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Is Halo the Xbox Killer App?
Thanks to Lophan, who noted that in today's GameSpy Daily, the Thought for the day was "What is YOUR killer app?" They suggested that Halo was impressive, "maybe worth buying a system for." Guess they should talk to the Daily Radar folks... (Louis Wu 20:35:05 UTC) (permalink)
Halo around the net
Looks like a bunch of gaming sites finished the week off by putting up their Halo reviews. Gamesmania has a pretty positive take - sounds like the AI is really coming along:
The AI of both your enemies and your allies is looking pretty good. Enemies will take cover during a fight, investigate noises and bodies of fallen comrades (it looks like bodies stay, if not permanently then for a good long while). If they catch and then lose sight of you, they will investigate your last known position.
GamePro has a short synopsis... they liked it a lot, and I hadn't ever seen this piece of trivia before:
In addition, two players will be able to play through the story in cooperative mode.
Now THAT sounds like fun. :) Finally, GamePen has an upbeat paragraph:
Even on a television, the game is gorgeous.Ê
We're still waiting on the PlanetXbox review - they say it'll be up today. (Thanks to R.net for the heads-up on a couple of these.) (Louis Wu 18:54:13 UTC) (permalink)
Halo music video
DigitalGolem writes that he's uploaded a new music video from Halo clips. It requires the divx codec to watch, which I haven't had time to install yet... but at least one person on the forum liked it. :) It can be found here, and links to all the necessary software are on the page. Be sure to let DG know what you think! (Louis Wu 10:52:52 UTC) (permalink)
Weekly Halo Update Goodness
Matt's weekly Halo Update can be found at Rampancy.net this week - as though we didn't have some idea already how Halo was doing. :) We got names for "here are two people working FULL-TIME on multiplayer" mentioned in the Q&A yesterday - Hardy and Michael - presumably Lebel and Evans, two big names from the Oni team... and we got teasers like this:
Marcus got the lovely gorgeous waterfalls working again and placed a couple of them on the first mission you play after you land on Halo. Of course that will be at dusk and you might be distracted by the enormous structures firing huge bolts of plasma over to the other side of the ring.
Goodness, if that doesn't pique your interest, you should head over to the Tribes 2 sites, or something. Thanks, Matt! Go read the goodness for yourself. (Louis Wu 01:58:07 UTC) (permalink)
Wallpaper page updated
Thanks to Oliver Heilwagen, who sends in a nicely done desktop image for our Wallpaper page... go grab it! (A little bit o' green in there, maybe to honor St. Patrick...) (Louis Wu 01:57:26 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's news in brief:
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A parable for our time FiringSquad gets their hands on Halo New video coming soon to xbox.com screenshot analysis reconstructed Theories section updated New Poll at MSXbox Matt speaks out |
Thursday's news in brief:
