Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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  • 03.12.2007 6:26 PM PDT
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Huh...

  • 03.12.2007 6:32 PM PDT
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Did you watch it?

  • 03.12.2007 6:33 PM PDT
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different.

  • 03.12.2007 6:37 PM PDT
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OMG, Halo was so much more awsome back then. The water at the end looks way beter then the water that is now in Halo.

  • 03.12.2007 6:44 PM PDT

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And that was pre-M$ too.

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  • 03.12.2007 7:06 PM PDT
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There's a video somewhere out there (have a copy on this PC somewhere) of about 15 minutes of footage from far earlier in the game's development back in 1996 when it was still an RTS.

It's funny that a lot of what was included in the earliest versions was cut out then reintroduced. In the earlier 1996-1999 builds we see the FRG gun which we now love or hate in the PC version. The Spectre was also shown in the early versions, and only resurfaced in Halo 2, along with the Ghost with the in vehicle lighing that was taken out before Halo 1 was released.

In Halo 2 we saw what was possibly the unfinished Gravity Gun from Halo 1 reappear as the Covenant Beam Rifle (the model was similar if I remember correctly, even if the name wasn't). Then, deep in the code of Halo 1 is an unfinished UNSC aircraft named Kestrel which I found soon after I got hold of HPC, although I never found any information about it (I presume it hadn't been found very many times). It's apparently going to be a Halo 3 aircraft though.

We're going to see the removed H2 ATV in H3, and I hope the removed various terrain variants of the Warthog that we saw a shot of in the Halo 1 engine. We also saw the Halo PC only rocket Warthog reappear as the Gauss Warthog in Halo 2 (at least I think they took their idea from there).

Shortly after the Halogen project being closed down by Microsoft (¬_¬) we discovered Halo woud return to where it came from, and that was RTS in the form of Halo Wars.

I wonder what else has been cut out, and will only be reintroduced at a later point! ;)

Edit: Somehow wrote RTS as RPG. Fixed. ;)

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  • 03.12.2007 7:23 PM PDT
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Wow, good connections, btcc2, never noticed the connection between grav gun and beam rifle, but they definitely do look sort of similar. Though the grav gun seems like a human weapon. I don't know if it represents the actual planned one, but a couple HCE maps have a kestrel in them.

  • 03.13.2007 5:42 AM PDT

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You know, I honestly can't say if I would have prefered Halo as an Action Adventure or FPS.

The Action Adventure looks like it would have been interesting, but then again, it may have actually been too complicated for it's time, it looks like it would have tried to be, on the multiplayer side, similar to Eve Online or Star Wars Galaxies, just without NPC's and with open FPS style combat.

From what I saw in that video, the only aspect of Halo that changed was multiplayer, and, of course, some of the character models. So as was pointed out, this is pre-Microsoft, and so I think really that Bungie's partnership with Microsoft didn't really alter anything about Halo save the platform, their multiplayer was way before it's time, and I honestly don't think they would have gotten it to work. Perhaps Halo 3 multiplayer will showcase exactly what Bungie envisioned back in 2000, or possibly that's what Peter Jackson is working on, a Halo Action Adventure moulded after these first ideas.

I actually hope they are doing this for whatever PJ is doing, and just give us better Halo 2 style multiplayer for H3. And I also hope that the PJ project is for PC!!!!

  • 03.13.2007 6:00 AM PDT
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It ain't 3'rd person shooter now. Or wasn't for the PC for a while... Thanks M$.

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  • 03.13.2007 11:32 AM PDT
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Damn, that's old.

  • 03.13.2007 11:41 AM PDT
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Posted by: Dark Lord Anubis
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That was pretty cool. I sort of like the SPARTAN armor they were "planning" to wear if it was a RTS game, looks more "warrior-like". xD

  • 03.13.2007 1:11 PM PDT
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I understood it and it looked cool and diffrent from now i liked it!

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  • 03.13.2007 2:11 PM PDT
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Halo looked a heck of a lot different back then huh...
It would have been strange if that had actually happened...
freaky...

  • 03.14.2007 12:16 PM PDT