The Halo 2 Council of Celebrities

An anonymous reader writes "I just read about this over at VH1.com. It's called the Halo 2 Council, and it's made up of celebrities who get to play Halo 2 in advance of the launch. Don't expect to join, though. This council is only open to societies' most respected artists and intellectuals: Linkin Park, Hoobastank, some guy that plays sports, a girl that appeared on Friends, and an actor from The 0.C."

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aye ehs dee eff

[u-238]

this is all part of the trend... it's now cool and "in" to be a "gamer"

just take a look at the new G4TechTV, it's like MTV, quite literally, only with videogames. anyone who has that channel can corroborate with me on this.

Respect artists....

[(SM) Spacemonkey]

This council is only open to societies' most respected artists and intellectuals: Linkin Park, Hoobastank, some guy that plays sports, a girl that appeared on Friends, and an actor from The 0.C."

I hope that quote is sarcastic. Call me when Thom Yorke endorses halo... from the article within the article...

The bands have contributed exclusive songs to the soundtrack of the much-anticipated video game "Halo 2." Although the songs won't be featured in the new game, each tune was inspired by the 3-year-old original "Halo," whose expansive terrain, advanced artificial intelligence and seamless gameplay raised the bar for first-person shooters. Halo 2: Original Soundtrack Volume One is due November 9, the same day the game hits stores. Hoobastank lend "Connected," while Breaking Benjamin offer "Blow Me Away." Although the members of each group are "Halo" fanatics, Incubus pay the biggest homage with a four-part musical epic called "The Odyssey." The 20-minute operetta actually came relatively easy to them, guitarist Mike Einziger said.

What are all the real artisits doing bandaid this year or something? Seriously roll out Bono, this is a crime against humanity. Incubus doing a 20 minute opera that "came easy to them". Call me when Roger Walters starts playing Halo. And I saw this "Hoobastank" on some Video Music Awards... this so called rock band... the "drummer" was a drum machine and they had this poor guy on a chair up the back with a snare and one hat. Kids these days don't even know what a drum kit looks like. These bands have the highest fan to talent ratio in the history of popular music. Example A http://www.moad.org/member/Jon/FredShred.WMV Fred Durst unable to play guitar and butchering a modern classic. Example B: Nickleback singing the same song twice but calling it something different http://www.nintendorks.com/brandon/archives/000475 .php and just last night... new pop princess Ashlee simpson found lip syncing on SNLhttp://www.collegehumor.com/news/ashlee_snl.wmv
Halo, halo my precious halo. You are a god among console fps, why, why lower yourself to this?

Not a very insightful spoiler

[Roman_(ajvvs)]

Someone else's feelings and suppositions hardly spoil my fun or potential satisfaction of the plot. But then I'm not the only one reading this. Some plots shouldn't clearly end. I'll reserve my final feelings until I see the end credits.

Has anyone ever considered that new single player levels might get downloaded from Xbox live? now that could be paid content worth having! Regardless of the brevity or length of plot or gameplay time, I expect that if there was enough demand they could use live to extend the game far beyond the lifespan of HALO (which I still play heavily).

Aisha Tyler

[pawnIII]

Ms. Tyler is a huge fan of Halo, and I could see allowing her to play it, since people say shes actually really good and played Halo 1 since the Xbox came out. The case that they get to play Halo2 is sweet though. Its a fact that Celebs get all the perks. Makes me less sad for Bungie/MS about the Halo2 leak, especially since I don't have an Xbox.