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With a game engine already assembled, the team began honing the concept. Finally, filming moved to an abandoned aluminum refinery for the short's final memorial scene. With Truth dead, the Covenant defeated, and the Flood wiped out, the long and devastating war is finally over.

We're not leaving him here. Finding Audio Logs unlocks a series of Achievements. The Standard Edition contains the game disc, manual, and a small poster with the game's control-map and artwork.

The Ranks - Your passion for Halo is what has fueled our team these past months and inspired the project in the first place. In the film, players can either watch themselves play through an entire mission or match, or use a bird's eye view to see the bigger scope of how the match or mission plays.

Fine, maybe we're a little too excited about this, but being able click once to duck and click again to stand makes a lot more sense than the old click-and hold -- a little to slow for out taste. But moving on, here are some of the more important features: Matchmaking Your first step in the beta is the Matchmaking lobby. Here is where you join up with friends and get your party together. As of now, you can hit Y to instantly jump to your friends list. There, you can invite players to join you in the lobby, and you can even check your buddies Halo 3 service record and their uploaded movies right there in the dashboard. For network mode, you can choose between system link, local and Live, currently the only mode available. Although you can play split screen online, there's no local multiplayer yet. You can also set the max party size from one to 16 players. If only hot girls thought this way. Game modes are currently divided into playlists of ranked and social matches. In ranked, you choose between Rumble Pit basic deathmatch , Team Slayer team deathmatch with up to four players on each team and Team Skirmish, which randomly chooses one of the three available maps and specialty game modes, such as Capture the Flag. The social playlists include rumble training and team training. When you start the matchmaking process, Halo 3 begins to look for players near your skill level, known as Spartan Rating. Then it will slowly widen the search parameters, looking for even better and worse players to fill up your match. With so few people online on Friday, the matchmaking process took a bit longer than expected -- sometimes five minutes. But usually, it's a quick process -- about a minute or so. After the player slots have been filled, you'll be assigned a map and game mode. If you don't like what you see, you can hit X to throw up a veto. While it's not as powerful as, say, George W. Bush dropping the hammer on the Democrats, it is nice that you can switch map and mode if enough players join in with a veto. Of course, the ultimate goal of this matchmaking system is to stick players together with players of similar skill levels. This will help make the game more accessible to John Q. Keep in mind that these modes are not final and Bungie is using the beta to decide how to tweak and hone them, and which should be thrown out altogether. Teams score by taking possession of the skull and holding on to it for as long as possible, sort of like a moving King of the Hill match. It's a nice blend of offense as you charge in to grab the skull and then a quick transition to taking cover and letting your teammates protect you. If you have the skull, you can't fire a gun, but you can bash people with it. And who doesn't love bashing people with skulls? Attackers need to take over points by simply standing near them, earning a point for each flag taken. Similar to Battlefield games, the more players that are near a strategic point, the faster they take it over. After a set time limit, the players switch sides. The teams continue and the first team to 10 points wins. A special note: on defense, the teams cannot reclaim points once they are taken. The attackers need to bring a bomb to the enemy base and arm it. The attacker carrying the bomb cannot fire his weapon, but he can beat-down enemies foolish enough turn their backs. Defenders need to keep the bomb out of their base for the duration of the round. If the attackers do manage to arm the bomb, defenders will have 10 seconds to disarm it by simply standing close to it it takes about two seconds to disarm. Stand there for a few more seconds and the bomb will reset back to the attackers' base. Teams take turn on offense and defense and the first to three successful bombing attacks walks away winners, unlike Ted Kacynski. One team defends the flag. The other infiltrates, steals and brings it home. Controls It's only the beta, but Bungie has done an admirable job by adding several different control options. Button layouts include southpaw, green thumb, boxer and default. Stick layouts include, legacy, default and southpaw for both -- a simple and great touch that other recent shooters have forgotten about. Look sensitivity ranges from 1-10, with 3 as the default. You can also turn on Auto Look Centering that moves your reticule to the middle of the screen when you start running forward, a gift to gamers new to shooters. And then there's toggle crouch. Trade movies right from the dash. Customization So far, there's no Vision Camera option to import your ugly mug and replace the Chief's helmet, but there are a decent number of customization options already in place. You can change your armor's primary, secondary and background colors as well as select a customizable logo. Similar to Rainbow Six: Vegas, you can also select a service tag -- one letter followed by two numbers. Of course, none of these modes or options are final, so be sure to voice your feedback to Bungie for what you like and what you don't.

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All 47 Achievements totaling 1,000 are charted below: Heal Up Find the first Medical Kiosk and heal yourself. While a rocket launcher is better against a vehicle a battle rifle is better when it comes to fighting against a lone person. Optional Cowbell Physics impulses increased. By pressing X in the pregame lobby the host can change the default options, to whatever the player chooses and can save the changes when finished by pressing X again to save as custom game type. The game was officially announced at 2006, and its release was preceded by a multiplayer beta open to select players who purchased the Xbox 360 game. When it es to talking keep this percentage in mind. The Firefight game mode was a late addition to the game.