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I GOT HALO 3.

i'll use spoilers since the game isn't release yet.

so far the game is just like Halo 2... Some stages even remind me of it (they look exactly like stages in Halo 2. I'm enjoying the game so far, and i played Local 4 player multiplayer, which was cool, a lot of stages to play on, and tuns of cool weapons.

It's a good game, i recommend all Halo fans to get it, but don't over-hype it!

does anyone know if it's possible to do 2 player local co-op? i've only been able to do it with Live...

P.S. can you actually do 16-player co-op lol, i seen "Max 16" but im not sure if that applies to campaign.

Parce que je parle francais. It's my native language :cool: (That isn't true, lol)

You must have looked forever to find an error in something, just so you can make a quick witted reply. Such a shame that you have that much spare time. Ignored!

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Combining the best of both worlds and giving Masterchief a great view of your girl's upskirt, this Do it Yourself project is cheap and easy, and will let you show how manly DDR can be.

I finished My Hard Wood DDR Pad this weekend, I'll shoot video of it in action tonight... have to wait for the sun to go down to get it to be fully Black light enabled. Halo 3 Dance Dance Revolution Hard Wood Dance Surface for Xbox 360 Let me know what you think.

Fixed Link Sorry

oh, come on... be realistic, im not the biggest fan of halo but 10/10 for well.. halo their is alot better games out there for PC and some of the older games

Note: im not trying to flamebait here it just annoys me that people are overhyping certain games recently

BTW anyone who played the game before 9/25 wouln't get any achievements?.

LOL, thats not true.. i have unlocked 6 achievements so far, and already have 150 experience point from it :p

what would prevent the game from unlocking achievements? the internet connection to tell you it's not september 25th yet? lol..

oh, come on... be realistic, im not the biggest fan of halo but 10/10 for well.. halo their is alot better games out there for PC and some of the older games

Note: im not trying to flamebait here it just annoys me that people are overhyping certain games recently

O get over it!! It's a fantastic game, simple as. I feel some people just hate the game because it's Halo, I mean, what is it not doing that you'd expect it to??

Overhyped?? Of course!! Everything that's anything is overhyped.

O get over it!! It's a fantastic game, simple as. I feel some people just hate the game because it's Halo, I mean, what is it not doing that you'd expect it to??

Overhyped?? Of course!! Everything that's anything is overhyped.

i feel its going to be a good game but not as good as people think, its just disappointing, the fancy graphics is clawing people in and im not sure what the story will be like but i didn't like the 1st story too much and the second was worse

Once again... not looking for arguement, simply displaying my thoughts the way i do

i feel its going to be a good game but not as good as people think, its just disappointing, the fancy graphics is clawing people in and im not sure what the story will be like but i didn't like the 1st story too much and the second was worse

Once again... not looking for arguement, simply displaying my thoughts the way i do

I think you meant to post in the Killzone 2 thread......

oh, come on... be realistic, im not the biggest fan of halo but 10/10 for well.. halo their is alot better games out there for PC and some of the older games

Note: im not trying to flamebait here it just annoys me that people are overhyping certain games recently

I'm sorry but you really need to go back to the Playstation area of the site. This game is no way overhyped. Playing the beta made me more excited then ever and now here we are only hours from release and my mind is about to explode, because it's all I can think about. Really if though, what "certain" games have been overhyped recently?

Some of the previews I've read (and watched, in the form of video reviews), lead me to be cautiously optimistic about this. Some of them are almost certainly made by hardcore Halo fans, given some of the wording and the statements made.

Taking everything with a grain of salt, but definitely appears good to me. I'll be picking it up at midnight tomorrow anyway, as a Walmart is literally right by my dorm.

we'll, i beat the game (and it's not even out yet)

Extreme SPOILER!!

I finished the game the same day i purchased it, like i did with Halo 2. I didn't quiet understand the ending, why did he die? or did he? it showed 117 on the memorial, meaning Spartan-117, aka Master Chief, but did he seriously get killed off just like that?

READING WILL RUIN THE ENDING

^ Agreed.

Game looks like Halo 2.5, very polished with higher resolution graphics. Didn't get to play the beta so I have no idea how much they really tweaked the game as far as overall mechanics.

Think I'm going to cancel my pre-order for the Legendary and go with the basic version; its not worth it. Halo 2 killed the hype machine for me :p

we'll, i beat the game (and it's not even out yet)

Extreme SPOILER!!

I finished the game the same day i purchased it, like i did with Halo 2. I didn't quiet understand the ending, why did he die? or did he? it showed 117 on the memorial, meaning Spartan-117, aka Master Chief, but did he seriously get killed off just like that?

READING WILL RUIN THE ENDING

SPOILER SO IF YOU DONT WANT IT SPOILT DO NOT READ AS IT HAS REFERENCES TO ENDING, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! :p

was wondering that aswell i mean its was a bit wtf but all good things must come to an end, even tho i didnt want it to happen in the end and wanted a halo4, it wasnt going to happen, i think bungie made the right decision in doing so. Compared to the rest of the games you could say it was more "dark" (due to the amount of deaths) at the same time it was an EPIC!

I didnt get the 117 engraved part, few questions in my mind about that such as

- Did he engrave that before dying?

- Is he still alive and that was engraved for the sake of it so he faked his own death and lived happily ever after with cortana?

- Could the arbiter have something to do with his death, last we see of him is pretty "safeish" on the frigate. But then you get the end cutscene.

Feels like an open ending, maybe there is room left for another sequel which could possibly answer these quesitons, or then again maybe not as there might not be any more halo rings. But yeah beat the game in 4 hours(on easy, pretty sure legendary would take longer) and it did seem awfully short :(

Theres only 1 thing i did not realise, Master chief is of the Spartan Race soo why the hell in halo is there only 1 spartan how come you do not see more?

^Hehe, when I bought H2, I didn't know wth everyone was going on about the campaign in the Halo games. I thought, "This is boring" but the MP kept me playing for a good 3 years.

I might be a hugh Halo fan but even I don't think the Legendary edition is worth it.

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