Video game peripheral creators Mad Catz has fought for and won Microsoft's heart and has been awarded the honor of creating exclusive Halo 3 merchandise for the next few years. They also stated that there should be Halo 3 faceplates out before the game launches this Fall. Sorry Pelican and Nyko, you guys just couldn't handle the massive coolness that is Halo 3. Please, let's just move along and put this behind everyone, okay?
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5-12-2007 @ 4:54PM
zourskittles said...
Why buy merch? it seems easy enough to just go out and find halo driftwood nowadays. :)
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5-12-2007 @ 5:00PM
Anonymous said...
Why buy merch? Because merch is freaking sweet! I'm still rocking the Halo 2 special edition headset, and my Halo edition Xbox is sitting in the corner, happily chugging away with it's modchip. In other words, Mad Catz, give us some sexy faceplate love!
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5-12-2007 @ 5:46PM
David W. said...
"Why buy merch? it seems easy enough to just go out and find halo driftwood nowadays. :)"
haha niiiiiiiiice
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5-12-2007 @ 5:56PM
Grant said...
nothing like mad catz to cheapen the overall name of Halo.
this is upsetting, i don't think i have ever seen anything made by mad catz that was more fit for the garbage than actual use by anyone.
anyone but mad catz to do halo stuff. ANYONE.
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5-12-2007 @ 5:57PM
YoRone22 said...
I agree with Grant. I don't like the stuff Mad Catz releases.
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5-12-2007 @ 6:14PM
RiLLs said...
That pic is great lol
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5-12-2007 @ 6:20PM
FJ Noob said...
nothing like a bit of mad catz to bring down the overall "uberness" that halo 3 will bring
all mad catz make is 'on the cheap' cosole gear, has any one seen there controls?, they are stupidly small, and dont even fit the headset into.
way to go microsoft, u have once again ofund a way to bring a gud product down
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5-12-2007 @ 6:53PM
chris said...
More like "MadBroke" in 2 weeks...
Or maybe "MadYouBoughtIt"
-BMSinc
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5-12-2007 @ 8:29PM
Clayj said...
Mad Catz? Gah. What's wrong with the Halo 3 faceplate that Microsoft put out late last year?
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5-12-2007 @ 8:51PM
CaptBlackheart said...
Quality. Even less money I'll be spending on Halo this year. Good looking out MS. My bank account thanks you.
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5-12-2007 @ 10:26PM
massive_98 said...
Devil... the flipping orange rabbit ate my hat again. Bi.
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5-12-2007 @ 10:40PM
Anonymous said...
Come on guys, not even Mad Catz can fuck up a faceplate. It's a piece of plastic with Halo 3 logos painted on it. Where is there room for error? With the painting you say? Oh shit, nevermind then.
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5-12-2007 @ 11:27PM
jason said...
I just wanted to post this on here its a little offtopic but bungi said you have to redownload the new maps and it wouldn't let me so I was like I guess Iwill wait awhile for a newer update and there was a update today and know it won't let me play any halo 2 games online this is the biigest @#$!ing bs bungie has done yet.
www.xbox360fanboy.com should post something about this
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5-13-2007 @ 12:02AM
aaron said...
"Come on guys, not even Mad Catz can fuck up a faceplate. It's a piece of plastic with Halo 3 logos painted on it. Where is there room for error? With the painting you say? Oh shit, nevermind then."
Nice Anonymous. And Jason, how old are you, 12? Stay in school.
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5-13-2007 @ 12:50AM
CalabreZ said...
Speaking of completely off topic points, sum1 please mention the ridiculous inclusion of the "push to talk" feature. It's a huge problem that just annoyed the hell outta me in Halo 2.
Anyone else?
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5-13-2007 @ 1:04AM
Grant said...
"Speaking of completely off topic points, sum1 please mention the ridiculous inclusion of the "push to talk" feature. It's a huge problem that just annoyed the hell outta me in Halo 2."
that was just for teamspeak instead of just locational speech, which was the default. I'm sure they will do something more like gears where it's location and teamspeak based.
I think this happened because the original xbox had the limitations on how many channels you could chat on.
/off topic convos.
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5-13-2007 @ 2:00AM
CalabreZ said...
I unno if X3F wants to do this but can u post about people who have access to the beta but refuse to play it.
I have to say guys I'm a huge fan of Halo but for the love of God I'm not sure if it would be better to wait to play it. I'm so confused!!! Is anyone waiting it out like me?
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5-13-2007 @ 6:26AM
mattclarkie said...
They should have given it to Pelican and put a sticker on the products saying Foehammer certified.
They missed a tricked with that one.
Plus I have a Mad-Catz PS2 memory card and it never missed a beat unlike my 4Gamers GameCube one which corrupted and lost all my saves.
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5-13-2007 @ 9:37AM
NeoteriX said...
When I read "Sorry Nyko... you can't possibly handle the massive coolness"
I instantly thought of:
http://www.nyko.com/nyko/products/?i=71
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5-13-2007 @ 10:29AM
ZeroCorpse said...
This pretty much underlines what I think of Halo 3. It's a hype machine. Mass-marketed junk, if you ask me. It's aimed at people who will buy it based solely on the name. I bet some of you fanboys can't wait to get your hands on the Halo Intercooler ripoff, or the Halo faceplate, or the Halo headset, or the Halo condoms.
Give me a break. If a game needs this much merch, then it's probably not going to be very good and the companies involved are just trying to cash in before the reviews come rolling in. (A lot like Spider-Man 3 the movie. Lots of merch, lots of hype, disappointing movie.)
I'll stick to other titles unless Halo 3 really proves to be more than "shoot/hide/shoot/run/shoot/hide" all over again. I love me a first-person shooter, but I think Halo is a low-end representative compared to some of the other titles out there. Halo is all attitude.
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