New word has hit on how much you can screw up Halo 3’s multiplayer in ridiculously fun ways that go far beyond the mere options of match type, weapon load-outs or power-up availability. Apparently, you can change up everything except the structure of the map itself. That is, you’ll be able to experiment with the very placement of spawn points, vehicles, weapons, and power-ups.
The Unreal Tournament/Championship games boast a great feature called ”mutators”, which are options that allow ridiculous abilities such as one-shot kills. Halo 3 is going to offer such customization to its power-ups, whereas collecting one can enable such things as a speed boost, high jumping, and others. What’s even better? Halo 3 will also offer a feature called The Forge where a person can monitor a multiplayer match and rearrange items while other people are playing, and you can still be attacked!
Of course, all these new features will result in hilariously unbalanced matches and will deactivate achievements, but I’m more than ready for some serious advances in console MP gaming customization. This kind of variety has been around for PC shooters for over a decade, and it’s time the love was shared more widely with us thumbstickers.
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August 24, 2007 at 5:43 pm
just one more reason to be excited about Halo 3
August 24, 2007 at 10:49 pm
That it is. I’ll have endless fun with those features.