2:39 PM on 02.10.2007
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Niero
Thank Germany for naughty alpha testers and advances in digital photography. It appears that somebody leaked a handful of never-before seen screenshots of Halo 3 to Evo-X.de, which apparently crashed from the overwhelming hysteria this caused worldwide. Luckily mirrors of the images quickly sprung up so we're able to bring you what all the fuss was about.
Please feel free to look at these images carefully for the entire weekend and not leave the house, shower, or go visit your dad who's been bitching at you to come hook up his Wii to the internet already. Not that I'm projecting.
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As far as the screenshots... yep, these are Halo, all right. I'm as excited about the game as the next guy, but screenshots just never do much for me. Especially when they're taken with a camera off screen.
i have not one reason to belive this game will be any diffrent. i mean
EVERY STAGE LOOK LIKE THE ONLY TWO STAGES YOUVE PLAYED ON IN THE FIRST TWO GAMES
FPS on mountainous plains and FPS inside a futuristic building. Every stage in the past two halo games has been the same thing.
Does it ever snow in the halo universe hell has the sun ever gone down before JESUS!? where do people live in invisible huts? how come we have never fought through war ravaged megalopolis?
you guys should be as disappointed in Bungie as i am. they are serving us a remake of a popular franchise. and its disgusting. WOW BALL SHIELD THINGIE! THIS GAME IS GOING TO PWN HARD.
Please Bungie I'm going to buy this game regardless. Don't make me regret this.
Oh and it never snows/rains because Halo is a constantly moving land mass, no percipitaion clouds in space.
Snow: Assault on the Control Room, Halo 1
Night: Truth and Reconciliation, Halo 1
War Ravaged Metropolis: New Mombasa, Halo 2
And yes, in most ways it is sort of a remake, with new features. That's what sequels are. Bungie found a winning formula, and they're continuing to use it. It's not laziness or greed, it's business.
@ WonderWoody
Look at a picture of Halo. Plenty of clouds. And the Earth moves quite a bit too, from what I've heard. My logic > your science.
@ secretly smuggled screenshots
I'll reserve my judgements for when I play the beta, which will serendipitously come to me along with my wonderful copy of Crackdown, which everyone should go download the demo for. Now. You should not be reading this, you should be downloading.
On the one hand, I can see how the "more of the same" thing can get tiring after awhile, but for certain games, when I finish them, all I want from a sequel is to play more of it. I think too many developers (and possibly even Bungie) feel like they have to bring in something totally new and different or else they'll come under tons of scrutiny (which they would). If Bungie had made Halo 2 just the continuation of the story of Halo 1, with no changes at all, I would have been completely content with it.
What the heck.
Multiplayer
Snow
Sidewinder, Halo 1
Ice Fields, Halo 1
Lockout, Halo 2
Containment, Halo 2
Night
Gephyrophobia, Halo 1
Backwash, Halo 2
War Ravaged Metropolis
Headlong, Halo 2
Turf, Halo 2
Terminal, Halo 2
Where do people live? Nobody lives on a Halo. The only thing inhabiting Halo, that we know of so far, is the Flood and the Monitors and Sentinels. By the way there is no "ball shield" in the game. That was just from the CG teaser.
Multiplayer
Snow
Sidewinder, Halo 1
Ice Fields, Halo 1
Lockout, Halo 2
Containment, Halo 2
Night
Gephyrophobia, Halo 1
Backwash, Halo 2
War Ravaged Metropolis
Headlong, Halo 2
Turf, Halo 2
Terminal, Halo 2
Where do people live? Nobody lives on a Halo. The only thing inhabiting Halo, that we know of so far, is the Flood and the Monitors and Sentinels. By the way there is no "ball shield" in the game. That was just from the CG teaser.
@Rainbowblack
Aside from the fact that about 4 different people have already proved you wrong, ITS A SEQUEL! What do expect Bungie to do, move the setting to the suburbs and turn it into a stealth game?
Its the future and its in space. That's Halo.
deal with it.
I've never really played Halo more than a couple of multiplayer matches that my friends would have (during which I would destroy them... :)
I played through Halo on the PC (yes, I even forced through the endless, unbelievably repetitive fights near the end) and thought it was one of the worst FPSes I've played since Rise of the Triad. The only reason I could see anyone liked it was that console gamers had never played a good FPS so didn't know what to compare it with. Either that, or the XBox version flashed subliminal porn.
"Before ze germans get here"
I mean, compare it to Duke Nukem 3D. Look how fun and innovative that was/is compared to Halo and it was out over a decade beforehand. Halo chooses slick production and shiny graphics over fun, innovation and varied gameplay - basically everything that makes a game great.
Wrong i played them both and still say they suck (no offense to anyone who may like the game)
"the people who say 'halo sucks' suck at it, couldn't beat it, haven't tried xbl, haven't played at lans &/or ONLY played halo 2 and didn't get to see the amazingness of halo 1 before it turned to SHIT (aka halo 2)"
thank you :)
Variety in MP maps are fine, but as for the game itself, its still grassy plains and futuristic building. and i swear if Bungie still thinks im going to be content with that they have another thing coming
sure new game engine are nice and so are new graphics. but that does not make halo a different game in the end. all im asking for is something a lil different. cause its simply a HD version of the first two games. the sony-fed halo haters are going to have a field day with this. I know bungie feels they need to ramp things up for the big finale. But geez throw us a bone. don't lead me to believe this is just a regurgitated version of the first two games, because from screenshots. all i see is fantastic remake of halo. and thats not what we want.
lol
1. Alpha/prealpha build with placer and temp textures
2. Taken by camera of undetermined pixel count.
3. Distance Screencap
Any game looks like its on the wii when taken like this.
I didnt think it was hard to make the transition from any dual analog control shooter to playing Halo....in fact, the controls made it really easy to make that transition, since they were so responsive.
Now...I'm not claiming to be able to beat anyone who is actually good at Halo... my friends just really sucked
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. and therefore had no balls :P
Also I'm still not too excited at this point. I'm sure it will kick in this summer though....what I'm really looking forward too right now is MASS EFFECT!
"I really don't get the whole Halo thing. I have owned and played both extensively both one and multi player. It's just another generic FPS and quite a dull one at that. It boasts expansive areas with very little in them and even less to do. It's slow paced and very weapon centric (IE the person with the biggest gun will usually end up the winner). It's just an FPS people, it doesn't even try to bring anything new to the genre. As an action game it has nothing on Unreal etc. and it involves next to no strategy.
I mean, compare it to Duke Nukem 3D. Look how fun and innovative that was/is compared to Halo and it was out over a decade beforehand. Halo chooses slick production and shiny graphics over fun, innovation and varied gameplay - basically everything that makes a game great."
I agree with everything you said and don't quite get how Halo is so awesome. Halo 2 was ever so similar to Halo 1 with nothing added to gameplay, OMG new levels and 2 guns @ once.
I have Halo 2 and only play multiplayer, at buddies houses once in a while I played single player a bit but not even 25% through. Halo one delivered what Halo 2 did and I had enough single player with Halo 1.
I think they need to add some super sweet stuff to make this game worth while as new maps, shiny graphics, and a quad wont cut it for a demanding sequal.
I've beaten it on legendary and id never play it again, not cause I beat it but cause it isn't a super fabulous great game. The levels were pretty bare (more so the inside levels) and I felt they were just lazy cause you went thru a level and then the next level was you going thru the previous level but this time BACKWARDS...oooo, ahhh!
Overhyped