Halo 3: ODST drops in just under a month from now, forcing Microsoft's hand in finally beginning to promote and hype this thing up. Seriously, what makes these people think that they can wait until the last possible minute to start getting people interested in a title? Why, you'd think they would have been releasing footage and creating teaser websites a year ago if they wanted us to be sufficiently prepared for its release.
Lack of marketing aside, the upcoming expansion for teh Haloez looks pretty sharp. In a video released by Microsoft today, there's some in-depth description of the new "Firefight" multiplayer mode. It looks like some kind of "survival" test where you face off against a "horde" of enemies in increasingly more difficult waves. And you can turn skulls on and off to adjust the difficulty.
At the end, the video mentions the previously announced pre-order bonus of a playable Sgt. Johnson character. It's also reasonably funny. You can check it out for yourself by following the lovely link below.
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@Kida26 Like CoD4, where helicopters can survive RPG hits, shoot through 15 solid feet of concrete, where grenades magically arm themselves when people die even though they don't have any grenades left, is that the kind of realism you're talking about?
This game went from a sitting outside at midnight to a I'll rent it eventually just from the firefight mode being a friend invite only like the Halo 3 co op mode.
The coop mode sounds cool, and that is the only multiplayer I like. Every video of this game turns me off though... insane amounts of HUD cluter and annoying effects like color outlines on enemies and blur and such, plus outdated tech that looks like an Xbox game... quite literally, not even an exaggeration.
Yeah, Bungie's never been really good with facial rendering, from what I've seen in the last 3 Halo games. I don't really care, though.
@Minamu:
Bungie has always had small amounts of humor in their games. If you don't believe me, play Halo 3 with the skull IWHBYD on, and listen to what the grunts say.
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1:40 PM on 08.27.2009 | 
That said, I enjoy Halo's gameplay and Firefight sounds good to me.
I pre-ordered ODST already, and Firefight looks to be more fun than I originally thought. Video was fun, too.
Ehh. I'll pre-order it. Won't hurt.
the same what i thought...^^
Sigh...
@Minamu:
Bungie has always had small amounts of humor in their games. If you don't believe me, play Halo 3 with the skull IWHBYD on, and listen to what the grunts say.
*is pumped*