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Sunday, March 18, 2001 |  |
US counterpart to German jeep
Jay Faircloth (Anaphiel) points out that the US military has a lightweight tactical jeep as well, though not nearly as cool as the German one. Advantage - it can be dropped in via helicopter (a dropship of sorts...). There's a hi-res shot linked from that page - but beware, it's almost 2 megs. (Louis Wu 19:31:19 UTC) (permalink)
Another Halo-like jeep
Tilo Probst sent this to Hamish Sinclair, of the Marathon's Story page, who forwarded it to us, with permission.
I was reading the book: "Terry Gander: Moderne MGs - Eine internationale Übersicht" (German title, but a book about modern MGs). On page 97 I found an interesting picture, showing a jeep called "Light Strike Vehicle, Wessex Stalker series". In my opinion it looks like the famous halo jeep used by the humans!
A bit over a year ago, there was another submission of a possible inspirational pic for the Halo jeep - the link is now dead, but we're working on recovering the image. (Louis Wu 17:45:54 UTC) (permalink)
More Gamestock reviews
"After taking out some aliens with the mounted gun and running over a few more..."
The Action Vault Gamestock report should make some of our forum regulars happy - running over enemies has been high on the list of requested features. There was also an interesting quote from Jason Jones, that must have come from the media availability session, since it didn't appear in the Gamespot UK interview:
"To dodge the multiplayer question a bit, there's going to be a whole bunch of graphic differences because we don't have to deal with the loading, we don't have to deal with the ATI boards, for example. That was a pain in the ass back in the PC days. Even though the Xbox has built-in Ethernet, the PC has this huge installed base of freaks that play Counter-Strike and Quake and all that on the net all the time, so you might find some multiplayer differences too, but we're really thinking about the Xbox experience right now. We're so damn busy dealing with pressure, trying to get it ready that we don't think about what the differences are going to be."
That's about as up-front as we've heard in terms of how the team is thinking about PC development. Other Gamestock roundups include Happy Puppy (they didn't get to play it, so there's not much there) and Gameweek (a short generic description of the game). Thanks to R.net for doing the digging to find these. (Louis Wu 16:56:05 UTC) (permalink)
Theory section updated
Shielded Halo? Ryan Parsons thinks so. Check out his Unified Theory, over in our Theories section. (Louis Wu 00:23:39 UTC) (permalink)
New Fan Fiction
It was sitting awkwardly, crouched with one leg underneath, having somehow survived having most of its chest blown away.
Up close and personal, with the latest installment of Chris Cox's 'The Prisoner'. You can find it (along with the first two chapters) in our Fan Fiction section. (Louis Wu 00:23:16 UTC) (permalink)
Saturday's news in brief:
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Is Halo the Xbox Killer App? Halo around the net Halo music video Weekly Halo Update Goodness Wallpaper page updated |
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 |
