An article in Wired talks about Bungie’s attention to detail when doing multiplayer and campaign level design:

Some of the details in Halo 3 verge on the obsessive. While creating several environments based on the area of Africa surrounding Mount Kilimanjaro, Bungie designers used a satellite map of the region to make sure the geography would remain consistent from scene to scene — and that as the “day” inside the single-player story wore on, the sun would set at a realistic pace. (Even the road signs in the game are “mostly close to real life,” a designer told me: When you see a ruined highway sign saying “New Mombasa: 47 miles,” that’s roughly the distance to Mombasa, Kenya.)

I hope Bungie doesn’t get in trouble for admitting that the multiplayer level Epitaph is based on a French cathedral; games that depict shootings inside religious buildings have been taking a few knocks lately. Hopefully the sci-fi renovation will prevent that.

Major Nelson has posted up some pictures of the Master Chief and the Bungie crew in New York at the Halo 3 launch.

If your Halo 3 disc was scratched in the box, Microsoft will replace it. However, you only have until the end of this year.

HBO posted the box acronyms for the regular (SLMCWMYOW) and Legendary editions (WWYANOFAWD) of Halo 3.

Hey all!

On behalf of the Entire Review Frenzy Staff I am here to announce our biggest project yet: The Halo 3 Madness.

Starting Monday of next week (October 1st) the Review Frenzy will be bringing you a special treat. We will be posting a series of reviews regarding with Halo 3’s special features, weapons, and vehicles. The best of the best have been chosen for this assignment so you will not be disappointed.

The schedule is as follows:

Monday: Vehicle Analysis by Capn Krunk
Tuesday: Weapons Analysis by DM7000
Wednesday: Saved Films Analysis by Quality Jeverage
Thursday: Forge Review by ChuckieJ
Friday: Full Review of Halo 3 by Killazilla

Keep an eye out next week!

Campaign Scoring can be enjoyed by one to four players. It works the same whether you’re playing alone or with friends but it really gets fun when a group of players compete against one another to Finish the Fight and try for the highest score. However, there are trade-offs to be considered – the amount of enemies in the game does not automatically scale with the introduction of more players. So, four people will basically have ¼ as many kills as they would if they played the same settings by themselves. Of course you are also a lot more likely to die, which also will hurt your point total. On the other hand, being a particularly devious player might mean that you can leech a lot of free points and steal kills from your allies while they do all the work. Campaign scoring is fun in all instances but for me there’s not much better than fighting side by side with three buddies and having it all come down to whoever gets the final headshot on the Chieftain to decide the victor.

Devin, Goatrope, jayWHY, and I have spent dozens of hours exploring the Halo 3 engine and map geometry. No doubt Bungie has hid plenty of easter eggs in this game and I’m sure there are plenty more to find. Jason Jones!