Halo 3 Confirmed for Fall 2007 42
The folks at Bungie share the news, via their weekly update, that Halo 3 will be coming out this fall. Not surprising, but still good to hear. The game's marketing campaign will soon be kicking into gear, and the site offers the first 'iconic' image they'll be using on billboards and bus stops. The update also includes a few words on the Crackdown/Beta offering (sometimes later this spring), and an update on where they are with Halo itself.
Halo 3 was out in 1990 (Score:1, Funny)
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Bungie was good about Halo 2 so I expect the same of Halo 3. I just hope they're giving themselves enough time to make it killer. They didn't with Halo 2.
Those are Nintendo first-party games... (Score:1, Interesting)
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Don't think so. Why else would they release Metroid Prime 2 right next to Halo2 ? That move cost a lot of sales...
Smash Bros is a pretty major Halo competitor in my view.
Smash is great, and I think it should be out Q3 this year (prior to the Christmas period). If they want ANYTHING to go toe to toe with Halo 3 though, it should be Mario Galaxy. Or at the very least it can't be Metroid.
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If you look at the DS, Nintendo is really good at producing unexpected highly successful franchises; Brain Training, Nintendogs, The New Super Mario Bros and Animal Crossing are all games that (seemed to) came out of no where and have become remarkably large hits on the DS because the
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Agreed. There is a lot of truth in that. I expect Mario to hold his own against Halo (just as Zelda would) and I also expect MGS4 and FFXIII to not make it this year. I think a game out of left field (like Nintendogs was) has tremendous potential to capture the sales this holiday.
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Insomniac created a solid shooter, don't go bashing them just to get this guy (or to get Sony).
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Sorry, this "PS3 has no games" bullshit is getting really, really old by now.
The current PS3 library is already better overall than that of Wii, at least for me (couldn't care less about Zelda):
http://www.metacritic.com/games/ps3/scores/ [metacritic.com]
http://www.metacritic.com/games/wii/scores/ [metacritic.com]
Wii, i
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Re:Halo 3 Fails To Be Microsoft's Resistance Kille (Score:5, Insightful)
Beyond that, the rest of your post is just a very uneducated troll
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Historically, when people have talked about "[Videogame] Killers" the videogame they choose is both highly popular (represented in sales) and critically acclaimed (represented in review scores); games like Halo, Grand Turismo and The Legend of Zelda are typically games where you would use as reference games
Resistance fails to be a GoW killer (Score:2)
Microsoft will probably settle in on an alternating cycle - giving shooter fans Halo 3 this holiday season, GoW 2 the next, and so on... Halo defined the Xbox and put it squarely on the map in a way that Resistance has utterly failed. There have been plenty of great shooters for the PS2 and Xbox, but how many truly **defined** a cons
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End Wallpaper Discrimination! (Score:2)
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Seriously, even my 15.4" laptop is sporting 1920x1200, and I've had it on my desktop for 2 years now. Its always better to scale down than up...
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I'll believe the release... (Score:1, Informative)
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Bungie never promised any date for Halo 2.
The official line was "ships when ready"
You are confusing blogs and web magazines expectations with official word from the studios.
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* The Cartographer
* That snow map I can never remember the name of where you get to drive a tank, warthog, and ghost.
I agree -- I can't stand the sequel, not sure why people make a fuss over it; it's _just_ a shooter. It's the "Quake" killer of the new millennium.
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There were some quality maps in Halo 2 as well, but it didn't come together as nicely for me. Reminds me, slightly, of how Quake 2 felt compared to the original.
Still, I played H2 through a couple of times and have had many nights spent on multiplayer with friends - absolute bargain when you conside
I wanted to hate Halo, too. (Score:5, Interesting)
I wanted to hate it because the PC port was half-assed and years late.
I wanted to hate Bungie for selling out to Microsoft -- I've heard rumors that the original Halo was going to be a truly cross-platform (Windows/Mac/Linux) game before Microsoft bought it and made it Xbox only.
I wanted to hate it because FPSes are supposed to be unimaginative... I wanted to love the PS2, because it had Linux, and Final Fantasies...
I wanted to hate it so I didn't have to give another dime to Microsoft.
But you know what?
It's not just green metal. (Where do people get that, anyway? There is NO green metal through most of the games, other than the protagonist.)
It's actually a really damned good game. The graphics may be technologically dated -- it's hard to tell -- but they were amazing for the time, and the artwork is still amazing. The writing may be "uninspired", but it's not so much what they're saying, it's how they're saying it. The Halo may seem to be a cheap ripoff of Ringworld, but they made it real -- I can feel the world under my feet.
Halo was repetitive? Maybe, but it also meant it was decently long (Halo 2 was over too fast), and gave you time to get good at it. And it was fun... You know, I wanted to love Doom 3, because of the native Linux port, and id being generally cool guys and releasing their source, and all the yummy graphics, but the gameplay just isn't that fun. After you've whacked your 50th zombie on the head with a flashlight, and shotgunned your 200th Imp in the face, it's just no longer fun or even particularly hard, but no matter how many Elites I melee in the back, it never gets old -- or any easier.
And a forgettable storyline? Marathon very likely exists within the Halo universe, but I already forget its storyline, sorry...
So, tell me, what shooters are you playing that are better than the Halo games?
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Half-Life 2; Battlefield 2; FarCry; Unreal Tournament; the whole of the slew of games that were well-designed for PCs.
Halo in my eyes was simply well-designed for a console. Short of Goldeneye, nobody had ever made a really successful console shooter.
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Half-Life 2: Close enough that I'd call it a matter of taste. Halo restricting you to only one or two weapons carried at a time was a nice mechanic, and it's on the whole more solidly put together -- one of the
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