Griffball is the nearly the fifth greatest fictitious futuristic sporting event. If I had to pick ‘em, the list would go like this:
1: Blitzball from Final Fantasy X
2: Deathrace 2000
3: A tie between the Running Man and The Hunger Games
4: Rollerball
4: Griffball
Griffball in the Halo franchise should be called, “Griefball,” because all you do is Grief your opponents and fellow players. Griffball is the only matchmaking game where it’s conceivably possible for the average player to score a 10 multi-kill, with only four opponents. In other games, they don’t spawn fast enough, or close enough to rank that up. The rules are very simple: You pick up a ball and drop it into your opponent’s “net” on the ground. Everyone except the ball-carrier has either a gravity hammer, or energy sword. That’s it. Teams of 4 vs. 4. It’s easier to kill your own teammate by mistake, or on purpose in this game than any other math of Halo, because you’re just wildly swinging a gravity hammer around, and you’re all running for the same kill. The un-official “goal” of Griffball is to steal the ball and hang out back by your own net, while your other teammates and you rank up kills in a stalemate match. You’ll want to sneak in behind the other team’s spawn point and repeatedly spawn camp them. If they’re AFK, you’ve struck murder-gold.
Griffball just dropped for ranked matchmaking Halo 4, and it’s actually taken away a lot of the advancements Halo Reach had introduced, like jet-packs and other power-ups. A lot of people wondered why Griffball wasn’t there at launch. If you look at it, though, Griffball is kind of a gimmie when it comes to spectacular kills and ranking-up. Halo 4 is trying to be CoD, with progressive levelling and unlocks. Griffball lets you burn through a lot of the rank-ups, especially in weapons and multikill.
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