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Making Of Halo 2 Video Officially Released

Posted by simoniker on from the corona-effect dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Halo.bungie.org has made available a video showing a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Halo 2. The video was shown at the X03 event earlier this year but hasn't been officially available on the 'net. It weighs in at 100MB, with both direct-download and BitTorrent links." We previously covered a shakycam version of this movie, but it's now available in hi-res splendor.

27 comments

  1. Slashdotted beyond hell ... by Jordi+Bunster · · Score: 0, Redundant

    With 0 comments. Feel the power of Slashdot!

    (With a direct link to a 100 meg file, what else do you want??) :)

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    1. Re:Slashdotted beyond hell ... by JFMulder · · Score: 1

      I don't know what you're talking about. Don't mean to brag, but I clicked on the link from files.bungie.org and I got it under 5 minutes...

    2. Re:Slashdotted beyond hell ... by Jordi+Bunster · · Score: 1

      I know. It took me a long time to only load the page. I clicked on the download link, posted the comment about the slashdotting, went for a beer, and by the time I came back, the download was at sixty something percent. I reloaded the page, checked the screenshots, and it was all nice and fast.

      "Oh shit. I'm going to be modded down", I thought.

      Oh well. We'll just have to slashdot someone else. :)

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    3. Re:Slashdotted beyond hell ... by PatrickThomson · · Score: 1

      five minutes! see what I mean! that's terrible! why, that's only 300k/sec!

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  2. Bittorrent by MMaestro · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Nice to see more and more companies shifting over to bittorrent for files they know will be in high demand.

    But keep in mind that bittorrent is only as good as the number and speeds uploaders can give downloaders (or leechers in the case of bittorrent). Don't bother trying to use the bittorrent if you wanna download this more than 2 weeks after today.

    1. Re:Bittorrent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Thanks for the amazing point about bittorrent, Mr. Obvious. I don't know how this got modded insightful. "Wow, this guy is regurgitating obvious things about something barely related to the topic! Quickly, give him points!"

    2. Re:Bittorrent by ctr2sprt · · Score: 4, Interesting
      Best way to do BT for this sort of thing is to change your high-bandwidth FTP (or HTTP, but only the part that serves files) into BT seeds. Best of both worlds: even if the mirrors become saturated, cable and DSL leeches will generally ensure a minimum 20k/s download; and two weeks after a spike in popularity, the torrent will still work just fine (in fact, you'll be downloading from all the mirrors simultaneously, so there's primitive load balancing as a fringe benefit).

      There are a number of other benefits, like no more wading through pages of mirrors trying to find one that works and isn't full. You could probably use it as an rsync replacement, but I'm not sure that would work well. Still, it will iron out file corruption that gets introduced in mirrors sometimes.

  3. Anybody else notice the irony? by Gogo+Dodo · · Score: 5, Funny
    Anybody else notice the irony of seeing the Microsoft coffee cup sitting next to Joseph Staten's Apple display and Harmon Kardon SoundSticks (2:06 into the movie)?

    Written on a Mac, released on XBox, way delayed for release on the Mac.

    1. Re:Anybody else notice the irony? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Written on a Mac, released on XBox, way delayed for release on the Mac.

      Unless Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 .NET runs on a Mac, they're not using a Mac to write it. VS2k3 is the *required* Xbox development environment. The compiler isn't available for any other platform than Windows.

      You may not be aware, but it's easy to use Apple screens with a PC - and many people do because there is limited choice when it comes to large wide-screen aspect ratios.

      The person with the apple screen may also not be a programmer. Content creation can be done on almost any platform.

    2. Re:Anybody else notice the irony? by Gogo+Dodo · · Score: 1
      You may not be aware, but it's easy to use Apple screens with a PC - and many people do because there is limited choice when it comes to large wide-screen aspect ratios.

      It wasn't a Cinema Display.

      The person with the apple screen may also not be a programmer. Content creation can be done on almost any platform.

      I'm quite well aware of that. By "written" I meant writing the script as that is what Joseph does. I didn't mean "written" as in programmed, though I can see the line of your confusion.

    3. Re:Anybody else notice the irony? by alphaseven · · Score: 1
      Anybody else notice the irony of seeing the Microsoft coffee cup sitting next to Joseph Staten's Apple display and Harmon Kardon SoundSticks (2:06 into the movie)?

      I found it more ironic that their "design lead" had a statuette of Rikku from FFX behind him... maybe he'd rather be at Square.

    4. Re:Anybody else notice the irony? by agent+oranje · · Score: 1

      Bungee was an Apple exclusive developer back-in-the-day, as we're all aware... Maybe they're still Apple fans and they're just running the dev tools through VirtualPC.

      I found it more ironic that the video was released in QuickTime format. I was all set to not be able to watch it because it was a WMV - vlc and mplayer don't exactly support them well. But, alas, Bungee made me proud.

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    5. Re:Anybody else notice the irony? by DeadScreenSky · · Score: 1

      It would be more bizarre to see a game dev without some kind of swag related to other games in their office...

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  4. Does anyone even care? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sure, Halo did very well on the x-box. Console gamers don't get a lot of decent FPS titles. Halo was the new hotness in 1999 when it was demoed at MacWorld. By 2001 it was already old and busted, to say nothing of its 2003 PC debut. (And I'm sure it'll be even better when it comes out on the Mac Real Soon Now (tm).)

    Jason Jones and Alex S can burn in hell for selling out.

    1. Re:Does anyone even care? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      BooHooo :(

      Repost (see which one you are):
      ---
      Halo:

      - It was supposed to be on my precious Apple :(
      - I don't get what the big deal is :(
      - The levels suck :(
      - Bungie sold out :(
      - It's made by M$ so it must suck, right? :(
      - Could you image how cool it would have been if they released it as originally intended :(

      BOO-HOO !!!

      Meanwhile (in the real world)...Halo continues to remain the best console FPS to date. It's a truly awsome & artistic game. The graphics, sound, music, story, gameplay, multiplayer all excel. Its main fault? Some repetitive levels near the end of the game.

      And Halo2? Check out the preview videos. Imagine it on Xbox Live. It's gonna be great.

      Microsoft Game Studios is aquiring quite the reputation.
      ---

    2. Re:Does anyone even care? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Halo continues to remain the best console FPS to date.
      Gee, isn't that a bit like "Most Enjoyable Fingernail Peeling"? Or "Best Screen Door Submarine"?
    3. Re:Does anyone even care? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Gee, isn't that a bit like "Most Enjoyable Fingernail Peeling"? Or "Best Screen Door Submarine"?

      "Not only is [Halo] easily the best of the Xbox launch games, but it's easily one of the best shooters ever, on any platform."
      -- Joe Fielder, GAMESPOT"

      Rotten Tomatoes Games ranking of 100% (best possible score)

  5. Can you say Pulitzer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What an epic tale. Who has the movie rights?

  6. Re:FPS belongs on PCs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "soon to be kicked off the market by PS2 anyways"

    LOL...I was a ps2'er then I bought Xbox, worth every penny!!!

  7. Site is slashdotted, bittorent links here by jimmars83 · · Score: 0



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