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do any of you guys know how to get the old Halo (you know, the old 1999 MacWorld 3rd person shooter)

  • 10.29.2004 8:10 PM PDT
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Not happening. That was turned into the Halo you play now. And it was never a 3rd person shooter.

  • 10.29.2004 8:15 PM PDT
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yah it was. it was on a different halo, with the elites in no armor, and it was completely different, with more than one Spartan in Mark II armor or something like that

  • 10.29.2004 8:22 PM PDT

Yes, at one point Halo was a third person shooter. Halo started as a Mac/PC game back when Bungie was still an independent gaming company. Acutally Halo started as a thrid person, squad based tactical game (not dissimilar to Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth II: Soulblighter), evolved into a third person shooter and finally became the first person shooter we all know and love.

Here is a link to the Evolution of Halo video. It was done by Bungie employees and is hosted by HBO. It is the best and most direct source of information on early Halo builds out there.

While some of them look like fun, the Halo we have is the Halo Bungie wants us to have. There is not, nor will there ever be a way to play the older versions, which are probably locked up somewhere with Ling-Ling's head, the soffish, and a pile of Marathon key chains guarded by the web master and the disembodied soul.

Also, we don't really know that it was on a different Halo, or that the elites or MC were any different. All the aspects of old builds must be taken for what they are: rougher pieces of an unfinished product which had yet to be fully polished.

  • 10.29.2004 10:45 PM PDT
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I saw that old video... the one with the dinosaurs, right?
I am glad that that is not halo
It had some of the crappiest graphics ive seen,
I know it was a really early teaser, but still
did you know halo was origionally an RTS?

  • 10.30.2004 6:58 AM PDT
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I saw that old video... the one with the dinosaurs, right?
I am glad that that is not halo
It had some of the crappiest graphics ive seen,
I know it was a really early teaser, but still
did you know halo was origionally an RTS?


they just look crappy cause you see them now. I mean seriously, Doom and Quake were said to have great graphics in the days.....

  • 10.30.2004 7:01 AM PDT