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September 29, 2003 Link to this post
Gamespot reviews Halo PC
More new Halo PC content - this time at Gamespot. There's a review (they gave it a 9/10; complaints were repetitive level design, high hardware requirements, unvaried multiplayer - what?) and a couple of dozen screenshots. (It DID get an Editor's Choice award.) Thanks to Strato for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 22:01:55 UTC)
September 29, 2003 Link to this post
Reviews, Screens
Four new Halo PC reviews are up; GamingNEXT, Gamers Depot, Telefragged, and The Wargamer (a first impressions article, which, judging from the screenshots, was written from Beta 1.5). The pattern amongst the first three is the framerate issue; the game simply requires a LOT from the hardware. (We'll be posting a tips page to optimize your experience soon; there are definitely some things you can do to avoid the worst of the problems.) All 4 reviews have screenshots (GamingNEXT put up 69 of 'em), and there are even MORE screens at LoadedInc. Thanks, Blue's News. (Louis Wu 16:12:45 UTC)
September 29, 2003 Link to this post
Words, words, and more words
Nineteen Fan Fiction pieces from over the weekend:
- The Death of Earth:Guilt of a Spartan Chapter 4, by Sim McGaulkin
- Survival, Chapter Six: Days of Rescue and Defense, by Agent Shade
- Devestation- Chapter 2- Getting Home, by Michael
- Homeworlds XV, by Mainevent
- Unknown Apprentice, Rewritten, by apache119
- Temporal Rift PART I: SPARTAIN II REDUX, by Alexander_Valient
- Halo ABC's, by Mainevent
- Have Fath, by Alpha Lance
- Capture Part 1: the Sammurri, by kadjfoiafjasdoijf
- -Hell Summed Up-, by Mainevent
- A Soul of Steel: Part 3, by The Scribe
- Croton 3.76 � The sea may be a cruel mistress�but trees hurt more, by Trevor
- DONT TURN YOUR BACK TO ME part 1, by BACKFIRE
- The 7th Column: Deceit, by Mainevent
- The Final Battle:Part 1-the San Jose, by SlimJim27
- Halo Trilogy: Fighting and Remembrance (Chapter VI), by Alpha Lance
- Battle for the Norah: Part Five, by Sterfrye36
- Devestation- Chapter 3- Beta Halo..., by Michael
- The Inter-Galaxal Wars, Part One, by Hunter_Killer
Start your week with some Halo prose. (Louis Wu 03:06:22 UTC)
September 28, 2003 Link to this post
Randy Pitchford talks about performance
Rapture has pointed out a thread on Gearbox's forum started by Randy Pitchford, addressing concerns about Halo PC's performance. Reaction seems to be split... but there's some meat to be found if you read the whole thread. (Louis Wu 14:59:00 UTC)
September 27, 2003 Link to this post
Massive Halo PC content infusion from IGN
IGN has posted their review of Halo PC... and a whole lot more. For regular visitors, the review, 45 screenshots, and 9 streaming video flicks (multiplayer action) are available. (Massive spoilers in the screenshots, if you haven't played yet.) For Insiders, there's also a Game Guide (basically an updated version of their Xbox guide, although it's missing the 6 new maps), and a video review (available in large and small QuickTime and WMP movies, ranging from 29 to 95 mb, also full of spoilers). There are, of course, downloadable versions of the public streaming vids, too, for Insiders. They weren't thrilled with the game. Biggest complaints were repetitive level design, too-taxing hardware requirements, and a balance that seems (to them) still geared to console playing. They gave it an 8.2 overall. Go read/watch the parts you have access to! Thanks to bikeman704 for the tip. (Louis Wu 11:18:18 UTC)
September 26, 2003 Link to this post
Gamespy loves Halo. Really.
Gamespy has put up their review of the final version of Halo... and they loved it. Simply loved it. They're still not thrilled with the level design, and they're grumpy about the system requirements... but (by their own reckoning) those are niggles. Halo... as it was meant to be played. (Their words.) Comes with 24 screenies, too (12 campaign shots from Halo, T&R and Silent Cartographer, and 12 multiplayer shots, mostly from Blood Gulch, Timberland, and Gephyrophobia, though there is one Ice Fields shot). Thanks to LaMuerte for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 13:48:13 UTC)
September 24, 2003 Link to this post
Corntana.
