[Halo 3: ODST] Algemeen

Niks nieuws, maar toch plaats ik het even. Werkt altijd als een goede samenvatting over wat je nu kan verwachten.

Halo 3 ODST Impressions: What Happened In Africa​ The campaign of this fall's Halo 3 ODST surfaced at an event in New York this week, right near a bowl of lime green jellybeans and a bunch of Zunes. Here's what we learned. The demo being shown in New York was the same displayed behind closed doors at E3. We've previewed the game's multiplayer mode, Firefight. This is our first eyewitness report of the campaign. The player's main character is an ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Trooper) known as Rookie. He drops to New Mombasa, Africa, during the battle that leads into the beginning of Halo 3. But his drop goes awry and he's knocked out for six hours. Once he's conscious, his journey through the Covenant-besieged New Mombasa traces the trunk of the branched ODST story. I was shown Rookie using his series-new silenced machine gun and non-regenerative shielding to fight through part of the city. After a skirmish, he found a computer terminal and helpful AI that uploaded a map of the metropolis into his visor. Once the map was added, several waypoints were selectable. We selected the one that marked the Office of Naval Intelligence on the map. (The Microsoft rep showing me the game said that Rookie needed to go to the "ONI" building — nice Bungie pun, man!). The E3 demo skipped ahead to place Rookie at the edge of what was an obliterated bridge. That bridge would have led to Rookie's destination. Walking near a piece of metal on the ground prompted a button press, and that led to a flashback set two hours after the game's opening ODST drop. And that's how ODST differs from other Halo games. The various waypoints on Rookie's map lead to different trigger-able, playable flashbacks. These sequences, set at different times, put the player in control of different members of the ODST squad and ultimately piece together the story of the game. We didn't have to go to ONI first, and when you play, you won't either. Going to the ONI location and activating the flashback puts the player in control of Dutch, a munitions specialist. In Dutch's portion of the game, the bridge is intact. The player, as Dutch, is the one who has to do something about that by placing charges along the bridge and blowing it up. The Convenant resist every footstep of that mission. The Microsoft rep showing me the game said the ODSTs all have the same abilities. Visions of the controlling different styles of characters would be wrong. This isn't Eternal Darkness or other character-hopping games that provide different move-sets. But each ODST has the new ability to activate a low-light vision mode (VISR - Visual Intelligence System Reconnaissance-class) that outlines enemies and other items of interest with a thin colored line for better targeting. I was told that ODST campaign will not be as long as Halo 3, which no one who've been following news about the game would be expecting, but it is shaping up to be "much longer" than the original handful of hours estimated by Bungie. One note about the graphics: the game's orange-tinted palette didn't impress me when it was debuted on stage during Microsoft's E3 briefing. Seeing the game a few feet fro a TV was a better showcase. New Mombasa's skies are a firestorm of billowing black clouds and illuminations of blazing orange. Its streets are dark and doomed. There's a grim mood to the scene that Bungie is building, which looks oppressive and impressive up close. Halo 3: ODST's will come bundled with Firefight mode, new and old multiplayer maps and free access to the forthcoming multiplayer beta of the 2010 Bungie game Halo: Reach.

 

Preorder staat klaar.

"Halo 3: ODST (with Halo: Reach BETA Access & Sgt. Johnson Unlock Code)"

 

waar heb je hem besteld?

 

Play. Leek mij de beste keuze.
Indien hij nog ergens goedkoper komt met dezelfde 2 extra's kan ik hem altijd nog annuleren.

 

Ik wacht gewoon op Gamehubs. Reach beta krijg je altijd, en die unlock code... Tsja, leuk om te hebben, maar zo graag hoef ik het niet

 

Idd het is toch first person dus je ziet toch niet met wie je speelt

 

Ik neem aan dat die pre-order actie voor die extra character nog wel even loopt? Zoja, dan wacht ik nog wel even tot ik hem goedkoper zie misschien.

 

Dat is voor mij een reden om de game te halen.

 

vind het wel goed dat deze(nog) niet zo gehyped wordt zoals de andere halo's. Zo kan ie ook minder snel tegen vallen.

 

Je bepaald toch zelf of je meegaat met de hype?

 

Gespot op budgetgaming:

42,- bij xboxhome.nl als tijdelijke actie, inclusief Sgt Johnson code en Reach multiplayer!

 

ODST's Halo 3 maps revealed ​ ​ With all the talk of fancy open-ended environments, playable flashbacks and new cooperative modes, we'd almost forgotten about ODST's offering of new Halo 3 maps! When it launches later this year, Bungie's latest entry in the epic space hoop saga will include a Halo 3 multiplayer disc, which will contain three new maps (in addition to all the ones you've come to love and die repeatedly in). Be sure to take a look at "Heretic" (the return of Halo 2's "Midship" arena), "Citadel" and "Longshore" in the gallery below. We've found that staring intently at them while bobbing back in forth in our seats provides a good, albeit imperfect, approximation of actual gameplay. We're just missing the cybernetic crotch thrusting toward us in regular intervals.

 

Ik zie midship! En midship Swords KotH = WIN!

 

Gametype maakt me niet eens uit, Midship is gewoon vet! Close combat maps vind ik altijd toffer en Midship was een van mijn favorieten. Blij dat hij terugkeert.

 

Citadel en Heretic zie ik wel zitten, alleen longshore niet echt, ik heb het niet zo op dat soort levels, but we shall see.

 

Ze hebben alle 3 potentie, misschien verrast citadel. Hopelijk is midship nog best goed, want er zit wel verschil in met het origineel met h2.

 

interviewtje met voice-actor: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30501433/vp/31714988#31714988

 

Ik vraag me af hoe ze die halo 3 multiplayer stand-alone gaan implementeren.

Staan alle maps op de disc of krijg je redeem codes?

Krijg je aparte archievements of worden ze toegevoegd bij je halo 3 archievements?

Wordt er in de stand-alone nog wat verbetert aan de halo 3 multiplayer, gameplay en technisch.

En je kun die stand-alone toch ook gewoon met halo 3 spelers spelen?

Ook vraag ik mij af waar die limited edition nou blijft met die exclusive controller. Ik kan hem nog nergens vinden.

 

Volgens mij staan alle Halo 3 maps op die disc, dus ook de nieuwe.
Zijn die 3 maps trouwens exclusief voor ODST of komen ze ook nog als aparte dlc?

Naar die limited edition ben ik ook benieuwd, kan wel een nieuwe controller gebruiken.

 

aRRRRRchievements

Maar heel de H3 Multiplayer komt op een aparte disc en daar staan alle maps op. Ook kun je daarmee gewoon met H3 spelers spelen, dat lijkt me logisch. Verder wordt er niks verbeterd, alleen denk ik dat je deze wel mooi op je HDD kan zetten zonder performanceloss.