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How do you make Halo 3 better than Halo 2??

  • 05.11.2004 11:38 AM PDT
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Thanks so much for posting! I didn't notice that, those are some seriously nice screens!

  • 05.11.2004 11:59 AM PDT

November 9 has been declared as.... the day that needs to:GET IT'S ASS HERE ALREADY DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!

[Edited on 5/11/2004 12:17:59 PM]

  • 05.11.2004 12:08 PM PDT
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The graphics on the elites are tight! God really does love us! yes!!!

  • 05.11.2004 12:11 PM PDT

Posted by:Pretty1nP1nk
How do you make Halo 3 better than Halo 2??

A question that will forever be unanswered.........UNTIL,Halo 3 comes out!!!!!!!!!!When Halo 2 comes out they'll have to rewrite all the dictionaries 'cause they'll have to put this in:Halo 2-Sequel to Halo The Best. Game. Ever. As told by Official Xbox Magazine,but now that the sequel is out they'll have to describe Halo 2 as BEST.GAME.EVERAlso see Awesome,Great and Perfect.

  • 05.11.2004 12:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: Deathbringer5
Posted by:Pretty1nP1nk
How do you make Halo 3 better than Halo 2??

A question that will forever be unanswered.........UNTIL,Halo 3 comes out!!!!!!!!!!When Halo 2 comes out they'll have to rewrite all the dictionaries 'cause they'll have to put this in:Halo 2-Sequel to Halo The Best. Game. Ever. As told by Official Xbox Magazine,but now that the sequel is out they'll have to describe Halo 2 as BEST.GAME.EVERAlso see Awesome,Great and Perfect.


amen.

  • 05.11.2004 12:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: gSpark3000
nov 9 could not be any further away
this game will finally show all non believers who owns

wtf?
i have it reserved for sept 2nd.... did they postpone it again?
AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH

  • 05.11.2004 12:25 PM PDT
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ok in the one with the blue elite looking over the battle.....just right of the sniper shot ( the bullet stream) there is two coloured lines...are they part of a covenant sniper????

  • 05.11.2004 12:31 PM PDT
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Dual Needlers baby!!!!!!! Plasma sword!!!!!!! Show me a Dual Plasma Sword pic and I think I'll blow my load!!!!! Ahhhh!!!!!!!

*passes out from sheer joy*

  • 05.11.2004 12:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan 253 WOLF
ok in the one with the blue elite looking over the battle.....just right of the sniper shot ( the bullet stream) there is two coloured lines...are they part of a covenant sniper????


I think that's actually plasma trails from the ghost that is firing on the elites down on the beach.

  • 05.11.2004 12:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: Guru
Did I use the word "bad"? No, so please don't put words in my mouth. If I implied it, I apologize. I was merely pointing the fact out, seeing as several people had mentioned... "glitches," I suppose.

And if you want to see "kick ass graphics" I suggest you check out two little titles by the names of Half-Life 2 and Doom 3. Halo 2 looks great, don't get me wrong, but the Xbox has it's limitations (as every platform does, PC less so, but it does have it's limitations). That's just my two cents.


Um...If I remember correctly they said the multiplayer levels that were tested didn't have all of the graphics features "turned on". I don't know what the means in computer speak, but I'm pretty sure the graphics are going to be amazing on the final release of the game. Quite frankly I'm expecting Halo 2 to give both Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 a run for their money.

  • 05.11.2004 12:50 PM PDT
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http://xbox.ign.com/articles/513/513152p4.html

This is page 4 of the online review from IGN insider. Read the part about the customizable colors and logos! That totally kicks ass! Check out the video they have on there too. It's pretty sweet!

  • 05.11.2004 1:22 PM PDT
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holy -blam!-!

  • 05.11.2004 1:28 PM PDT
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You took the words right out of my mouth Munky.

  • 05.11.2004 1:33 PM PDT
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My God... there is so much information! Reviews! Screenshots! Videos! Release Dates and more! My eyes are beginning to bleed! *drewl*

Well I hope you have all seen the pictures, if you haven't check them out now! New Screens

Enjoy! Post anything interesting you have seen so far.
So for I have noticed these things:
1. Look up! The sky is much, much more detailed.
2. Elites can do boardings like the Master Cheif (interesting for Single Player Campaign).
3. Another multiplayer map revieled (looks to be like some sort of tropical island).
4. In multiplayer it seems that you can have insignias on your player (for clans?) and also on the flag.
5. Plasma sword is available for Master Chief.
6. Wheels and damage will be inflicted on vehicles.
7. Elites vs. Humans in multiplayer (for those who didn't know that many months ago).
8. Look closely at one of the Elites in the third Multiplayer picture(zoom in), and you will see he is holding an unknown looking weapon (it almost looks like a shark).
9. Elites can hold human weapons even though it does look a bit unusual when they do because of their large fingers.
10. More destruction to enviroment is visible.
11. If you look at the Elite on the platform in fourth picture you can see (by zooming) he only broke one section of the glass window so he has more cover. (it also seems like he is missing part of his middle torso as well...interesting...maybe just a glitch though).
12. Pine-apple looking grenades seen again.
13. Master Cheifs and Elites seem to be jumping much higher than in the first Halo.
14. New dual weilding Covenant weapon which shoots purple beems (possibly a new Needler or maybe not...).
15. Plasma grenade explosion much, much more detailed. Looks almost like it releases a large burst of energy, possibly EMP.
16. New look at first person with plasma sword duel.

Some questions for everyone:

1. Will damage effect the way a vehicle drives; i.e. with the ghost losing its tail cause it to sw
swirve?
2.How much damage shall the Plasma Sword enflict?
3. Does the new and improved Plasma Grenade release an EMP?
4. Will Elites mouths move when people are speaking through Xbox Live Communicator?
5. Are clans possible?


