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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2004-05-12 11:54 [#01184535]
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If this isn't the game of the year, I will eat my own hat.
The first Halo had the funnest multi-player of all-time, and this one just multiplies the awesome by 10 or 20.
Consider- online with Xbox live, 16 players on one map, you can be the Covenant aliens (with laser swords and melee attacks), you can use plasma swords yourself, the vehicles have new weapons and are fully destructable (you can even shoot off their hubcaps, and the jeep has a missle launcher on the back for you to sit on and destroy stuff with), you can HIJACK an enemy vehicle GTA style WHILE someone is driving it, the environments are bigger and more complex (Zanzibar looks criminally fun), Master Chief is hung like a horse, you can carry two different weapons at the same time and fire one using L, the other using R... crazy. The environments are fully destructable. You can blow up walls, destroy columns, and one video shows a guy destroying a balcony that had a turret on it with a rocket launcher, and everything came tumbling down. Cutomizable team colors and logos, it's nuts. Game of the show (after Silent Hill 4!) for me.
Doom 3 and Half Life 2 are going to have to do a lot better than I've seen from them to top this kind of fun. Although I am very impressed with the Xbox Doom... it'll be 30fps and not 60, but most of the character models hardly took a hit at all, much less than expected.
Halo 2 is due on November 9th. God willing.
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virginpusher
from County Clare on 2004-05-12 11:57 [#01184542]
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The environments are fully destructable??? That is new news to me!
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2004-05-12 12:13 [#01184570]
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It's not new news to you anymore.
The videos of Master Chief firing a missle at an incoming jeep and then watching it slam into a wall at 200mph, ejecting the driver and then exploding, destroying everything within a 20 foot radius is precious.
And then one of the tires rolled towards the screen and whoever was playing it started knocking it around. Errant tires are practically a dream come true.
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IronLung
from the 91fwy in soCAL (United States) on 2004-05-12 18:43 [#01185309]
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the more I hear and read about it, the more I want that release date to stay firm....but it wont happen...they ALWAYS push it back...
Thanks for the info though phecks...That screenshot is so choice!!
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virginpusher
from County Clare on 2004-05-12 23:37 [#01185556]
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this thread must stay bumped!
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giginger
from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-13 01:49 [#01185642]
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:O
I just messed m pants!
Thank YOU very much :P
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zero-cool
on 2004-05-13 06:45 [#01186021]
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wow, some one has an xbox, ophecks will you have xbox live to play this game when it comes out
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2004-05-13 08:30 [#01186155]
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I don't have Xbox Live at the moment, but I'm getting it soon. I want to play some Rallisport Challenge 2, Project Gotham Racing 2, and maybe enter that Ninja Gaidnen Tournament. Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, Rainbow Six 3, and of course, Halo 2. Gonna be awesome.
I play PS2 online quite a bit, though. Recently worked my way through Resident Evil Outbreak.
I don't know if Halo 2 is the game of the show anymore. I just watched 3 150MB Metal Gear Solid 3 movies, and I'm floored.
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