Comments on: Movies with a Halo

Movies with a Halo

adrianhon — Thu, 01 May 2003 14:27:18 -0800

Halo is probably the most well known and successful of games for the Xbox, but less well known are the scores of Halo movies that take advantage of its excellent graphics and physics engines. From the classic Warthog Jump to the cover of Asshole and the Red vs Blue series, the movies are sometimes breaktaking and almost always hilarious. Videogame geeks with a sense of humour? Say it ain't so!

By: zekinskia

zekinskia — Thu, 01 May 2003 15:54:25 -0800

Hey didn't this game used to be free, and you could play it on a PC instead of an overpriced piece if shit with joysticks that make no sense? Oh wait, that was Quake...

By: linux

linux — Thu, 01 May 2003 16:36:00 -0800

Confusing Halo with Quake. How odd. I'll go you one better. Isn't this Marathon? :p

By: Grimgrin

Grimgrin — Thu, 01 May 2003 16:44:52 -0800

Apparently they're set in the same universe. I think that the Jjaro may have even showed up in the Halo storyline. So, yeah it is kinda Marathon.

By: X-00

X-00 — Thu, 01 May 2003 16:57:12 -0800

Sidrial is the first commercial animated series made using a heavily modified version of the Quake III engine

By: cohappy

cohappy — Thu, 01 May 2003 17:22:32 -0800

Hey didn't this game used to be free, and you could play it on a PC instead of an overpriced piece if shit with joysticks that make no sense? Oh wait, that was Quake... This, kids, is the anger that results when Microsoft ups and buys an entire company in order to give their console platform a killer app. I own an xbox, and I like it. I own a pc, and I like it. They're not the same animal. FPS games rarely work on console. Halo does, as does Goldeneye for N64. Consoles can do several different genre's much, much better than pc's can, see sports games or adventure games. Pretty much every sports game for pc sucks, with the exception of golf and maybe soccer. Also, and this is probably refreshing only for the hoplessly geeky, the concept of patching a game is incoherent on a console, and thats one of the things that I love about it. It really, really gets old to drop 60 bucks on a new game, and have to wait for a patch so it'll actually work... Besides, I spent 400 bucks on an xbox, two controllers, an adapter that lets me play dvd's, and quite few games. Contrast that with the 250 bucks I spent on a video card for my pc...

By: jono

jono — Thu, 01 May 2003 18:09:48 -0800

Anyone seen the halo video set to johnny cash singing NiN's Hurt? still trying to find a link, i saw it a couple months ago... Whether you like the song or not, they do some badass things with the warthog, ghost, etc. Def worth checking out.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Thu, 01 May 2003 18:30:10 -0800

That Red vs. Blue thing is surprisingly funny and well-done. Watch it if you haven't yet.

By: NortonDC

NortonDC — Thu, 01 May 2003 18:33:52 -0800

Anybody else seen "Da Gib Of The Year"? No production values, but quite the LOL/jawdropper for Quakehounds. Hmm, doesn't look like it's ever been saved in a movie format. I might have to see what I can do about that...

By: Hildago

Hildago — Thu, 01 May 2003 18:38:17 -0800

Jono: Search for "Hurt" on the second link in the post.

By: Onanist

Onanist — Thu, 01 May 2003 22:15:07 -0800

Cool post. I saw the Warthog Jump movie when it was first released and absolutely loved it. I just checked out the Asshole clip but I thought it was a bit pedestrian in comparison, though still clever... NortonDC, I'd love to see "Da Gib Of The Year", being a Rocket Arena 3 whore myself. I've made some hilarious kills in that Quake 3 mod, bouncing around a map willy-nilly. I just wish I'd recorded a few of them!