Microsoft Launches Xbox Halo Bundle 38
Thanks to GameSpot for its article discussing Microsoft's announcement of a limited-edition Halo bundle for the Xbox. The article explains that "the company unveiled a 'limited-edition retail special' which bundles the the award-winning, Bungie-developed shooter Halo with a translucent green Xbox and S-controller for $169." Following the recent standalone Xbox price drop to $149, the green console is "the same color as the debug kit Xboxes used by Microsoft game testers and a limited-edition console issued in Europe last year", and the article also notes: "Microsoft is only releasing 200,000 of the boxed sets."
Limited Edition (Score:4, Funny)
Looks like they decided to release one green Xbox for every Xbox they've managed to sell in Japan.
Re:Limited Edition (Score:2, Insightful)
Not going to buy it ... (Score:3, Interesting)
Now that Halo is out on the PC, and I've gotten and played it, I'm glad I waited. It was indeed a good game, but it wasn't worth paying $350 to play it right away. And I imagine it was even better on the PC, with the mouse for aiming instead of their controller.
Re:Not going to buy it ... (Score:2)
Re:Not going to buy it ... (Score:5, Interesting)
But really, they did a fantastic job with the control of the xbox version. In fact, it makes me think that with the right controller design, and good context awareness, controllers will eventually trump the mouse keyboard combo. Practically blasphamy to almost everyone I'm sure. But I came up with DooM, was one of the old guard on NTShadow.net. So I do not speak of such things lightly.
Seeing as Halo has the distinction of being the ONLY game I've played 20 hrs straight, let alone two player, let alone coopratively. I can't say the money was particularly poorly spent I my case.
Re:Not going to buy it ... (Score:2)
Analogue stick for moving forwards/backwards and turning, yellow C-buttons for looking up/down and strafing, A-button for activating stuff, B-button for switching weapons, R-button for precise aiming and Z-button for firing. It made sense, even though you were squeezing the trigger with your left hand.
Man... I gotta play that game again... My hands are twitching just thinking
Re:Not going to buy it ... (Score:1)
I've never been able to understand this... I much prefer having looking (both vertically and horizontally) on the (primary) analogue stick, and moving (forward, back, and sideways) on the C-buttons or secondary analogue. One control for looking, one control for moving - simplicity itself.
Not that I'm saying my way is what everyone should use, but I don't know how anyone came up with the contro
Re:Not going to buy it ... (Score:1)
They would be a bit handicapped, but I believe you could play through the whole game without even touching the C-buttons.
Keep in mind, though, that this was the default setup. There were 4 different setups, and I think one of them was just the way you describe.
Re:Not going to buy it ... (Score:2)
What you say is blashphemy here on Slashdot. But your right.
Re:Not going to buy it ... (Score:1)
Re:Test Machine! (Score:2)
Thanks, Microsoft, for finding a new and unique way to make my job more difficult.
One of those was mine! (Score:5, Interesting)
Actually, the title I probably played the most was one of Acclaim's remote control car games. It was the first Xbox Live title that worked. They originally meant to include that in the Xbox Live signup package, and they replaced it with a first party title so lame I can't remember the name of it. We all agreed that Moto GP was the finest Xbox Live title we played, so I'm glad they took our advice on that one and included it in the live package.
The other cool thing about the pre-public beta was that the only other people were other beta testers and MS internal staff, so you'd be playing with one of the coders on XP or something like that. I was impressed how friendly they were.
It's actually interesting to think how far Xbox Live has come since then. Technologically, better. Socially, much - much - much worse. In any rate, I forgot to send back the cords with my green xbox. Sorry about that, whoever buys it.
Re:One of those was mine! (Score:3, Interesting)
And to follow up on your point, I find you are right about Microsoft people. On the few occasions I've used MS tech support, they have been nothing short of absolutly astounding in no uncertain terms. Absolutly the best support ever. One was a sort of paid deal - we tried to use an incident with our MSDN universal subscription. And they guy totally helped and then his boss called to make sure he helped - and this took days to resolve because of
It was called "Re-volt" (Score:2)
Re:One of those was mine! (Score:3, Interesting)
Both PS2 and GC are already available in a wide range of colours.
Gween Xbox (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:Gween Xbox (Score:2)
Although it's only 200,000 (Score:1, Troll)
Re:Halo ? (Score:3, Interesting)
That's the ugliest thing I've ever seen (Score:1)
Finally! (Score:3, Insightful)
Explanation please: (Score:2, Funny)
must... resist... (Score:2)
Re:I wonder how much this will go for on eBay.. (Score:2)
I predict that, by the end of this year, the "limited edition" will be easy to find and the Xbox will go for $99-$119.
If it's $99 for the regular non-puke green one, then, and only then, might I buy one.
Yummy... (Score:1)
Red vs Blue? (Score:4, Insightful)