Halo 3‘s high-res screen capture and “video” replay features continue to entertain and amaze me even though the game’s been out a few months shy of two years, so I figured I’d resurrect a series of posts from my old blog chronicling various Halo-related hijinks I’ve experienced while competing on Xbox Live. Customarily, I recount the situation leading to the screen capture and try to impart some Halo wisdom in the process – a process that will quite possibly only be interesting to me.

Anyway, here I am hitching a ride on an enemy controlled Warthog, only to relieve the driver of his wheelman duties. Although I appear to be tossing him from the ‘hog like Harrison Ford did Gary Oldman in Air Force One, I have actually just landed a second monster left hook, catapulting my foe from his seat. Maybe he should have buckled up.

I regret to admit that after all my thousands of Halo matches, I didn’t even know you could melee the driver of a Warthog until someone did it to me last week. The lesson: if someone’s dominating a map with a Warthog and you can’t quite seem to time that plasma grenade just right, call shotgun and beat the crap out of the driver. Just make sure you exit the vehicle promptly, before all your teammates empty their grenade reserves at the vehicle to teach the helpless chain-gunner a lesson about the pitfalls of utilizing annoying Halo tactics.

By Tim Graffam