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Saturday, May 12, 2001 |  |
Joe Staten talks to Hyper
Kalis uploaded a funky scan (271K) of an article out of an Australian gaming mag called Hyper. Some of the text is cut off, and some is unreadable... but what's left is pretty interesting stuff. It's an interview with Joe Staten, and it contains some great quotes.
On health:
"We are never going to have little health pods that you run across... you get your weapons and stuff from killing others, but there won't be magical shit that flies out of their bodies."
On vehicles:
"Vehicles in Halo are really, really survivable... it's going to take a lot to take out a vehicle."
On Xbox hardware:
"We never thought we could have something this big on the PC and we never really could, even if we were really tricky."
(This is in reference to the graphical power of the Xbox, not its selling power.)
On PC/Mac versions:
"At this point there is no PC version of Halo, there is just the Xbox version. We're not even gonna think about the PC version until we all sleep for about a month afterwards! PC and Mac gamers should have hope, though, we have some ideas."
There are some other fun bits - the AI gunner will tell you you're driving too fast in the warthog, for example - all in all, we wish we had a more complete scan, but we're happy we have at least this! Thanks, Kalis. Update: Apologies to Darkman, who originally told us about this scan on our forum, then mailed us the scan - I mistakenly thought that 'Darkman', 'D V', and 'Kalis' were all nicknames for the same person. (Louis Wu 10:43:06 UTC) (permalink)
Halo on CNBC Australia
Eldar-colonel sends word that CNBC Australia ran a piece recently about cheap computer prices, on the technology news program E-Generation. During the piece, the E3 2000 trailer was showing on a whole series of screens for about 30 seconds. Nice product placement! (Louis Wu 10:08:19 UTC) (permalink)
Multiplayer testing - not just for breakfast any more
Short but sweet - Matt's Weekly Halo Update is at Haloplayers this week, and boy, I'm happy I'm gonna be at E3. Warthogs can hurt people - as in hit-and-run; that should make lots of our forum regulars happy. Luckily, though, the dropships no longer drop them on Marines... check out the last Halo Update for a couple of weeks, though there might be some info at E3. (Louis Wu 03:47:23 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's news in brief:
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Tigers in the grass Do you worry about Halo hype? |
Thursday's news in brief:
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MSNBC looks at RS2 (and Halo) Wallpaper Section grows |
