So okay, I know its really a Delta (Their public BETA its their internal Delta, messy, isn´t it?) but greek alphabet aside, on 3rd May we´ll be able to taste the first Halo: Reach gameplay experience. I must say that this time I´m more excited about Multiplayer than Campaing, in contrast with previous Halo launches. Because, well, this time I know how its gonna end.
I´ll try to get myself as XboX Live Gold as I can for the upcoming May slaughter, and you can be sure I´ll write here about nearly everything from the Beta. Graphics, Map Design, Gameplay... Also expect severe ranting if something is not of my liking :P
In the (short) meantime you can check, as always, Bungie.net. They have a Reach Beta Guide and several articles about maps and game variants.
Also check out the new video about Reach. Its not a ViDoc, but a trailer, and looks sweet.
Oh, and if I get myself a Gold, I´m planning to be back to Halo3/ODST bussines as well, so more updates and post about that might be coming
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Spartan K-042 Out
28/04/2010
23/04/2010
Reach News
Hi again, surfing around Bungie.net I found some sweet news about the incoming Halo Reach. You know, I´m planning on doing an in-dept article about Reach (speculation included) and also a post-beta report (if I manage to get my hands on the Beta and Live Gold). But for now, I´ll just brief you with the news Bungie may have already told ya.
You know, if you go around their web this post will be mostly useless, but isn´t that the thing that makes you love this blog??
Halo Reach Game Editions
If you are at least a bit of a Halo Fan you may already expect to see the Standard, Collector´s and Legendary Editions.
Reach delivers that three packages (although the Collector´s is called "Limited") and content its detailed here Halsey´s personal journal looks pretty sweet and has already catch my attention. (You don´t know who Dr Halsey´s is??? Then you´re not a Halo fan, begone!) And also the Noble Team statue in Legendary Edition looks good, but I don´t know if good enough to make me pay nearly twice the price of Limited Edition....
Multiplayer ViDoc
Bungie has posted a new ViDoc, now I haven´t seen it (I´m updating from a sinister place with no MS Silverlight installed...) but you should check it out... you know... its free.
This short update comes to an end, hope to see you soon!
Kilo042 Out
You know, if you go around their web this post will be mostly useless, but isn´t that the thing that makes you love this blog??
Halo Reach Game Editions
If you are at least a bit of a Halo Fan you may already expect to see the Standard, Collector´s and Legendary Editions.
Reach delivers that three packages (although the Collector´s is called "Limited") and content its detailed here Halsey´s personal journal looks pretty sweet and has already catch my attention. (You don´t know who Dr Halsey´s is??? Then you´re not a Halo fan, begone!) And also the Noble Team statue in Legendary Edition looks good, but I don´t know if good enough to make me pay nearly twice the price of Limited Edition....
Multiplayer ViDoc
Bungie has posted a new ViDoc, now I haven´t seen it (I´m updating from a sinister place with no MS Silverlight installed...) but you should check it out... you know... its free.
This short update comes to an end, hope to see you soon!
Kilo042 Out
20/04/2010
Halo Legends
I´m here again!!! [Crowd cheers] Its a quick and relatively-short update. I´m on full maintenance in my two PCs and still sick of all that JavaScript nuisance, but I´m here to rant about something that has made me even more sick.
Halo Legends
Honestly, I was very excited with this idea, although I was afraid of some of the short movies to look blunt, or too Anime-like, or some of them transforming and deforming the Halo storyline to add Xplosioms and BLAST!´s. I wanted to give some credit to the guys of Microsoft and 343 Industries.
You know what? I was right....
Let me get this straight, Halo Legends its OK, but it could have been soooo much better. But saying that is not fair, in fact, "Halo Legends" its just the name for a collection of 7 animated shorts produced by different Japanese animation companies. So, its necessary to analyze them one by one
Origins I & II: (9/10)
Origins spans two animated shorts, but a single story. Origins is the tale of the Forerunners war against the Floood, the activacion of the Halo Arrays, the Human history and the battle of the Ark. Basically, we have the 100.000 years of history of the Halo Universe. Incredibily well told, and (IMHO) incredibily well drawn. Origins is a great contribution to the Halo franchise and universe, and stands true to the series.
