- MLG Cheehwawa
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Poll: For main menu: Characters, Bestiarum, Armoury, Motor Pool, and Cinema [closed]
Total Votes: 56
I have always wanted Bungie to let us view a lot of the in-game assets from different angles in the main menu. I have played a few games which allow you to do something similar to this: Mobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo, and Spiderman for the PS2.
What I am suggesting are new options for the main menu. You click them, and you get a selection of numerous items/objects/bipeds which appear in the game, in some basic animation you can see in campaign. We could essentially see any character from this game, and you could use similar controls to Forge or Theater's free-fly to get a 360 degree view of the item in question.
This would not take much space (like how saved films are small in size) as it is stuff from the campaign rendered alone. You could fly around it and view it from all angles.
They could be unlocked by encountering (seeing a character, killing an enemy/seeing an ally, picking up a weapon, getting in a vehicle) said item in campaign mode.
Characters
Clicking "Characters" would bring you to a list of all of the characters in Halo REACH. Each would have the name displayed as well as a brief biography alongside the ally (or villain).
Bestiarum
Clicking "Bestiarum" would bring you to a list of all the species which you encounter in Halo REACH. Each would have its native name (i.e. Human/Sangheili), alien name (i.e. Vermin/Elite), and Latin/Forerunner name (i.e. H. sapiens/Macto cognatus) displayed, as well as a brief description of the race.
You could further unlock all different ranks you encounter in campaign mode, and they would have a description of what the rank does (i.e. Spec Ops Elite would have a description of the types of missions they go on, as well as their weapon load-outs).
You could make them do things by pressing buttons. The buttons you press have the same effect as they do when you play (i.e. R trigger shoots their weapon, B button melees, A button jumps, etc.) and if they have taunts (for when they would kill you in campaign), click the Right Thumbstick in to see it (i.e. a Grunt does a little dance and says something about you being a bad Demon).
Armoury
The Armoury will give you a list of all weapons which you have picked up in campaign (or multiplayer) as well as brief description of the firing mode, effectiveness, uses in the field, etc. You would have a 3d view of the weapon, and you could press the R trigger to watch it shoot. The description would be something similar to this:
M7 SUBMACHINE GUN
The M7 submachine gun is gas-operated and magazine-fed. It fires 5mm x 23 caseless ammunition. Recoil from all but sustained fire is very controllable. Although the M7 submachine-gun is primarily issued to vehicle crews, it is also a favorite of commando teams in its sound suppressed version -- the M7S.
Sustained automatic fire tends to cause the muzzle to "walk" upwards as recoil compounds. Submachine guns, while not accurate over long distances, are particularly effective in close quarters.
Motor Pool
Similar to the Armoury, only you would unlock vehicles by getting into one in campaign or multiplayer. You can click buttons which will have the same effect as they would if you were playing (L trigger boosts/E-brakes, A button air brakes/brakes, etc.). The vehicle would be driven by your multiplayer character.
Cinema
This is just a bonus for my thread. I got the idea from wcd45's thread on the same thing. It would be nice if we could watch all cinematics from the Halo games (Halo Wars, Halo Reach, Halo 1, Halo 2/Halo 3: ODST, Halo 3) in chronological order of when they happened in the Halo universe. Of course they could be chosen individually, rewinded, fast forwarded, paused, etc. but they would appear as they did in the games they came from, not remade in the REACH engine.
What the Main menu could look like:
Campaign
Firefight
Matchmaking
Custom Games
Forge
Theater
Cinema
Intel -- click intel to open up the sub-section where you choose from the below:
> Characters
> Bestiarum
> Armoury
> Motor Pool
What do you think?
[Edited on 08.02.2009 2:40 PM PDT]