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VictimOfScience said:
And Alan Wake too, esp. if they can actually get it to perform as well as the quad core demo!
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ooh yeah! I hadn't seen much of AW until just a second ago.. It looks awesome, it seems like it will play like a movie. I love it :p
 
Cerpin said:
I also really liked the Bioshock trailer, although scripted.
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Same here. Awesome presentation. As far as scripted trailers go, that one was one of the most interesting I've laid eyes on.
Neck hairs tingling.
 
That GOW gameplay footage bored me. Looks like every other third-person shooter. Seems uninspired to me.
 
Assassins creed is offically my second most anticipated game next to GOW//
 
Tyguy said:
Looked cool, but gameplay mine as well be stick figures if all they show is a cinematic trailer.
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"They want a war. We'll give them a war."

Pass.

Icarusintel said:
That GOW gameplay footage bored me. Looks like every other third-person shooter. Seems uninspired to me.
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Same, I also hate the art style. Not really looking forward to it to be honest.

That said, I'm wicked excited for Bioshock, Splinter cell and Assassins Creed.
 
Samon said:
Same, I also hate the art style. Not really looking forward to it to be honest.

That said, I'm wicked excited for Bioshock, Splinter cell and Assassins Creed.
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And I forgot to mention, the voices were horribly cliched and overdone.

Oooohhh... I'm definitely looking forward to all of those. I can;t wait to see how well they implemented the Double Agent system.
 
Samon said:
"They want a war. We'll give them a war."

Pass.



Same, I also hate the art style. Not really looking forward to it to be honest.

That said, I'm wicked excited for Bioshock, Splinter cell and Assassins Creed.
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agreed.. and ALAN WAKE! (once more, because I was yelled at when I forgot lol)
 
I think Halo Wars sounds cool, in a sense that I like RTS' like C&C and I love the Halo francise, so I'm looking forward to. It looks good in general with all the fighting, but it's hard to say on looks right now with no actual gameplay or anything.
 
TheAntipop said:
I think Halo Wars sounds cool, in a sense that I like RTS' like C&C and I love the Halo francise, so I'm looking forward to. It looks good in general with all the fighting, but it's hard to say on looks right now with no actual gameplay or anything.
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Halo Wars does sound cool... or at least the concept does. The title is shit, and the trailer was shit, so I'm definitely withholding judgement. If MS comes to their senses and names the game something that doesn't directly conflict the Halo storyline (i.e. humanity doesn't ****ing know about Halo until there's ONE Spartan left :|), then I'll be at least a bit more excited for it.
 
Make that one spartan they definetly KNOW is left, cause there definetly were more left on Reach, of course you'd have to have read the books to know that (actually it's been mentioned on the Bungie site a bit too).
 
DEATHMASTER said:
Make that one spartan they definetly KNOW is left, cause there definetly were more left on Reach, of course you'd have to have read the books to know that (actually it's been mentioned on the Bungie site a bit too).
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Well, one surviving Spartan as far as ONI is aware :p

Still a shitty name though.
 
The rest of them aren't of Master Chief status (a rank used in the Navy), only John, Spartan 117 (The guy you play as in Halo).
We're referring to them as Spartans because we're not referring to the project itself (Spartan II project). They also refer to them as just Spartans in the second link you gave.
 
GTA turns episodic?

Thanks for killing the best game ever to grace the world...
 
PsychoFreak said:
GTA turns episodic?

Thanks for killing the best game ever to grace the world...
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Sounds different than other episode content. Are they going to sell a normal game and then let you download additional content (episodic)?
 
I don't see why people are going nuts over Gears of War. The gameplay looks like standard run 'n spray with some use of cover that apparently isn't even needed (the guy just jumped out and chased a monster for like 30 seconds just trying to melee him).

EDIT: That link is lame.
 
I agree, I never saw anything special about it at all. Then again, it looks like a perfectly competent game, maybe above average. The kicker is the graphics I guess, but the game itself doesn't look like much.

I'm still waiting to hear about these exclusives. I'm wondering if SC5 and the GTA downloads will be exclusive in the same way that GTA and the original Splinter Cell were, or if it's permanent. I'm guessing it's just a timed exclusivity, MS likes to make things sound a lot better than they really are. Remember the GTA4 announcement? They said it in such a way to make many people think GTA4 was a 360 exclusive, when really all they had to brag about was that it wasn't exclusive to PS3.
 