The Duel: (6/10)
This one its tricky, tells the story of a Sangheili Arbiter in times before the Human-Covenant War. Its a good tale and with interesting visuals but its just too "japanesse" I mean. Suddently the Sangheili civilization becames Feudal Japan, and with no reason Elites are no longer those fearsome warriors, but neraly human-looking lizards. (Female Elites don´t have four jaws? Honestly!!)And the battle, excelent action but, an entire legion against a lone warrior? And he wins? Feudal-Japan-Anime all the way...
Homecoming: (9/10)
Maybe the first interesting short I came across in Halo Legends. It tells the story of a female Spartan and how she remembers escaping from Reach and trying to come back home only to find she´s been replaced by a clone. (Don´t forget kids, Spartans were kidnapped and conscripted into the military by force and stealth) The visuals are not specially good for me, but the overall feeling works pretty good.
Odd One Out: (1/10)
This one its supposed to be a Halo parody. But let me tell you what, it just sucks. The jokes aren´t Halo-related at all, and aren´t funny at all. You wanna se a good Halo parody? See It´s a Halo Thing. Thats a funny parody....
Protoype: (5/10)
I don´t like the story, and I´m not much into mecha battles, and also, if UNSCDF hasn´t adopted freaky-transformer-like mechs into its main arsenal, it must be because they really, really aren´t viable??. Maybe because scorpions are more effective as tanks??? I don´t know, the only decent thing about this one are the visuals
The Babysitter: (2/10)
This one sucks hard. The story its simplistic, the visuals are terrible (with no sense of scale at all) and the fidelity to the Halo franchise incredibly low. Boy, and when I read the synopsis of this one I tough "ODSTs and a Spartan? Its gonna be cool!"
The Package: (6/10)
Ahh, the most interesting short-movie. We have a terrible done space-battle. I know anime artist love a lot of lights dancing around, specially with missiles, but the battle looks just ridiculous. First of all, "booster frames"... let me scream loudly: WTF??? 4 little tiny spacecraft are able to annihilate waves of Seraphs? And whats with all those lights in the Covenant ships? Did they send "disco fleet"?
But after that terrible battle we get a few minutes of true spartan action, perhaps too matrix-like, but really good. The story its odd, and (again IMHO) a complete nonsense, but The Package has managed to achieve what the other bad shorts couldn´t, its visual an action compensate the silly story.
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That´s it, enough ranting for today. All in all, Halo Legends offers a good bunch of different views and approachs to the Halo universe, like the famed Halo Graphic Novel. Unlike the Halo Graphic Novel, it fails to deliver a complete, true to the story, product.
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Sierra-Kilo-Zero-Four-Two Out
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Halo Legends
Honestly, I was very excited with this idea, although I was afraid of some of the short movies to look blunt, or too Anime-like, or some of them transforming and deforming the Halo storyline to add Xplosioms and BLAST!´s. I wanted to give some credit to the guys of Microsoft and 343 Industries.
You know what? I was right....
Let me get this straight, Halo Legends its OK, but it could have been soooo much better. But saying that is not fair, in fact, "Halo Legends" its just the name for a collection of 7 animated shorts produced by different Japanese animation companies. So, its necessary to analyze them one by one
Origins I & II: (9/10)
Origins spans two animated shorts, but a single story. Origins is the tale of the Forerunners war against the Floood, the activacion of the Halo Arrays, the Human history and the battle of the Ark. Basically, we have the 100.000 years of history of the Halo Universe. Incredibily well told, and (IMHO) incredibily well drawn. Origins is a great contribution to the Halo franchise and universe, and stands true to the series.
The Duel: (6/10)
This one its tricky, tells the story of a Sangheili Arbiter in times before the Human-Covenant War. Its a good tale and with interesting visuals but its just too "japanesse" I mean. Suddently the Sangheili civilization becames Feudal Japan, and with no reason Elites are no longer those fearsome warriors, but neraly human-looking lizards. (Female Elites don´t have four jaws? Honestly!!)And the battle, excelent action but, an entire legion against a lone warrior? And he wins? Feudal-Japan-Anime all the way...
