Pwnage, pwnage, pwnage: ultimate Halo 3 beta footage pwns like whoa

Posted May 10, 2007 at 10:39PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Bungie Studios, Montage
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This has GOT to be the most pwning Halo 3 beta footage 3V4R! For one thing, it's got good video quality so much so that we don't have to deal with shaky cameras and pixelated viewing, and on top of that, it doesn't have any kids doing voice overs. Not only does the video itself pwn, but the reason why it pwns so much is because that's all what this video shows: different kinds of pwnage!


Pwned on a vehicle, pwned in mid-air, pwned from the top, from the side, and from below. Close-quarter pwnage, long-range pwnage, ambush pwnage, sniper pwnage, camper pwnage, double kill pwnage, explosive pwnage, laser pwnage... You get the idea. It's basically a montage of every kind of pwnage you can think of. And more.

To make things even more exciting, there's that "This video was made using the Saved Films feature of the Internal Beta. This is not the final content of the game. Everything seen in this video is subject to change." Meaning, things will definitely look better once the game comes out (even though the game looks pretty nice as it already is). Pwnage, yes? Pwn yourself away by clicking the pwn play button below:



 
 
 

Comments [refresh]

by PiNPOiNT - 2007-05-10 17:41
» beta nonsense

I find it hilarious how everyone seems to think that things will get better visually after a beta stage. sorry to burst your bubble, but in most cases of game development, games are basically "content complete" at an alpha stage. Alphas and Betas are meant primarily to fix bugs and tweak game play. When halo 3 comes out its going to 99% the same of what you seen in these beta vids. Its not suddenly going to be a million times better. Sure they might revamp a texture here or there, or lighten an area that's a tad dark, but lets be realistic.

by ***** - 2007-05-10 17:44
» yeah

i love ***** 2nd post yeah

by Quixand - 2007-05-10 17:47
» yaeah

definitely an overrated overhyped game.

by AoxomamoxoA - 2007-05-10 18:04
» Im impressed!

Wow. Im in no way a Halo fan (I hated Halo2 with a passion), but this game looks fantastic. I have about 90 bucks in credit at EB right now and after seeing this video I might just be using it to preorder Halo3. I know the Halo community is extremely huge, and this game will be alive indefinately (Halo2 is STILL being played daily by thousands). There is no doubt that this game is gonna sell 360s like crazy.



Killzone, eat your heart out....

by Quixand - 2007-05-10 18:30
» are you kidding me???

did you actually look at the video???



this game is an embarrassment!! !

by PGW - 2007-05-10 18:38
» Its beautiful!

just 5 more days guys comn we can do it

by hi - 2007-05-10 18:46
» better at bungie.net

get the better quality video at bungie.net. Uploaded to gametrailers is still compression, hence quality loss. the WMV is 77 megabytes

by sincere88 - 2007-05-10 18:55
» ow

my god. this movie rocks i cant wait to pop in my creadown AND SEE THE ACTIVE DOWNLOAD HALO3 BETA!!!!!



OW YEAH

by Gears owns your ASS - 2007-05-10 19:01
» ...

So, Who posted Halo 2 video and called it Halo 3?

by zanz - 2007-05-10 19:23
» my god

"So, Who posted Halo 2 video and called it Halo 3? "



nothing in this video even down to the plants reminds me of halo 2.. of course it got to halo art atyle and of course the player models and weapons but seriously.. nothing like halo 2, you could never confuse them that is for sure

by AoxomamoxoA - 2007-05-10 20:23
» more like youre kidding yourself

Quixand, quixand, quixand...



I knew fanboyism causes retardation, but I never knew it could make you blind too. Just because it doesnt have the Sony logo on it doesnt mean its an embarassment. In fact, when it sells like hotcakes just like Halo2 did for Xbox the only person who will still think its an embarassment (lol) is you.



Seriously though, tone down the fanboyism, youre coming off a little strong in 99% of your posts. Or better yet, if you dont like something, dont comment.

by Constantinecy - 2007-05-10 20:32
» ..

Wow give it a rest AoxomamoxoA... For starters I liked halo and halo 2 they were both great games and I have no doubt that this one will be great too.



But the facts are already on the table and shouting the truth which is Halo 3 visually speaking is nearly equivalent to halo 2. Storywise I dont know but the feel of the gameplay feels exactly the same as it did with halo 1 and 2 (sort of cartounish dont you think?). This games were created with the soul purpose to excel as online multiplayers nothing else which they do!!.

So far and probably it will stay like that because a beta is 99% the game you will get in the end, halo 3 will offer nothing more than halo 2 did.

By the way I dont wont to sound like a fanboy but Halo 3 Vs Killzone 2 graphically....Halo 3 is no match for killzone not even close. I just state what I see, your vision might be better then mine...

by Devise - 2007-05-10 21:11
» ...

Wow what a surprise it doesn't impress the PS3 owners. The game is looking awesome. The Beta is going to be insane. Stop acting like jealous *****s and go back to your Super Rub A Dub bull*****

by loller - 2007-05-10 21:24
» Wow

You're defend the Halo series (my favorite game franchise), but you do it with something like this:



"Storywise I dont know but the feel of the gameplay feels exactly the same as it did with halo 1 and 2"



Un-f*cking-believable. Now I know why most people think Halo fans are complete idiots. Have you played the game? No? Then how do you know it feels like Halo 1 and 2...



And Halo 2 feels NOTHING at all like Halo 1, don't know where you got that. You must not no how to play either game

by AoxomamoxoA - 2007-05-10 22:31
» 99% huh?

@ Constantinecy



I dunno if youve ever played a true beta version of a game but its not anywhere near 99% like you claim. Ive been in many beta tests (SCDA, SCCT, Hexen, among others) and in all of them they are not like the final builds.



For one the textures are revamped for the final, in beta they just have placeholders. Many of the subtle details like water splash, smoke, and lighting are not present in betas, and only about 40% of the features are at your disposal. Its not a demo, its a BETA, and even if it was a demo it would still not be 99%. There are countless demos that look and play worse than their final versions.



Now, come back when you know what youre talking about...

by hi - 2007-05-10 23:52
» wow

y do ppl think that halo3 sucks. halo 1 was great and bungie did the smart thing by just adding new weapons and maps and mere textures and they will do the same thing again because everybody likes it the way it is. so all halo3 will be is new maps and new weaponsb

by mk47 - 2007-05-11 00:09
» halo3

what you on about? the halo games are one of the best ever made!

by Joe Mamma - 2007-05-11 00:46
» Wow

I don't know what some of you are smoking, but this video has really got me excited for the beta and the game. I think it looks fantastic and I can't see how some of you think it looks the same as Halo 2. The graphics are 100x better than that. It looks rich and alive. This is the world of Halo 2 and should not be compared to anything else. I think this will the be best of the bunch and be incredible to play. Give it a chance, i am sure you will all be impressed.

by Quixand - 2007-05-11 01:03
» man you worked up!!! watch ur heart rate!

it doesn't look good!!! it very disappointing especially with all the hype everyone is spewing!!!



the simpsons game looks better.

by Choob - 2007-05-11 01:31
» Well...

Halo IS overhyped, but that doesn't make it a horrible game. It plays well, It's got a good story, and excellent multiplayer. It's a great FPS. Is it the best game ever made? Definitely not.



Even if your a fanboy for PS (Which I used to be, before I got my 360,) You have to respect Halo for generating so much interest and sales over the past years.



Metal Gear Solid has a much better storyline than the Halo series. Gears of Wars has better graphics than Halo 3 final will have. Halo 3, however, will always have the best multiplayer around, hands down. And thats what generates sales and interest.

by Vietone - 2007-05-11 01:37
» ..

Face it, the graphics suck. They look surprising similar to the Vista screens of halo2.



Halo3 looks no better then RFoM on the PS3. The environments are low quality. People said that RFoM looked flat, this game is even worse then RFoM when your talking about flat surfaces.



Lets get down to gameplay. Halo1 is still better. The sniper rifle is still a noob weapon as you don't have to compensate for distance or movement speed like the first game did. They also made the laser canon a noob weapon because of the same problem.



Then they made it easier to tag people with grenades. It seems that if a person is within close range, you no longer have to directly aim at them to get a sticky kill. They also increased blast radius of the sticky bombs.



They still have the problem with being able to melee a split moment after you fire. I exploited that plenty of times in Halo2 and it's cheap. At least make the entire fire animation finish before being able to do a melee.



Halo1 was great because there were no other shooters to compete against it. Halo2 was decent but not better then Halo1 in gameplay. Halo3 seems to be the same as Halo2 but with newer and cheaper weapons.



Why does bungie have to keep the game unbalanced? As you have seen from the videos, this game will continuously become a game of camp the landing zone.

by lol - 2007-05-11 03:38
» hmmmm

same as halo 2 then .. im a little disapointed was looking forward to something a little more next gen

by haha - 2007-05-11 03:45
» hahaha

HAHAHA What a surprise Vietone doesnt like it

by Brock Storm - 2007-05-11 04:00
» Unreal Tournament 2004 anyone?

What a let down. This is UT2004 with new suits. I thought next-gen games were supposed to show us something new!

by PhyChris - 2007-05-11 05:04
» mmmmmmmmm...

"Is it the best game ever made? Definitely not." Thats right SMB3 (NES) Holds that titile for me but Halo 3 i bet won't be farr off

by jayhawker09 - 2007-05-11 06:21
» ok...

since when was halo 3 supposed to be the greatest graphics ever seen? no jaws were dropped for halo 1 or 2, and they are still great games. this game looks good, not great, but it also looks like it will be very smooth and look good in HD. the graphics dont really matter, though, because its about gameplay and it will have plenty of that

by jayhawker09 - 2007-05-11 06:23
» haha

vietone is an idiot, im surprised he still bothers to write on here, what with the reputation he has and everything

by . - 2007-05-11 06:34
» lol...

...have you ever worked on a game? thats flat out bs. ive worked on 2 games and both of them had significant texture updates in the beta stage, geometry doesnt get any better, but geometry doesnt matter as much in this generation anyway.

by . - 2007-05-11 06:37
» .

blasphemy! the forerunners shall smite the.

by stan - 2007-05-11 07:18
» omg vietone

First dude, your such a fanboy its funny. Youve been posting negative things about 360 since around its launch well over a year ago(get a life and go play ps3). If you think the weapons in halo are so unbalanced your just a noob who doesnt know how to play the game. The sniper rifle in the first game did NOT make you account for a moving target etc its always been exactly like shown in the video. I will agree that halo 2 was a disappointment but its far from a bad game. Halo 3 looks way less flat then rfom, and they overall style is just better imo as well(rfom has kinda a city 17 wannabe look to it) and the texture work for the mountains and stone walls look pretty good, grass just looks OK and the water looks the same as in halo 2.

by *****in Ignorant - 2007-05-11 07:26
» You dont understand!

Vietone: "Face it, the graphics suck. They look surprising similar to the Vista screens of halo2"

/\/\/\/\

Amazing this is the beta of a game that still has 6 months of polish, and has plenty of place holders. The HDR on snowblind could blown any shooter out of the water for both the 360 and PS3. IMO if you havent played how can you criticize it, and from the looks of your rep you really dont know what your talking about. Have you even played Halo 2 for Vista? I dont think you have!



"The sniper rifle is still a noob weapon as you don't have to compensate for distance or movement speed like the first game did."

/\/\/\/\/\

To you its a noob weapon but to me and anyone else who has played it takes at least a little skill to get a head shot. Besides its the future think about the armor maybe it already compensates for it. My friend who doesnt even own an xbox is a complete noob and he cant use it. How is this game unbalanced? If a team can secure cerain parts of the map then they deserve that particular weapon, and if the other team is better and you are fortunate enough to grab a more powerful weapon maybe you can even out the odds.



Next time before you post think, then think a little more and dont just type.Your biased remarks, have no truth to them, if they had some proof to back it up then maybe i would see your view. Also this is what like a 400x400 youtube quality video wait until this bad boy is on your hd( I'd be suprised if you had one).

by elbarto1 - 2007-05-11 07:26
» new Hi Res beta footage - not betalicious!

http://www.insidegamer.nl/xbox360/halo3/videos/2462

by elbarto1 - 2007-05-11 07:28
» new Hi Res beta footage - not betalicious!

http://www.insidegamer.nl/xbox360/halo3/videos/2462

by Pyro - 2007-05-11 07:59
» looks crappy

The game looks both graphically and gamplay wise like halo 2 with new weapon models.

by Wow - 2007-05-11 08:33
» wow

Who cares what you guys think, 4 million people have bought it already. This game is awesome and a couple of ps3 fanboys here and there arent gonna change that. Go play Resistance: Fall of gameplay, ill be playing an actual next-gen game.

by Cory - 2007-05-11 10:02
» .......

Gay 3

by mikekearn - 2007-05-11 10:58
» Sweet

That pretty much says it all. This game looks pretty freaking awesome already, and that's just multiplayer. I can't wait to get my hands on the actual gameplay, and finally get some answers as to just what the heck is going on!

by Overhyped - 2007-05-11 12:13
» overhyped

Graphics = halo2 // Halo3 = overhyped I dont even see dirt kick up with that buggy like in MotorStorm. All you halo fans will defend the game with your life, that's fine. I dont even see any HDR or dynamic lighting going on wtf is this crap?

by dondon1 - 2007-05-11 13:06
» woohoo

damn, those graphics already look nextgen!!! i cant wait to see the final vesion!!!! sony sucks ass

sony will never have a game comin close to this one

by dondon1 - 2007-05-11 13:08
» woohoo

damn, those graphics already look nextgen!!! i cant wait to see the final vesion!!!! sony sucks ass

sony will never have a game comin close to this one

by MGSROCKS1 - 2007-05-11 15:39
» There's a difference between over hyped and a game being popular because its fun

Saying the graphics look like Halo 2 is really arrogant. There is no way you can campare Halo 3 to Halo 2. Just because it has the same models and weapons design (there are new weapons in H3), doesn't make it the same.



Do you even know what HDR lightning is? Watch the video and you can see the sun reflection on the platforms and the Master Chief models.



Why are you saying the game is over hyped? is it because people like the game? The 360 has lots of awesome titles out and coming out. The system doesn't need Halo 3 so the game isn't over hyped its popular. If its over hyped that means its building excitement even though it sucks. But Halo 3 is building hype because its a great franchise.



Another thing, why do you care anyways? Its not like you're going to buy the game. Its not our fault you bought a system that is an expensive movie player right now. Maybe next time instead of buying into Sony's hype, you should start being an idiotic fanboy and not buy into crap.



Doesn't matter, we'll enjoy Halo 3 and the other great games in 360's library and the ones coming . You go and watch your $600 PS3 folding proteins while we play games.

by dsds - 2007-05-11 15:52
» ds

ahaha!



wow some serious idiots here



"the simpsons game looks better"



nothing on wii or ps3 looks better...ya crysis looks better ok...



serioUSLY???



too much hype???



why the hell u think so many people play halo2 on xbox live.....



ITS FUN



thats what games are for



and those graphics were damn nice...but when its on a 1080p big screen tv, i think it will look even BETTER for sure



but we still play the game for a good fun and social time



what the hell do u play these game for......masturbation?



most people who are that obsessed with games have no social life.



talk as much crap as u want but u still wont make friends



halo is casual with people and their friends



u can play basketball and go to the gym and come back home and play halo with everyone



thats worth my 60 dollars...



fun+friends+gam e

by fdf - 2007-05-11 16:02
» fdf

hahah



wow ps3 fanboy admits resistance sucks..

this looks nothing like resistance, are u friggin blind u retard?



man look at all the ww2 aliens in europe everywere in the halo 3 beta



ya the halo3 BETA looks better than the full version of resistance...SUCK ON THAT



and yes i have done my fair share of beta testing and the games are not 99% done in the beta u freakin stupid idiots



they dont even have all the visual effects and textures/lighting. just placeholder textures.



