Halo 3 Has Gone Gold

The official Bungie site has the word that Halo 3 is done. In games industry terms, they've 'gone gold'. "That means we delivered a final version to our internal certification group that passed all the tests and is now being whisked away to top secret manufacturing locations to be turned into retail versions of the game - and eventually packaged and sent to stores in various cases, tins and cat-helmets. We can't wait to share it with you guys on September 25th and 26th, but we have to say thanks."

Re:Yay!

[gatkinso]

I like Microsoft. Thye make cool games, good mice, and comfy keyboards.

So what if I don't like Windows and Office?

well...

[Pojut]

...while I'm not going ape shit over Halo like a large portion of the "console-only" generation (I have yet to meet a long-time FPS PC gamer who thinks Halo was anything beyond "entertaining") I did rather enjoy Halo 1 and 2...Halo 3 will hopefully bring a nice close to this story arc.

Strictly speaking of the Halo franchise, I'm more excited about Halo Wars than Halo 3...but what do I know, I grew up on Zork.

Re:WTF?

[Fozzyuw]

Not that I have anything against Metroid...but Halo 3 is breaking records before it is even out.

Indeed. Having owned Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2 and now Metroid Prime 3, Halo is in a far different category than Metroid. While Metroid is long running and beloved franchise, Halo is a fever pitched hyper hysteria that can draw people from all over just to play a game tourny. It's more competitive than Metroid, which is far more story driven.

With that said, the 60mins I spent with Metroid Prime 3 (after starting over having missed scanning a spaceship and remember previous versions being completely screwed if you missed some scans, I'm being extra cautious scanning stuff), I'm really liking the story line, but the controls are still growing on me. They definitely tightened up the cross-hair movement compared to Red-Steel, but there's still some sluggish feeling trying to quickly change modes.

Cheers,
Fozzy