Hit and Fly
Halo has always had great vehicle fun. In Halo 2 Lewis, Lance, and Josh invented ‘Warthog Basketball’ wherein one would drive toward a particular spot near a particular base on a multiplayer map and the other would fire a carefully timed rocket at a precise location. If all done correctly the warthog would fly arcing into the air to fall into the slightly-larger-than-warthog sized hole in the center of the top of the base.
Fun stuff right?
But something happens when a player gets behind the wheel. Something…takes over. The urge to drive over things: grunts, elites, brutes, rocks, ramps, and, most of all, other players. It can be more fun if the other player is on foot, but isn’t strictly necessary (there is another game called Warthog Tag which quickly devolves into Warthog Smash).
Here is Donald, perched on a ride new to Halo 3, the brute chopper.
Here he is, being hit by temptation. I’m that alien in the foreground.
Incoming!
After a sucessful hit, Donald tries to strike again…but a little too close to the edge of a cliff. Oops. :-)
Ride that ride!
I tried to get a video of this hilarious back and forth, but Halo 3’s theater mode let me down by not allowing recording from a campaign.
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donald said
Oct 01, 2007 @ 06:20 PM
Excellent!
I was playing Territories on Valhalla last night when most of the red team dropped out for some reason or another. Rather than either cremate the poor guy that was left or quit the game and lose the team we’d built up, we decided to just go off-roading for the rest of the game. Sweet, sweet, mid-air mongoose collisions. And boy, they go crazy far when you run them over one of the blue booster pads, although I’ve yet to land on my wheels.
Stephen said
Oct 02, 2007 @ 02:07 PM
I just love that second shot of you looking over at me. It’s the whole scene in a nutshell.
Lewis said
Oct 03, 2007 @ 09:10 PM
Man I wish I could get online and show you guys how it’s done:P Actually, playing against the computer is only good to a point…kinda like Ender.
One of the coolest things I’ve seen was a player with the brute hammer that had a warthog peeling around a corner with a new hood ornament on the mind. The player with the hammer waits…waits…waits… and at the last second smashes the hammer in front of the vehicle and it goes flipping over him. While that in itself is cool…he then turns, regards the now airborne craft for a moment, then chucks a plasma grenade onto it.
Sigh…stupid MTU’s
Stephen said
Oct 04, 2007 @ 10:05 AM
That sounds so awesome. We should try out multi-team games sometime. As I understand it it’s generally two players per team and voice is always on. Just think of VIP with three targets.
Tycho’s take on multi-team Halo 3“
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