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    Halo 3 Revealed?

    Halo 3 has alledgedly been in development for over a year. The Halo franchise has made a huge impact in the gaming world and gaming forums across the net have been awash with rumours and speculation for some time. Hexus investigates these rumours and searches for the truth.

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    lush screanshot if its real
    cant wait for an anouncement by bungie

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    Launch date same as PS3 launch
    If thats true then its going to be rushed to market. This would be a major mistake for MS/Bungie, look at the amount of comments about Halo2's ending. You should never rush a game just to hit a certain, in this case fictional, date.

    Wireless Peripheral Support
    One of of the latest rumours to reach us is the option to use a wireless keyboard and mouse for control over the joypad. This move alone could bridge the gap between console and PC gaming, bringing far more players who prefer their FPSs on the PC over to the Xbox 360 scene. This is 100% possible, the tehnology is already in place and all it would take is a bit of coding to make the game recognise a different input device. If true, this latest whisper we've heard could open Halo 3 up to a much larger audience!
    If this really happens then it defeats the object of being a console. I want to play my 360 in the living room lying back on the sofa. I don't want to have to play Halo3 at a desk with keyboard & mouse, It also gives an unfair advantage over those who play on the controller. If MS implement this feature i will not be playing online.

    More Than Two Weapons
    This is what made Halo1/2 so good and a challange to play in the harder modes. Changing this to follow most PC games is another backward step, and would make the game so much easier.

    As Nick added, all these are rumours and until Bungie/MS confirm what is going to be added to Halo3 i will take everything with a pinch of salt.

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    I'd just like to point out that the article is just a round-up of the more feasible rumours we've heard and is in no way intended to be anything other than an interest piece. Both Steve and myself are taking all these rumours with the same pinch of salt as bean is!
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    It is unfortunate, but Bungie will almost certainly be rushed with Halo 3. You only have to watch the special edition bonus DVD that came with Halo 2 to realise that they effectively started from scratch *after* the amazing E3 2003 trailer; they built the game in about 16 months. Given that Halo took over 2 years to be released from the first announcement, and had been in work (in a number of guises) for some years before that it shouldn't be too surprising that it was a very refined experience. If Microsoft know what's good for them, they'll let Bungie alone to take as long as they want, but - despite Bungie insisting this is the case - I strongly doubt they'll do that.

    As an aside, the screenshot is a quite obvious hoax; the SMG in shot has been taken directly from this Bungie Halo 2 render: http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/H...s/smg_back.jpg

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    halo 3

    The people on bungie forums dont get very excited too easily and dont believe it, but call me a die hard, just think, why was the halo 2 story so short? because they already had part 3, they finished both and ever since then just held on to it. personally and this is only my opinion, they had h3 all the time but just released half of it!

    Look at "back to the future" they made part 2 and 3 at the same time, does anybody remember? thats how they do things in this industry, its possible to keep such a thing a secret.

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    Well the story mabe but h2 is on xbox and h3 is on xbox360, so its not the same game.
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    look, do the math,"doom" came out a year after the game was released. bungie's not putting all there eggs in one basket. it's time!

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    Quote Originally Posted by rowlodge
    The people on bungie forums dont get very excited too easily and dont believe it, but call me a die hard, just think, why was the halo 2 story so short? because they already had part 3, they finished both and ever since then just held on to it. personally and this is only my opinion, they had h3 all the time but just released half of it!

    Look at "back to the future" they made part 2 and 3 at the same time, does anybody remember? thats how they do things in this industry, its possible to keep such a thing a secret.

    Yeah, I remember the Back to The Future issue (great films!!).
    It could be true, whilst Xbox 360 still has teething problems with distribution, if it is ready, it would be stupid to announce it just yet. - they need this game to be huge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rowlodge
    The people on bungie forums dont get very excited too easily and dont believe it, but call me a die hard, just think, why was the halo 2 story so short? because they already had part 3, they finished both and ever since then just held on to it. personally and this is only my opinion, they had h3 all the time but just released half of it!
    Watch the special edition version of Halo 2's accompanying DVD 'making of' documentary sometime. It gives away a rather damning fact: Halo 2 was essentially built in a year. After showing the 'Earth City' demo at E3 in 2003, Bungie didn't actually have a working game - just a lot of pre-production and a fancy looking technology demo. Many of the technological and gameplay features that were touted at that stage never made it into the game (read the September 2002 issue of Edge if you want to be shocked). Bungie cut their work out for themselves and had to trim a lot of content in order to make the game manageable.

    I think that the most simple explanation is also probably the most likely in this instance: Microsoft dictated a 'completed by' date, and also the requirement for a third Halo game, and in order to achieve both of these things, story elements which might have otherwise concluded the Halo arc were delayed for inclusion in a future sequel, and the time constraints meant a lot less time was spent developing the underlying technology than could have been. Sure, people loved Halo 2, but as the more observant gamer has noticed, a lot about it could have been better.

    Quote Originally Posted by rowlodge
    Look at "back to the future" they made part 2 and 3 at the same time, does anybody remember? thats how they do things in this industry, its possible to keep such a thing a secret.
    Yes, and if you went to see Part 2 at the cinema you were shown a trailer for Part 3 immediately after the film (before the credits) giving you a taste for what happens next. They didn't even try to keep it a secret.

    I'm sure we'll see a Halo 3, and I'm fairly certain it'll be unveiled at E3 (after all, Halo 2 was first shown off at X02 in August 2002 - over 2 years before it was released, and it had probably been in pre-production for some considerable time by then). The questions that are worth asking at this point are purely speculative. Things like Microsoft's licensing Epic's Unreal Engine 3, which was rumoured to become the exclusive middleware platform for MS Game Studios projects for Xbox 360. But we'll find out sooner or later. Probably in May

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    hey was i right or was i right...???????????

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    Quote Originally Posted by rowlodge
    hey was i right or was i right...???????????
    lol Okay...well done

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    I'm looking forward to this, I'm definiitely getting it.

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