What do you do when the voice in your head starts telling really bad jokes? Well, obviously, you start drinking to drown out the noise... unless that voice belongs to a holographic representation of an AI. One One Se7en peeks at this nightmare. (Louis Wu 10:59:34 UTC)
September 21, 2003 Link to this post
X03 video madness
More on the 7-minute Halo segment from X03; as we mentioned recently, there are a couple of locations for the DivX version (the original source, Xboxyde.com, and a UK mirror). This versions weighs in at 50.7 mb. Blackstar has converted it to QuickTime (obviating the need for me to do it :) ) - and you can grab the 56 mb version either at his site, or at files.bungie.org. Additionally, BlimBlim, the maintainer of Xboxyde (where all this goodness started), popped into our forum to mention a screenshot gallery showing some of the juiciest pieces in fullscreen (718x575) goodness. There are currently 17 shots there - but the number might increase. Lastly, I'd like to thank G-Xis for his enthusiasm and comments. Update: Oops, forgot one; Germany's Halo Orbit has mirrored both the small and large AVIs. Sorry about that! Update2: Found another AVI mirror here (thanks, BiosHacker), and Blackstar has reduced the size of the QuickTime version to 40.6 mb (with no visible loss of quality); both links above now point to the slimmed-down version. Woohoo! (Louis Wu 01:20:50 UTC)
September 19, 2003 Link to this post
Halo PC Tools shots - finally
Back in August, a number of fans headed down to Gearbox's offices in Texas to get a look at Halo PC. While we were there, Dave Mertz, lead designer, took a few shots of the various tools used to build levels - 3dsmax, and Bungie's homegrown Sapien and Guerilla. We were asked, however, not to post these right away; Gearbox had some ideas about releasing shots of their own. At the end of August, I asked if enough time had passed, and was told to hold off a bit longer. On September 5th, they released one of these shots on their own website, and I quickly sent off another note, asking if NOW was okay. Yesterday, I finally received an answer - so even though these shots have been seen on the net before now, they're being added to our Screenshots database as of today, because that's when we got permission to post them. There are two shots each from 3dsmax (the modeling tool that the underlying architecture is built in), Sapien (the tool that allows placement of objects and sounds, among other functions), and Guerilla (the tool that handles behavior, bumpmaps, textures, and the like). I hope this is still of use to some people. I also took the opportunity to add another 50 or so screens, both Halo PC and Halo 2, from previews and such around the net in the last few days. (Louis Wu 19:48:40 UTC)
September 19, 2003 Link to this post
Previews, previews - everybody's a critic
Whoa - I'm slipping. Blue's News posted news on another new Halo preview on Monday - but I didn't see it until today, when I noticed it on Rampancy.net's front page. Loadedinc.com says it's good for PC gamers who never played the Xbox solo campaign, and folks who want the multiplayer rush. We'd agree. (5 new oddly stretched screenshots, as well.) Digging around also turned up previews at CV-Games.com, Armchair Empire, and TotalVideoGames.com (this last is really old; from what I can tell, it was written around E3, but contains info that hasn't been valid since last summer), too. Enjoy. (Louis Wu 15:22:07 UTC)
September 18, 2003 Link to this post
Strings.
SilverBrin**** has submitted another impressive piece of Fan music; this one's called 'Mombasa', and it weighs in at a hefty 7.4 mb. (It's just over 4 minutes long.) Here's what SB has to say about it:
Ever since seeing the Halo 2 demo played at E3 and watching videos of it, I have been taken with the broad and epic tone of the orchestral music accompanying the fantastic New Mombasa level. It think it is one of Marty O'Donnell's biggest successes to date. Last week I decided I would like to totally remake the orchestral theme accompanying the video and accentuate my favorite themes and melodies and add some moments of my own. So I started from scratch and finished with this four-minute remake of the New Mombasa demo music and named it "Mombasa".Because I'm loathe to add email addresses any more to the front page (spam is evil), your best bet for feedback is our forum. (Louis Wu 08:51:25 UTC)
Mombasa.mp3 is actually part of a much much larger Bungie audio/fan-music based project that Jester and myself will be showcasing on Psyjnir. Jester will be talking more about this project "SitKoB" later. Enjoy this file and feel free to give us feedback!
September 17, 2003 Link to this post
What was I thinking?
Goodness. mnemesis updates the Halo Story page for the first time in over a month... and I manage to misinterpret his note informing me of this. (I thought it was just a 'here I go, I'm gonna start updating again' note. DOH.) Anyway, go visit the Story page. Forerunner origins, Covenant history, xenobiology, weapons theories... it's some deep stuff today. (Louis Wu 17:23:26 UTC)
September 17, 2003 Link to this post
The disc saga, revisited
A few days ago, Ninja On Fire posted a picture that had shown up on the Halo PC betanews list (a private newsgroup devoted to the PC beta). It (ostensibly) showed someone being arrested by a Plano police officer for the theft of the gold master of Halo PC. There was quite a bit of discussion about whether the pic was real, or faked... and when the same disc appeared on Gearbox's site (twice), it started to look like the 'it's a fake' contingent had a point. GB Crush, a staffer over at 3d Retreat, stopped by early this morning to clarify things: turns out 3d Retreat's Editor in Chief is also a Plano police officer. It's a real photo - but it was staged. And now you know the REST of the story. (Louis Wu 13:27:01 UTC)
September 17, 2003 Link to this post
Mappers... start your engines!
botman, a programmer over at Gearbox, dropped some pretty cool info in our forum this morning:
I know that we plan to have the Halo PC editing tools download package available on the day the game is released (Sept 30), so you should be able to buy the game, download the kit and start creating new maps all in the same day.
