Yes, it's coming from non-gaming news source Reuters. No, you shouldn't expect to base "reviews" off previews. However, it is an international wire service that'll influence the Halo 3 message in the "average" consumer's mind, so here we are.Reuters reports that players had mixed reviews about the beta at the NYC and San Francisco Halo events from last weekend. Poor Nicholas Puleo of EvilAvatar is thrown by Reuters into the crosshairs of Halo fanboys everywhere by saying, "The graphics can use some work ... They're not much different than the previous Halo ... They've got five, six months until release, so they'll add some polish ... When I compare it to other things in the platform, it's not standout." Wait fanboys, don't hunt him down just yet.
Despite that one quote and the headline, the Reuters piece is actually just a bunch of quotes from Microsoft marketing folks. Of course, the great "duh" quote goes to Craig Davison, Microsoft's director of marketing, "There's a significant number of people just waiting for that one game and this is the game." It'll certainly be an interesting month for NPD data the month after Halo 3 launches to see if there is a spike in Xbox 360 sales -- and how significant it'll be.
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Gears of War sold well... but, it didnt move consoles .. so it failed in that respect.
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where is the next-gen polish and sheen? nothing revolutionary about this game at all and slightly evolutionary at best.
2 thumbs down...
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Doesnt that tell you that there are REAL fans of Halo that will buy it?? Hope?? -That H3 will be the $#!t?? Yeah, I belive its gonna be banging'. I dont care about the graphics. If it plays as well as H2 with new and old weapons, then i'm all in!
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THOSE AREN"T FINAL GRAPHICS. SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH ABOUT GRAPHICS. SERIOUSLY, WE'VE HEARD THE ARGUEMENTS, AND LO HOW MANY THERE ARE.
Okay. We are good and done about graphics.
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http://www.machinima.com/films.php?id=22388
Everyone is like I have played gears look at those graphix well gears didn't sell 2.4 million copies in the first 24 hours of release
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Halo has to move consoles like others have mentioned. Nintendo has three games coming this year that will move Wiis guranteed. It's going to be interesting...for sure...considering Wii is already selling like ice water in hell.
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It's actually $130, and only the obsessed wil buy that shite.
Graphics aren't final, so nobody can honestly say what it'll look like yet.
I'll admit Halo hasn't done much for the genre, but it's insanely popular and it will sell like madness.
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@Ian Von Porter,
How would you recommend that MS move more 360's? I would argue that they are sold because of the games. Therefore, by getting more big titles out there, they will accomplish that goal. One could argue that is why the PS3 isn't selling that many consoles. Nintendo's console is a novelty right now. It'll be interesting to see what lasting power (ie games) that console will have.
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After say that, I agree Halo 3 is way to over hyped. I'll buy a copy, but I'm not going to be pissing my pants at midnight going "OMGZ ITS HALO3." I just want to HOPEFULLY finish the campaign. I could careless about multiplayer. Multiplayer is full of doushebags that play way too much.
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No man I love you man. lol
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@17, haha it sounds like you're defending the Wii instead of Halo 3, with the gameplay elements over "polish" deal. I wish that's what they did.
I think it's going to be Halo 1.6 (1.5 was taken by Halo 2), but look SUPER shiny this time, and with new guns. It's basically an expansion pack, but hey, I'm not knocking it. It worked for StarCraft, amirite?
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You may look down on down me for my pedestrian approach to playing games.
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hmmm. says who? Nintendo? Yeah, those people NEVER lie about release dates, right?
how about this for a guarantee? Nintendo will NOT have all 3 games out by the end of this year. unless they want their users to wait for 18 months for another good title.
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Ah well. Such is life.
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I agree with the concept of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" a lack of revolutionary overhaul features will (if at all) only hurt this game in the critics postings, otherwise it'll still sell like hot cakes (just like Wii Sports, critical scores rang a collective "meh," but some people are essentially paying $250 for that game)
unless the new equipment completely frustrates the experience, there is no way this game could suck
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It's totally easier to just boycott a game and pretend like you hate it rather than getting better at it so you don't get raped by every other person on Live.
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All signs indicate that the Wii big 3 COULD come out this year. The build of Mario Galaxy shown at GDC looked significantly more advanced than the one at E3 06, and we know from Martinet himself that they've already done the voiceover work. Iwata (although he's not at all objective), has said that MP3 has recieved positive reviews from "testers" and GamePro says its graphics have had a major overhaul, finally there's the persistent rumor of Brawl with a December 07 release date in Japan, coupled with Kojima's statements that the game is "very complete"
The possibility of all 3 in 07 = likely
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halo 3 = overrated. even kotaku had meh stuff to say about it. Derivative, beenthere, donethat, shooter.
MEH!
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Don't expect Gears, but don't expect Halo 2 either.
Halo has never been a game that was meant to visually blow you a new asshole anyway. Halo 1 came out with DoA3 and PGR. Visually it wasn't easy to compete (I know, different genres, etcetera), but concerning gameplay, it was nailed perfectly for a console shooter.
Anyone who plays Halo for how it looks is probably some random 12-year-old who has never heard of Gears or Crysis. God knows Halo has plenty of those...
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Honestly, for all these graphical complaints, I've read mostly good things about how it actually plays. Beyond which, if you do watch that Machinima video it's extremely damn clear that Halo 3 looks substantially better than Halo 2. Even when compared to Halo 2 Vista. It's no Gears of War, but it doesn't have to be.
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open brackets, SLASH, letter i, close brackets. you can do it.
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(sorry... don't kill me)
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As for the online features, they expanded on the party system, which is one of the great things H2 brought to the online game.
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All Halo fans already have a 360 and have been playing the previous versions.
NEW IP's sell consoles. Not the sequel of a sequel.
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There are about 9 to 11 million xbox 360's owned and Halo 2 sold 8 to 9 million games, so with this said maybe 2 to 3 million especially in Japan could careless about Halo 3. So I believe 360 will sell pretty well to people who want a powerful console at x-mas time and can't afford a PS3 and those people will want HALO 3 with it so it can in a way sell with a system at christmas with people buying a 360 for the first will know halo 3 is the game to buy with it.
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