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We've all seen that sumptuous video of Master Chief walking about that ship, looking cool, before jumping down towards the Earth as everything is exploding. The imminent arrival of Xbox Live has many salivating all over their laps, and on almost ever single discussion board on the internet there is a mammoth thread cooking up new ideas for the sequel. Well, always one to just do what everyone else is doing (I have a Nokia 3210 and PS2, and support Arsenal), I've decided to give you my own preview.
First major addition is that of a second playable character, as hinted at with the subtitle...that's right, just as the scientists said, the only things that would survive a nuclear holocaust on Earth would be the cockroaches and Lloyd Grossman and seeing as the game is set on our war-torn planet, it seems fitting that the last game's hero is joined by the last Earth human left. The cut scenes are full of hilarious banter ("Tonight, on Master Chief", "Who would live in a suit like this?") and with Mr Grossman doing all his own voice recording AND stunts, the official Grossman license should be put to good use.
It will come as no suprise, then, to learn of the new melee weapon, a jar of Lloyd Grossman's Paaaaaaasta Sooooooorce. It has both primary and secondary functions - simply press the melee button to throw the jar like a grenade, or hold down the R trigger and press the melee button to unscrew the lid and pour hot spicy death all over your target's face. Another welcome addition is the secondary function of the usual punch/pistol whip. Now, if you hold the R trigger whilst attacking, you will deliver a quick knee to the gonads (or relevant sex organs, depending on the alien race). Imagine the punishment when a huge metal-plated leg swings between your lower limbs...and that's the feeling of justice, Master Chief style.
In another bid to make the game yet more realistic (and at the same time laugh at stupid games like Unreal Tournament and Quake that let you carry loads of guns and have stupid things like 'fun') you can now only carry half a gun at a time. You can elect to have the shooty bit or the holdy bit of each weapon, which means that just like in real life, you need to hold hands with someone who has the corresponding gun component in order to shoot someone.
In a bid to win over more gamers, Xbox have decided to include commentary (by gun-nuts Charlton Heston and The Washington Sniper) and a fully licensed soundtrack including songs from those popular acts Daphne and Celeste, Hear'Say and the ex-Another Level star Dane Bowers. In another strategy, Bungie have decided to cater for ALL game styles by including some new vehicles (a motorbike with tight handling but low speeds, a sports car with high speeds that bruises like a peach that's the victim of domestic abuse, and a Boeing 747 jet), 1-on-1 fighting sections in the ruins of the Colliseum, and 120 Stars hidden throughout each of the levels which need to be recovered in order to save the Princess.
The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. This has prompted Bungie to make some radically original levels for the sequel - there will be levels set in Antarctica, underneath a Volcano, on a farm and in a crowded city. There will also be lots of annoying escort missions just like from GoldenEye, so that you can spend weeks hoping that whichever real life person inspired the character you have to protect will rot slowly in the seventh dimension of Hades' realm whilst being sodomized by Adolf Hitler and stabbed in the neck by Jeremy Beadle.
The multiplayer game was arguably Halo's strongest feature, so in an effort not to end up being rubbish like all popular things (Star Wars, Grand Theft Auto and Oasis, for example) Halo 2 will be for one player games only, which makes it yet more realistic (as in a war against aliens you wouldn't be able to have a time out to mess around with friends, trying to steal their piece of cloth tied to a metal stand). Halo 2 will be Live compatible, but only for downloading new trailers of Halo 2 on the PC and Mac, which will be arriving on Europen shores in the fourth quarter of when hell freezes over.
A preview will be up as soon as I can get ahold of a copy.
Thanks for reading.
-El
First major addition is that of a second playable character, as hinted at with the subtitle...that's right, just as the scientists said, the only things that would survive a nuclear holocaust on Earth would be the cockroaches and Lloyd Grossman and seeing as the game is set on our war-torn planet, it seems fitting that the last game's hero is joined by the last Earth human left. The cut scenes are full of hilarious banter ("Tonight, on Master Chief", "Who would live in a suit like this?") and with Mr Grossman doing all his own voice recording AND stunts, the official Grossman license should be put to good use.
It will come as no suprise, then, to learn of the new melee weapon, a jar of Lloyd Grossman's Paaaaaaasta Sooooooorce. It has both primary and secondary functions - simply press the melee button to throw the jar like a grenade, or hold down the R trigger and press the melee button to unscrew the lid and pour hot spicy death all over your target's face. Another welcome addition is the secondary function of the usual punch/pistol whip. Now, if you hold the R trigger whilst attacking, you will deliver a quick knee to the gonads (or relevant sex organs, depending on the alien race). Imagine the punishment when a huge metal-plated leg swings between your lower limbs...and that's the feeling of justice, Master Chief style.