This is really, really, REALLY good news for modders. Woohoo! Update: botman jumped the gun a little - yes, the tools will be available, but the timing is still unclear. 'On the day of the game's release' is not official information, and this forum post should not be pointed to by anyone demanding their editors NOW. Apologies for the confusion. (For what it's worth, we jumped the gun, too; this should NOT have been put on the news page without confirmation. My bad.) -lwu (Louis Wu 13:09:28 UTC)
September 16, 2003 Link to this post
Halo 2 screen from X03
Whoa. op_ivy seems to have turned up the first new Halo 2 screen from X03, in France. (This is a big annual trade show.) Gorgeous! (Ross Mills found a larger version at Worthplaying.com... and BOLL found this one (4.8 mb - careful). Whoa. More later. (Louis Wu 22:46:48 UTC)
September 16, 2003 Link to this post
Lego Mania
More Halo lego stuff at The Brickshelf Gallery... Steener started with this page, Fury Three summarized all the Brickshelf offerings here. A quick search of the HBO news archives shows that he's picked out all the ones we've mentioned in the past (on Brickshelf, at least). (Louis Wu 02:30:11 UTC)
September 16, 2003 Link to this post
New Campaign Screenshots at AVault
Wow. Adrenaline Vault seems to be first out of the gate with new screenies from Halo PC; I'm guessing this is a near-final or final version, since no recent betas that I know of included Assault on the Control Room. 28 shots (one is actually from 343 GS's opening cutscene) at a gorgeous 1280x1024. Thanks to Target4Hire for pointing them out. (Louis Wu 02:07:24 UTC)
September 15, 2003 Link to this post
Pictures, master... lots of pictures...
Inside that last article, hidden at the very bottom, are links to lots of new content - new screenshots, new desktops, and a new picture at Gearbox... which, interestingly enough, matches the one in this forum thread pretty closely. Whoa. (Louis Wu 16:52:48 UTC)
September 15, 2003 Link to this post
More screens - really old?
Gamers Hell put up ANOTHER 6 shots from some multiplay stuff. These are either grabbed from a REALLY old beta, or they were grabbed using a pretty horrible video card... even the gametype indicator is missing. You're looking for the 6 shots labeled '12/09/2003'; it's a series from Battle Creek. (They're not at the top; those are the recent release of Infinity shots from Microsoft's official Halo site.) (Louis Wu 00:42:55 UTC)
September 13, 2003 Link to this post
Infinity screens posted
Microsoft has put up shots of Infinity, the last of the 6 new levels in Halo PC, on the official HPC site. These, combined with the shots you can find in our Fanstock Screenshots section (put up almost a month ago), should give you a good sense of how massive this level is (and how much fun it's going to be with Warthogs)... (Louis Wu 00:37:22 UTC)
September 11, 2003 Link to this post
Previews out the yin-yang.
Massive Halo PC coverage: Gamers Hell has a preview and 33 new screenshots, GameGossip has a preview (contains 5 screens), and Game Over has a preview (12 screens, but several are taken from the Firing Squad preview last week). Of the three, I'd have to say that the Game Gossip piece has the most meat... but press is press. Thanks to ShackNews for all three links. (Louis Wu 22:25:29 UTC)
September 10, 2003 Link to this post
More Halo PC screens at GameKult
GameKult has put up twenty screenshots of Halo (though the last 7 are just re-released pics from the Gearbox and Microsoft sites). These are all from Beta 1.5, though this time there are some multiplayer shots. Thanks to Xavier De Coster for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 18:58:26 UTC)
September 10, 2003 Link to this post
AV looks at Halo PC
Adrenaline Vault has an interview with Randy Pitchford up; it's focused on team play, requirements, and new features of Halo PC. 21 screenshots (all single player, from Beta 1.5). Thanks to Madscientist for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 17:48:56 UTC)
September 10, 2003 Link to this post
Is it Memorex?
Doggone has put the MC action figure... into the action. Check out this forum post with a couple of screenshots, modified. (We've got a few other 'things people do with action figures' in the queue - I wonder if we have to set up a new section?) (Louis Wu 12:37:40 UTC)
September 9, 2003 Link to this post
New Zealand site looks at Halo PC
Another Halo Preview - this time it's over at RadiativeNZ. Short, and with a few minor errors - but a nice job on the 16 screenshots, showing vehicles and weapons. Thanks to AlStrong on our forum for pointing it out. (Louis Wu 22:10:22 UTC)
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