Hope you enjoy the pictures!
If the link doesn't work, some please make one for me.

Thank you Bungie!

  • 05.11.2004 1:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: Leetard34
i like the one were he is aiming the gun point blank at the grunts head

*cough*NOOB!*cough*

  • 05.11.2004 2:36 PM PDT
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17. NEW HUD!

p.s. where is the reading for health?

  • 05.11.2004 2:42 PM PDT
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Look closly at the last picture, the one with the fps view with plasma sword. amongst the "plasma explosion" there is a strange stucture, could this be causing the explosion?

  • 05.11.2004 2:46 PM PDT
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Destructable vehicles=sweet!
Covanent in multiplayer=sweeter!
Now, can we play as grunts? that would be so nice! bungie, please! WE WANT GRUNTS, or at least i do! WE WANT GRUNTS, or atleast i do! DITTO! DITTO! DITTO! and so on....

  • 05.11.2004 2:50 PM PDT
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Unfortunately it doesn't look like there's any differences between playing as Elites vs. Spartans. The only change being cosmetic, as the guy at IGN stated. Although I do wish they would at least change the Heads Up Display for the elites or some other difference (Longer jumps? Faster? Something, and obviously balance this new change with a change for the Spartans).

In response to Dill X's questions, I doubt damage will affect the way a vehicle handles (although they did say when it's about to blow up it shakes violently) but it will effect acceleration and speed from what I can gather at the IGN guys post.

How much damage for Plasma Sword? Well that's anyones guess, but I would surmise that the single, quick strikes would take awhile (like 3-5 good hits, maybe less, seeing as how the Plasma Sword is hidden in a hard to reach place, indicating it's coolness factor), while the charge attack/uppercut would most likely be an insta-kill (Or a whole whack load of damage [didn't you see that guy go flying in the video?])

Hmm EMP grenades, interesting. Again, that's anyones guess, BUT the guy at IGN did mention that the warthogs have two "breakdowns" one (the really explosive one) gives you a warning before it does blow (shakes), and the other he said something about your dashboard "shorting out" and if you have a shield you slump forward and are stunned, if no shield, you die... Sounds like EMP to me.

Chatting mouth feature for Elites? I doubt it, you can't see the Spartan's mouth so they can get away with it, so I doubt they'll implement that feature solely for the Elites. Although, it would be VERRRRYYY cool if you were an Elite, say, and you're charging into battle and you say something like "DIE SCUM!" but all the Spartan can hear is "WORT WORT!" how cool would that be?

Clans? Yea probably, I heard that they're doing things with the newest Xbox Live patch that no one has even heard of before (citing the IGN guy yet again).

What I want to know is, when they say "Custom Icons" do they mean CUSTOM, like I can desgin every aspect and make my own from scratch? OR is there just a bunch I can choose from? I'm thinking the latter, although I could be wrong.

[Edited on 5/11/2004 3:09:56 PM]

  • 05.11.2004 3:05 PM PDT
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It probably is just a choosing factor for the player, nontheless it would be soo SWEET if you can customize what you want, I'm thinking with the new version of Xbox Live you can maybe do something relating to downloading pics of a computer or download icons you may create out of this program that comes with Xbox Live 3.0, I just don't know! But still anything is cool for me, I just can't wait for Halo 2!!!!!!!

  • 05.11.2004 3:21 PM PDT
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Hopefully there will be more movies out soon.

  • 05.11.2004 3:33 PM PDT
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In respone to Sif's post: The graphics were probably "turned off" for a reason. This is the very first "hands-on" demo for the Multiplayer portion of the game, they want to make a very very good impression on the journalists. Turning special effects on low (or off) GREATLY improves on the Frames Per Second (or FPS, yea I know it also stands for First Person Shooter).

I'll bet you anything that the the Singleplayer is going to look a hell of a lot more sharper then the Multiplayer, it has to (or at least a noticeable difference). If it wasn't, it would probably be a lot more fun looking through a photo album of you playing Halo 2 online.

In Multiplayer there is going to be so much more crap going down then in Singleplayer. We're talking about up to 16 players (maybe more?) playing simultaneously, with explosions, physics, destructable terrain, on top of great looking bump mapping (the technique that gives textures the look of bumps and ridges), reflections, better textures, and any other great looking thing (this doesn't include the possibility of lag while playing). All that is going to take it's toll on the Xbox. So, a way to alleviate that is to turn down the graphics for Multiplayer so that people can play.

I don't doubt that Halo 2 will give a run for Half-Life2 and Doom3's money, I really don't. In fact, I bet Halo 2 will emerge triumphant in overall sales of the game. Time and time again the consoles have shown how they can generate more sales, if the game doesn't sell into the million mark, it's regarded as so-so sales. While a million on the PC is regarded as almost unreachable to some extent.

BUT, does sales constitute greatness? Any gamer that picked up Enter The Matrix will tell you "No."

Anyways, I digress. Game looks great, can't wait to play yadda yadda.

I'll finish off by saying, I'm actually thinking of getting an Xbox just to play this game (blasphemys of blasphemys).

  • 05.11.2004 3:49 PM PDT
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November 9th will come in no time at all for me, because the only thing I will be doing between now and then is cleaning the -blam!- stains out of my pants.

  • 05.11.2004 3:56 PM PDT

[color=red] Just so everyone knows, I will have an active countdown on my signature for Halo 2.[/color]

[Edited on 5/11/2004 4:11:30 PM]

  • 05.11.2004 4:11 PM PDT