Mehve (aka Lorraine Reyes, Bungie artist extraordinaire) put her calm and reasonable two cents into an ongoing thread about whether or not Halo was disappointing over in HBO's forum recently.
The movie Bungie used to open the Halo launch party with the drill sergeant yelling at the scrawny dorks has been made available at Truth And Reconciliation on the launch party recap page. The movie is a 35 MB MPG file. (Thanks HBO)
guS at Drunkgamers.com, a site I didn't even know existed until right now (although the niche it fits is obvious) has reviewed Halo. While upset at the lack of Internet play, occasional framerate drops, and the opinion that the Needler is slightly less useful than a few sharp rocks, there wasn't much bad they could say about it:
Tim Stevens at ConsoleDomain has reviewed Halo, giving it a full 5 out of 5 rating, calling it a must-have game. There wasn't anything about the game he didn't like, but he focused more on gameplay balance, AI, and other elements, not just graphics:
Jedi at Xbox365 managed to pull himself away from his new Xbox long enough to write a piece on how much fun he's having with his new toy now that's he's got it. And a lot of that fun is courtesy of Bungie's Halo:
Citing only some fussiness in the vehicle controls, GamePro's (rather short) review of Halo is otherwise positive, rating the game a full 5 out of 5 for Graphics, Sound, and Fun Factor with only a half-point off for Controls.
FunXbox has posted a positively glowing review of Halo on their site. Here's an excerpt:
Voting for Game of the Year in 11 categories, including Xbox Game of the Year, starts now and runs through December 23 at GameSpy. Signing up for a GameSpy IDis required.
Jack Mathews at Shacknews now has an Xbox and a GameCube, and so to start off a new round of fla... I mean, discussions, he's posted a few positive impressions of titles for each console to start off:
Harry has posted a spoiler of humungous proportions, laying out the entire story of the game in summary form.
If you don't want to know, don't click the link.
Xbox365 reports there are no plans to launch the MS console in China.
Psyrixx posts his story of Xbox acquisition.
It was long suspected.
The detailed environments in Halo push the Xbox's graphics hardware to the limit, as evidenced by the slight framerate problems right up until release. The VGA adapter for the Xbox went AWOL, and Microsoft updated the Xbox FAQ to indicate that connecting the Xbox to a monitor wasn't possible.
Put together, it suggested that perhaps Halo would be producing output at a resolution appropriate for a standard TV-- 640x480-- even if connected to another device.
And what a game it is. I'll only say that it was very epic, very fun, very hard at points and a must-have game for any action gaming fan.
Yow.
