- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Poll: Should there be an orbital drop level in Halo? [closed]
Total Votes: 27
JUST AN IDEA:
After seeing the first demo of Halo 2 in which the MC drops out of a space ship into a covenant ship, I had just one thought: COOL!!!
Recently I played the game mission impossible :operation surma. In MI there's a level in which you drop out of a ship and need to catch up to an airplane. It would be cool if there was a level in which you could steer the MC onto a dropship in Halo 2. Who agrees with me?
But how would it look like? Well if you played the MI game, you know what i am talking about. But here's a sketch. Let's say you just disabled a covenant battle cruiser and need to get the hell out? What do you do? Go to the hanger and try to steal an aircraft! Just one snag, there's none to steal. So you just bail out! Yep, enter the orbital drop level.
We see the MC in 3d person view dropping to earth, with a beautifull picture of earth underneath him approaching really fast. In order for the MC to survive, he needs to steer into the atlantic ocean! That doesn't sound to difficult now is it?? The atlantic is massive and easily targetable. But here's the snag, the covenant are pissed and have launched their defense missiles. While dropping you need to get out of their way. Erm...plasma blasts would be more in the techno eco sfeer of the covenant, so imagine plasma fire coming your way instead of missiles (just like in the movie starship troopers).
All the while the chief is dropping to earch, Cortana paints a drop path on the screen that guides the chief onto the best drop path to use. In MI this is done by ethan hawks sidekick, Luther, but let's just replace Luther with Cortana, and you have that game element covered.
You need to move through these drop paths (squares on the screen) in order to fall smack into the atlantic. This can be made more difficult by dynamically altering the drop paths and the fact that all the time plasma is being fired at you.
To add an extra twist into the whole level, let's say that after even following your best orbital drop path, you miss you target goal. What now, you ask? Well in a MI level you had to drop out of a ship without a parachute and steal one from a soldier in the air. We can translate that into stealing/hijacking a covenant plane in the air.
Now should the level end here??? No way. The chief should continue into a Star Wars like run to destroy the plasma firing guns. At this point, he's being chased by banshees and other nasties, while still being targeted by plasma guns.
Sound interesting? Intrigued yet? Or maybe I'm just crazy. Or maybe the guys at bungee already build this level??? Who knows? Or maybe it's something to consider for a new game? The possibilities are endless.
But what do you think?????