Homecoming: (9/10)
Maybe the first interesting short I came across in Halo Legends. It tells the story of a female Spartan and how she remembers escaping from Reach and trying to come back home only to find she´s been replaced by a clone. (Don´t forget kids, Spartans were kidnapped and conscripted into the military by force and stealth) The visuals are not specially good for me, but the overall feeling works pretty good.
Odd One Out: (1/10)
This one its supposed to be a Halo parody. But let me tell you what, it just sucks. The jokes aren´t Halo-related at all, and aren´t funny at all. You wanna se a good Halo parody? See It´s a Halo Thing. Thats a funny parody....
Protoype: (5/10)
I don´t like the story, and I´m not much into mecha battles, and also, if UNSCDF hasn´t adopted freaky-transformer-like mechs into its main arsenal, it must be because they really, really aren´t viable??. Maybe because scorpions are more effective as tanks??? I don´t know, the only decent thing about this one are the visuals
The Babysitter: (2/10)
This one sucks hard. The story its simplistic, the visuals are terrible (with no sense of scale at all) and the fidelity to the Halo franchise incredibly low. Boy, and when I read the synopsis of this one I tough "ODSTs and a Spartan? Its gonna be cool!"
The Package: (6/10)
Ahh, the most interesting short-movie. We have a terrible done space-battle. I know anime artist love a lot of lights dancing around, specially with missiles, but the battle looks just ridiculous. First of all, "booster frames"... let me scream loudly: WTF??? 4 little tiny spacecraft are able to annihilate waves of Seraphs? And whats with all those lights in the Covenant ships? Did they send "disco fleet"?
But after that terrible battle we get a few minutes of true spartan action, perhaps too matrix-like, but really good. The story its odd, and (again IMHO) a complete nonsense, but The Package has managed to achieve what the other bad shorts couldn´t, its visual an action compensate the silly story.
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That´s it, enough ranting for today. All in all, Halo Legends offers a good bunch of different views and approachs to the Halo universe, like the famed Halo Graphic Novel. Unlike the Halo Graphic Novel, it fails to deliver a complete, true to the story, product.
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Sierra-Kilo-Zero-Four-Two Out
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16/04/2010
Again, I failed...
Hi there! I´m updating this for mainly two reasons:
-First, I´m way too bored, programming a JavaScript Minesweeper sucks nearly as much as the game itself, but right now its my "job". A job I despise and a job that makes me wanna wander aimlessly around the Internet
-Second, Its been ages since I last updated. Fortunately that doesn´t mean its been ages since I last played Halo. Nay, my Halo-mania its as strong as always.
HaloCharts
I recently discovered this nice page where players like me (or you, at least I hope you play Halo ¬¬) can check their stats even in more deep than with B.net Service Record. Halo Charts its also a community, a community I would be deeply involved with were not for my (temporary) lack of XboX Live! Gold account
Anyway, check my stats. They suck, I know, but I´m pretty proud of them anyway. Specially of that "Greater than 1.25 K/D ratio" Because it could be way worse, like in a 0.50-way-worse-manner. Id like to say or promise you that I´ll be stayin´round here regulary, but I can´t lie to you folks. I´ll lie to myself to see if that works and I can be around at least once per week
Verdadero Khan HaloChart Stats
-First, I´m way too bored, programming a JavaScript Minesweeper sucks nearly as much as the game itself, but right now its my "job". A job I despise and a job that makes me wanna wander aimlessly around the Internet
-Second, Its been ages since I last updated. Fortunately that doesn´t mean its been ages since I last played Halo. Nay, my Halo-mania its as strong as always.
HaloCharts
I recently discovered this nice page where players like me (or you, at least I hope you play Halo ¬¬) can check their stats even in more deep than with B.net Service Record. Halo Charts its also a community, a community I would be deeply involved with were not for my (temporary) lack of XboX Live! Gold account
Anyway, check my stats. They suck, I know, but I´m pretty proud of them anyway. Specially of that "Greater than 1.25 K/D ratio" Because it could be way worse, like in a 0.50-way-worse-manner. Id like to say or promise you that I´ll be stayin´round here regulary, but I can´t lie to you folks. I´ll lie to myself to see if that works and I can be around at least once per week
Verdadero Khan HaloChart Stats
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