the full versions ALWAYS look better...dont talk ***** about the beta till u play it or get halo 3 when its released

by fdgdf - 2007-05-11 16:05
» ggdf

the hd videos look alot better than the you tube crap



nothing thats out looks this good and play as good as halo does

by feces lizard - 2007-05-11 16:06
» re:

even if u dont have friends, halo is still fun +D

by Nathan - 2007-05-11 16:35
» Wow

Wow. Fanboy much qj?

by MGSROCKS1 - 2007-05-11 17:17
» The meaning of Next-gen

Next-gen just means the next generation of consoles as in the next update to the console. So any game that comes out on Wii, Xbox360, and PS3 are next-gen whether they look good, play like crap or is a fun game.

by haha - 2007-05-11 18:04
» lol

hah! i have all 3 consoles! fanboys can suck it =D



big ass 1080p tv as well



and i still dont play that many videogames, even though i own a sh*t load and buy em all the time

by qwe qw - 2007-05-11 21:46
» PS3 owners chose their machine no on else..

You know this game is going to be huge when you read comments by the PS3 owners, why do you PS3 owners bother posting here ? you knew that Halo 3 was going to be coming to the 360 and was going to be a massive hit BEFORE you bought your PS3 so why bother coming here now and posting?, you really are pathetic do you really think by posting negative ***** that you are in some way going to spoil the enjoyment of this game for the millions that are going to buy it?.



You chose your console no one else so go and watch a Blu Ray or something but stop trying to spoil others enjoyment..

by wrw - 2007-05-11 21:53
» Vietone and his usual nonesense

He just posts any old *****, he said almost exactly the same thing about LOST PLANET and that went to number 1 in the charts, he seems to think by posting negative comments he is going to somehow ruin the enjoyment of the game for the millions of people who are going to buy it.



Go look at the Japanese charts NOT ONE PS3 game in it, its a dying console so maybe thats why his come here....

by darthcombs - 2007-05-12 00:58
» halo haters

hate on haters,ps3 hurry,buy,get out chinga ching ching.

by Xbox is the best - 2007-05-12 03:28
» Halo 3

People are comparing halo to killzone only because they both are 1st person shooters AND that CG movie was graphically impress when sony showed it at e3 2005, graphics are important but gameplay is MORE important, a game can have the best graphics in the world but if the gameplay sucks the game will suck period and from what I see with halo 3 the graphics are good not great, so I say Halo 3 good graphics and great gameplay VS Killzones great graphics and good gameplay, sorry sony fanboys Halo 3 wins.



I also think from the footage that I have seen that the main campains levels will look great, but the multiplayer levels will just look good, time will tell if the multiplayer levels are just as good looking as the main campains levels

by .. - 2007-05-12 04:02
» ..

lolol talking about fanboys here... let me ask you something how many 360s died on you? 1...2... oh by the way I bet you would like an HD player dont you? that plus the 360 or 360s you already bought thats well over the price of a ps3 not to mention the extra hard drive you will be buying if you havent already, just because your games filled the 20g in the 360.. thats if it is the prenium by the way.. but you know... its to late now your stuck with a 360 and trying to make your self feel better.... that other people got a ps3 which plays hd movies plus the games... oh yes I almost forgot... no red evil circles here...

by Xbox is the best - 2007-05-12 04:05
» halo

halo 1 was awesome that game is 99% perfect, the AI was inconsistant sometimes in my opinion I feel halo 1 was the better game with halo 2 the problem was the sense of direction was missing that is what made it feel not as good as halo 1, in halo 1 you knew why you were doing what you were doing in halo 3 bungie promised no compromise on the cinematics which should help the player get a better sense of the story which should give the player a sense of direction so halo 3 should be better than halo 2.

by zeromatrix - 2007-05-12 04:06
» ....

