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WANT
Halo 3 is done
Finished yesterday at 4:47 PM on Heroic, in three sessions interrupted only by sleep and an errand to diagnose a faulty car engine.
Took me 9 hours and 11 minutes all up (I wrote it all down!). Still trying to sum it all up in my head - trying not to read reviews so I can form my own opinion. My first impressions are that it's "great."
Here's one of my first ever screenshots! The first time a grunt suicides into you is always hi-larious!
12 Hours to go...
Well it's been a long road. Halo 2 was a huge hype machine, but it's nothing compared to the third installment. Halo 3 is everywhere. Still, I have yet to see a single ad on Australian television.
MetaCritic is @ 97% with 15 reviews. The press embargo has lifted, the new version of Bungie.net is live with Campaign stats and there are spoilers all over the net. The final moments of Halo 3 are in YouTube. Before I left for work today, I downloaded a 233Mb GameTrailers video review... it's requiring all my willpower not to watch it. I don't want to see a single cutscene, a single encounter, a single bar of new music that hasn't already been released.
Compared to the lead-up to Halo 2 three years ago, I know nothing.
But I know not to set my expectations too high. This is not a life changing event. It's just an opportunity to geek-out and take two days off work to play what should be an enjoyable video game. I'm a big fan of absurd behaviour like that.
Bungie has tried so very hard not to over-promise this time around. They have only really spoken of multiplayer, Forge and Saved Films. The rest we only know: it's Halo 1 & 2 gameplay mixed together and multiplied - huge battles are promised. We have been somewhat-disappointed, which should help Halo 3's reception.
...oh, and there should be an ending this time around.
One last note: if someone at my midnight launch event yells out any Halo secrets, I'll be the first one to lead a pitchfork-wielding mob in his direction. You have been warned.
Xbox 360 Halo 3 Edition
-Blam!-
My camera's batteries are borked, so this is the only photo I snapped :/ Time to update my WANT list now, methinks.
AWESOME:
- Effectively cost me $20*
- packaging is pretty.
- HDMI (not that I have anything to hook it up to)
- It looks sleek and understated, much better when not in full light (like a camera flash)
- Mfr date: 16-Aug-2007; like only a month ago! NEW!
- Additional heat sink? Yep. I can see it using only a torch.
- Quieter? Yep - at idle at least (my old one would ramp up just in dashboard)
- Drive: BenQ
- Sale Price: $649; price matched K-Mart
- Bonus theme & Gamerpic, so I feel special, and everyone else on XBL knows I'm special...
NOT SO AWESOME:
- Rechargeable battery is black, like an Elite's. WEAKSAUCE. Oh well.
So it's quieter and looks... okay. Definitely different! Hopefully it will never overheat, RROD or crap out in any other way.
Now... bring on Halo 3!!!
*after trade-in: my 6mth old 360 + 4 x games + 8xXBox1 games. Sold Xbox 1 + accessories. 10% trade-in bonus with EB card.
Halo 7uesday Schedule
Yes, indeed I am certifiable. Next week, Halo 3 comes out. Here's my plan:
Sunday 23rd | |
|---|---|
| 1400 | buy supplies (fruit, chips, beer, eye-drops for tired eyes, heat packs for tired arms) |
| 2300+ | bedtime... need to skew my sleeping patterns to be later! |
Monday 24th | |
| 1300 | Flex off an hour of work; bring home my awesome new (ATH-A700) headphones |
| 1330 | get a few hours sleep |
| 1830 | Dinner with girlfriend; farewell hugs etc :) |
| 2200 | set up Xbox 360 rig - 21" monitor on the coffee table, bean bag, handy snacks! |
| 2300 | Drive to local EB and line up @ midnight launch event |
7uesday 25th | |
| 0000 | Get Halo 3 |
| 0005 | Hoot, holler. |
| 0015 | drive home |
| 0030 | Make coffee, get comfy, don headphones play teh haloz |
| 0400 | reluctantly fall asleep on couch |
| 0700 | breakfast; review some of my campaign saved films |
| 0900 | curtain off windows; fire up 5.1 home theatre; play more teh haloz |
| 1300 | lunch; review campaign saved films |
| 1400 | play more teh haloz - final stint? |
| 1700 | finished the fight? |
Wednesday 26th | |
| Recoup, relax, and replay some campaign, try some XBL online, play around in Forge! |
...and then of course the weekend will roll around, and it will be time for some campaign co-op!
I'm such a fanboi!
Well I just pre-ordered the Halo 3 Special Edition Xbox 360. I'm a Halo tragic. At least it will go well with my Halo 3 Legendary Edition helmet.
I bought my Xbox 360 in April this year, so I will have had it for not quite six months before giving the girl away (actually, trading it in for a poultry $300!). It's performed flawlessly, except for a few hiccups; but I wanted to get a recently manufactured model - and that meant getting either an Xbox 360 Elite, or the Halo 3 Edition. Both have HDMI, which I have no (immediate) use for, and - apparently - a better cooling solution.
I wanted a recently manufactured 360 based on the belief that newer models will be less prone to overheating. That's the sensible, left brain decision. The rest of me wants a cool, custom Xbox 360 and to play with a differently-coloured controller. Oh, and to be the envy of other fan-boys.
Tragic.
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