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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!"
Ummm... this is about Halo 2, not Half-Life 2. Obviously, since Bungie (the makers of Halo 2) are now owned by Microsoft, there's not much chance of a Linux port.
-PainKilleR-[CE]
Well I love Halo and have been able to beat it twice by myself on Ledgendary, it is hard. I needed help the first time though. So I have beaten it a total of 3 times. Man I love it. It's the ease of gameplay and mainly I'd say the whole interactivity with most of your environment. To tell you the truth, this is the only game I have actually found a use for the grenade and they are very effective, just like it should be. Everything from the sounds the other species make (Elites- "Wut wut wut"), to the ability to have CPU riders on your Warthog that actually use their AI and fire accurately on enemies. Also, most games have loads of clip. Clip = walking through part of or full objects. I have only seen one instance of this in Halo and it was where I was intentonally overloading the map with grenades on one spot and trying to blow up a Warthog into a tree, only the tire partially went in. I have watched the E3 demo movie for Halo 2 and being able to now hold double weapons and all kinds of new guns and vehicles, it will be great. Better graphics too, they've moved the release date back so much though because Halo was still selling quite well, I wish they would just get on with this one...I already have it preordered, not gonna be available for at least 2 months otherwise.
They should have used Sleepy for the cameraman, he was badass. I was mostly awed by the awesome gameplay, dual weapons, etc. I strongly disagree that it looks like crap, it's a poor quality movie but the graphics themselves are much better than what you can see here, if you look at screenshots from http://bungie.com/SlideShow.aspx?Path=%2Fgames%2FH alo2&Slideshow=Screenshots&Slide=0&MSID=B6BC0A056B 9A462AA38C6886DC7D7BE9/ they're quite a bit better than what you can see there. I wish we had seen some different maps and more use of the warthog and ghost, but overall, it was damn cool. I shall be promptly moving in with my Xbox-owning friend.
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