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Halo Hackers Go Wild, Unleash Flamethrower

Posted by simoniker on from the doing-bad-things-with-your-xbox dept.

Thanks to Halo.Bungie.Org for info on a new Halo Xbox hacking movie revealing some spectacular new tricks, including the ability to use the previously unavailable flamethrower and gravity rifle weapons in-game, plus much more outlandish stunts. As the site says, "...even if you're not excited by the hacking scene, it's a hoot to see how much damage you can do when you're standing in a tower of 3 dozen Master Chiefs and your assault rifle fires frag grenades." These hacks were accomplished by hex-editing a cache file on a modified Xbox, and coincidentally, Gearbox Software have just posted the a new screenshot of the PC-exclusive flamethrower weapon, which probably works a sight better than the unfinished Xbox one.

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  1. If Halo is only an average FPS... by BigKato · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...like so many on /. proclaim why are there so many articles on it? It is a superior game to most FPS around. Have any of you played the coop mode on it? It's the best coop around, adds so much more gameplay, and demands strategy when you crank the skill level all the way up. The game also has quite a good sense of humor about itself.

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    So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
    1. Re:If Halo is only an average FPS... by ceejayoz · · Score: 2, Insightful

      god, I love coop... I played a huge amount with my brother, and we pretty much knew exactly what the other would do - felt like being on a highly trained special ops team or something... managed to beat the game on Legendary - craziness :-D

      it's a pity they won't have it on Halo PC... hopefully Halo 2 will have it, though

  2. Re:strange... by waffle+zero · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It is just me or did the soundtrack seem, well, japanese?

    The song used is the movie is "Let Me Be With You" and according to some lyrics I found, the artist is ROUND TABLE featuring Nino. The song was used as the title theme to the anime series Chobits.

    The series was recently released on DVD in North America and seems to have a sold fan following. Although I have to admit, the song is vastly out of place in a Halo video. I've watched the fan subs and a song whose refrain made me cry in the last episode seems like blasphemy in this context. Why couldn't they have done like every other demo video and choose generic metal like that Drowning Pool song "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor"?