Kudos to HBO for getting scans of a promotional copy of the Official XBox Magazine that was handed out at E3. The issue features four pages of HALO goodness in which they have ridiculously labeled HALO as XBox only, something we have known to be false for quite some time. In any case, check 'em out:
Apparently the German magazine GameStar has put an exclusive video of HALO from E3 on their latest issue's disc and HBO has got a hold of it:
Matt's HALO Update went to HBO this week, and here it is:
- Stephen is reworking the flamethrower animation and working outanimations for one of the other weapons added last week.- Cortana has these nifty light patterns that ripple over her body.
- The Mighty Chris Butcher has done the work necessary for AIs to fightin midair. He's also created a bunch of tools for Jaime to use whenpopulating the human ship and assigning behaviors to its inhabitants.
Originally at Halo.bungie.org.
Both Peter and Jason celebrated a birthday today, which only added to the chaos, but I'm taking a breather from the non-stop party that is Halo's Development Cycle to bring you these teasing tidbits of trivia:
Forum poster |bmr|kuran was asking about HALO cutscenes, wondering if they'll be rendered in-engine or as FMV. Joseph Staten of the Sin-O-MatiXXX team posted the answer to this and more:
Here's the unedited update, baby!
No rest for Bungie. Here's a taste of what's happening:- We now have team-specific versions of all multiplayer games. We're also introducing a bunch of multiplayer options (unlimited grenades, motion tracker off, limited number of lives, player with ball runs faster instead of slower, and a bunch more) so people can set up games under all sorts of interesting, challenging, amusing conditions.
- Speaking of multiplayer, Chris Carney is the latest addition to the team, designing new multiplayer maps.
Matt Soell has cause quite a stir in the community with his latest post on HALO, multiplay, and the XBox:
The editors of xbox.ign.com have compiled a list of what was hot and was what not at E3. Jason put HALO as his second favorite game of the show, below Project Ego and above Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding. Brandon said that HALO was too choppy for his tastes, but it looked much stronger than [he] thought it would . No other editors mentioned HALO in their round-up.