Rampancy

Louis Wu of HBO has written a Halo review of his own. While you might expect the man behind one of the largest Halo sites online to be a bit biased, it's actually a very honest review. Louis Wu wasn't afraid to criticize what needed to be criticized and at the same time, he praised what needed to be praised. Since we all know what's good, here's an excerpt from the review that conveys a couple of the cons of Halo:

There are some sections that feel repetitive - it's not even that you've done it before (though you have) - it's more that they just seem to go on and on... But worst for me (as minor as it might seem to some of you) was cutscene behavior. Several times during the game, you trigger a cutscene... and perspective shifts from first to third person, as the action unfolds. Unfortunately, these scenes are not really tied in to the game you're playing. Usually, the Master Chief is shown carrying his trusty AR... even if you (the player) don't have an AR in your arsenal.

This is probably one of the best reviews you can read if you want to know what Halo is really about and how it stands as the game we expect it to be. Overall, HBO scored Halo 93 out of 100.

Deimos of Subnova has reported that the bungie.net site has updated with information about an upcoming Q&A with Jason Jones.

Here's how it will work:

Think up a question for Jason (no huge lists, please) and send it to haloqna@microsoft.com. We'll accept submissions for the rest of this week, then pick the best ones and hand them to Jason. We'll return with his answers next week.

Sounds like the perfect opportunity for you Halo fanatics to get any burning questions you have answered by the man himself. Check this link for more information.

Koga and others are discussing ways to access the hidden level of Myth III in the MWA forum. Since what is said within could be considered spoiler material, I won't give any details here other than it sounds very humorous.

Quick on the heels of the announcement that XboxGW will allow Xbox users to play System Link games like Halo across the Internet, GameSpy Industries has announced that GameSpy Arcade is jumping into the fray with their own application, GameSpy Tunnel. They list Halo, Tony Hawk 2 and Nascar Heat 2000 as supported games. ie Magazine had the original article.