Protect Master Chief With Halo 3 Armor
A new and exciting feature to Halo 3 for xbox is the new Halo 3 armor. This new feature allows players to change the look of their character by having these new armor permutations. It doesn’t matter if the gamer is playing as the SPARTAN character or the Covenant Elite character, since there are new armor permutations available for both. There are however more armor permutations available for the gamer playing as the SPARTAN compared to the gamer playing as the Covenant elite, due to the fact that generally there are more gamers who play as the SPARTAN character.
There are several different ways that a gamer can unlock the Halo 3 armor. Some are already unlocked by default; others are unlocked by achieving certain levels in the game. Some of the armor permutations maybe unlocked by getting all of the Halo 3 achievements and some armor maybe unlocked by beating the game on either Heroic or Legendary mode. For example take a look at the Hayabusa helmet, to unlock this helmet you have to collect all skulls in the game.
Another example is the Elite body armor that is called ‘Commando’. To unlock this body armor you have to complete the triple kill achievement. The first time that the new armor permutations were discovered was in the Halo 3 beta, and it’s been calculated that there are over 187,947,000 combinations that gamers can choose from.
If the gamer is playing as the Covenant Elite character, they have 625 armor permutations that can be chosen from. The Elite character’s have 5 helmets, 5 shoulder pieces and 5 chest pieces that can be used to create their character to better reflex themselves. Each gamer who plays as an Elite character can choose from one helmet, two shoulder pieces and a chest piece for their character.
For the gamer that plays as the SPARTAN character, they have more options for Halo 3 armor, due to that fact that in general, more gamers play as this character. There are 6,144 different armor permutations that can be chosen from. For the gamer that plays as the SPARTAN character, they can choose one helmet, two shoulder pieces and one chest piece for their character.
