- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The second campaign mission - "Halo" - offers the best deaths. If any of you are familiar with the brilliant Rockslide Megabattle easter egg, you'll know what I'm talking about here.
I was playing the Megabattle in co-op. I drove the Hog headlong into a pack of some 15-20 Grunts, and a stray plasma grenade tagged the rear left tire. The gunner bailed, ducking behind the crashed escape pod just in time for his shields to recharge, and the grenade blast vaulted my Hog over a nearby rock. I fell out of the driver's seat and took a heap of damage upon landing. My friend had a full stock of grenades and most of his health; I had one frag and one bar of health left. I had run over several Grunts and a few Elites on the way in, so I ran back along my path, hoping to get more ammo from the bodies before going on a final kamikaze rampage, while my friend covered me with the pistol. He started to toss a plasma grenade towards the Elite that was charging me, but a second Elite meleed him in the back and the grenade fell short, landing a few feet in front of him. When it exploded, it set off all the other grenades lying nearby, Warthog-Jump-style. The chain reaction lasted for so long that every time an Elite got pwn3d, there was always a second explosion to set off his fallen grenades as well. The fireworks show became so intense that it killed my framerate for a good 10 seconds or so. By the time we respawned, my dead body was flailing around in the empty blue space outside the skybox, and my friend had clipped straight through a wall and fallen out of the map.
We had to turn off the Xbox for the night, because NOTHING could EVER top that...
[Edited on 7/13/2004 1:01:53 PM]