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Halo 3 Teaser Aired, Beta Signups Start
Gamespot reports on the airing of the Halo 3 Teaser trailer on Monday Night Football, and the beginning of signups for the Halo 3 beta at Halo3.com. From the article: "[Yesterday] registration for the beta program began at the Halo 3 Web site. The beta will initially be open to North American gamers, and not everyone who applies is guaranteed a spot. To participate, gamers must have: a) An Xbox 360 with a hard-drive; b) A valid Xbox Live Gold subscription; c) A valid Microsoft. NET Passport account with a Xbox Live GamerTag linked to it." The teaser featured a mix of live-action and very impressive CG. It just didn't grab me in the same way that the trailer from E3 did, though. If you're interested in some more substantive information on the game, the folks at Ziff have been offering up information via the 1up Show.
Gamespot requires registration. Can anyone post the HD version (I know...46 Mb is kinda big) for me to look at? Please?
Make the worst beta testers. I hope to go bungie looks at the people who signed up near the middle first. They are more likely to give honest feed back about what is wrong with the game.
You mad
A mix of live action and CG? It looked like it was entirely CG to me. Not to say that the CG didn't look great, it did. I just don't recall any live action. Did I miss something?
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Halo 2 has co-op just as Halo did. Only the PC version of Halo didn't have co-op.
have you paid any attention at all to the story behind the games? It's not like Half Life 2, where the story is expected to be magically known to the player already.. The story is told properly, and is all-encompassing. How many other FPS games have the enemy side degenerating into civil war even as they battle your side?
Topping the list of statements you will never hear:
"Whee! I'm having so much fun with this ALL-ENCOMPASSING STORYLINE!"
Hate to break this to you, but I believe Marathon 2 or Marathon Infinity had the bad guys fighting it out with each other. If you have played Bungie's earlier FPS games, Halo is kind of just a shiny version, with simpler levels. Still enjoyed it though.
You will actually see comments similar to that with some games. FF games for example.
I've played most of what's out there and nothing compares to Halo. Simply put, Halo is strategy mixed with visceral combat in the most balanced online gaming experience avaiable. The only reason millions still play Halo 2 online is cause the experience is that good.
Yeah, I sacrificed my point a bit in an attempt to be funny, I guess, and failed miserable on both counts.
My thoughts were that, while a compelling storyline is a bonus for ANY title, it's not the sort of thing that most gamers would list as a desired feature for a FPS, especially one lauded predominantly for its multiplayer mode, where the story is essentially inconsequential.
Thats really apples and oranges. WOW is $15/month for *one game* while my Live subscription is a mere $5 for any Xbox game I care to play.
I used to resemble that remark, but as I just started playing WOW I guess I cant complain too much.
Guys, this was pulled off by the whiz kids at one of the best film-effects studios there is. It is not in engine, and it was done in a very short timeframe. Please don't perpetuate another Killzone incident.
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You're telling me! -curtana
Don't worry, I thought it was funny.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Nah, I'm a sword, not an AI.
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Sadly Bungie and I picked the same mythos, and now everyone mistakes me for that purple bimbo!
In my honest opinion, Halo 2 was rushed, and consequently has cut many corners in the gameplay. [The biggest gaping flaw I can think of is Fall damage - Which was cut right near the end of development because of problems with it and the sword.]
Pretty much the only reason I play Halo 2 online anymore, is because of the friends I've made. If it weren't for them, I'd be hosting Halo 1 LAN parties.
Hmmm.... One of the Anonymous responses to this post indicates that the whole thing is prerendered, citing personal knowledge of the company doing the work. But this post was modded as "Flamebait"??? This post is conceivably overrated, but this is certainly not flamebait.
Will this be like Halo 2? New features in Halo 3: Triple weapons: hold 3 weapons at once! control-havoc! New vehicle: you can now pilot underwater vehicles! Weapon changes: you favorite weapon from Halo 2 now SUCKS!
"Thank God It's You!" - Simply Frightening Marathon>Halo
Xbox Live anywhere will pit PC VS 360 gamers in FPS games.
ShadowRun will be the first of these and playtest suggest that contrary to what people beleives, the mouse/keyboard DOES NOT provide an advantage over a controller.
In tests, it was reported that mouse/keyboard gave an advantage in snipping at long range where the controller, because of it's analog controls, gives an advantage in close range because of easier circle-strafing.
We'll have to see when the game ships, but all i'm saying is that in a future PC release of Halo 3, there is a non-negligible chance that it will use Live anywhere to pit PC VS 360 gamers against/with each other.
...but it would be nice if they'd release for the PC as well. They're hardly competing platforms, and it would increase the install base which would in turn increase the pool of players available for multiplayer. Actually, they are. MS wants to increase the 360 install base, because that attracts developers. Halo is their single best tool to accomplish this. Putting the game out for PC would waste that opportunity.No mention of how the servers were overloaded from the get-go and it took until after 11pm for most users to get to the confirmation page?
I'll tell you it was frustrating as hell. At any point during the registration process you were likely to get a blank white page with Microsoft's copyright at the bottom, so it was nearly impossible to tell if your registration was successful.
It appears that Bungie is going to make a selection from all those who registered, and there is no information yet as to how they plan on making that selection (random or targeted).
Nonsense. Halo isn't incentive for someone with a PC to run out and buy a 360 because frankly, PC gamers just aren't impressed enough on the whole. But it may just be incentive enough for someone to pick the 360 over the WeeS3. More importantly, if it were tied to DX10 (as it almost certianly would be), it would provide the most incentive to upgrade to Vista thus far. Hell, if they were smart, they'd give away a free copy of H3 for the PC with every copy of Vista sold.
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People don't need incentive to buy Vista. It will come pre-installed on their new computers. (And enough people buy new computers to ensure market penetration) MS wants to drive their console sales, and Halo 3 will definitely do that. Look at the spike in Xbox sales that happened when Halo 2 was released.
That just goes back to the point that most XBox buyers ARE NOT PC GAMERS. Sure, there's some overlap, but in general they're seperate communities. Halo 3 will drive 360 sales regardless of whether or not it's simultaneously available on the PC, but putting it on the PC will boost the H3 MS Live community.
Anyway, thanks for your comments, but I'm done responding to this thread.
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