See video of new Halo 3 levels from PAX

by Justin McElroy { Aug 27th 2007 at 9:45AM }

Two challengers are brought before a massive audience to test their opponent's gaming mettle on a gigantic screen. Though the game is familiar to them, the rules have been changed. There are new levels that they're unfamiliar with, new items they've never used. Two will enter the battle, but only one will leave victorious. It's the final round of Video Armegeddon and the game? Super Mario Bros. 3! ... No, wait, that's not right. It was the Omegathon, and the game was Halo 3. But the similarities are striking, aren't they?

Now, you can be a part of the unofficial sequel to The Wizard with this video direct from the competition. Though the audience gets pretty pumped whenever they see new weapons like the flame thrower, the excitement when the sword is brought into play is palpable. The battle continues after the jump.

Tags: halo3, omegathon, pax

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Dustin @ Aug 27th 2007 9:49AM

Finally!

... this just makes me want to cryogenically freeze myself until the 25th.

colin @ Aug 27th 2007 11:05PM

i want to play halo 3 on an imax and have hundreds of people yell when i get a kill. that is every gamer's dream.

Brian B. @ Aug 27th 2007 9:52AM

wow he had the sword and still got owned lol .. I can't wait for Halo 3!!

hvnlysoldr @ Aug 27th 2007 10:06AM

Uggh. I'm suffering motion sickness.

Nomi @ Aug 27th 2007 1:58PM

i know the feeling...

Nomi @ Aug 27th 2007 1:59PM

i know the feeling...

hvnlysoldr @ Aug 27th 2007 2:57PM

At least you didn't triple post an apology.

Todd Rabanus @ Aug 27th 2007 1:26PM

the sword is one of the reasons i was not too big on halo2 multi player.one hit kills with someone hiding behind a wall with a sword does not look all that enjoyable to me. it's worse than sniping and everybody hates those guys. i didn't play the beta but assume there will be an option on multiplayer where we can chose the weapons we want to play with, ala everything but swords.

Badboy1979 @ Aug 27th 2007 1:33PM

Also, this time around, Bungie has chosen to keep the 'ammo' aspect of the sword in multiplayer as well. So a player who has the sword during a multiplayer game will only have a set amount of kills they could get before the sword 'expires'.

And yeah there will be an option to not include the sword... or change the sword placement (and even 'ammo' limit) around the map using the Forge... heck you could even place a bunch of fusion cores (the exploding barrels) around the sword on the your own custom map, so that there's an added danger of being blown to bits for anybody rushing in to get the sword when it spawns.

I would have loved that option if it had of been in Halo 2 Midship map... the sword was devestating on that map, in my opinion.

Ali @ Aug 27th 2007 10:16AM

wow I was falling a sleep watching that, does this mean very little has change in Halo3s MP aspect?

Akuzan @ Aug 27th 2007 10:21AM

And the trend continues of bad people getting to demo the games

ezkial @ Aug 27th 2007 10:20AM

from this video..ifn i was at pax...id have taken first place.

i am so happy they gave the sword "ammo". tired of the sword whores.

flame grenade = sweet butter bread.

Obie @ Aug 27th 2007 10:49AM

Agreed, though it is still seems deadly in close quarters.

Grant @ Aug 27th 2007 11:06AM

i agree that it's a good thing they gave it ammo, but i think 10 is still too much, its still easy to use and while a noob would probably only get 3 kills with that, a good player should get 10 kills no prob.
i think 7 or 8 would have been a more reasonable number... but then again, at least it's not unlimited like before, so i guess i can't complain.

Algorecon @ Aug 27th 2007 12:29PM

Y must everyone to play a game that isn't out yet absolutely suck ass?

muffinman @ Aug 27th 2007 4:16PM

ezkial you might have gotten first place if it was only halo 3. These guys made it to the final round because they were better at the other game challenges. Halo 3 is only the game challenge for the final round.

ezkial @ Aug 27th 2007 10:59AM

yea id have dominated in c&c, street fighter, or fps..maybe even ddr.

anything else..id have gotten creamed.

still wish i was there tho. i want to play the game.

dmbrandon @ Aug 27th 2007 10:50AM

I completely would have won the whole tourn this year without question.

Damn lotteries.

On topic, Halo3 is looking better everyday. I was unimpressed with the beta, but now.. I don't know. v_v

jadnice @ Aug 27th 2007 10:56AM

talk about over hype.... that clip put me to sleep. Plus those morons screaming at everything.... look there is a wall (cheers) look I can jump (cheers). Geez they must have been paid to run the mouth.

Zaphod Beeblebrox @ Aug 27th 2007 11:02AM

The screeming reminded me of Bills fans cheering and whooping it up for every 3 yard play.

JerJer @ Aug 27th 2007 11:41AM

alot of the cheers were for the OTHER guys screen silly. nowai 2pplplai?! plus it was PAX. mike and jerry are hilarious and all the people there are humongus nerds (in a good way).

Eric @ Aug 28th 2007 12:02PM

@jadnice: You're kind of slow aren't you? When two people are playing, and you're only watching one of the screens, there may in fact be other more exciting stuff happening on the other screen!

seldene @ Aug 27th 2007 12:34PM

Are you sure this was from the omeganauts? The character names are BetaFrankie and Lukems, who are bungie people.... could this have just been a demo video? Or were they just using their alias'?

dan(o) @ Aug 27th 2007 1:48PM

it is from Omegathon. At about 0:58 into the second vid the announcer says "MNCDover in the lead".

Mike-453 @ Aug 27th 2007 11:12AM

Oh look, there are people that get bored by something, what a suprise that something doesn't appeal to everyone. I think MGS is dull and the main focus of MGS (which is cutscenes) is boring, but that's ok, because I understand that people's preferences are different.

(MGS was just an example)

Kizzle @ Aug 27th 2007 11:13AM

GIMME GIMME GIMME...JIMMY....WOODS

FatOprah @ Aug 27th 2007 11:18AM

Started slow, but then got fairly interesting. Still, I want to see some video of the singleplayer.

Badboy1979 @ Aug 27th 2007 11:42AM

Here's a single player video that demonstrates what will probably be one of the most used new features of Halo: Saved Films (if you haven't seen them already):

http://www.gamersyde.com/news_4884_en.html

Mike-453 @ Aug 27th 2007 11:19AM

But wow, those screams are way over the top, but then again I think the amount of cheering in football (soccer) is stupid.

RemzVkru @ Aug 27th 2007 11:45AM

WoW...........can't wait to hear the foul mouthed idiots who will be playing this replace all the cheers!!

Mike-453 @ Aug 27th 2007 11:52AM

Wow, another mention of people with abusive language that play Halo online, here be an idea, mute them. :D

Seriously, there are assholes on all onlines games, casual gamers are racist assholes and the 'pros' deem themselves higher then everyone else.

mike @ Aug 27th 2007 12:04PM

from watching the video, you would think all those people played halo for the first time today. They cheered for ever sword slash. A guy picks up a fuel rod gun they cheer. He hits a man cannon they cheer.

WTf. Have they not played the h3 beta? I mean I think halo 3 is great and all, but a 1v1 in that craptacular hallway level does not look fun at all. And even if it was fun, why all the cheering like they never seen the game before? The announcer was like.. oooo flame grenades. OMG LOOK, somethings about to go down. It sounded so stupid.