Excel - The Ultimate Halo 2 Accessory

Lev13than writes "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that a Microsoft Employee has hacked up an Excel spreadsheet that performs 'advanced analysis' on a player's Halo 2 stats. The spreadsheet tracks statistics including average kills, deaths and ranking over time, and displays them with charts and graphs. There's even a decent UI to set up reports. Data is refreshed automatically via RSS feeds from Bungie.net. The file can be found here." Bungie's RSS tracking is something we've touched on before.

Comments

Product Placement

[Red Moose]

This is advertising and product/brand placement gone too far. When I read this stuff in a newspaper I wonder does anyone believe it's an actual article or is it basically advertising - there's no need to mention:

Microsoft (14 times) Halo 2 (12 times) Excel (11 times)

Halo 2 stuff was everywhere - marketed to the kids but now they are trying to get to the money market of 25-35 yo people (the PS2 market).

It's a sure fire way to get people to pirate copies of Office XP though. This Seattle Times "article" is an advert, nothing more.

Re:H2SA kicks ass

[BorgHunter]

Or you could just get a copy of OpenOffice and have the ability to track your stats AND open other Excel files as well. Not to mention Word and Powerpoint.

Re:H2SA kicks ass

[darkpurpleblob]

Have you tested the spreadsheet it in OpenOffice? The current spreadsheet only works in Excel 2003 Professional, so I am somewhat dubious it would work in OpenOffice.