With less than five days to go before the biggest gaming event of the year, you'd better believe we plan on spending it in a Game Fuel induced haze of Bungie hotness. First up, the latest video documentary entitled "Cinema Paradiso" that not only walks you through the map editor, Forge, but also features some of the most jaw dropping multiplayer footage yet. We now fear, respect and lust after the Gravity Hammer all at the same time.
Speaking of walkthroughs, Bungie has put up a threepartseries on Forge editing as well as a lengthy FAQ on saved films. The good news is that they're still blowing our minds here. The bad news is that you can't create clips of your campaign footage. Minor doh.
Finally, today's Halo buffet concludes with a massive two hour Bungie podcast with special guests Joe Staten and Marty O'Donnell. So snuggle up, nation ... it's going to be epic.
Yes! Big explosions and surpised? Tank on your face!
Oh yes, very nice.
The 3D flyabout/orbiting camera is cool, but wasn't all that spectacular to me since I'm a big Homeworld player. I'm not knocking it though. Still cool.
this game looks pretty sweet but that slow-mo crap looks really horrible. just looks like really bad frame rates. maybe the final version will be better but im not sure. everything else looks good though.
I visit both Joystiq and Kotaku and upon reading their article comments on this video that was the first thing that came to my mind too that they're weren't many haters (or at least it must have been passed their bedtime).
Bungie has packed alot of features into this game and you'd be hard press to build a good list of the FPS games (especially on consoles or pre-modded PC games) with this much stuff jammed packed into it (Saved films, Forge, 4 player co-op that's system link and online "mixable", Meta-scoring, Bungie.net integration for loads of stats and film/screenshot/gametype sharing, online matchmaking for ranked, social, and custom games, and to top it off all the built-in features of Xbox Live [cross game invites, voice chat, friend's list, (maybe a clan system soon), etc]).
Most Halo haters saw the video and it basically took the wind out of their sails. It is kinda hard to troll when that video made the game look so damn fun.
Forge is not just a map editor it's also a gametype, you can turn into a Monitor from being a human all the time and move anything, or as I like to see it, drop tanks on other people. This is real time yes.
the monitor is real time...you can set up the level then play it, or play it while it's being set up. there can be more than one monitor as well. The possiblities are just ridiculously unlimited.
i wasn't very hyped about multiplayer before, but forge looks amazing, good for a laugh, shame I have to wait a few weeks to get a 360 and halo 3, and i just read ghosts of onyx so thats got me hyped for the campaign
"Go join your line outside the stores and open your legendary editions to reveal no justice what-so-ever."
Something about that line reminds me of the South Park episode were Kyle (or Stan) joined the group at school who all dressed in black and talked about only death and sadness.
overated????? hardly... this will be a masterpiece for 360... why dont you shut the f up and go slobber in your shoe... ps3 owners will NEVER have a game of this magnitude.
Like, oh my gawd, like ... I'll playing this over-engineering game come tuesday morning on both of my so-called "under-engineered" but working flawlessly 360s ... and I'm sure everybody that's over for all the fun will appreciate it throughly.
I totally agree. Halo 3 will just be your run of the mill 8 million copy selling, entertainment industry single day sales record holding, metacritic 95+ scoring, most hours played game this gen record holding, system selling, PC gamers been playing for 25 years, cut and paste cookie cutter FPS.
Anybody that is excited for this stupid monumental gaming event is retarded. All of the critics that score this game extremely high are paid off by MS. All the people that enjoy the game only enjoy it because they saw a commercial. Those people don't know what fun is, but I do because I am special.
Does that about sum up all of the Halo hate arguments? Why can't everyone just agree that this is a great game? You don't have to say you personally like it. You just have to acknowledge that people who do like it have just as valid of reasons for loving it as you do for disliking it.
Or, you can go on through life being an arrogant prick about it. It isn't like it is going to affect Halo fans' enjoyment of the title. Personally, I will play this game pretty heavily until Mass Effect comes out.
Man, my stokedness just went through the roof. The grav hammer looks absolutely insane. The part where he hit the warthog with it and then stuck it...I think I lost it.
That's what was missing from the other Halos - a way to combat being run over. Now schmucks who get all their kills by running people over with a Warthog are in trouble. Bye bye chicken shit tactics.
Oh, and the flamethrower is the perfect anti-Energy Sword weapon, too.
Sticky nades were a decent defense against a lead-footed vehicle driver, but I have a feeling the gratification from smashing people/vehicles with that hammer is going to be something else. There is also the energy drain pickup thingy that could mess up some vehicles as well.
I wonder how fast the hammer is compared to the sword, because that could be a pretty fun 1 on 1 matchup.
Sticky 'nades take a while to blow, time in which you can be run over.
And I agree, hitting a Warthog with a grav hammer was already awesome, but then one up it and stick a plasma grenade in there and blow the whole thing up? EPIC
The OMFGBBQ moments were always the best of Halo multiplayer, and now we can save it and share it. I think that's a pretty big fucking deal! :D
