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According to Swedish gaming Web site InsideGamer, it has been confirmed that Halo 3 will be playable with up to four people in an online cooperative game. This news comes out of a press conference in Amsterdam, where Microsoft and Bungie revealed this highly anticipated feature. 

In a wild NeoGAF thread of people scrambling for confirmation, Bungie's Luke Smith interjected a one word confirmation, causing the Internet to explode all over itself: "Believe."

There's not much else to say here, as little more has been revealed. It is what it is, and what it is happens to be awesome. I'll leave you Halo fans to your hyperventilating. More information should be coming in later -- stay tuned!


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tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:31
tazarthayoot
AND THINE PANTS DOTH TIGHTEN, AND IT WAS GOOD!
Hamza CTZ Aziz's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:31
Hamza CTZ Aziz
dis make no sense!
jdubya93's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:31
jdubya93
Great news.
kenoji's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:33
kenoji
Wow, this sounds like a great feature! Very excited here!
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:35
GuitarAtomik
Halo squads! OOOOOOOO I can't wait.
RICHARD BLOCKER's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:36
RICHARD BLOCKER
Wow. I'm finally a little interested in H3.
Corncobtacular's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:37
Corncobtacular
i thought we had confirmation that they could only add it after the game shipped from bungie itself??? Why would they lie to me?
Coonskin05's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:39
Coonskin05
I came
CronosBlade's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:43
CronosBlade
OH HELL YES PLS.

I look forward to playing with my new Dtoid friends.
Sifer2400's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:46
Sifer2400
Great this is just Great
Mr FunGuns's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:49
Mr FunGuns
Thats fuckin awesome I cant wait
HarassmentPanda's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:49
HarassmentPanda
Good. This feature was unearth during the beta. There was some text left in the beta talking about 4-play co-op, glad to see it wasn't a red herring.
Joe Burling's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:51
Joe Burling
Do you guys hear that?

tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:52
tazarthayoot
Fish are friends, not something intended to divert attention from the real problem or matter at hand; a misleading clue.
galagabug 's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:52
galagabug
whats the sound of one hand fapping?
Crackhippo's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:54
Crackhippo
sweet with heat

man, when is luke smith gonna be on another podcast?...i miss his angry nerd rants
Lord_Satorious's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:55
Lord_Satorious
I heard that in two player Halo 3 coop, one player plays Master Chief and the other plays the Arbiter. Who will the other two players play in four player coop?
Lord_Satorious's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:55
Lord_Satorious
I heard that in two player Halo 3 coop, one player plays Master Chief and the other plays the Arbiter. Who will the other two players play in four player coop?
kadosho's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 13:58
kadosho
Now this, this is news worth waiting for. go Bungie! finally!
Joe Burling's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:02
Joe Burling
Besides Master Chief and the Arbiter, the other two coop playable characters are Orcist and Dan Acroyd from the original Ghostbusters.
Toneman's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:06
Toneman
Woohoo! Good news indeed. And now we know, everytime Bungie denies something from now on it will come true two weeks later.
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:09
GuitarAtomik
@Corncobtacular

They were talking about split-screen co-op. This is just for online.
Kotua's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:11
Kotua
WTF electro lemon.
So is your vehicle going to catch fire and leave you as the only one alive?
brainderailment's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:12
brainderailment
Why should I be surprised when everybody's doin' it? I guess it takes a little more than Halo to excite me.
deanhatescoffee's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:16
deanhatescoffee
lol @ Buck, n1
PwnDaddy's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:16
PwnDaddy
OH HELL MUTHER FUGGIN YES!!!

But wait, 4 player co-op? Guess someone is walking in the Warthog missions.


And if you're riding bitch, you get to be the radio.
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:20
BluDesign
Thanks Bungie.

I cancelled my fuckin' preorder already to wait for it to drop post-release.

Thanks a fuckin' lot.

Bungie cost me $20.
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:31
BluDesign
That'll be great for all those 40 people you enjoy playing games with simultaneously. Me, I like 4 people.
HarassmentPanda's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:36
HarassmentPanda
First of all, I think Distrato was joking about the 40 player co-op. Does Killzone even have co-op?

Second, can you even imagine 40-player co-op on PSN? You could get every PSN member in one co-op game!
Snaileb 's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:38
Snaileb
Wow I haven't seen deanhatescoffee in a good minute.

