Posted on 11/09/2004 8:11:27 AM PST by ArcLight
Halo iz teh sux0r.
:P
Sounds like a ripoff of "Ringworld" by Larry Niven.
Brought to you from the makers of the "Marathon" series. Arguably the best in the genre before Bungie was bought out by MS.
Actually, the official press release (link at bottom) was that - in the first 24 hours of its release - Halo 2 sold 2.4 million units in the USA and Canada, bringing in over 125 MILLION dollars.
IN ONE DAY.
To compare, Pixar's latest film, The Incredibles, made 70.5 million dollars in its opening weekend (AKA, THREE DAYS). It doesn't compare.
And remember, Halo 2 has yet to be released in Europe...and it will be tomorrow on the 11th.
And also, I have to also say that I have no such political overtones in this game. If you look long enough and hard enough, I'm sure you might find SOMETHING that you could POSSIBLY twist. But I don't.
http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/24hour_record/
I finished it about 8 this evening and started again on legendary...legendary halo was a walk in the park next to this one. If you expect to move forward, you MUST be able to dodge shots while pouring accurate fire into the Covenant troops. I haven't even gotten off the first level yet.
Not gonna happen. That's like asking if Pepsi might be sold in Coke machines.
I swear, there are people on FR who will carp and condemn anything.......just anything.
Half-Life 2 all the way! Halo is for n00bs. :P
P.S., I'll likely be getting Halo 2 for Christmas. It's convinced me to get an XBox. But it'll never beat Half-Life. ; )
It was supposed to come out last year, but the code was stolen by hackers and that delayed it.
But it's finally getting released on Tuesday! :-D
John Wayne hated it, too, and for the same reasons. Rio Bravo was his answer film.
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It's okay, though. i can get it for the Mac.
Yah, it's a PC Game. Due out next tuesday (Nov. 16). Apparently the source code got hacked sometime back in April and it's been delayed ever since. Check halflife2.com (I think that's the address)...BTW, make sure you have a relatively good system to run it on, from what I hear it's a system sucker-upper...
I'm sitting hear listening to my husband play HALO, when a guy fell off a cliff and (I am not making this up) gave a Howard Dean scream! It wan't an imitation, it was the real thing. My husband and I both recognized it. ROTFLMAO!!
"Go on home to your kids, Herb"
Life is imitating art here--the particular piece of art being the classic Western of half a century ago: "High Noon."In the film, the marshal of the small town of Hadleyville, Will Kane (played by Gary Cooper), has just stepped down from his job and gotten married. As he is leaving town with his new bride, played by Grace Kelly, he learns that the gang leader who once dominated and terrorized the town has been pardoned by the governor of the state and is arriving on the noon train to meet his old gang and return to power. After a few minutes of indecision, the marshal decides to return to town over the strong objections of his pacifist wife. He starts to organize a posse to protect the town.
But as high noon nears, it becomes increasingly clear that the good citizens of Hadleyville, who had helped the marshal clean the town up years before, can now produce only a cornucopia of excuses: "If the marshal's not here there won't be any trouble--it's just personal trouble between him and Miller [the gang leader]"; "the politicians up north caused the mess--let them deal with it"; "what will they [potential investors] think if they read about shooting in the streets?"; "I'm no lawman, I just live here."
Most poignant is the scene between the marshal and a longtime loyal deputy who backs out of helping as noon approaches because he is worried about his young children. "Go on home to your kids, Herb," says the marshal, and goes out to face the gang alone.
Only the marshal's new wife, who at first had left him, returns at the last minute and helps him prevail against all odds. For a small Quaker lady who hates guns, she does quite well: one kill and one assist. As the townspeople realize he has won and come out of hiding to congratulate him, the marshal looks at them sternly, drops his badge in the dirt, and he and his wife drive away.
In today's front-page version of this story, the work on weapons of mass destruction being conducted by states that support terrorism is the noon train pulling relentlessly nearer. The French government and French oil companies are surely Academy Award material as a collective real-life version of the film's hotel clerk who is fixated on how good the saloon business will be once the gang is back in town.
Many other Europeans will find excellent models in the film to help them perfect both their excuses for inaction and their condescension toward their protector. Fred Zinnemann, the director of "High Noon," knew this moral territory well--as a refugee from Austria he had seen all the techniques for rationalizing appeasement and the deadly consequences of not challenging evil regimes before they can wreak total havoc.
"Ah," anti-American Europeans reading this very piece this morning will likely respond, "you see how the Americans idealize the impulsive Wild West cowboy and his unilateralist approach to dealing with the world. How naive. How droll."
So here are two quick ripostes. Cowboys are normal people--some are impulsive, some are loners, some are neither. But what you are rejecting is not a modern-day cowboy, but rather a modern-day marshal, and marshals are different. They and their equivalents, such as GIs, have chosen to live a life of protecting others, whatever it takes. That's not being impulsive--it's deciding to be a shepherd instead of a sheep.
Second, like the U.S. today in moving against the axis, the marshal in "High Noon" was trying very hard to be multilateral--he desperately wanted a posse. He just had no takers. What the marshal was unwilling to do is to give up doing his duty just because everyone else found excuses to stay out of the fight.
Go on home to your kids, Europeans. Go on home to your kids. And then start praying that when it's over we won't drop our badge in the dirt.
Halo 2...is...awesome!! I don't see no political crap in it. I see new stuff like dual wield, electric swords, better assault rifle (even though no full-auto), faster reloading, more detailed textures, ability to jack enemy's vehicles and more new weapons make this the BEST game. Ever. On X-Box. But I don't have an X-Box but I played it with friends that do and I hope the PC version comes soon. Get this game!!!!
I wasn't.
the only thing that worried me wa whether or not Hubby has something that will play it.
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