Halo 3 today maybe?

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Tue May 09, 2006 6:37 am

Alright this is not another "OmfG WhEN is H3 COMiNG OUt?~!!!!!111111111"

not this is IT.

Today will be E3 '06.Its like an Expo for games and stuff.Today is the day when the PS3 will be introduced(specs and price) and the Nintendo Revolution(I hate the name WEEEE!).From Microsoft site since the Xbox360 is already out they plan to introduce Halo 3 YAY!

It will be live broadcasted from G4 TechTV at 6:00PM(5:00 Central I guess).

For more infos go:
http://www.g4techtv.com

DIRECT LINK!
http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.asp ... nouncement

xXxCocoFangxXx · Post by **xXxCocoFangxXx** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:08 am

I'm definately gonna be watching it! I can't wait!

BEEF!!! · Post by **BEEF!!!** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:32 pm

I just watched it. Honestly I don't know what was more disappointing. That trailer or the ending of Halo 2

hotmonkeylicker · Post by **hotmonkeylicker** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:33 pm

halo 3 in 2007! they just anounced it and it looks AMAZING ... yeah this is my first post in over a year... just thought to let you guys know

Rallos · Post by **Rallos** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:42 pm

As long as they make Halo 3 more like Halo: Combat Evolved, I'm happy.

Looks like the good 'ol assault rifle is back

maca_§ · Post by **maca_§** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:44 pm

lol, they brought the Assault Rifle back. I don't wether to laugh at that or be happy about it.
Hopefully they kept the Battle Rilfe..

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:54 pm

I posted a direct link above to the trailer.Pretty disappointing.

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:55 pm

Ok, BEEF!!! this appears to be more about E3...
Well, for those of you who are two lazy to go to bungie's website and don't get G4:
Bungie Shocks World with Surprise Game Announcement

Bungie announces Halo 3, the third and final game in the Halo Trilogy. Halo 3 will be released for Microsoft's Xbox 360 in 2007.
Halo 3 E32006 Announcement Trailer
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The game was revealed to the world at the Microsoft press conference at Grauman's Chinese Theater, in Hollywood, CA. By the time you read this, the announcement trailer should be available for download on bungie.net and directly to your Xbox 360, in full HD glory from Xbox Live Marketplace. Read no further if you want to avoid spoilers.

Nobody saw it coming. Halo 3! Who knew? For the last year or two, people have speculated about what our next project was and surprisingly, in all that time, not a single person guessed that it would be Halo 3. Not one.

We declare it the best kept secret ever.

Sillhouette through the wreckage

Seriously though, it's been a chore biting our tongues on this one. Call it a combination of studio secrecy, corporate secrecy, Bill Gates already announcing it four times and, you know, whatever.

We won't ruin the content of our short presentation by describing it frame by frame, but we will note that everything you're seeing here is being rendered in real-time on the Xbox 360, using the current version of our Halo 3 game engine. The HDR lighting, self-shadowing, GPU-run particle system and many other effects should make it intact (and more) to our final game.

"The trailer was built to have minimum impact on the development process"

We demonstrated the real-time nature of the demo after the press conference (thanks to our friends at Pioneer with awesome audio-video assistance) to a small group of reporters, so we'll wait and see what their judgment on the presentation was, but you should feel free to make your own.

The trailer was built to have minimum impact on the development process, and while it required long hours and hard work from many, many Bungie staffers, it utilizes real-game assets, fiction and locations from parts of the "real" game.

The Chief is back.

In fact, it's the stuff it doesn't contain that gives it a strange kind of context. You can see how detailed the Chief is, but that detail applies to our other, unseen, unrevealed characters, vehicles, environment and so on. There's no AI visible in the demo, no multiplayer, and the entire thing has been left deliberately subdued both to give scale to the artifact and because this is our announcement. The real stuff will come later.

Fans of Halo fiction will be able to guess at a vast array of possibilities, even from this short piece, and discuss them in our newly launched Halo 3 Forum. For those new to the series, we'll make every effort to bring you up to speed on the story in forthcoming Bungie.net updates. We'll also be resurrecting the true purpose of the Update-proper - a weekly diary on the progress of the game that has been stymied recently, by the absence of (reveal-able) information.

Of course the trailer itself is a teaser - with no multiplayer, a single Earth-based locale, none of our sweet new AI or gameplay technologies. No physics to speak of, no new features other than a sneak peek at the graphics and audio engines

ExileLord · Post by **ExileLord** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:55 pm

The graphics are amazing. It looks like it will be something to look forward to. The sound is great also, but I had to listen a second time, because I was a bit distracted by the sign at the beginning and the gorgeous graphics. The main thing I will be interested in however is multiplayer. It was Halo's strongest point and I believe it will continue to be.

BEEF!!! · Post by **BEEF!!!** » Tue May 09, 2006 3:02 pm

ExileLord wrote:The graphics are amazing. It looks like it will be something to look forward to. The sound is great also, but I had to listen a second time, because I was a bit distracted by the sign at the beginning and the gorgeous graphics. The main thing I will be interested in however is multiplayer. It was Halo's strongest point and I believe it will continue to be.

It was just a CG movie. Can't geuss on what it is going to look like from that.

[users]Leg0 · Post by **[users]Leg0** » Tue May 09, 2006 3:14 pm

Phenomenal... But I was never a big fan of the AR

BEEF!!! · Post by **BEEF!!!** » Tue May 09, 2006 3:57 pm

Oh wait, I just saw this off the site:

Yes. The trailer shown at E3 in 2006 was rendered in real-time using the in-game engine. All of the assets shown were running on an Xbox 360 debug kit and the trailer was built using the current engine and development tools. The development process continues and new graphics features may be added or changed at any time.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:00 pm

Beutiful but why does the banshee sound all funny?

ExileLord · Post by **ExileLord** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:08 pm

BEEF!!! wrote:Oh wait, I just saw this off the site:
Yes. The trailer shown at E3 in 2006 was rendered in real-time using the in-game engine. All of the assets shown were running on an Xbox 360 debug kit and the trailer was built using the current engine and development tools. The development process continues and new graphics features may be added or changed at any time.

Exactly.

Cuda wrote:Beutiful but why does the banshee sound all funny?

Changes are made to games. You could have asked the same thing about Master Chief's armor in Halo 2. The banshee seems to have more of a realistic sound now than before in my opinion.

jks · Post by **jks** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:22 pm

Old school AR ftw! I hated how the replacement for the good old AR was the SMG, it sucked, but I think they need to update the model of the AR a bit, it looks really out of place in the master chief's hands now...

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:25 pm

ExileLord wrote: Changes are made to games. You could have asked the same thing about Master Chief's armor in Halo 2. The banshee seems to have more of a realistic sound now than before in my opinion.

Well, I kinda like the whiny sound from the original Halo. Now it kinda sounds like a beefed up Propeller plane.

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:33 pm

jks wrote:Old school AR ftw! I hated how the replacement for the good old AR was the SMG, it sucked, but I think they need to update the model of the AR a bit, it looks really out of place in the master chief's hands now...

I think they should have all three. Some people like the AR, some people like the BR, some people like the SMG.

jks · Post by **jks** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:35 pm

Yea, but the AR model needs to be spiced up, it looks a little low tech compared to the high tech MC.

FReAK · Post by **FReAK** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:48 pm

but we haven't seen a new BR model yet, so comparing the old BR to the new chief is pointless. The old BR is much prettier than the new AR, that thing is so ugly.

BEEF!!! · Post by **BEEF!!!** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:51 pm

^^ What FReAK said.
BTW, cool to see you around FReAK. Havn't seen you in a long while