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Subject: Nice Halo 2 E3 2004 review. NEW INFO!!!
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http://www.the-junkyard.net/users/wiredfilms/E3/

(I'm only going to post the info that was CONFIRMED by Bungie, and nothing else. There are awesome screens at that link, plus a lot more info. Check it out!)


Ten cool things about Halo 2 that may not be found in other articles. (Why post a summary when everyone else has?)

(This is from memory, some words may be wrong but the main idea of the statements are correct. Also, things will probably change by 11.09.04.)

1) The glass has it's own physics your body flying into it will break it, except it doesn't all break as one, it will only break in the spot that you hit.

2) Four player split-screen is still in. You can play 4 people with one Xbox Live name - the 3 others will be guests if they don't have live accounts and all 4 players can have their own headsets.

3) If the host happens to leave over XBL the hosting goes to another client in-game till the game is over (or maybe till that person leaves, that part wasn't clear.)

4) This was confirmed and denied, so take this one with a grain of salt but supposedly Halo 2 supports Widescreen.

5) Sketch showed us in Zanzibar there are windows in the top base and if you shoot out the supports for the wooden over-hangs - they will flap down and cover the window hole. Providing cover, and if you walk into the wood it will push out so you can look out the window, shoot, come back in for cover - then poke out again, if you desire.

6) I thought it was cool that you couldn't carry the flag as a driver of vehicles. You can be driven but you can't drive. It created a much more frantic atmosphere where team work was key, "cover me!" "Help him get the flag!" Were phrases sure to be heard.

7) You can see your legs and parts of your torso. It may not seem cool to read, but it's amazing when you are playing. When you are an elite you can see your knee's when you jump (they have that different kind of jump.) It's pretty sharp.

8) Master Chief HUD is blue, Covenant HUD is a purplish color. I played as both Elite and MC and I didn't notice a difference between them. It seemed balanced to me, others said the Elite jumped higher and in articles online I read that they thought MC jumped higher so I don't know what's right and wrong.

9) The death animations don't seem as predictable. In Halo 1 you have a bunch of animations for different things I died many ways and never did it seem the same. Once, I got hit with a rocket, while in a ghost, while I was next to these explosive barrel-type things and my ghost exploded incredibly violently - my body went twirling into the air, literally as if someone put a peg in his torso and spun them as if on a "Wheel of Fortune" type table. My arms and legs flapped - as realistic as my mind could envision it, there also was no tearing type appearance in the models. It was incredibly clean looking.

10) The sniper scope, the actual scope, is different. It's pretty cool looking, it doesn't do that graphical animation on back. It's nice though, supposedly it's more forgiving. I died wheneer I found it. The shotgun is cool looking too, probably one of my favorite weapons. It looks very similar at the end where the aiming marks are but when you get closer to the stock it's a different design.

It's amazing, it's hard to describe and it's coming out. I can't wait! Here are some pictures of the figures shown by JoyRide and I thank everyone who made that Fanfest possible. It was so much fun and hopefully I will make it a point to attend from now on.


  • 06.09.2004 7:44 AM PDT
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Nice find.

  • 06.09.2004 8:01 AM PDT
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Ckrpoint1 were you the one that wrote the review, were you the one that went to the fanfest?

  • 06.09.2004 8:06 AM PDT

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No he didnt write it...he pasted it from that link...

  • 06.09.2004 8:09 AM PDT
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no i didn't write it. Check out the link

  • 06.09.2004 8:15 AM PDT
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How do you get into the Fanfest? Are there certain people? How do you get to E3 cause I know some people who have already seen Halo 2 and played it.

  • 06.09.2004 8:17 AM PDT
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Ok either you stole every exact word from that other thread that has exactly everything you just wrote. Or you're the same guy. I think you stole it, one guy posted these exact words and saying he was at E3 and he liked #4, 6 and 10. This should be locked down you thief!!!!

  • 06.09.2004 8:17 AM PDT
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Yea, nice find

  • 06.09.2004 8:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: ace 7 7 7
Ok either you stole every exact word from that other thread that has exactly everything you just wrote. Or you're the same guy. I think you stole it, one guy posted these exact words and saying he was at E3 and he liked #4, 6 and 10. This should be locked down you thief!!!!


that was from a friend of mine, he emailed it to me!
http://gamesource.groups.yahoo.com/group/H2UC/
(one of the members from this site)

  • 06.09.2004 8:25 AM PDT
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See reclaimer knows what I'm talking about, btw I don't know how you do that highlighting thing with the posts and how to make links, I know its all on the right side of the page when you reply but I don't know how to use them, please let me know.

  • 06.09.2004 8:27 AM PDT
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owh i see it now you can see it in the right of when you make the post where stands text you must fill in what you want to say
do you understand [color=red] that! [/color]

  • 06.09.2004 8:36 AM PDT
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if he is ur friend which meant he sent it to u which menat he already posted it here which means y the heck r u posting a complete duplicate of it. this review was already in a current thread if u guys would read be 4 u post.

  • 06.09.2004 8:42 AM PDT