Gargantou said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARTAN-II_Project Master Chief is not a Spartan, he's a Spartan 2, perhaps we'll be seeing Spartan 1s in the RTS, considering it plays out BEFORE Halo.:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARTAN-II_Project#Living_Spartan-IIs btw, far more than just one living Master Chief, remember those in the novels etc(Those do count as canon afaik)
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Hehe, I know there's more than one Spartan :p I said that ONI (government cell that developed and maintains the Spartan-I and -II programs) is only aware of the Master Chief's existence. As far as pretty much everyone except Dr. Halsey knows, MC is the only living Spartan after the fall of Reach.

And the fact that the game does, in fact, play out before the events of Halo, makes the name "Halo Wars" terrible.
 
AmishSlayer said:
I don't see why people are going nuts over Gears of War. The gameplay looks like standard run 'n spray with some use of cover that apparently isn't even needed (the guy just jumped out and chased a monster for like 30 seconds just trying to melee him).

EDIT: That link is lame.
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I agree, to be honest.
 
Stigmata said:
Hehe, I know there's more than one Spartan :p I said that ONI (government cell that developed and maintains the Spartan-I and -II programs) is only aware of the Master Chief's existence. As far as pretty much everyone except Dr. Halsey knows, MC is the only living Spartan after the fall of Reach.

And the fact that the game does, in fact, play out before the events of Halo, makes the name "Halo Wars" terrible.
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True, they should of gave a title that the fanbase would be able to recognise (perhaps the Covenant War), but with a front cover that everyone recognises (Obviously a spartan or two).

Did somebody mention that in the exclusive edition of AoEIII, there was a picture of a Spartan on the back?
 
Ooh, just watched the Assassin's Creed video. I like how it seems like it'll be Hitman + Prince of Persia in terms of open-endedness in methods of assassination and acrobatics/swordplay.

I wonder if you can push people at guards that have their weapons drawn and have them accidently injure/maim/kill that bystander in the process.
 
I couldn't find it, so thank you :)

They mentioned they are using Quad Core processor to aid in physics simulation and streaming content in the background, this kind of worries me
 
It sucks that a player will need a quad core processor to run it like that...but damn that twister was pretty cool.

And what are the odds that the truck gets dropped RIGHT in front of him :p
 
Halo Wars sounds retarded, I mean an RTS for a console? Has that even worked well yet?

AvP : Extinction, Starcraft 64, etc. all flops if I recall.

Wasn't Halo originally going to be an RTS for the Mac anyways?
 
xlucidx said:
Halo Wars sounds retarded, I mean an RTS for a console? Has that even worked well yet?

AvP : Extinction, Starcraft 64, etc. all flops if I recall.

Wasn't Halo originally going to be an RTS for the Mac anyways?
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Nope, it was originally going to be a wide-scale SP/MP wargame like Battlefield games kind of. The original concept videos had this concept and it was awesome.
 
xlucidx said:
Halo Wars sounds retarded, I mean an RTS for a console? Has that even worked well yet?

AvP : Extinction, Starcraft 64, etc. all flops if I recall.

Wasn't Halo originally going to be an RTS for the Mac anyways?
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How different can an RTS from a PC get to an RTS on a console? It's all drag, click and click again as far as I'm concerned. Hold down A, drag box around stuff, click, move to location, click A again, etc. I remember C&C on the N64. Worked and looked exactly the same.
 
AmishSlayer said:
Nope, it was originally going to be a wide-scale SP/MP wargame like Battlefield games kind of. The original concept videos had this concept and it was awesome.
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That sounds like it would be an awesome game, because the more I think about it, the less I'm liking the idea of a Halo RTS. But if they can pull it off, all the more power to them.
 
I don't know anyone who loathes CG trailers more than I do but the Halo Wars one was expected as it probably won't be out till late next year and when you announce a game how often do you show ingame footage ? Especially when it's still in [early ?] development ?

Also..
Q: Is the trailer pre-rendered?
A: Yes, and it's based around our world concepts and uses lots of in-game models. The sound and music were done at Ensemble Studios as well. Props to our friends at Blur for bringing it all together and making it really shine.
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xlucidx said:
Halo Wars sounds retarded, I mean an RTS for a console? Has that even worked well yet?
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BFME II for 360 got a good review and the control was fine. I agree with the reviewers because I had no trouble with the control.
 
I stand corrected on the RTS + console thing. D:
 
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