Halo 3 Halo 3

2007-07-11 14:13:02 In reply to szaromir (2007-07-11 13:58:58)

No idea....

Maybe there will be something more this week.

Personally, I'd have given Halo 3 the end of the show. Have some Bungie guys come out and show off some MP stuff. Not everyone at this event will have seen the beta after all. Show off the armor customisation and a new game-mode. Use the equipment in an interesting way to do something goofy and make everyone laugh. Think, hey! That's funny, record a save film, edit it, upload to your fileshare, Show off the Bungie.net integration and how good films can be distributed.

Then if they've got online co-op working (they better!) have someone else on the other side of the stage send an invite and jump in. Introduce the Arbiter this way (I've no idea if he's playable but co-op could have a Marcus/Dom setup looking at the trailer). Show off a very small snippet of gameplay before a cutscene that teases the storyline and then maybe finish with a trailer.

Would have been a more effective demonstration of the game and what it's about, imo.

2007-07-11 14:32:47

Hell they should have had Keith David on XBL ready to play as his character :P

2007-07-11 20:48:33

Did anybody happen to catch this gem of videogame journalism from Gamespot?

"As the trailer wound on, we managed to spot what apparently was a huge new Covenant ground weapon: a large quadraped robot with a massive laser beam, which appeared somewhat similar to the massive Spiderbots that appeared in Supreme Commander."

He must be somebody's nephew or something; I don't see how else he could've gotten that job.

2007-07-11 21:30:02 In reply to Ronsauce (2007-07-11 20:48:33)

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2007-07-11 21:40:11 In reply to Ronsauce (2007-07-11 20:48:33)

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October 20th 2007 (A good day)

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of the greatest books ever.

2007-07-11 22:15:40

Well having just seen the... other big game... actually played at the Sony conference I think Halo 3 would have won on actual gameplay. Bungie knows how to do AI and keep the gunfights interesting.

2007-07-11 22:43:13

The trailer really lacked focused. It has some really nice graphic touches here and there (lighting was really nice, as was the water) but the animations left something to be desired at times.

The graphics look fine for SP, but a lot of talk about these 2 elements:

1. Where is the talk about all the features? Coop? 4 player coop? Haze looks very similar in fidelity (if not better in greenery and god rays) and it has 4 player coop. And any new MP modes?

What is making Halo 3 special? Where is the innovation to trend set the industry? At least they could have demoed all their live features... or SOMETHING! Anything! A dev walk through.

2. Besides innovation, the trailer was really... flat for Bungie. Discombobulated to say least. And a lot of 3rd person gameplay elements just randomly slapped together. Even the music wasn't synced well at all. I am not audio expert, but where the ship flew by the camera toward the end the music SHOULD have synced and even had the roaring engines sound... but nothing.

Very anti-climactic.

The years biggest game deserved more screen time and more attention. Very dissappointing. It could have used the CoD4 treatment for sure.

Ps- the POS Weta live trailer thing SUCKED. HORRIBLE, and I mean that. Absolutely horrible. Campy, trashy, stiff, to clean when it should have had more "earthy-ness and grit" and cheesy and cheapo when it needed more quality. What a waste. No wonder the movie got canned -- which sucks because a Halo movie has Transformer / Xmen like potential if done in a similar vein. Just a travesty.

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The fans have spoken. Concerning the graphics of the Halo 3 Beta: "There's so many little effects and things going on that make this game pretty much 2nd only to Gears at the moment."

2007-07-11 22:43:39

I think the kz trailer was just more impressively put together and they deserve their credit for that, but I don't think during gameplay H3 will outshine it.

I'm not trolling killzone btw keep that in mind people I'm just making an assumption based on all the cool stuff that appear to be in halo plus the new equipment added along with all those vehicles. The battles in Halo 3 will probably be bigger as well judging by what I saw from the killzone vid. The environments in Halo 3 are supposed to be pretty huge.

Adam Sessler said the impression he got from all the fast cutaways in the Halo 3 trailer is that maybe they had something to hide, but after seeing the demonstration he now knows that most definitely isn't the case. He believes it looks better and its what MS should've shown at their press conference.

