Bungie's Present to the Troops: Halo 3

[bapenguin]

This Christmas, Bungie gave some troops in Iraq a nice little present (http://www.younewb.com/index.php/2006/12/31/whats-better-than-getting-to-play-halo-3/) in the form of some Halo 3 beta action.Recently Bungie developers surprised our US soldiers in Iraq with the game that everyone is waiting to play. After so much negative news surrounding the war in Iraq, this treat for our soldiers couldn’t have arrived at a better time. Especially for the ones that didn’t get to visit home for Christmas.

According to a US soldier nicknamed “Cowboy,” Bungie will have it set up 24 hours a day for three days. He gives away some control configs and also mentions the controller menu showing a button named “classified” which he speculates hasn’t been added to the game yet.

That's a nice little treat. It's a shame they couldn't be home for the holidays though.

[agentgray]

http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23145

Pics in this thread.

[Codicier]

This Christmas, Bungie gave some troops in Iraq a nice little present (http://www.younewb.com/index.php/2006/12/31/whats-better-than-getting-to-play-halo-3/) in the form of some Halo 3 beta action.

That's a nice little treat. It's ashame they couldn't be home for the holidays though.

should be "a shame". Not hating, just saying.

Merry Christmas and happy new year. :)

[eth3rton]

Bungie is just FREAKING AWESOME....!!

Hell Yeah Bungie...!!

[Neverborne]

hmmm...Halo 3 in Iraq...Madden Porn...

Must be a bunch of Joystiq fans around here.







Just saying.

[tombofsoldier]

watches as Zeal runs off too join the army...

[Sion]

I dont see why. I cant imagine a DVDs being very effective when welded onto hummers.

[fitbabits]

This kicks all sorts of ass. Kudos to Bungie and Microsoft.

[Pretzel]

GG Bungie! Wish my company did something like this.

[balamoor]

My respect for Bungie just went up and it was pretty high already.

[hund_]

GG Bungie! Wish my company did something like this.
maybe its time we told our companies to step up.

where i work i talked to a skinny short white boy who was scared about going to iraq.
i told him maybe he should try to get out of going.
he smiled and told me he could'nt because he was a warrior[and at that point i knew he was].

[Sion]

I would have become a Canadian.

Their girls are hotter anyway.

[Skyelan]

I may not particularly like Halo, but dear god Bungie as a company does nothing but gain my respect. This is just awesome. :D

[hund_]

I would have become a Canadian.

Their girls are hotter anyway.
being gay what would you have needed their girls for ;)

[IRONGUSTAV]

thats a good news,they can kill some in game enemies instead innocent iraqui civilians at controls

[Gorvi]

thats a good news,they can kill some in game enemies instead innocent iraqui civilians at controls

How have you not gotten banned yet? :mad:

[archon]

How have you not gotten banned yet? :mad:

Killtacular!

[Squidbot]

And the result is: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=153124

[Kem0sabe]

Nice effort by Bungie, tho from the pics and vids i saw running, the game doesn't look that different from halo 2 in terms of gfx, nowhere near the quality of GoW and Resistance.

[balamoor]

thats a good news,they can kill some in game enemies instead innocent iraqui civilians at controls

Hey Fucktard, how about not turning this into a Michael Moore special.

[IRONGUSTAV]

Hey Fucktard, how about not turning this into a Michael Moore special.

sure dude,nothing its happening on iraq

[IRONGUSTAV]

How have you not gotten banned yet? :mad:

land of the free? i dont think so

[Beelzebud]

Why bring Michael Moore into this?

The only thing Moore has said is that the policy to go to Iraq was one based on lies, and wasn't thought out very well.

You know why he says that? Because he supports the troops.

[Gorvi]

land of the free? i dont think so

I'm no huge fan of what's going on overseas myself, but bringing that kind of discussion into this thread is tasteless. We have Out of Topic forums here for a reason, if you'd like to make a political statement, use them.

[balamoor]

I'm no huge fan of what's going on overseas myself, but bringing that kind of discussion into this thread is tasteless. We have Out of Topic forums here for a reason, if you'd like to make a political statement, use them.

Yep I agree, I'm not going to get further into the Moore debate actually I shouldn't have even brought him into this, he was just the easiest target.

As I said Bungie and MS did an awesome thing despite how anyone feels about the War.

[Mdot23]

i thought this thread was about halo 3

[Ghostbear]

and now back to our regularly scheduled thread
ZOMG! Hal0 is teh R0xxors! s0ny sux!

Seriously though i think this is awesome, i was stationed over there for awhile (not in the navy anymore) and anything to fight the boredom is welcome. Kudos to you bungie

[serioustommy]

GG Bungie! Wish my company did something like this.

Yeah sure if your company has games as highly anticipated as halo, otherwise I wouldn't think the service men would be as interested :p

[IRONGUSTAV]

I'm no huge fan of what's going on overseas myself, but bringing that kind of discussion into this thread is tasteless. We have Out of Topic forums here for a reason, if you'd like to make a political statement, use them.


u see? i give u the reason,apologies for that,end of discusion for me

[balamoor]

u see? i give u the reason,apologies for that,end of discusion for me



Here ya go chief Happy Holidays and welcome to America. http://www.english-at-home.com/

[Dag-Sabot]

If by some weird twist of fate I ever find myself as a grunt in some parallel universe, I'd make damn sure to pack a Psp or a Ds with me. Ammo, gas mask, 1st aid kit or water be damned.

[Pretzel]

Yeah sure if your company has games as highly anticipated as halo, otherwise I wouldn't think the service men would be as interested :p

Not that it matters, but yeah, the games my company make do pretty well on the anticipation front. Frankly, though, why does that matter? I think the troops would appreciate a variety of games and genres. The point is to show our appreciation and try to make their time there a bit more bearable.

[Sion]

being gay what would you have needed their girls for ;)

The only man I'm gay for is CliffyB, but thats only because he's so hawt.

I might bro rape you though, but only because you wouldnt like it.

[Stryfe01]

Sweet...Sweet.