This week's question comes from a few off topic posts in the forum about melee combat in Halo: should complex melee combat, which would include things like blocking and various melee strikes, play a major role in Halo? Or would such things detract from netplay and just not add too much fun to the game?
Some good results this week, fairly even and not quite as lopsided as past weeks. When asked if Halo should contain male and female models (as opposed to using a single human model and avoiding sexism altogether), around 250 voters had this to say:
Good news for North American Halo junkies. Charles of Inside Mac Games passed along a few comments made by Bungie's Doug Zartman confirming the previously rumored Halo movie on an upcoming IncitePC magazine CD:
I guess it was inevitable... an anonymous source supplied me with a login and password to an FTP site yesterday, pointing me in the direction of the German PC Action Oni/Halo movie. While Bungie has requested that this movie not be distributed over the net, I couldn't resist downloading...
Posted too soon, it seems. A translated copy of the German PC Action article has been posted at halo.bungie.org, and while it's brief and lacking in any new information, they've got the most realistic release dates and system requirements I've seen yet. Our thanks as well to Harry Al-Shakarchi for the translation!
I am, of course, simply trying to tempt fate into handing over something interesting. Not much to report this holiday weekend (hope you American folk enjoyed your walking bird), though we might have a little bit over the weekend...
If you're bored in the meantime, chime in on a discussion in the forum, cast a vote in the poll, or even send in something for me to post. Enjoy the weekend!
Mucho kudos to CyberBob, who has not only transcribed but translated the content of the PC Action movie that has been making its rounds around Europe over the past week. While it's no live action trailer, it's an interesting read... our thanks to him for taking the time to do this, and in doing so break the lull around here.
A heads up from Marathon's Story: it looks like Bungie will indeed be at MWSF. Matt Soell had this to say in a forum post at halo.bungie.org:
I can now confirm that we'll be at MacWorld SF in January.Just thought some of you would like to know.
Indeed! Now then, need to make plans to cover the Expo... while I expect Oni will be the big item there, I can't imagine Halo not making an appearance.