Xbox 360 Fanboy

This game is going to make Halo 3 look so bad. Multiple firing modes for each weapon, more vehicles, MUCH better graphics and more style.

Halo what?

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Whats the release date for this? Seen alot of news but not noticed any dates.

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Yea...it might make halo look bad...but halo...is halo. you cant mess with that. plus the way everything's shaping up, the retail version is going to be insane.

I'm buying both of these games...

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Halo is Halo. You can't mess with that.

No doubt that both games will be graphically stunning!

I'll get both of them anyways...

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When will this game come out? Im really looking forward to it along with halo3 and gta iv for this year

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Right now Gears has by far surpassed anything on the market. Not one game has come close to what it has to offer. To hear that a game is about to become better is good news, hard to believe until i see but good news.

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I'd gladly give you a good chunk of my soul of this shirt.

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I love it. You always hear developers say how they're competing with themselves and how they have to try and surpass what they did last time around. Epic actually does have to compete with themself. They set the bar and no one has yet surpassed it. (Crysis for pc, but who cares about pc) Consider me impressed

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I'm a Halo fanboy, but GoW did impress me graphically (I like H3 gameplay better). But if UT3 can provide gameplay and graphics...then I'm on the bandwagon!

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This game will feel exactly like every other UT game, which is fastpaced, boring, repetivitive shoot and pray you killed the guy before he killed you. The story mode will be laughable compared to Halo 3, and the gameplay too.

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@ ERivera

Yea I saw the trailer on epicgames.com, I was not that impressed. I already pre-ordered the Legendary version, there's just too many FPS games coming out!

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Honestly, I wasn't even "wow'ed" by the graphics. Everyone keeps talking this Unreal game up and I haven't seen any footage to make me drool. It just looks like the same old frenzied FPS it has always been with ok graphics. Maybe I haven't seen the right videos yet, but even if the graphics became out of this world for UT3 I would still prefer Halo 3's gameplay and storyline anyday of the week.

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Zzzzzzzz. It's Unreal Tournament 2004 with tweaked gameplay, a few more bells and whistles, and prettier graphics. Unreal Tournament on consoles has generally been very lackluster.

This thing won't come close to Gears, and likely won't surpass Halo either. I may pick this one up on the PC eventually, but even in that case the UT games haven't been that successful since the original. UT2k4 was fun, but the playerbase didn't last very long.

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Hmmmm...Decisions

One: I could buy a game where someone can jump in the arm and zoom in with a sniper rifle and hit someone in the head. Which is completely stupid and non-realistic.

Or

Two: Buy a game that is known for fun and pretty much made epic who they are today.

Hmmmmm....Over-Hyped or the Under-Hyped game. Who knows, I might end up buying Brothers in Arms:Hell's Highway instead. I'm going to be short on cash with all the games coming out this fall.

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Edit: Air*

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#10 - I don't understand how you could call Unreal Tournament boring when comparing it's gameplay to that of Halo.

Weapons:
Halo - One firing mode per weapon. Weapons consist of standard human guns and alien versions (Human assault rifle/alien assault rifle, Human pistol/alien pistol, etc.) and are pretty generic overall.

UT - Each weapon has two firing modes. Each weapon has a distinctly different feel and strategy; no two weapons are at all alike.

Fighting:
Halo - In Halo you can jump, shoot and melee. There's also grenades (which I have always found lame), and some deployable equipment (which is, I admit, kinda neat).

UT - In UT, you can jump, dodge, double dodge, jump-dodge, dodge off of walls, shoot with either firing mode depending on your situation, melee, and activate special powers like super speed, invisibility, double damage, regeneration, etc.

Game Modes:
Halo - Halo has CTF, King of the Hill, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, VIP, and a host of others. Some are just weapon limitations and such, so they barely count. Overall, there are a lot of options, though, including custom games.

UT - UT has CTF, Domination, Invasion, Bombing Run, Mutant, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Onslaught, with 'mutators' to customize each game futher.

With the exception of Game Modes, I think Halo loses every argument rather concisely. Halo multiplayer is nothing but a pale imitation of what the UT franchise brought to the table. Hell, Halo even stole the announcer ("Killing Spree," etc) from UT.

The one thing Halo DOES have is a solid single player component - the only aspect of the franchise I ever cared for. UT3, however, is said to have a deep solo campaign that can be played with upto 4 people in co-op. It may not be comparable to Halo, but it sounds like a good start.

I'm a HUGE 360 fan, but I just don't understand the Halo phenomenon. I'm in the Beta because I own Crackdown, and it bores me to tears. And man, is it ever ugly! UT will bring Gears-esque visuals with the fast, dynamic, and exciting gameplay of UT. It's going to kick SERIOUS ass.

Buuut.. Halo will still win in the sales, because it's Halo. You people need to wake up.

P.S. Sorry for the long post! I wasn't expecting to rant quite so much. :)

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Oh hell yeah, 4 player Live Co-op FTW

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Thank you Ithilis. People really need to wake up and stop smelling the over-hyped coffee Microsoft is brewing to the public. Halo is a great game, but not something to obsess over. Which alot of people do. Epic should make it cross-platform to show the large base in the pc area. From what epic says the mouse and keyboard are equal to the controllers in the 360 verison. Trust me, if UT3 would ever be Vista Live Enabled you would see Halo 3 struggling to stay on top.

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Yo Bungie, this is the way a next gen game should look.

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this game will rock halo 3, unless you like the moon walking man on halo, hope they keep the wall dodge jumping, they'll kill it if they don't

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