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Saturday, August 17, 2002 |  |
For want of a lap...
Thanks to 909, who wrote up his HNC Regionals experience on our forum. Congrats on the great playing, 909, and sorry you missed that last lap! Eep - and before I actually got this posted, Matt Soell wrote up a mini-description of the Semifinals over in Bungie-land... no word, though, on the alleged playing of the Halo 2 Trailer there. Still waiting on that... Update: Whoa - it was true! Matt himself brought the trailer to the Renton games... Cino wasn't making anything up! (Louis Wu 23:39:56 UTC) (permalink)
Fonkee...
Word comes of a french Warthog Jumpin' movie. The jumping is nothing special... but the dancing chiefs are pretty cool. :) If you're willing to watch it in Real format, go here and check it out! (Louis Wu 14:51:02 UTC) (permalink)
Gamitopia says 'Eh.'
Gamitopia reviewed Halo last week - and were unimpressed. While I'm loathe to sneer at Halo criticism for fear of being seen as an overbiased fanboi, the reviewer picked some of the silliest things to complain about:
When you move onto each successive chapter of Halo, you'll restart with Marine guns, regardless of what you ended the previous chapter with. Once, after battling my way out of an end of chapter fortress with a needler and a rocket launcher, I nearly had a heart attack when the next chapter, which started right where the last left off, started me off with the crappy pistol and machine gun from the beginning of the game. I didn't play for days after that one, and it happened all too often.
Other complaints included too-low ammo-carrying limits, too-few-gun carrying limits, bad driving controls, and a tired storyline. Overall, they rated it 81%. We've added it to our Reviews database. Thanks to Blue's News for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 13:33:46 UTC) (permalink)
Stories for the weekend
Saturday Morning Fan Fiction Reading:
- Check Please, Part II- Teaser, by Kellen Squire
- Taker of Life, Giver of Death, parts 7 and 8, by Ian Barnes
- Short Story, part 2, by Jamie
- Rise To Honor, part 16, by Shadow
- The Journey Home, by JT3989
- Nothing Left, by Eric Gunther
Whew! (Louis Wu 11:37:20 UTC) (permalink)
Halo on the Big Screen
Vector40 went to the MaxGames competition at the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation - read his insanely long (but quite entertaining) account of the goings-on on our forum. (Louis Wu 10:07:53 UTC) (permalink)
Another Trailer Writeup
Razorback noticed another description of the Halo 2 trailer - this time at IGN. Take a look, before it gets buried behind the IGNinsider wall. Makes you wish 19 days was shorter... (Louis Wu 02:25:11 UTC) (permalink)
HNC Schedules posted
Yeroen, over at Bungie's Tru7h and Reconciliation site, has posted the schedules for all the Regionals matches for the ongoing Halo National Tournament. Swing by if you want to know where to go when. (Louis Wu 02:02:16 UTC) (permalink)
OSX Tunneler updated
For Mac-owning Halo Online players - Aquaduct 1.0b3 has been released. Go grab it. (Thanks to Deimos™ for the heads-up.) (Louis Wu 01:57:58 UTC) (permalink)
A 'Cingular' discovery
When Bungie released the Halo 2 screenshots last week, one of them sparked some debate - people wondered about a symbol visible on one of them. Some thought it was the men's room... others thought maybe it signified who won the cellphone wars in the future. Jaime Griesemer, Halo 2's lead designer, suggested that it was present in the first Halo. Aginor finally found it - it's a symbol for 'airlock'. (He made a homemade image showing where he thought it turned up - but i snagged a screenshot, showing it in place. This is this first airlock you come to in the first level.) Nice eyes! (Louis Wu 01:54:07 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's news in brief:
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More HNC thoughts More movie mirrors A new movie host HNC Regionals Rules Change Halo 2 'Preview' More HNC Impressions The Kudos Keep Coming |
Thursday's news in brief:
