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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!"
I clicked that link and...wha? is this an error message? damn, no. its burried in this page.
o 2.mov.torrent
dug around a bit and found the file. here it is.
http://files.mythica.org/torrents/MLG-Seattle-Hal
Grump
Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.
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...
Because it was his first time playing it - while everyone (or nearly) everyone else in the game has been in the beta for some non-trivial amount of time.
You know how it is. FPS games don't exactly have a steep learning curve, but boy, watch out for that FIRST step. First time in a game, first time on a map - both supress your 'normal' abilities substantially.
Xentax
You shouldn't verb words.
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...
Bungie should come up with a FPH (First Person Helper) game where you run around helping people in distress. It would be named "Horns"!
Halo - worn by angels. Good.
First Person shooter - killing people. Bad.
So, to continue the contrast, a game about helping people (instead of shooting them) should be called "horns" (to associate with the devil).
Was the joke lame? probably.
Did they reach a bit far for the joke? definitely.
Am I even more lame for getting it? absolutely.
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]
This is 8 on 8 multiplayer.
Bungie has said that single player maps are better quality, for performance issues.
Also this is the beta build from E3 2004, there have been a lot of improvements since then.
Ninja Gaiden, from my experience, does not have the level of baddies swarming over the maps that a halo level does.
- Dual weapons
- Brand-new weapons (and vehicles and maps and player models and etc)
- Normal mapping and "real" shadows
- Destroyable vehicles
- Interactive, dynamic map elements (the aforementioned spinning fan, and there's more elsewhere in the level)
- XBL support
- A new single-player campaign (new maps and enemies and dialog and etc)
And yes, doing all that for a cutting-edge professional game does indeed take several years.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".
Hm, yes a direct feed of a beta build of a console game, on the high resolution of a computer monitor, in a 20 minute video. Thats a great observation. I'm sure you're one of those people who thought Doom 3 was going to suck because you played the leaked beta a few years ago.
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.
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.
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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