Looks pretty decent but i suggest not buying it cause your gonna get your a$$ handed to you in multiplayer with all the psychos who been playing 1 and 2 forever

by Xbox is the best - 2007-05-12 04:14
» well

WELL SAID

by Xbox is the best - 2007-05-12 04:25
» halo 3

the problem is a lot of sony fanboys never played halo 1, but they played halo 2, halo 1 is better than halo 2, go back and play halo 1 and you will see there is nothing over hyped about halo its simply the best fps around not because of the gameplay but the universe the weapons the pacing the sense of direction, the needler and the sticky bomb and others which no other fps has half life was king and then halo came and beat it not by a lot but by enough halo 2s sense of direction was not there that is what messed up halo 2 hopefully the developers get it right this time, and yes I have preordered the 130 dollar pack cant wait

by TestamenTT - 2007-05-12 05:59
» i agree

but sony WILL have something visually better than this, production won't stop when this game comes out, thats just fanboyish dreaming.



But the Halo artstyle never ceases to amaze me.

by justin - 2007-05-12 09:08
» meh

Wow...good thing they managed to catch up with pc graphics from 5 years ago.

by Halo's competition is the PS03!!! - 2007-05-12 09:54
» WHO CAN ***** WIT IT....?

Halo has been compared 2 most of the pso3 games in the last 5months since they been out and i see no comparison with no pso3 games, I mean the graphics are stunning but the game play will never match up with halo 3 and if "YOU" pso3 fanboy's hate halo so much then y post crap every tyme halo trys 2 shine, I mean stay on your fourms like "WE" 360 fans do, ya dig!

by qw - 2007-05-12 10:34
» Yeah whatev

I'm not even gonna bother arguing with you again, since I'm now pretty sure you just post sh*t like this to piss people off. Nobody can be so stupid and blind that they don't notice every single person on this site hates them and doesn't give a damn what they have to say, you're just your average Internet troll.

by Gino D. - 2007-05-14 13:49
» hellsyeah

can't may16 get any closer?

by Gino D. - 2007-05-14 13:53
» heck

i heard some of my friends say that they would be fine living off of open beta for months, just in case bungie would delay the game

by Gino D. - 2007-05-15 16:19
» hmmm

i second the motion! well, except for the sony bit. that one is a bit of an iffy statement...

by lenigod - 2007-05-17 10:15
» pfft

unimpressed, really, graphically, almost anything worth playing in the last 2 years on the pc can compete with this, gameplay wise, its the same as halo 2, the only real improvement is the sound. after testing this, i still find my self going back to RFOM. Which, if it gets a decent update, it could keep up with halo 3 in quality. Although the mongoose couldnt be more fun ^.^ Maybe all you halo fanatics should take a step back, and realize, this is a polished shooter in a over crowded market, it doesnt really stand out from anything else out there, like halo 1, and 2 did.



Graphically, games get a small graphical upgrades, but usally only in lighting, and mostly in animation for the final product, so dont be disapointed, when this looks just like you remember it did in the beta, when we all get our copies.

by Sam - 2007-05-20 23:57
» HELP

Do u have 2 beat crackdown to download halo 3 beta

by Halo3 oWnZ - 2007-05-21 08:26
» to all you sony fanboys out there:

The PS3 is just a system for watching movies. You might as well save some money and go buy a normal Blue-ray dvd player. PS3 games suck. Killzone 2 looks pretty cool, but it's nowhere close to what halo 3 is gonna end up like. Go surf the internet to find the best rating for a playstation 3 game. For example, on gamespot.com you can search for the top games for each NextGen system. Search top games for PS3 and you'll see it's best game is Oblivion: Elder Scrolls (which the 360 has by the way). So the best game unique to the PS3 is Resistence which got a rating of 8.6. Then go check the XBOX 360's top games. It's top game is Gears of War (9.6). And to make matters worse for PS3 owners, Alien Hominid HD got a rating of 8.5 on the XBOX 360. That's about the same rating as Resistence. The sad part is.... IT'S AN ARCADE GAME. Haha.



SUCKS FOR YOU PS3 OWNERS!!!!!!!

by wtfANDY - 2007-05-22 06:44
» ..

Rofl, halo3, what a joke.

This is why the half-life series always dominated over this bull***** thing you call a "fps game"

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