Games will feed your stats, but party-based arranged games will not. They know you’re just playing for fun – not for stats- when you’re gaming whit your buds. As for the chat system? We have two different types of voice in the game: proximity voice and broadcast voice Jarrerd says. “In teams games you have to hold down you white button to talk to all of you teammates.If you don’t use the with button and you just talk then it’s proximity,so anybody –friend or foe- within in earshot can hear you talk.
11:32am
Finally, Parsons belts out, “Come on Boys,lets fire it up!” within all the enthusiasm of someone playing the game for the first time. Instructed to now create a profile and get ready to play, I do so and immediately begin scouring the halo2 interface for secrets.I find a ton of clan logos, and the ability to bring a guest on your live account and play two-player-split-screen in online games.
11:37 am
It’s on
With the pre-assigned Gamertag or Bungie22c, my first game is a Team Slayer maths on Zanzibar, the one map I know. Hitting the beach and hopping into the driver seat of a chaingun Warthog,I immediately begin focusing on teamplay- and winning- by honking the horn with the right trigger and escorting a pair of teammates though the sea wall past the windmill, and into enemy territory .I hit Y to switch weapon and find that pistol is back, and you start with it as a secondary weapon by default. Bungie went to on record as saying they know it was to powerful in halo1,and so they’ve toned it down and taking away the ability to fire while zoomed in as is also the case with the SMG. Side note: I never noticed at E3 that the glass in Zanzibar base can be shot and fragments realistically. You have to shoot all the chucks in order to get though it. After the dust settles, my team claims victory,as most of the day.
11:46 Am
Time for a new map with the same team. The waterworks is its name, and vehicular mayhem is the game. A large subterranean cave with a bottomless pit bisecting the center and bases at opposite ends. Waterworks loads each time up a banchee on top of theire base, along with a pair of Warthogs (chaingun and Gauss Cannon variants), a ghost and a scorpion tank just outside in frond of it. The latter of witch, by the way, has been toned down, with both its movements speed and turret. Turing speed slowed, and its cannon reduced a bit in potency. The bases consist of two levels, with the flag in a room on the lower levels, accessible via a front door and back door. On the roof upstairs is a stationary gun turret and, up a bit more via a ramp, sits your friends the banshee.I take a ghost and use it left trigger to boost up the function to zip around the map quickly getting its basic layout down. After Covenant speeder destroyed –with me still on it-I respawn and head in search of the banshee. The banshee, similar to the aircraft in Crimson skies,can perform special aerial maneuvers. Pressing the left thumstick and the A button rolls right and down and A send the banshee looping upward. Like in Halo1PC cousin,the banshee in Halo2 can lob plasma mortars with a press of B button
12:24 am
Next up is Team Slayer on the ivory tower,a two level arena-like indoor map with sunny, central atrium or dead, a lot of weapons are variety. Everything is here, including a single Covenant energy sword in the center of the atrium and a Covenant sniper rifle tucked appealingly on the a high walkway. We first revealed the Particle Beam Rifle back in our June 2004 cover story, and practice it’s as awesome as you’d expect. It can zoom and fire as rapidly as the human sniper rifle. The alien version overheats after four successive rounds,just as the human on requires on reloading after four shots.The highlight of this match was running though the middle area, duel wielding a needler and a SMG using the former to bring down my enemies’ shield and the latter to kill them
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