That thing they keep calling the needler is just the small stationary plasma turret that the grunts usually used in Halo 2. I' pretty sure. Brutes are just big enough to hold it I guess.
I think the lack of rumble is more of a big deal than most people think it is. I would rather have rumble than a gimmicky motion sensing feature. Rumble is essential to some types of games. In FPS for example it can tell you if you are getting hit from the side or from behind. And I really don't like the whole idea of pushing the controller forward to do a melee attack in Resistance. If I had to do that everytime I wanted to melee someone in Halo I would kill myself because of the amount of times you melee in a game like that. It might be a good feature occasionally but I think developers will try to come up with dfferent ways to use it that will just end up being annoying.
Halo 2 Blastacular Map Pack downloads fixed
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Sep 14th 2006 7:07PM (Joystiq)And I have a question about the wiimote. Is the speaker in it a microphone too? Is that supposed to take the place of a headset for online play?
Blog debate: PS3 to load games slower than the Xbox 360
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