"R Kelly. You believed you could fly? Eat your heart out!"
"The 'Gimme a hug' Campaign by Forum Users translated into Gameplay."
"Ultra-random, ultra wrong by Photobucket.com. Chicks are getting so dudely nowadays, huh?"
Bye bye Forza Motorsport, it was great making photographs with you. But, please...Go to hell. Halo 3's photomode whooped your booty.
I never ever have played a game this basic, while I was told it was superb. I basicly play without a microphone on cause I am fed up with the9 year old addicts breating into the mic like ****ingDarth Vaderat 5AM in the morning. The game modes aren't "HOLY MOLY!" at all, but just a major grab-together from all games.
In all games, there only count two rules, or one if it ain't team based. Rule 1; Haul ass for the best weapon on that map, fitting the map's setting. Like a sniper on open terrain, or a Gravity Hammer for close range. If you do, you've got the game. If you don't, might aswell leave. Rule 2; Optional, only for Team based games. If you're not close to your buddies, or they're running apart from eachother. It's game over.
All other modes, like VIP and Juggernaut. I enjoyed Juggernaut's grandpa from 007: Nightfire alot better. "Hit the hitman" is it's basic name... VIP from Saints Row is alot better too, cause it has a HUGE dissadvantage, equalling up with a 1-hit-kill weapon. VIP from Halo would be alright, if the halfassed dudes I always seem to team up with wouldn't make a run for it, and leaving me behind.
All standard guns are horrible. Hence the hauling ass for the best, cause when you get it, you're settled. Headshotting is overdone, and is virtually impossible unless you're one of those "Pray n' Spray" kinda types, you have a chance of pulling one off.
Grenades are largly overdone too. If you're not killed by a RPG, or somekind of powerfull thing. It's always one of the stock weapons, Grenades.
Shields, and those kinds of power ups are utterly useless. One grenade sweeps a whole room of Regenerating dudes clean. And half of the games guns are plain useless in multiplayer. The balancing is probally done by those who love to kick ass. Lose or Win situations are unbalanced. It's impossible to gain points once you're about 10 points behind. With that, I mean it's too easy to die.
A health increase would've made the battles more tense, and alot more statisfying. Not just spraying bullets 'til he's dead, and getting decapitated by a dude from behind, while he's getting mauled from behind too. It's a chain reaction of deaths. I really would've liked a health increase to about the double of what it is now online for stock. Like I said, would make this a hecklot more tense, if not more tactical.
Well, that's my list of... Turn offs... Really, the fuzz about this game is truly overhyped. I just see it as an upgraded F.E.A.R online, along with a bunch of game modes from other games. It's not "WOOOOWWW!!!!!!" at all. Unlike alot of others, I don't see it as amazing. Just, online.
But it has alot of good sides, and the main storyline is pretty awesome. The forge tool is just... Well, crap. The achievements are focused on Single-player, and that's obvious. Bungie and Microsoft are both newbies when it comes to setting 75% of the achievements offline. The movie-theater is quite awesome, and you can make decent photographs from action with it.
And that's about what it is for me... Don't get me wrong, it's fun. But it's most definatly not what they said it was like.
Yes, I am staring at you. N79 is staring at you.
Don't take the title all that serious. Just a plain wrap up of what I know of Halo 3. Jacks***.
I, like a hecklot of others, I was a Playstation gamer. And always been since I bought a X360. And I never shown the least interest for Halo, cause I'm a gamer who really loves the single player part of a game, rather than the online. And from impressions, the SP sucked quite bad. But got made up by the online. Yeah, who cares. Halo 3 arrived. And half of the gaming community was sitting outside Target, BestBuy and EB. 12AM, they could pick them copies up.
Hell, you could hear the owner of any game store scream "HALLELUJA!!!!!", and listening to"Celebration" by the Kool n' the Gang...at 1AM.
Well, honestly. I never couldn't give a damn for Halo 3 if it wouldn't have had a map editor mode. Hence why I bought Far Cry. A small editor will keep me playing for months. Even Stuntman Ignitions miniscule tiny microscopic just-as-large-as-a-mold-mushroom sized Stunt Editor kept me playing that game for a long time. Halo's decently-sized editor will keep me entertained for months.
The storyline, and multiplayer are nothing more than a large bonus for me. The main reason is aside from the editor, is that I know nothing at all about Halo. It's one of those sequels where you need to play Halo 2 before attempting to try this one. So, I'll just get the game without even caring for the epic and intense As-The-World-Turns drama from Halo.
Heck, I'll give you the most detailed discription of the game. In my knowledge reach, that is. "Alien dudes are invading earth, this fellow called "Master Chief", some dude with a helmet, he's gotta save the damn thing.". So basic.
I am just getting that game because of impressions. Well, impressions... A few hours ago, at 3PM(EST). I looked at my friends list. And I recall listing it to a guy I was chatting with. 12 friends were online at that time.
- Status: Halo 3.
- Status: Halo 3.
- Status: Xbox 360 Dashboard.
- Status:Rainbow Six Vegas.
- Status:Halo 3.
- Status:Rainbow Six Vegas.
- Status: Halo 3.
- Status: Perfect Dark Zero.
- Status: Halo 3.
- Status: Worms.
- Status: Gears of War.
- Status: Saints Row.
- Status: Away, last seen playing Halo 3.
'Nuff said.
Well, I preordered a copy of Halo 3. And since the european release date is the 26th for some reason, I'll most likely can expect it on the 27th.
Or, how to say it: Abuse.
In the process of making those images, three cars have died; A 1996 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport, a Saleen S281E and a 2007 Dodge Challenger Concept. Sadly enough, the Challenger was too much of an hardass to get some more damage than paintchips.
Actually, I've crashed the Corvette about 45 times at three different turns on Nürburgring. I've crashed the S281E about 12 times before getting a decent shot. I've crashed the Challenger about five times before I realised it was pointless. Everytime restarting, bashing it into a wall, trying to take a decent shot.
Other contestants for destruction were; '02 Chevy Camaro, '04 Nissan Skyline, '05 Chevy Corvette, '04 Chrysler Crossfire, '69 Dodge Charger and a random one; Lotus Elise with "Kick me" written on the rear bumper. The Camaro's #1 murderers car, Skylines are too "tuner" for me, new age Corvettes look ugly, the Crossfire is the understatement of the year when it comes to "Ugly? Giggity" and the Dodge Charger gained not enough air to turn it into a Dukes of Hazzard failure.
Abusing. Another thing you can abuse in a game; Photomode. Made to make terrific shots of your beautifull car.
Okay, Saints Row invaded the GTA grounds with a touch that could've been revolutionary. It is in a few ways, offering better graphics and gameplay modes than GTASA had. Disgusted by the GTA fanboys, loved by the X360 owners that were looking for the genre on the console. So, Saints Row 2 would be a decent addition to the X360 family right?
Well, with the release of Grand Theft Auto IV next Spring, the "Heck, I give it a go cause GTA's still a long time away" excuse no longer applies. So, that's one kick in the happy sack for Saints Row. The other thing is, with the recent update of lead producer Greg Donovan; They're going back to the same city, with the same humor, weapons, stores, selection of cars and pretty much the things like those.
Like an expansion pack, they wanna add a whole new part to the city. But, adding new weapons, the most wanted vehicles like helicopters, boats, bikes and aircrafts - I see a fine way to take this game on again. Cause just like Crackdown, I played that game for massive giggles. The shooting a dude from the stairs at close range with a 12-guage-kinda-giggle. The metermaids overweight body just bashed through my window-kinda-giggles. And I wanted a hecklot to extend that fun. To blend it in with the already-so-frickin'-awesome gameplay.
Well, a larger selection of weapons is one thing. Looking at some of the screens, and Dual-weild seems in. The missing UZI 9MM appears to be too. Vehicles on the other hand lacked alot. Donovan mentioned that the whole deal will be in. Bikes, Helicopters, Aircrafts and Boats. Pretty much the whole stack. The intense HAVOC animation/ragdoll physics will look hella-good when you crash your bike. Heck, the renewed online-coop will rock.
In the end, Saints Row relied on GTASA, almost 95%. Since GTASA is something of the past now, will the gangsta-st.yle theme still atract?
Well, a promise is a promise... E.P.I.C's Gears of War has a better score(9.6 overall) than Bungies Halo 3(9.5 overall). Epic, dude.
And now, the international video gamemoment of zen:
"There's only a few winners. Some are better than the others. How can you tell when someone will lose? When they're trying too hard. Like trying to hit a homerun. Thinking of it will make you fail. The greatest of this planet do it for someone, or something. The ones that try to achieve what the greatest achieved, fail. Having a goal isn't what men needs for success. Having something to do it for. Grand Theft Auto does it for fun, not caring for having top notch graphics or amazing sales.
Perfect Dark was all-in-all action fun. It had more gameplay than anyone wished. Financial goals, the heck with them. The era's been broken. And the rules have been changed. Graphic-wise, it must be top notch. Income wise, it'll have to book major success. The developers don't do it no more for the players. The fun's over, the money's gone. But in the end there's one thing that will guarantee failure of perfect-success. It's money."
Eat that Bungie, gave it more time, gained a better score.Like finding a good way to shut the imature half of the goddamn community up.I'll get a copy either way when my importer can get a PAL copy. Besides, seen that explosion of hatred on the Halo boards? It's sure as hell alot of fun. "Still whining about the score!? Go and **** yourself!" - Priceless.
And seriously, it only can go wrong. All situations are just dressed to kill.
- Halo 3 scores over a 9.5.
The entire Halo community will break lose, kill the Halo 3 message boards and leave it for Gears of War and other 3rd/1st Person Shooters scoring over a 9.2/9.5... They'll yell "HALO 3 GOT A 10!!!!". Topics will arrise about it beating Gears of War with 0.4. Achieving the perfect score. Crap like that. That's feeding an hurricane.
- Halo 3 scores a 9.5.
All hell will break loose, and parties will be chosen. The "We want it to have a 10" side, and "We're happy with it as it is". A mini-system wars will break out on that specific board. The Gears of War fanboys will overun both parties yelling that Gears got a 9.6, making it better than Halo 3, which will erupt into another battle.And, most likely GameSpot reviewer Jeff Gerstmann will have alot of trash trown at him. Since he'll probally be reviewing it.
- Halo 3 scores a 9.0.
The Halo community will kill the boards whining about a crappy score. Gears of War fanboys will hog the bandwagon of peacekeepers by invading the Halo 3 boards. An war will rise. And sides will be chosen. Those who think it earned better, those who think it's fine and those who care too damn much about a reviewers opinion.
- Halo scores less than a 9.0
Impossible, suicidal move by Cnet. Never gonna happen. Or is it?
Yeah, can you make this sound positive? Well, I am sorry to say; But then you're my fellow hippy.
Well I got my Xbox 360 back. About five hours after the horrible phonecall with UPS. Seems like a heckload of confusion went into this gig, but first the "bad start" part. When I opened thepackage, and got rid of the bubblewrap. I took it over to hook it up to my TV. The console made a sound like something was hanging loose.
So, not caring for that... I plugged it all in, and tried to turn it on. Guess what; Red lights. You can't imagine how pissed off I was. I sorta raged off at the little coffee table, which now stands on two bricks. Called the Xbox Support Line, and got trough at the first call. But, they hung up on me when I greeted the dude with"You're going to make sure this time I get a mother****ing Xbox that ****ing works, you pr*ck!". After he said "Calm down", I yelled my reference code at him. But he hung up...
Being even more pissed off, I went off on the Xbox 360 itself. Litterally kicking the thing, so bad that it works. Yeah, you heard it. I'm wearing size 12's, and I kicked at it like it was a fine football made out of 100% pig skin. I kicked it so hard, it flew off the table it was standing on, and hit the ground with a helluva smack.
I was pretty damn sure I kicked the living hell out of it. But out of misery for what I just did, I just reconnected it. And what happens this time? It works. Flawless. Okay, it's a bit misshapen on the back, but what the heck; It works. I have no idea how, but I did kick it pretty hard. So, I can expect it to die any time soon. Cause well, it was quite a kick.
Either way it works like a charm. Disk-tray no longer locks up, and it's quite silent. Well, perhaps I kicked the **** out of the fan. But it still makes a bit of the blow-drier kinda sound. So I won't have to worry all that much.
Still, it was weird having UPS knocking on your door. Even stranger was the fact that a few hours before they knocked on the door, I got told that my Xbox died in a tragic traffic accidant. Oh, so epicly Bold n' the Beautifull. Well, after calling with UPS - In the Netherlands, a transatlantic delivery service that also delivers overhere in the US; called DHL. DHL picked my Xbox up in the Netherlands. I didn't specifically requested a UPS service for my Xbox when it would be picked up in Holland. I always let my dear uncle arrange that, so that he can choose whenever he feels like sending it.
Either way, he rejected the pick-up-for-a-cost by UPS cause he claims DHL would be cheaper. Nontheless, somekind of "error" must've happened and the delivery service probally tagged it off as "Picked up". And the UPS truck it was supposed to be in, crashed on a highway, god may know where. While my Xbox was already safely delivered by DHL(explains why I didn't get the usual UPS-"the thing has been delivered" emails), UPS thought it gone to hell in that accidant.
So, my uncle arranged for easier trafficing that my Xbox would go from Denmark, straight to the United States.
Thats what I all digged up after I called UPS twice, and my uncle too. It was a bit 'uva puzzle, but it makes sense now I look back at it. I got a brand new Xbox with a brand new footprint. :D
Oh I hate these Bold and the Beautifull-like scenes. Seriously, my life, it's looking a hecklot like that housewife show. "Oh no, you died on the road! You,you can't be alive!", "But I am, my darling"... Crap, I'm going to deep into this.
