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>|http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_b...pic_id=24270621
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>|2006 NOT the year of Halo 3?
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>|Source: A GameStop company e-mail scanned and displayed on gaming blog
>|Kotaku.com.
>|
>|The official story: Microsoft had not responded to e-mails as of press
>|time.
>|
>|What we heard: Now that the public knows that Brangelina is expecting
>|sometime in June, we can focus on important stuff--like the release
>|date for Halo 3 for the Xbox 360. Given that the date is under tighter
>|lock and key than the plot to Lost, most speculation is sculpted from
>|when we know it won't be out.
>|
>|Pre-E3 last year, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told Time magazine that
>|not only would Master Chief be taking on The Covenant, but he'd also be
>|battling the launch of the PlayStation 3. While others in the know
>|scratched their heads at his comment, it took Bill a little longer to
>|swallow his words and admit that the game would be done "when it's
>|ready."
>|
>|This obviously means that Halo 3 will be released this November,
>|Microsoft's month of choice for gaming, right? Not only is it the
>|optimal release date to take advantage of the holiday crunch, but it's
>|also the time of year that previous Halo games were released, both
>|Xboxes hit stores, and Xbox Live was launched.
>|
>|Not so fast, according to a company e-mail sent to employees of
>|GameStop. Gaming blog Kotaku.com got word from a source at GameStop
>|that the retailer was flatly told by Microsoft that "Halo 3 will NOT be
>|released in 2006" (emphasis in original). Kotaku posted a scan of the
>|e-mail, whose simple layout could be easily forged. However, a
>|well-placed mole inside the GameStop organization confirmed to GameSpot
>|that the e-mail is indeed legitimate.
>|
>|That said, GameStop.com is still listing the game as coming out on
>|October 3, 2006. So did the guy who updates product release dates not
>|get the memo? One possibility is that the e-mail is merely a guide to
>|employees on how common questions should be answered, such as, "Sorry,
>|that's for paying customers only" or "No, a middle-school ID won't let
>|you buy M-rated games."
>|
>|Of course, Microsoft has not commented on the situation, so nothing is
>|official. But given that Microsoft execs have gone from saying that
>|Halo 3 will be a PS3-killer to saying it will be ready when Bungie says
>|its ready, and given that Bungie is still denying that it's working on
>|Halo 3, pushing Halo 3 into 2007 doesn't seem so far off. Remember Halo
>|2's delays?
>|
>|Lastly, the GameStop memo gives further validity to the current
>|entertainment-synergy theory spun by industry-watchers, who say the
>|game will be released in tandem with the Halo film. Studios Fox and
>|Universal have tentatively slated the surefire blockbuster, which is
>|being executive produced by King Kong director Peter Jackson, for
>|summer 2007.
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>|Bogus or not bogus?: Abstain. While a holiday 2006 release and a 360
>|price drop would be the perfect one-two punch to blunt the PS3 launch,
>|Bungie is one organization that will not be rushed.

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>2006 NOT the year of Halo 3?

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>On the bright side, that means another whole year for someone to
>develop a controller so first person shooters don't suck on consoles.

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>On 31 Jan 2006 16:59:07 -0800, videogamedude@gmail.com wrote:
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>On the bright side, that means another whole year for someone to
>develop a controller so first person shooters don't suck on consoles.

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> Has anyone considered a controller with a trackball? To me, the
> biggest problem with the idea of FPSs on a console is aiming, which
> would be solved by a left-side trackball.

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> Several lightgun games have allowed the player to "walk" around and
>actually shoot with the lightgun (mostly Resident Evil Gun Survivor games).
>The Guncon 2 has a d-pad for movement. Lightgun games are more popular in
>Europe/Japan than the US, though.
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> Having said all that, most console makers aren't crying themselves to
>sleep at night over the lack of a "decent" way to play FPS games with their
>machines. Especially considering FPS's on consoles just are not a big
>genre. The XBox is the exception, but it gets alot of PC ports. With some
>practice too just about anybody can get used to analog sticks for FPS games.
>Just because all the Fatal1ty wanabees think they suck is irrelevent- most
>console FPS games aren't the twitchy fragfests like Quake, so it hardly
>matters if you can't instantly spin around or not
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> That fact that you can use it doesn't make it good. The genre was born
> with PC controls in mind, and there is no arguing a mouse is
> infinitely superior for the task.

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>"Tim O" <timo56@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I originally played Doom with a joystick, then I played Duke Nukem with a
>keyboard. It was only later I figured out that a mouse worked pretty good.
>It took me a while to figure out how to use a mouse in FPS games, it wasn't
>entirely natural. Sometimes I still don't think it's entirely a perfect
>control scheme. I don't really care for the way that you usually have to
>flick around a mouse so often in FPS games to recenter it.
>
> Bottom line is PC fanboys hoping mouse and keyboard will save FPS's on PC,
>better watch out.