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The one thing I figured out that made this fight - and all others - easier for me was the wall attack. Not wall jump, but attack. Any enemy that doesn't let you jump over them can be handled really easily by backing to a wall then hit A+X. One hit knock down then dagger. You'll actually figure...

Halo not just for a passive display of a great soundtrack (best around, imo) and exceptional graphics, but as an active demo of DD in-game. Having somebody who has never experienced anything beyond a PS2 sit down and play the opening battle on Silent Cartographer on Normal or Heroic is pretty...

You're right about SC, they talked at length about having 9-11 missions nearly complete that would probably be made available via download. I think (my opinion here) that those missions are on the horizon, only packaged up as Pandora Tomorrow.

In the interviews with the Bungie guys that came out after E3, they cleared up some of the questions on the footage. The ghost jacking - bungie calls it boarding - is not a cutscene and is a move that can be pulled off during gameplay. When conditions are right, you push a button to jump on...

Ahh, it looks like Gamespot has a lower resolution 9 M preview of the full video available. That must be what you're referencing. Edit - maybe not. The preview video is just "trailer" made from the camcorder footage.

Are you sure about that Derrik? Gamespot has had a pretty good camcoder-pointed-at-screen version - with what appears to be direct feed audio - available since the day after the E3 press conference. Weighs in at something like 100 M. But nobody has had the direct feed video available because...

I think it goes live at noon central time. bungie.net, halo.bungie.org, xbox.ign.com gamespot.com should all have links to it. I wish I had a good HTPC to get the full experience, for now I'll have to just do without the big screen and suround sound. I'm guessing that the next OXM will have...

In case anyone here is interested, Bungie will finally be releasing a high quality direct feed video of Halo 2 gameplay tomorrow (Friday). The WM9 version will be 640x480 with DD5.1 and weigh in at 150 M. There will also be a Quicktime version, I don't know anything about that one though.

allright, new twist for everyone. There's been a lot of speculation about hidden items/abilities in this game, now some proof has emerged. Follow the link and check out Tex's cowboy hat. I don't know if this is real, but the pictures would be really diffcult to fake. YeeHawww!

None that I saw, just a vibration on/off option. It is pretty weak.

JayF - There's a very bright HUD on screen at all times, lots of bright colors. This was a big concern to me, but I've played 4 hours straight without issue. The cutscenes/save-load points seem to take the HD off screen frequently enough. On the 'everybody' command, I'm with Martin. While the...

The biggest indicator of how different approaches change the game - I've logged 15 hours of single player campaign and am just starting the 16th mission. I've read reviews that said you can finish it in 6 hours. I personally don't see how that's possible without just running and gunning, killing...

Using a medkit requires the character to stop what they're doing and use the medkit. So if Brutus was in the middle of a fight, he wouldn't have stopped returning fire to take the medkit. In this case, if you notice it, you can issue a 'Use Medkit' command then a 'Cover Me' command to get him to...

Another good sound bite: I was sniping across a bridge with Flint and moving around. Hawk got in front of me, turned to go back behind me, and we ran into each other. I'm looking through a scope, so getting out of her way was clumsy. As we did the getting-out-of-each-others-way dance, Hawk...

Ok, I've now put in an additional 4-5 hours (7-8 total) on this thing, and am really liking it more and more. While using the squad isn't necessary (run-n-gun works fine) I've found myself issuing commands and placing members in strategic locations more often than I gun it. Actually, I'll...

I picked up BF last night and played it for about 3 hours on single-player campaign. It's pretty fun, but hasn't sucked me in at all the way Halo did. Graphics are really good; as everyone has said, and I can't think of a better description, this game is really polished. You can tell a lot of...

I'm hoping that DA put some care and thought into the netcode so that this thing plays smoothly via tunneling software. Co-op on Live would be excellent, co-op with efficient netcode via Xbconnect would be really dang good, co-op with Halo's netcode via Xbconnect would be good.

All indications are that it's shipping today, I've seen postings of the game being availabe in some game stores this evening (more correctly stated, somebody called a store where they pre-ordered BF, the store said that it is in and will be available for pick-up this evening). I'll be...

-Halo -Rallisport -Kung Foo Chaos -Splinter Cell -NCAA Football 2003 Honorable Mention - Oddworld

I'm looking forward to it, actually pre-ordered it today. The graphics from the low-res videos, while not earth shattering, look sharp and quite good. All recent previews say they are the best currently on the box. I also think that the simplified squad aspects will make this a step above your...

This will be the first I've heard of it, if so. I would imagine something that significant would be reported somewhere besides this forum. But here's hoping. Like Derrik said, I'd love a direct feed 480p DD5.1 version of that gameplay footage.

Duality is still shown on the developers site: Trilobite Phantagram owns the title is listed as the publisher , but Trilobite is developing it and owns the copyright. Last update looks to be in January of this year, so who knows if it's still in development or what the deal is. There was a...

So does the PC port issue work in reverse for you? Halo, Splinter Cell, Xbox first then months later PC. Crappy PC, getting Xbox ports. Will this apply is MS succeeds and gets Doom 3 on the Xbox first? I'm just kidding around of course, as you've explained yourself quite well already. Just...

Uh, wasn't there a 15 minute long Fable demo shown at E3? I've heard a ton about Fable, but this guy says it wasn't even at E3? Actually, here's a link to a video showing the entiore demo: http://lionsource.ngz-network.de/download/dl.php?id=433 Gaming Age is known to be anti-MS, but c'mon

Nope, you don't have to push the joystick up. Any controller action (button press, joystick movement) will cause you to take control of the selected player. If you just have a player selected prior to the snap and never do anything, the computer will run the play for you. A bit like a Coach...

Xbox still has some guns hidden, it would seem. Big'ish games that haven't shown yet: -Psychonauts -Perfect Dark -New Oddworld Game (hinted at by the devs) -Strident -Duality -Tork (MS cut 'em loose, but it's still alive) -Citizen Zero Doesn't MS have their own Xbox conference in a...

So I guess you're not looking forward to Xbox Muxic Mixer, tehn, eh? It comes with a regular mic, if that sways you at all....

I don't know if this is any good or not: E3 Insider

Anandtech a review of the Geoforce FX 5900 Ultra that includes a section of benchmarks using an un-optimized piece of Doom3. To sum it up, Doom3 with all of the bells and whistles (4x AA/ 8x Aniso, 1280x1024) as is brings the new king of video cards as well as the incumbents to a sub- 60 minimum...

Xbox.com has a bunch of E3 trailers, including 90% of the press conference (the missing 10% is the Halo 2 demo). Xbox TV Oh, and WMP9 is required for these, I believe.