"Updated E3 Coverage, Myth III Promo Poster"
Check out Bungie.org's E3 coverage site, as they've added some more images of the HALO booth. There are also four more screenshots and a picture of the upcoming Myth III promotional poster.
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Myth II: Green Berets
Here's something we haven't seen since Daimyo, a retail total conversion based on the Myth II engine. MythVillage is reporting that a company called TalonSoft is developing a game called Myth II: Green Berets and it's being displayed at E3. For $19.95, here's what it'll feature:
* Tempt the enemy into a trap or attack them head-on in 10 missions through rice paddies, underground tunnels, rivers, and many other detailed terrains!* Secure landing zones with M16 gunners, Huey Helicopters, and medics, but beware of enemy Snipers and Mortar crews - over a dozen units in all!
* Rescue POW's, locate downed pilots, sabotage enemy communications, and seek and destroy enemy supply dumps!
* Obliterate enemy bases with intense explosions, engage the enemy in blinding firefights, call in devastating air strikes, and more - all powered by the Myth II engine!
* Stalk through the dense jungles with M60's, grenades, med kits, and radio equipment to call in an awe-inspiring air assault!
* Includes Myth II, the acclaimed 3D Battlefield Action and Strategy game! (Myth II required to play)
Well, there really isn't much information at the website other than this, but there is a message board. Myth II: Green Berets is under development for just the PC. Makes you wonder if they're aware of our community...
Alternative To bungie.net
Kudos to Myth Village for finding BattleWatch, a service that tracks Myth games. You can add your own game if you'd like, or just join an established game.
It ain't bungie.net, but it's up!
Consoles Hit the 'Net at E3
The ill-fated Dreamcast notwithstanding, this year's E3 is witnessing the first serious attempts to bring some of the advantages enjoyed by computer gamers since the commercialization of the Internet-- multiplayer against human opponents, online communities, replayability, and perhaps even user-contributed modifications and scenarios-- to the much larger audiences that play games on dedicated console machines.
Sites around the web are focusing on this trend, and how the Big Four in console gaming are reacting: Sony, Nintendo, Sega and now Microsoft. News.com is reporting on these issues from E3, and Wired News is also chronicling this struggle between behemoths.
Sega is getting out of the hardware business-- none to soon, either-- and will instead make games for the other companies, some of them slated to have networking support.
Microsoft is building ethernet into its Xbox, even though it is now rumored that Internet play may not be available on the date of the console's launch.
Sony is readying a broadband adapter for the PlayStation 2.
Nintendo is being the most cautious to date. The News.com article quotes Peter Main, senior vice president of Nintendo America, as saying:
We're being honest in saying we're still working on it, Main said, adding that many of the current business plans for online gaming are likely to end up in the dot-com ash can...great technology, interesting concept, no consumers.
We're betting Microsoft is more bullish on the prospects, but even large and successful companies can make mistakes. Here's hoping Microsoft's BoBs don't turn out to be like Microsoft Bob.
Pictures Of HALO Display
XBox.com has posted some pictures from E3. Among them include two pictures of the HALO display. The first shot shows people playing the single player and the second shot shows some eight player multiplayer action.
Additionally, you can see some more XBox loot here and here.
Thanks, Rolf.
Better Gamma Myth III Screenshots
Somehow, Adrenaline Vault and Inside Mac Games' Myth III screenshots got altered with inappropriate gamma settings. If you want to see the screenshots how they are intended to be seen, check out GameSpot's archive, which hosts the correct versions.
"Halo Multiplayer to be LAN, Splitscreen Only at Launch"
Okay, take this with a healthy helping of salt, since it hasn't been confirmed independently or by anyone at either Bungie or Microsoft... but Rampancy.net reader Der Teufel is reporting that Bungie's own Matt Soell told him Halo's multiplayer on the Xbox will be LAN or split-screen only, at least at first:
When I asked Matt about online multiplayer, he said that XBox will have broadband multiplayer online games, but because MS is running behind schedule nailing that feature down, so Halo will NOT have multiplayer online support, only LAN. The XBox has the ability to connect up to 4 boxes with ethernet cable, 4 controllers per box for a maximum of 16 players in a multiplayer game.It's really just another FPS with really pretty graphics. However, I'm sure Bungie is doing a bang up job on the single player story line and it will be very compelling.
First Oni losing internet play, then LAN play... let's hope this isn't becoming a trend. We're attempting to get a positive confirmation of this report now.
This Time It's Official: Myth 3 Screenshots
MinuteMan and Datax gave us the heads up at RHL about InsideMacGames' E3 feature on Mumbo Jumbo's upcoming sequel to Bungie's Myth games, Myth III: The Wolf Age. There are nine shots in all.
There's also an updated version of that page now at IMG, which links to the screenshot gallery and also mentions another such gallery at the Adrenaline Vault.
Halo Release Date Announced?
While it isn't necessarily any more vague than when it's done or any of the other non-release dates release dates that developers give out when they don't want to try and pin themselves down to a specific date, Microsoft has put up a page with general information about Xbox games, including Halo. Like all the other Xbox games mentioned on that page, the release date is listed as Holiday 2001 . Of course, there is no mention of which holiday that is, so it could be anything between Halloween and New Year's Eve, I suppose. However, given that the Xbox itself won't be out until November 8, smart money is on sometime between then and the start of the Christmas shopping season around Thanksgiving or so.
Speculation all along has been that Halo would be a launch title , and some have suggested that the game might even be bundled with the console-- but I'd bet against that. Halo is likely a good candidate for being the premiere game available at or near the Xbox's release, and it'd be foolish to give up the extra sale. Remember what Atari bundled with the original 2600 VCS at launch? Yep... Combat, or as the Brunching Shuttlecocks put it, Invisible Tank Pong. What Xbox title currently in development gets to play that role, we don't know-- perhaps a secret project like Raven's Robot Roundup or something.
Halo Coverage Around the Web
The E3 coverage page of Bungie.org has a new set of screenshots from Wednesday's FanFestV, as well as mention of three movies they've got of actual Halo gameplay. The third isn't yet available as it is rather large (60MB).
Also spotted at Halo.bungie.org: Reports on FanFestV from TeamXBox, another from Bungie Sightings, and yet another from MSXbox. Apparently for every three Xbox gaming sites now you get eggroll.
Last but not least, TeamXbox also has an article titled Halo Dissected , with detailed reports from their staffers who actually got their sweaty palms on an Xbox controller and wrestled to master the awesome power of the Halo marine. This was also spotted by Harry at Halo.Bungie.org.
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