Halo: Reach News

For:Xbox 360 Release Date: 13 September 2010

Halo: Reach review coming Sunday morning

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Check back at 5am BST for our verdict on the year's biggest game so far.

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It's almost time for the biggest event in gaming since that last big thing that happened some time ago - Halo: Reach launches worldwide on September 14, but where are all the reviews?

Head back to VideoGamer.com on Sunday morning for our comprehensive verdict on what could be the year's biggest game.

Will it live up to the hype? Is it the best ever Halo game? Will it make you want to be a better man? Find out the answer to most of these questions here on VideoGamer.com at the totally unsociable hour of 5am BST on Sunday, or at whatever time you eventually rise from your slumber.

Update: And here is that review.

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rbevanx

Christ I'm dreading Sunday then if this is just a teaser of whats to come.
Posted 13:35 on 11 September 2010

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Generic-Username@ Stegosaurus-Guy-II

...seriously? Is that your best comeback?
Posted 00:07 on 14 September 2010
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Stegosaurus-Guy-II@ CheekyLee

Whoa, no need to get stressy, it's only a video game forum.
Posted 22:44 on 13 September 2010
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Mr_Ninjutsu@ Generic-Username

Duhhhhhhhhh....
Posted 22:11 on 13 September 2010
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Generic-Username@ Mr_Ninjutsu

...he was being sarcastic.
Posted 21:41 on 13 September 2010
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Mr_Ninjutsu@ CheekyLee

GoldenEye didn't create everything good.
Posted 21:01 on 13 September 2010
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CheekyLee@ Stegosaurus-Guy-II

Fine, I give in. Your little corner of the world is right, the rest of us are wrong. Revel in your pyrrhic victory, because I truly have no desire to bore this community with this any longer. Life is too short. Halo sucks, GoldenEye invented EVERYTHING good, history and facts are nothing compared to your almighty opinion.

There are none so blind as those who don't want to see.
Posted 20:54 on 13 September 2010
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Mr_Ninjutsu@ WhoIsThePresidentNow

I've not read the entirety you your post, mainly because I don't want to and nothing personal but I've had YLOD twice, both reasons were issued from Sony technicians to me explaining it was a hardrive failure, and no replacing the HDD won't 'cure' it.

They did however say that taking the HDD out and leaving it in an open aired space for 15 minutes could resolve the issue with overheating in which case is mainly the cause of hardrive failure aka YLOD.
Posted 20:34 on 13 September 2010
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Mr_Ninjutsu@ Woffls

I don't get it why is the A.I so good? I mean whenever I play it's the same thing, they just run around mindlessly even on the harder difficulties which in turn makes them run around even more.

Am I missing something?
Posted 20:26 on 13 September 2010
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Stegosaurus-Guy-II@ CheekyLee

But that wasn't a console FPS.
Posted 20:11 on 13 September 2010
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CheekyLee@ Stegosaurus-Guy-II

If you can't be bothered to read through my previous posts for the answers, where I assure you they already do exist, then I can't be bothered typing them out again for you. It is an indisputable fact that Marathon predated GoldenEye, and since Bungie made that they would probably have gone on to make Halo the way they did do already. I can't guarantee it, obviously, but logic would suggest so.
Posted 20:05 on 13 September 2010
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Stegosaurus-Guy-II@ CheekyLee

So the fact that Goldeneye was the first FPS to succesfully move to a console, made it perfect enough to play with a contoller and paved the way for console FPSs in the future doesn't mean anything because Halo made it so you can only carry 2 guns?

You may be thinking of 'revolutionised'?

Show Spoiler Unless you can prove that Halo would be the exact same if Goldeneye never existed I don't think this is going anywhere. Go back in time and try to make its mum fall in love with you so that it'll never exist.
Posted 13:57 on 13 September 2010
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Endless

Halo was for FPS what World of Warcraft was for MMOs.

Neither really brought something that hadnt been seen before, but they included all the best bits that previous titles introduced in a way that made sense to gamers and set a defining standard that is pretty much followed by every subsequent title. So much so that if a new FPS is released without one of those core features the whole package doesn't resonate as well with the masses.

And for the record: How many games after PD made a point of allowing two controllers to be used as a primary control method? I'm pretty sure there aren't many, if any at all. The reasons why they may not are open to interpretation, but the fact is that they didn't and NO-ONE these days makes games where two 'full' controllers (Wiimote and nunjuck is a full controller imo) is considered the preferred method.

It's about setting a standard that is considered an integral part of the genre because the full package works, not who did what first.
Posted 13:16 on 13 September 2010
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WhoIsThePresidentNow

Very entertaining thread this is guys, keep it up :)

and Steg

Fair play you played with your words very well on this thread.
Posted 12:02 on 13 September 2010
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WhoIsThePresidentNow@ Mr_Ninjutsu

Hard drive failure, so all I had to do was swap drives and hey presto problem solved with my PS3. Tried that and it didnt work dude

Better read this like as it comes from someone who has fixed a few of them

"I looked the chips over more carefully and there doesn't seem to be any easy way to get them off, so I'm not going to mess with them.

Overall I think you are correct though in that a lot of the problems with YLOD is indeed a bad motherboard. And those cannot be fixed. I've looked over two different motherboards and there is no obvious burning or scarring of anykind...nothing melted...so there's no easy 75 cent fix with materials purchased at a hobby shop with these (unlike the XBox 360's as you mentioned).

The part that is frustrating is the YLOD occurs when any number of problems happens inside the machine. Bad fan, bad power supply, bad GPU or CPU -- it's an all encompassing error. If there were different blinks, colors, or beeps for different problems, that would make it easier to diagnose before breaking the seal. For instance I don't even know if a fan that has died is enough to cause the YLOD, or if the fan has to die, THEN the chips overheat to cause the YLOD. Moreover, a bad blu-ray drive won't even trigger a YLOD -- it either reads the disc or it won't.

For instance, a PS3 will boot and not give a YLOD if you remove the hard drive or the blu-ray drive. I've also removed the wireless card and the memory card reader on applicable models and it will still boot without the YLOD.

In other words, YLOD in most cases does equal a bad motherboard. I guess the chips are so easily damaged that there is no visual evidence of that damage. "


http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/676411
Posted 11:59 on 13 September 2010
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Woffls

Most shooters still haven't accomplished what Halo CE did in terms of AI, level design and open strategy. It would take years for people to understand how radical a change Halo was. Of course, some still don't.

Goldeneye wasn't really influential, it was a natural progression for the genre and it just so happened that Rare got there first on consoles and got a lot of it right. Halo made more specific refinements like regenerative health and weapon limits, and it's because they were ideas that surprised people that they were influential. Goldeneye's influence was mostly "hey, look what we can do now!"
Posted 11:44 on 13 September 2010