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Friday, December 7, 2001 |  |
How consistent IS Bungie?
Knight Premier writes to suggest that there's a clear relationship between the 7th Column logo and 343 Guilty Spark, a character from Halo. (As well, of course, as the obvious relationship between Sparky and the Marathon logo...) You make up your own mind. (He's modified the 7th Column logo a bit, to help you out.)
(Louis Wu 17:10:46 UTC) (permalink)
New poll at VE
Halo crushed the competition in the last VoodooExtreme poll, 'Your pick for 2001 console game of the year?' (47% of 4140 votes, more than the next 10 games combined) - but it's currently in third place in a new poll, 'Which game released in 2001 had the best graphics?' (Max Payne and Return to Castle Wolfenstein are both ahead of it). If you haven't voted, get over to VoodooExtreme and do so! (Thanks to Aginor for the heads-up.) (Louis Wu 16:12:48 UTC) (permalink)
Halo #9 in IGN Hot 25
Thanks to Razorback, who noticed that Halo snagged the #9 spot in IGN's Hot 25 contest. Take a look, and enter to win the console of your choice! (Louis Wu 16:05:34 UTC) (permalink)
The problem with flash-cloning
Fall of Reach details... Eric Trautmann drops an interesting tidbit into the Marathon's Story page forum - there's been some discussion, on and off, about the outrage felt towards Dr. Halsey, and her involvement in the 'recruitment' of children for the SPARTAN project. The moral offense of replacing a child with a flash-clone (so that the parents wouldn't know he or she was gone) seemed (to me, at least) to be less relevant in the 26th century... but Eric's explanation of the left-out backstory clarifies things a lot:
Though not explicitly stated -- and as such, this is completely "non-canon" -- my intention was to have the clones be defective in some way; mental retardation, previously "undiagnosed" illness (Parkinson's, most likely), or other such defect. That's why they use the original kids, not the second generation dubs. ;D
As I say, though, we didn't come right out and say that either in the game or the novel, so that notion may be revised to something a trifle less, uh, dark.
Had that been included, the moral outrage would have been COMPLETELY justified... one more example of how cutting-room floor material can make hard-to-understand plot points clearer. Thanks, Eric! (Louis Wu 14:19:37 UTC) (permalink)
JJ interview postponed
Matt Soell dropped into our forum with a status update about the fan-conducted Jason Jones interview:
He's trying to give in-depth answers - many of the questions are not the sort of thing he could answer quickly without being glib, which he doesn't want to do. So he's taking the time he needs to answer with the depth they deserve. It looks like we'll have to run the interview next week, but I think it will probably be one of the most illuminating interviews he's done.
That definitely sounds worth waiting for... (Louis Wu 14:02:26 UTC) (permalink)
What - another one?
Aargh! Just when you thought it was safe to go to bed! ActiveXbox posted their Halo review today... but I missed it earlier. Graphics and Sounds took high honors, Manual and Price (??) were the low votes... overall rating was 95%. The Reviews page continues to grow. (Thanks, Blue's News, for the heads-up.) (Louis Wu 03:58:00 UTC) (permalink)
Even PCMag looked...
Oops, we missed one - PC Magazine reviewed Halo on November 15. Short but sweet (appropriate, since it's on a platform the magazine doesn't cover)... they gave it a 5/5. Yes, it's on the Reviews page. (Louis Wu 03:49:58 UTC) (permalink)
4 more Halo reviews
We got to pokin' again, and found 4 unnoticed Halo reviews. None of these are dated (they're not even listed in the news sections of the sites in question)... but hey, we know they're from the last few weeks, right? Xbox Gaming rated Halo 98%, Xbox Gamers said 9.9/10, Xbox City thought it was a 4.8/5, and Xbox Xtreme gave it 9.5/10. We've added these to our Reviews page. (Louis Wu 03:34:12 UTC) (permalink)
Thursday's news in brief:
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Wall-hugging Hippos redux Halo out of print? Xbox Radio Giveaway Two new Halo reviews PDF Halo Guide at IGN New logo modification Console GotY poll at VE |
Wednesday's news in brief:
