Halo 3-tråden

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Konsolkongen>
Lidt sjovt så mange nye billeder japanske blade bringer fra spillet. Er de ikke ret lige glade med halo derovre? Måske er det MS der betaler for at få så meget opmærksomhed? :)

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Et gamertag afslører ingenting, men jeg har for vane kun at opgive det til folk jeg spiller med. Gør I andre ikke det?

Congratulations on being selected to participate in the Halo 3 Epsilon! The Epsilon is now available for download on Marketplace!

First, unlike the Alpha, Beta or Delta, this is a very special test in that not only will you be testing nearly final Halo 3 Matchmaking, you will also be able to:
* Play Multiplayer on six maps: Snowbound, High Ground, Valhalla, Last Resort, Epitaph and our new big map, Sandtrap.
* Play Custom Games and test out full game variant editing.
* Play with the Forge and be able to cooperatively edit and save multiplayer map variants.
* Play up to 4 person co-op on a single Campaign level.
* Play and test the full Saved Film functionality, including screenshots you can view in-game for Campaign, Multiplayer and Forge.

Of course we all want to see more Halo 3, but for those who really want to see it, take note. Bungie's website has been updated to inform of an official unveiling of the game to the public on a giant IMAX screen tomorrow.

The event will take place tomorrow, August 21st, at 10:00 PM. People will get an early look at all the game has to offer at the IMAX Theater located at Pacific Science Center in Seattle. Bungie promises to show off "co-op Campaign, Saved Films, and one or two surprises." The only bummer is that the whole demonstration is expected to last less than an hour. Just enough to get the fans scrambling even more for Halo 3's September 25th release.

All game companies test their products, but generally they just pay people to report any bugs they find — monsters that disappear or places where graphics don't render properly. But because it is owned by Microsoft, which launches dozens of Xbox and PC games every year, Bungie has access to one of the most advanced game-testing facilities ever built. Pagulayan and his team have now analyzed more than 3,000 hours of Halo 3 played by some 600 everyday gamers, tracking everything from favored weapons to how and where — down to the square foot — players most frequently get killed.

Bungie doesn't just test its own games this way. It also buys copies of rival titles and studies those, too, to see how Halo matches up. "I've never seen anything like it," says Ian Bogost, a professor of digital media at Georgia Tech, who toured the testing lab in the fall. "The system they've got is insane."

It might seem like an awfully clinical approach to creating an epic space-war adventure. But Bungie's designers aren't just making a game: They're trying to divine the golden mean of fun. They need to create an experience that is challenging enough to thrill the 15 million existing hardcore fans of Halo — yet appealing enough to lure in millions of new players.

If anyone can pull off this delicate balance, it's Bungie. Released in 2001, the original Halo seamlessly blended riveting gameplay with a cinematic narrative — the fight between humans and a murderous alien race was told through plenty of twitchy, white- knuckled combat. When Halo 2 debuted three years later, it again broke new ground by letting gamers square off against their friends on the fledgling Xbox Live online service. Fans went berserk. They debated the intricate plotlines, bought T-shirts and figurines, read Halo novels that Bungie produced, and crawled into work bleary-eyed after all-night death matches. Halo became a cultural touchstone, a Star Wars for the thumbstick generation.

Now the company has to do it again, only better.

Hyakotake>
Det kan også være, det "bare" er lidt reklamegejl op til spilreleasen?

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