In another bid to make the game yet more realistic (and at the same time laugh at stupid games like Unreal Tournament and Quake that let you carry loads of guns and have stupid things like 'fun') you can now only carry half a gun at a time. You can elect to have the shooty bit or the holdy bit of each weapon, which means that just like in real life, you need to hold hands with someone who has the corresponding gun component in order to shoot someone.
In a bid to win over more gamers, Xbox have decided to include commentary (by gun-nuts Charlton Heston and The Washington Sniper) and a fully licensed soundtrack including songs from those popular acts Daphne and Celeste, Hear'Say and the ex-Another Level star Dane Bowers. In another strategy, Bungie have decided to cater for ALL game styles by including some new vehicles (a motorbike with tight handling but low speeds, a sports car with high speeds that bruises like a peach that's the victim of domestic abuse, and a Boeing 747 jet), 1-on-1 fighting sections in the ruins of the Colliseum, and 120 Stars hidden throughout each of the levels which need to be recovered in order to save the Princess.
The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. This has prompted Bungie to make some radically original levels for the sequel - there will be levels set in Antarctica, underneath a Volcano, on a farm and in a crowded city. There will also be lots of annoying escort missions just like from GoldenEye, so that you can spend weeks hoping that whichever real life person inspired the character you have to protect will rot slowly in the seventh dimension of Hades' realm whilst being sodomized by Adolf Hitler and stabbed in the neck by Jeremy Beadle.
The multiplayer game was arguably Halo's strongest feature, so in an effort not to end up being rubbish like all popular things (Star Wars, Grand Theft Auto and Oasis, for example) Halo 2 will be for one player games only, which makes it yet more realistic (as in a war against aliens you wouldn't be able to have a time out to mess around with friends, trying to steal their piece of cloth tied to a metal stand). Halo 2 will be Live compatible, but only for downloading new trailers of Halo 2 on the PC and Mac, which will be arriving on Europen shores in the fourth quarter of when hell freezes over.
A preview will be up as soon as I can get ahold of a copy.
Thanks for reading.
-El
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We've all seen that sumptuous video of Master Chief walking about that ship, looking cool, before jumping down towards the Earth as everything is exploding. The imminent arrival of Xbox Live has many salivating all over their laps, and on almost ever single discussion board on the internet there is a mammoth thread cooking up new ideas for the sequel. Well, always one to just do what everyone else is doing (I have a Nokia 3210 and PS2, and support Arsenal), I've decided to give you my own preview.
First major addition is that of a second playable character, as hinted at with the subtitle...that's right, just as the scientists said, the only things that would survive a nuclear holocaust on Earth would be the cockroaches and Lloyd Grossman and seeing as the game is set on our war-torn planet, it seems fitting that the last game's hero is joined by the last Earth human left. The cut scenes are full of hilarious banter ("Tonight, on Master Chief", "Who would live in a suit like this?") and with Mr Grossman doing all his own voice recording AND stunts, the official Grossman license should be put to good use.
It will come as no suprise, then, to learn of the new melee weapon, a jar of Lloyd Grossman's Paaaaaaasta Sooooooorce. It has both primary and secondary functions - simply press the melee button to throw the jar like a grenade, or hold down the R trigger and press the melee button to unscrew the lid and pour hot spicy death all over your target's face. Another welcome addition is the secondary function of the usual punch/pistol whip. Now, if you hold the R trigger whilst attacking, you will deliver a quick knee to the gonads (or relevant sex organs, depending on the alien race). Imagine the punishment when a huge metal-plated leg swings between your lower limbs...and that's the feeling of justice, Master Chief style.
In another bid to make the game yet more realistic (and at the same time laugh at stupid games like Unreal Tournament and Quake that let you carry loads of guns and have stupid things like 'fun') you can now only carry half a gun at a time. You can elect to have the shooty bit or the holdy bit of each weapon, which means that just like in real life, you need to hold hands with someone who has the corresponding gun component in order to shoot someone.
In a bid to win over more gamers, Xbox have decided to include commentary (by gun-nuts Charlton Heston and The Washington Sniper) and a fully licensed soundtrack including songs from those popular acts Daphne and Celeste, Hear'Say and the ex-Another Level star Dane Bowers. In another strategy, Bungie have decided to cater for ALL game styles by including some new vehicles (a motorbike with tight handling but low speeds, a sports car with high speeds that bruises like a peach that's the victim of domestic abuse, and a Boeing 747 jet), 1-on-1 fighting sections in the ruins of the Colliseum, and 120 Stars hidden throughout each of the levels which need to be recovered in order to save the Princess.
