slog on legendary. The Chief uploads Cortana into the Pelican's holotank and starts up the engines. I think most people can agree on that. Luckily Halo 5 is salvaged by it’s multiplayer component which was the best we’d seen since Halo 3. Odd that it is that Bungie decided to call the last level of Halo 3 the same thing as they called the second level of Halo: Combat Evolved, this level lives up to its name. Ctrl Alt Del. - Some Checkpoints are bullshit. If u ever read the halo comics tht mysterious planet it cortanas home planet, Onyx and i have a feeling that cortana Was made by the forrunners just a thought :p 12 years ago God. In halo 2 you leave her on a covenant space ship with the flood but you retrieve her at the end. Halo 2 > Halo 3 > CE > ODST >>>>> Reach >>>>> soulless trash like looter shooters and fortnite >>>>> 343 games 343 Halo is the Disney Star Wars Sequels of video games. The Chief would have to hold his position on the Scarab by fending off invading Flood forms and shooting off the Gravemind's tentacles that would try to latch on the Scarab. However, he successfully destroys all three reactor pylons. 1 decade ago. It’s confusing, and so many rooms look the same. Endless onslaught of Legendary insta-death. Perhaps not for it's gameplay, but for it's story elements. This level is the only time that ever really comes into play. Cortana from Halo is a beloved character for her relationship with Master Chief. 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