Despite having not played Halo in a long while, I'm still pretty okay. Nice to know.

After several months of playing Gears of War I found distracting seeing all the people just jumping and jumping like kangaroos.
I need to set the inverted y-axis property on my controller, because right now I'm sucking in the game. The most I got was 4 kills in one game.

Hit start, slide the left thumbstick to the right. Now you can edit your controls, etc. Hit start in the main menu, not during a game, and you can edit your appearance and call sign.

The call sign is pretty stupid. I'd rather have it be up to 5 letters or numbers. As it stands there's only 2600 combinations, which is not enough. Most clans are two or three letters, right? Makes a ton more sense.

Not really impressed with the Halo 3 beta. The gameplay seems stale to me. I have no problem racking up the kills though. The machine gun almost seems too powerful and the Spartan Laser is just ridiculous.

Hell, I'm having more fun with rocket tag in Crackdown.

I'm much more excited for the single player in Halo 3.

First night playing. Apologies for making some of you wait tonight. You know how it is, wanting to wait on a buddy to hop on.

First impressions, Halo 2.5... definitely. Graphical improvements are minor, but like everyone says, 5 minutes in and you have already forgotten about it and are having just as much fun as Halo 2, if not more.

I definitely LOVE starting with the new/old assault rifle. Much better than that shit in Halo 2. If you didn't snag a second weapon in Halo 2, you were screwed. I spent most of the night with the default weapon and did alright. Dual weilding seems to be dead, which is fine by me. The Spartan Laser does seem a tad too powerful.

The equipment is pretty cool. No complaints there. They work great and none seem over powerful, just decent enough to give you a slight edge in battle.

I think the laser's lame. It's easy to dodge.

Call sign is so you can easily identify people. Not supposed to be a clan wide thing.

Does anyone know how limited the new Halo 3 Zune player is going to be? Going to get my husband one for Fathers Day. Not sure if I need to preorder it or not. Thanks for any info.

If you see it coming. It works great on vehicles.

that Halo zune will be 249.99

Where is everybody? According to Bungie there were only 390,510 unique players yesterday. That's pretty paltry out of around 7-8 million users. I guess this weekend will be a better gauge as to how many are in the beta.

how many copies did Crackdown sell in the US?


I think based on the extension of the beta due to the Crackdown fiasco, it must be the bulk of players on the Halo 3 beta

Last I read, 900,000 copies.

The needler is too damn powerful. Kills with half a clip at medium range. very deadly at close range. The great thing is that no one has realized it yet.

They need to add a few more seconds of charge time to the Spartan lazer

They need to remove the automatic continue to the next matchmaking game crap. the countdown limits my ability to talk trash. More importantly they pretty much enabled automatic re-ranking. People can now leave their xbox on and have it continue through matchmaking all day, unattended to derank. Sucks for those that play team games as you'll have lots of empty controllers playing.

I think all the guns are pretty balanced for the most part


last night, I probably got more kills with the stock assault rifle than anything else.

I wish they wouldn't switch so much in King of the Hill.

I only played about half a round (baby woke up soon after). But I have to say I was impressed. I think I played the Snow level and the level seems "ok". I was killed by the Guardians once and killed myself playing with the new grenade. How do you use shields? Is it a powerup?

I like it though....I'll get to play more (as long as it doesn't say GAME OVER again)

I haven't even seen stumbled onto the needler yet.

How does the ranking work anyway? One of them is based on how much you have played, from what I've read. So is it your rank or your level?

Take me:
14 games played
Rating Points: 10
Ranking: Corporal
Level: varies based on mode(right now 3-5)

Looks like the Level is still independent of the mode you are playing which sucks, btw. Meaning I could be a Level 3 in team slayer but an 8 in team skirmish. Your highest level should be your level, period in ALL team modes.

The only wild card would be Rumble Pit. Say you are a 25 in Rumble Pit, you should be a 25 in team modes because at the very least you are going to wreak havoc and fuck some shit up regardless of whether or not you are good at CTF. However it wouldn't work the same the other way around. Say you are a 25 in Team modes, you wouldn't necessarily be a 25 in Rumble Pit since your ability may rely on the team aspect.

I would also like to see that you could only level up. So once you hit 25, you are obviously good enough to make it there, you should be stuck with it. This way you are forced to play people at your level all the time. De-leveling sucks balls.

i found a needler in the ice level, on top of one of the pyramid things in the middle


I honestly didn't think it was anything special. I did notice that it unloaded a clip a bit faster than previous Halo titles

Quoted for truth

The Bubble Shield is a piece of "equipment" - deployable with the X button. Same with the Power Drainer and the Grav Lift. You have to find it in the level.

Actually, if you strafe sideways, you can avoid the needler pretty easy. But yeah, it's pretty devistating if you catch an unsuspecting (or slow-moving) target with it. It's actually a decent go-to weapon now.

Thanks....I thought the X button was the MUTE/IGNORE button or something like that. I still have to learn, as I only played half a game.

I'm with you Flay. I LOVED Halo and Halo 2 but after playing some of the titles that have been released between Halo 2 and 3, I was pretty underwhelmed. I wish those Spartans could run faster! I guess my only real complaint is the way the communication works now with the D-Pad.

I've never played Halo before. Played the demo a bit ago. I'm not terrible impressed.