Nevermind that the game already had:
-The stick Plasma Grenade
-The shrapnel-shooting Frag Grenade (er, by description anyway)
-A model of pieces of wreckage to damage you (flying parts of exploding vehicles in Halo 2)
-...and a gun called a "Needler"
The inspiration for this clearly came from Resistance.
Anyway, this grenade sounds like a great addition to multi. I especially like the line about "stick a spike grenade t...
Nov 9- Halo 2
Nov 15- Xbox and Halo
Nov 22- Xbox 360
Yes, mid-November is a safe bet.
Gas still on the buttons instead of the triggers where it belongs? Check. Horrific damage modeling? Check. Sure, the wheels pop off, but that's ALL the damage modeling in the game. I had an F1 game for PC back in the early 90s that did more. You could smash the wings too in that one! Sort of.
And why are the cars' back ends blinking? Have I been totally unaware of some sort of racing rule here? Maybe it's a new thing...
But teh rain is aweXXome. Heh.
Sadly true. Sony promised 2million for the US, and dropped it to 1million when they didn't make it. So yeah, ~150K units if history is any guide.
Now for Sony fans to come in and claim that screwing Europe with delays has been a good idea all along, when the console was supposed to launch this time LAST year.
Good God.
The one man most responsible for destroying this company's public image among its faithful is getting something new to screw up?
"Our new games will be in 5800p at 24,000fps, and will display in 6 dimensions. We will unlock the full potential of the PS3, transforming it into a holographic tank that can fly to the moon and speak in the moon language: Yarble-Garble Nezzik."
-Ken Kutaragi, next Christmas
People say PS3 is just shipping so many units... except that Nintendo is pushing many times more units and selling them all. Xbox 360 was similarly un-findable well into March/April in spots.
PS3 is the only next-gen console to have become so available so early.
Can't wait.
This title should keep me busy until it's Halo 3 and/or Beta time.
"PS3 launch titles will be significantly superior."
-Ken Kutaragi
We're just holding them to it.
Yeah, how the hell are they going to sell 25 million systems/year!?
Even Wii isn't remotely close to that.
Don't forget:
-On-demand cable
-On-demand satellite
-Online downloads for movies (a la Xbox Live)
-Hybrid players (announced at just over $1,000 they're n more expensive than top-end BluRay players at the moment)
And if consumers really are buying more BluRay, I'm very sad for them.
-HD-DVD is significantly cheaper.
-HD-DVD still delivers better audio and video in side-by-side comparisons. (or it did by the last actual reviews I can fin...
Not to mention his Gamecube counterpart got consistently higher marks in comparisons.
Wii's a lot of fun, but whether it's compelling enough to keep up some staying power (with frikken' $50+ games that look 5 years old!) is the real question.
SSB, where are you?
*cries*
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Microsoft is the publisher on this one... so unless Microsot is going to publish and make money on PS3 games from now on...
1) Win 95 had a "start" button, finally a concept most idiots using computers could grasp.
2) DirectX was cookin'.
Halo 2 was basically the most popular console game... ever. At least in terms of multiplayer, anyway. And this company is absolutely willing to say the game was crap compared to what they wanted.
Halo was also, compared to what they wanted, crap. Talk about the repitition of the Library and the later levels does get under Bungie's collective skin, and they're constantly working to fix that in future iterations.
If Halo 3 can be even a fraction of Bungie's dream, ...
Mario Party.
Dynasty Warriors.
Madden Football.
What's the difference anymore?
"New Mario Party XXVII, now with one extra character, two microphones, and a tube of glitter!"
Good point. And there wasn't a wave of Wiis- I think the point is that this is happening EVERY week for the Wii, just as it was for 360.
And most games sales are, in fact, already to the mothers of game-players, and that's especially so during the holidays. So thinking again, yeah this article is pretty much senseless.
But the PS3 is just so well-stocked that there are more units than there are demand for! That's why the Wii is moving 3x or more units with no problem!
Heh.
^^^And I'm sure 90% of that is tech-gibberish for hardcore Linux users who know better, but that's what, 1% of the people reading this?
*cough*
THERE IS NO CODE!
EVERY DISC OF CRACKDOWN WILL BE UNIQUE AND THE ACTUAL DISC ITSELF *IS* YOUR KEY!
Isn't that in fact stated on Halo3.com? I can't browse it atm, but I thought it said the actual disc would be used as the key.