Pretty damn sweet gamerpic, eh? No Brooklyn Bridge, but Golden Gate instead...
Seems like life's coming to get me. Did I say "Godamnit" too many times? God-damn-you. That'll do.
It's been seven days since I send my Xbox 360 console to Holland. Well, five days ago. Dear uncie called, saying he recieved the package with my 360 in it. All he had to do was calling UPS, handing it over and recieving it back after a few weeks. No biggie. Well, I am supposed to get e-mail data with the status of my Xbox360. They send me an e-mail when they recieve it, have fixed it and when they've returned it back. I still havn't gotten the very first one yet.
So, I called UPS. Located in Germany. At first I had a german speaking dude on the phone. After pleading for an english speaking one, we're already 10 minutes calling. Overseas. Long distance. Finally, I had a english speaking guy on the phone, seriously hard to understand but I did found out what happened.
I've given my Service-Code, and he tracked it back to an UPS van. All things were correct, I guess. But, then he said something that I didn't like. "Mister, at first. We are not responsible for lost cargo that is on the road.". So I asked "Wha? Are you saying my packages are lost?". Awnser: "I am sorry to say; Yes."
He gave me the usual legal crap, that I can't sue UPS, nor can I get a free console of them. And finally he mentioned something about the delivery van. He said something that it's been involved in somekind of accidant on a highway, breaking alot of cargo. He never said where, nor did he say if some cargo was spared from roadkill future. For all I care, he's saying I should sue the tarmac for killing my Xbox. Again.
So, pretty much I'm about to lose 299$ on a new console. Easier-said-than-done. Another problem gets to the top here, I've got 15 PAL-region games. No NTSC-region games. Meaning, I will have to beg my uncle(or any other relative that still lives in the Netherlands) to buy me a new console, send me the console and I will have to send 300 dollar back. He'll change the $ for Euro.
Even worse, I'll have to wait 25 more days before I can call Microsoft, telling them what has happened. Using my Client-Code to vertify that my Xbox360 console was heading for the Xbox Console Repair Centre, Denmark, by UPS. And then there's stilll a 30% chance of me getting a brand new console. Why can't I call them now, instead of waiting 25 days? Simple, patience is the key for them. After a month has been past, and no console has been delivered, enough time has gone by to make sure it won't show up.
I pretty much have the confirmation right now; UPS van crashed on the highway, killing all of the breakable cargo that was in there. But still.
I always seem to have bad luck when the name Microsoft involves with the progress. Yet, this time UPS killed my Xbox. Like a mobster shooting a dead body a few extra times to make sure it's dead. Well, let's say for sure. A 3-red-lighted Xbox console + Highway crash in a van + Just sitting in a paper box without any bubble-wrapping or such for protection = Certain death for a piece of plastic.
After pretty much going through GTA: San Andreas wholy cheatless again, and making it all up to Wu Zi Mu's 2nd Final Mission up in San Fierro... I think I finally realised how much of an ass you can be if you use the F-word atleast seven times in a single sentance. Not that I ever have done that... Yet. Beware, some serious and very offending STARS. GameSpot policy; I gotta warn readers before cussing. Yeah....
"You ****ing backstabbing mother****er! You will ****ing pay for this, you ****ing rat! I will ****ing cap your ****ing ass! Sherm-head ****!".
Congratulations Young Maylay, voice actor of Carl Johnson. Actually not improvising the script, and using that sentance as of virtual rage is clearly... Gangsta? Well, clearly Rockstar Games aimed for that M-rating too... But we all agree; The more epic-rage, the more hilarious it gets.
And, well... All "my day was more epic than yours" bull aside. In the United Kingdom, a store called "Argos" broke the street date of Halo 3. This. Is. GameSpot. News. Yes, in some way. But acting like it's somekind of "HOLY CRAP!" moment, just goes beyond stupidity. Okay, I'll admit. It's weird that a European retailer broke the date, rather than a US one. Cause, well... It seems to happen alot more here.
And, this was my response on the news item;
"What a suprise... Is this actually news? Halo 3 is a goldmine for every retailer. And those who dare to cheat, get the biggest share. That, and those lawsuits about "breaking the street dates" are even more rare than Bigfoot.
ARGO's was too much of an ass, and wanted their registers filled. Shame for Toys R Us, BestBuy, WalMart, EB and other retailers. But like I said, whoever kicks the horse first, gets the biggest blow.". Some anti-hippy jackass became liberal and negative'd me. That bastard.
At the time when Halo 3 kills the internet for atleast 10 minutes, like Rockstar Games managed to do with the first Grand Theft Auto IV trailer, I will kneel down and say "God". That's the only killer-hype, not used yet.
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