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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The best and the brightest.

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

When they are done playing Halo 2, NASA has requested their advice on plants for the mars trip.

Don't you just love people who are famous because of their fame?

Re:The best and the brightest.

[servognome]

NASA Administrator: Team, what should our next mission be?
NASA Scientist 1: First Post!! (+3 funny)
NASA Scientist 2: FP! OMG LOL!! (-1 redundant)
NASA Scientist 3: We should bring back some Mars rocks to research planetary formation so we can understand if it had a strong magnetic field early during its formation. Of course MY projects never get funded because you are too shortsigthed and continue to soak up resources for the doomed ISS (+2 Interesting [50% Interesting, 50% Troll])
NASA Scientist 4: I for one welcome out Martian Rock Overlords (+3 Funny [70% Funny, 30% Overrated])
NASA Scientist 1: 1. Spend billions on rock collecting mission, 2. ???, 3. Profit! (0 [100% Overrated])
Anonymous Coward: You guys are a bunch of dorks, stop spending my tax dollars, go home to your parents basement and play D&D, and let private companies do space exploration. (+5 Funny [20% Interesting, 80% Funny])

Breaking News

[LordOfYourPants]

As a well-deserved reward for admitting in public that they've seen a screenshot of a PC game in the past, celebrities have been given the opportunity to play a pre-release version of Team Fortress 2 which is scheduled to be out "sometime soon."

Not only will they receive a copy of TF2, but they will receive a gold-plated Personal Computer (a modern device which does calculations) with which to play them on.

Now let's take a look at the chosen few:

Noam Chomsky, the post-modern Thor Aeckurlund of gaming gods (and a decent linguist too) was quoted as saying "I'm going to be all over this like media on East Timor."

Boutrous Boutros-Ghali, upon seeing how the gold-plated computer would fit snugly into his SUV's front panel was heard saying "We will unite the nations through team gameplay and a global punkbuster."

George W Bush was concerned as to whether or not the game would work on all three of his Internets but was quickly calmed by Gore who said it would work on all of the ones he invented.

Finally, to round out the chosen four, a copy was given to Bill O'r^]CONNECTION LOST

Hacked version?

[Zarks]

What about the thousands who have dl/d the leaked version off the net and played that? Do they get to join?

That club doesn't sound so exclusive any more.

Re:surprise surprise

[patternjuggler]

now that Bungie is famous (/ with MS) the "nerds" (game players) who were their "friends" from the beginning get dumped for the "cool kids"

Why is Bungie not letting dedicated fans play Halo2 before launch? (rhetorical question)

I'm guessing they "want" some "free" advertising on Entertainment Tonight (tv show with viewership largely unaware of Halo or the sequel). The "friends/nerds" (paying customers) of Bungie have already pre-ordered the game. The game is so huge that there is no one who pays attention to games that doesn't know about it- they have to put previews in movie theaters, stage strange stuff like ilovebees, and get some people who are recognizable and good-looking to get their picture taken playing the game in order to reach out to a bigger market.

Hoobastank

[delus10n0]

Someone should tell the Hoobastank lead singer to stop wasting time playing video games and learn how to actually sing.

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).