The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. This has prompted Bungie to make some radically original levels for the sequel - there will be levels set in Antarctica, underneath a Volcano, on a farm and in a crowded city. There will also be lots of annoying escort missions just like from GoldenEye, so that you can spend weeks hoping that whichever real life person inspired the character you have to protect will rot slowly in the seventh dimension of Hades' realm whilst being sodomized by Adolf Hitler and stabbed in the neck by Jeremy Beadle.
The multiplayer game was arguably Halo's strongest feature, so in an effort not to end up being rubbish like all popular things (Star Wars, Grand Theft Auto and Oasis, for example) Halo 2 will be for one player games only, which makes it yet more realistic (as in a war against aliens you wouldn't be able to have a time out to mess around with friends, trying to steal their piece of cloth tied to a metal stand). Halo 2 will be Live compatible, but only for downloading new trailers of Halo 2 on the PC and Mac, which will be arriving on Europen shores in the fourth quarter of when hell freezes over.
A preview will be up as soon as I can get ahold of a copy.
Thanks for reading.
-El
First major addition is that of a second playable character, as hinted at with the subtitle...that's right, just as the scientists said, the only things that would survive a nuclear holocaust on Earth would be the cockroaches and Lloyd Grossman and seeing as the game is set on our war-torn planet, it seems fitting that the last game's hero is joined by the last Earth human left. The cut scenes are full of hilarious banter ("Tonight, on Master Chief", "Who would live in a suit like this?") and with Mr Grossman doing all his own voice recording AND stunts, the official Grossman license should be put to good use.
It will come as no suprise, then, to learn of the new melee weapon, a jar of Lloyd Grossman's Paaaaaaasta Sooooooorce. It has both primary and secondary functions - simply press the melee button to throw the jar like a grenade, or hold down the R trigger and press the melee button to unscrew the lid and pour hot spicy death all over your target's face. Another welcome addition is the secondary function of the usual punch/pistol whip. Now, if you hold the R trigger whilst attacking, you will deliver a quick knee to the gonads (or relevant sex organs, depending on the alien race). Imagine the punishment when a huge metal-plated leg swings between your lower limbs...and that's the feeling of justice, Master Chief style.
In another bid to make the game yet more realistic (and at the same time laugh at stupid games like Unreal Tournament and Quake that let you carry loads of guns and have stupid things like 'fun') you can now only carry half a gun at a time. You can elect to have the shooty bit or the holdy bit of each weapon, which means that just like in real life, you need to hold hands with someone who has the corresponding gun component in order to shoot someone.
In a bid to win over more gamers, Xbox have decided to include commentary (by gun-nuts Charlton Heston and The Washington Sniper) and a fully licensed soundtrack including songs from those popular acts Daphne and Celeste, Hear'Say and the ex-Another Level star Dane Bowers. In another strategy, Bungie have decided to cater for ALL game styles by including some new vehicles (a motorbike with tight handling but low speeds, a sports car with high speeds that bruises like a peach that's the victim of domestic abuse, and a Boeing 747 jet), 1-on-1 fighting sections in the ruins of the Colliseum, and 120 Stars hidden throughout each of the levels which need to be recovered in order to save the Princess.
The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. The first Halo was said to be too repetetive. This has prompted Bungie to make some radically original levels for the sequel - there will be levels set in Antarctica, underneath a Volcano, on a farm and in a crowded city. There will also be lots of annoying escort missions just like from GoldenEye, so that you can spend weeks hoping that whichever real life person inspired the character you have to protect will rot slowly in the seventh dimension of Hades' realm whilst being sodomized by Adolf Hitler and stabbed in the neck by Jeremy Beadle.
The multiplayer game was arguably Halo's strongest feature, so in an effort not to end up being rubbish like all popular things (Star Wars, Grand Theft Auto and Oasis, for example) Halo 2 will be for one player games only, which makes it yet more realistic (as in a war against aliens you wouldn't be able to have a time out to mess around with friends, trying to steal their piece of cloth tied to a metal stand). Halo 2 will be Live compatible, but only for downloading new trailers of Halo 2 on the PC and Mac, which will be arriving on Europen shores in the fourth quarter of when hell freezes over.
A preview will be up as soon as I can get ahold of a copy.
Thanks for reading.
-El
Just "Through the Keyhalo" would have been a better name.
Didnt read the post
Didnt read the post
No.
'Keyes' was a character in Halo.
I WIN!
*slap*
'Keyes' was a character in Halo.
I WIN!
*slap*
Through the Keyes-halo
*slap*
*slap*
But that doesn't sound like key-hole at all.
2-0.
2-0.
But you suck
2-3
2-3
Gah. Damn triple scoring nonsensical put-downs.
*waves white flag, hopes Kyz will stop stalling and read the damn thing*
*waves white flag, hopes Kyz will stop stalling and read the damn thing*
*sets fire to flag*
4-2
4-2
Would of read that if you didn't win so many GADs sorry.
is Loyde Grossman in it :)
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