"What is making Halo 3 special?"

Heh acert that ones easy the halo universe itself and the story is what makes Halo 3 special and different from the other games. I mean we'd have to be crazy not to factor in the story going on in the game as part of what makes it special.

Yes the trailer wasn't what one would expect of such a hugely anticipated game. If this is truly to be the end of the series wouldn't they want to show that in the trailer by doing the best they could with its unveling trailer? I believe I understand why they did what they did though. I think making a fancy trailer for E3 would've set them back and they are in crunch mode (and releasing soon)

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October 20th 2007 (A good day)

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of the greatest books ever.

2007-07-11 22:50:24 In reply to Optimusv2 (2007-07-11 22:43:39)

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2007-07-11 22:58:12 In reply to Optimusv2 (2007-07-11 22:43:39)

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The fans have spoken. Concerning the graphics of the Halo 3 Beta: "There's so many little effects and things going on that make this game pretty much 2nd only to Gears at the moment."

2007-07-11 23:09:28 In reply to Acert93 (2007-07-11 22:58:12)

2007-07-11 23:17:06 In reply to Slabs (2007-07-11 23:09:28)

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The fans have spoken. Concerning the graphics of the Halo 3 Beta: "There's so many little effects and things going on that make this game pretty much 2nd only to Gears at the moment."

2007-07-11 23:21:18

Oh I agree totally. Bungie should be kicking themselves for not getting Halo 3 front and centre, I honestly believe it would have been more impressive than the Killzone 2 gameplay.

2007-07-11 23:36:59

well too late and its the final game in the trilogy, the best they could do is make sure the gameplay is good, bungie need to take a brake and move on to something else

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2007-07-11 23:51:34 In reply to Slabs (2007-07-11 23:21:18)

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The fans have spoken. Concerning the graphics of the Halo 3 Beta: "There's so many little effects and things going on that make this game pretty much 2nd only to Gears at the moment."

2007-07-11 23:55:39

I just wish the frame rate was a little more stable... <<;;;

2007-07-12 00:03:24

On the one side HALO3 looks really good to me, but on the other side it also looks really underwhelming. I think the lighting is really good and also the environments like the forest looks really good. I like it how the light shines on the characters. But on the other side you have that underwhelming low poly starships that looks almost exactly like from HALO2. Also these stupid blue plasma explosions looks so lastgen. On the one side there are that excellent character animations like the one where the alien kicks the human away. On the other side there are those totally underwhelming character movements like the one where the MC runs out of the forest. Absolutly unaccetable, because this looks really like an old XBOX1 game. I am also a little disappointed about the environments. They look ok, but nothing more. So the big deal about the photorealistic grass is just another hype like the 3d grass from Forza2. The only thing that could look photorealistic are the ground textures in the forest. But this is really nothing special. Even 6 years old PC games had photo textures. I thought they come up with some kind of good looking 3d grass. So CoD3 and CoD4 provides much much better grass that looks real.
I have to say this is not the quality i've expected to fininish this triology. It's really a shame that mostly all 3rd parties do a much much better job.

2007-07-12 00:06:05 In reply to Acert93 (2007-07-11 22:58:12)

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October 20th 2007 (A good day)

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of the greatest books ever.

2007-07-12 00:09:20

Man i have just watched the trailer on my tv in HD and OMG the lighting\trees\water\fire\ everything just looks amazing, i was not expecting this from Bungie at all! and with near 3 months of polishing left to go WOW just WOW!

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2007-07-12 00:26:21

Second one I think is from near E3 06 trailer.

Halo has scripted moments too so those will add to the game, but what we saw was all gameplay and some glimpses of single. It looked awesome tbh, but that isn't the type of trailer halo 3 deserves, but I know them putting a better one together would've set them back and the end product is whats most important.

Enemies have jetpacks for god sakes lol. What if the chief can use one ? =P

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Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

October 20th 2007 (A good day)

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of the greatest books ever.

2007-07-12 00:33:21