halo 3 beta released tomorrow, mb 12am tonight ?

[WilliamLowe]

Pretty standard for a beta, no?

[TheCroShow]

lol glad i didn't get this, i'll be happy to wait for the final product

[professormike]

Its available now for people with Crackdown, I am 96% downloaded.

[cakewalk]

72%

[bluef0x]

55%

[Dire]

Matchmaking seems to fubared right now. Been 15 minutes and it's still been unable to match me. Keeps quitting right once a group of 8 is formed.

Is it just me, or is this game kinda meh so far? It's not bad - they definitely fixed the spray and pray starting gun issues from Halo 2, but outside of that - the graphics are pretty mediocre for a next gen game and everything else is 99% identical to Halo 2.

I'll definitely be buying a copy to play co-op with my gf, but multiplayer is just not very impressive. Although I'm not really sure what I was even expecting. Oh well.

[WilliamLowe]

Obviously it could be posturing, but Bungie has said multiple times that the graphics we are seeing in the beta are not representative of what the final game will look like. Did you see the water on Valhalla though? If you haven't yet, go stand in the river until you die. It's kind of cool to see you body float down under the water...looks pretty damn realistic.

[bluef0x]

I'm about to go try it.. I finished the download last night but it said "Game Over, the beta is overrrrrr" or something.

[Dire]

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Obviously it could be posturing, but Bungie has said multiple times that the graphics we are seeing in the beta are not representative of what the final game will look like. Did you see the water on Valhalla though? If you haven't yet, go stand in the river until you die. It's kind of cool to see you body float down under the water...looks pretty damn realistic.

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Yeah, the water is nice.

But I really think the "These graphics are not representative..." is pretty much BS. They knew this game was going to be largely judged by the beta. There's no way they'd intentionally release it with significantly gimped graphics. And given that there's only 4 months left til that game needs to be on store shelves - there's just not a whole lot of time left to change much.

I expect any improvements will be relatively modest.

[JSchnett]

bungie should get their heads out of their asses and stop making Unreal Championship-like games. Put halo 1 on a new, faster, xbl compatable engine and people would love it. The they tried too hard to make the multiplayer graphics, they are the same every single time you play so whats the point other than say "ohh cool" the 1st time you play a map campaign is for that gay eye candy. Their "new" senarios for battles are also retarded. Nobody ever got bored of the same old same old pistol battles before there is no reason for this new inovative bubble sheilds, grav lifts and gay [censored]. God I hate bungie hychachahachhahcahca.



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