Burling that pic was EPIC.
wonky360's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:39
wonky360
MAGNUM
Lowtax's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:39
Lowtax
Lol DVDdesign

This should be tight, maybe they'll have a Warthog sedan. ^^
I await its release on for the PC.
ArrestedDeveloper's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:39
ArrestedDeveloper
Sweet. I hope that it ramps up the difficulty the more players you have co-op, or else it will be way to easy with 4 experience players.
Churchhills Dog's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:41
Churchhills Dog
Killzone gives babies leukemia.

Halo causes spontaneous orgasms.
LordRegulus's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:43
LordRegulus
Well, looks like I've been validated.

Now to get a US release for that MGS 20th Anniversary box...
Professor Pew's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:44
Professor Pew
Translation time from Swedish! The main article has some info that might have been translated in the meantime, but fuck it.

----

Dutch guy gets a demonstration:
The demonstration started with a scene where the Master Chief was in a jungle-like environment, full of beautiful dense foliage through which sunlight came. One look at the demo and you instantly saw how much better than the beta this looks! Alongside the MC you could see a couple of marines, but more interesting was the Arbiter.

<Some epeculation about playing the Arbiter follows, nothing new>

After the first meeting, we instantly found ourselves in the action. The enemy, consisting of Grunts, Jackals and Brutes were not aware of our presence, and in the beginning there are a bit of sneaking in order to stealthily kill the enemies <booooooooo!>. This can't last for long of course, and the Covenant noticed us after about 20 seconds <yaay!> after which a big shootout happened with bullets and grenades flying everywhere. Especially throwing grenades was highly enjoyable, because they deliver a beautiful explosion while a plasmagranade goes off with a nice blue explosion.

<they move on>
They go into a dark cave, which was nicely lit by red torches. After this cave we reached some kind of base, with a nearby river. The water in the beta was goodlooking, but in singleplayer it looks so much better. The base you enter is obviously also full of Covenant troops and another shootout follows. A new thing was that the Brute Shot was used in this shootout, which led to some more delicious explosions.

Inside the base we also got a first look at a stronger Brute enemy, who made it difficult for the MC. Once the MC picks up a turret (like in the beta), the Brute went down quickly. That concluded the demo.

The final thoughts state that it still feels like Halo, with chaotic and tense shootouts. You also get to see Johnson and Cortana again. But the most important thing was how it looked a lot better visually.

----

All in all not much news. Most of it was covered in the previous demo's? Some more pics inside the article.

Professor Pew's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:46
Professor Pew
Errr, that is: not much news except for the coop ;)
Zero Iscariot's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:47
Zero Iscariot
i said god damn
Pedro Blandino's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:53
Pedro Blandino

FUCK YEA!
kawitchate's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 14:55
kawitchate
huh. first there was no co-op or co-op to be delivered later in the form of a patch, and now there's FOUR-player co-op?!? wtf Bungie? i love you AND hate you.
Pangloss's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 15:04
Pangloss
Bungie to gamers: HABEEB IT!
Jark212's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 15:15
Jark212
... YAH!!!!!!!!!!!!
...so ya, basicly.
Professor Pew's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 15:36
Professor Pew
@electro lemon: I only just now noticed that the .gif wasn't the Miyamoto/Reggie/etc one. Damn you for posting original content!
Android8675's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 15:52
Android8675
Crap, now I gotta get a 360 before mass effect.
Tino's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 16:40
Tino
Told ya.
Tino's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 16:41
Tino
Found this bit of info on Kotaku...

According to a recent Bungie announcement in Amsterdam, Halo 3 will indeed have 4-player co-op. One player will take the role of Master Chief, another will be The Arbiter and the last two (the suckers) will be Elites.
DGX Goggles's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 17:02
DGX Goggles
Hell, I'd be the sucker, I like regular Elite armor more than the Arbiter's anyways. Legendary difficulty prepare to have your ass kicked by squad tactics.
DGX Goggles's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 17:02
DGX Goggles
Hell, I'd be the sucker, I like regular Elite armor more than the Arbiter's anyways. Legendary difficulty prepare to have your ass kicked by squad tactics.
psychopathic's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2007 17:03
psychopathic
*tears of joy*
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