Yes, legit. Not that it wasn’t fully functional, we just set it up so it was a little bit slower and easier, so joe could kill guys when he needed to and hit his marks in time with the music. The AI is much less predictable than it was in the movie.

(He was actually a bit less restrained earlier in the thread – had me chuckling…)

A couple of observations:

(Sat Mar 10 15:26)
That glowing red light is a Microsoft Optical mouse.

(Sat Mar 10 15:47)
THAT looks like four-way split screen… hmm…

We just report what gets sent to us, folks…

If my shooting style seemed erratic, it’s because I was trying to stay in sync with the music. Notice how the last Grunt in the penetration fight dies “on cue”? To accomplish that I had to miss the Elite with most of a clip.

When I first read this, I said, ‘Huh?’ Marty cleared up what was happening:

I was in the back of the auditorium playing a CD of the music that was made for Joe’s choreographed gameplay. There were four pieces, each with some cool internal hit points (as long as Joe hits his marks) and then I started each new piece to correspond to Joe’s location. The sound engine will do this in the game, of course it won’t be wall to wall music like this presentation was, but it’ll be pretty cool.

Thank God Joe didn’t crash… or fall into that first big shaft. It would have kind of screwed up the choreography.

The things you have to do to successfully demo a game!

“That timeframe is more eventful than one would guess. My oldest son had a soccer game at 4:00 that afternoon. I brought my 2 boys in to the office to kill some time since we were already in town. They played games and got to play the gamestock build of Halo while they were here.”

Today, that missing movie showed up… and it’s interesting, to say the least. The relevant timeframe (as readable at the top of the image) is Sat Mar 10 14:45 to 15:53 (at which point, a divider is moved in front of the camera, obscuring the view)… and as Hamish points out, it certainly LOOKS as though the kids are playing on a PC, with a keyboard and mouse… Remember, we don’t actually KNOW anything about this situation, this is all just speculation, from a series of highly compressed, low-resolution webcam pics, but still… Pax.

The shield blocked out most of the noise around him, but he could still hear reverberations coming through the grating. It sounded like a jackhammer hitting a broken xylophone stuck on one note and amplified through a hundred sub-woofers.

More Fan Fiction today – this one’s a little strange. When you get to the Pleenta, you may just wonder where you are… Check out Chris Bisoski’s ‘No Biscuit for You‘ in our Fan Fiction section.

He was about to move the camera back when he noticed something that made his blood chill. A pair of Covenant elite were slowly moving through the woods about 150 yards from the two Marines, on a path designed to intersect.

Bastard sends in the next installment of the storyline he started with ‘Tides of War’. You can find ‘Last Stand‘, the new story, in our Fan Fiction section. I’m beginning to realize that this section might have value to the Halo storywriting team… some interesting missions could be developed from some of these stories.