Kudos to Avro for sending in scans of the PC Gamer Christmas '99 Halo preview, which appeared in my mailbox earlier this morning. They were full scans, so I broke with tradition and fired off a letter to PC Gamer asking permission to post them.
However, halo.bungie.org has already posted the article, so I'm just going to pull out a few highlights and then direct the rest of you in their direction for the entire article:
- Talking guns, presumably some sort of status indicator.
- Boats may also be seen in the final game, including small inflatables for furtive raids.
- A gatling nail gun (the same gatling that we've already seen?) with nails that stick and persist in their targets (pincushion!)
- Fellow cyborgs, complete with a detailed AI, will (probably) be available to help in the solo mission
- If left alone, the enemy in the solo game could grow stronger and stronger... a great way to adjust the difficulty curve
Better and better... I think I'm going to have to take a semester off when Halo is released...