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Hit and Fly

September 29, 2007 at 10:49 AM · Posted under videogames

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.

Donald on a brute chopper in Halo 3.

Here he is, being hit by temptation. I’m that alien in the foreground.

Donald on a brute chopper in Halo 3, getting the urge to run over things. Especially me, in the foreground.

Incoming!

Donald on a brute chopper in Halo 3, trying to run over me a second time.

After a sucessful hit, Donald tries to strike again…but a little too close to the edge of a cliff. Oops. :-)

Donald on a brute chopper in Halo 3, experiencing the consequence of a miscalculation.

Ride that ride!

Donald on a brute chopper in Halo 3, committed to the 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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