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Halo 2 Direct-feed Multiplayer Video Released
An anonymous reader writes "Bungie made an appearance at last weekend's Major League Gaming competition in Seattle, and they brought along a beta copy of Halo 2 for the contestants to play with. Major League Gaming recorded the games and gave some of that of footage to halo.bungie.org, who have turned it into a 122MB, 18-minute-long Quicktime video which is being distributed via BitTorrent. This is the first non-shakycam video footage of Halo 2 multiplayer to be released, and man, does it look good!"
Uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has apparently been taken over -- 'conquered' if you will -- by a master race of first person shooter sequels. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the sequels will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new gaming overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground data mines."
Great footage, but why-oh-why did the first guy who got to play the Halo 2 beta and have his footage recorded and distributed around the world have to suck so bad? I'm waiting to see the laser sword in the hands of someone who can actually do more than run around in circles waving it like a third-string high school flag girl while he gets lit up by players whose recorded games might have been far more interesting...
... now that they don't have Major League Baseball any more.
(sorry Ichiro fans)
1: Bungie should come up with a FPH (First Person Helper) game where you run around helping people in distress. It would be named "Horns"!
2: Flim flam flobby do wanna ska na wanna danna ding dong.
Compare statements 1 and 2, I'll bet you they both make about as much sense.
I'm with you, not a clue what that person was talking about.
I think what he is trying to say is that the title of the game is ironic, because although you go around killing people, it's called Halo, like what an angel has on his head. The poster then makes the questionable leap of logic that Bungie would be well-served to create the converse of Halo, a first-person "helper" game entitled Horns (like what devils have) where you help people instead of killing them. While I can reluctantly admit that this makes some sort of vague sense in the most rudimentary way, what I'm struggling to wrap my brain around is in what stunted, embarrasingly awkward fashion the poster thought this type of comment would be amusing to other human beings. De gustibus non est disputandum and all that, but you really got to wonder sometimes...
I agree with you. I think that they did it so that we can drool and say "Wow, I can't wait to go and kick some ass".
Seriously. Though I must admit I laughed when the guy playing got into the driver's seat of the Warthog, and his teammates all jumped out.