I'm a major Halo fan, and was looking forward to this game for addition to the story line alone. However, I admit that my excitement this time around wasn't nearly what it was for say, Halo 2, or Halo 3. In this case, the lack of excitement was compounded by my participation in the Beta test for Reach's multiplayer back in May. Don't get me wrong, the Beta was awesome, and confirmed that it will be a game worth playing, but it took away a bit from the anticipation of new gameplay.
This trailer totally restored all of that anticipation however. SPOILER WARNING! Watch the Trailer before reading the rest of this post! Here is the trailer for your viewing pleasure:
Did you see it? If your not a Halo fan, you probably didn't notice, but the fans probably did. For the first time in a Halo game, we'll be able to explore space combat in the Halo universe! Space combat in Halo has been well established in the fiction (IE the game dialog, and in the novels and comics), however, it hasn't really been shown on screen before (the view from Cairo Station's windows in Halo 2 didn't really cut for me...), let alone been playable. Reach is going to remedy that situation, and it looks awesome. This trailer has defiantly rekindled my excitement for this game.
So, in summary: Space Combat is coming to Halo. Nerds everywhere rejoice. /Spoilers
In other X-Box360 news from the first day of E3: Project Natal is officially the Kinect Motion/Voice controller, and will be available this November. Still no word on the price, but we can guess it will probably be in the $100 range.
Also available this year, a new 'Slim' X-box360. It will feature a more angular shape, more powerful and quieter fans, built in Wi-Fi (no more $100 adapters), 5 USB ports as well as a dedicated Kinect port, and an internal 250GB Hard Drive (looks like MS is dumping the funny externals used by the current counsels, though this one is supposed to still be swappable... not sure how that's going to work). It looks slick enough that I may trade in my current 20GB model towards one of these new ones when they become available. Here's a pic:
Well, that's it for my longest update in months. Enjoy.
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