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Microsoft's "Halo" faces its toughest test yet

It's telling that Microsoft put a tester in charge of Halo 3, a game that it has to get right. Bungie's Harold Ryan said eliminating bugs is especially important with a game such as Halo "that sells 8 or 9 million units or something."

"With 100 testers in the building, [if] you can find a bug one time, 8 million people are going to find it a hundred or a thousand times a day," he said. "In my opinion there's no room to let that bug you only find once go, and that's really the model we follow. We have a system that logs every single crash the game ever has and we investigate and fix all of them."

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SuperSaiyan46119d ago

But you know that still hackers and glory glitchers will always find a way or something...I hope that for the single player Bungie can find and eliminate bugs to make it a truely amazing single player experience.

And of course find what they can online as well so people dont take the advantage with super bouncing and glitching etc.

THC CELL6119d ago

u can never stop a hacker
Ever

SuperSaiyan46119d ago

What I mean in the way of hacking is mod chips etc but yeah they always seem to find a way, if Microsoft was that adamanet on stopping those with mod chips why not just take down every website?

All you need to do is type in 'mod chips' into google and there you go, tons of sites.

Anyways I just want the single player to be glitch free and with no bugs mind you I didnt have any issues with HALO 2 on single player, it was the online that people were talking the mick! Standbying, super jumps (apparently Bungie said these were normal???) and host advantage etc lol.

BIadestarX6119d ago

hacking... can never be stopped... but they can be reduced... or controlled to a certain extend.... that's the point... if they make it real hard for hackers to abuse a system... it will narrow down the numbers of hackers that are capable of doing so... hacking is an art... and for the most parts.. people doing so are very gifted people that happen to use their gift to abuse someone or something... sometimes a hackers gift is not enough to hack certain system... which sucks.. cause that's what motivate them to keep them trying... acomplishment... specially if they live with mom.. and don't have a job to perform... family.. or bills to pay.

THC CELL6119d ago

mate u no what i am a rainbow fan and i kid u not when rainbow 4 lockdown came out a seen a guy lay down and fly
No joke.

i think we will see people hacking and moding on ps3 soon when haze or mgs comes out.

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Ranking Every Halo Game From Worst To Best

Not every Halo game has been a banger, but the franchise still has a raft of the greatest games of all time.

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HellspawnPR1981118d ago

Infinite is a dumpster fire and as much as I like ODST, in no universe it ranks above Halo 2. This list is trash.

Kaii118d ago

Just exclude Infinite>5>4

ChasterMies118d ago

Best to worst: Halo 3, Halo 2, Halo Reach, Halo CE, Halo 4, Halo ODST, Halo Infinite, Halo 5.

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The 7 Best Xbox 360 Games - Console Exclusives Win the Day

The Xbox 360 was a fantastic console in its day with some truly classic titles, but what are the seven best games for the console?

DrDoomer156d ago

I'm pretty used to these lists being bad, but this one is particularly s#ite.

raWfodog155d ago

I think Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon should have been added to the list.

BrainSyphoned156d ago

I'll go with,
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Culdcept Saga, Shadow Complex, Ace Combat 6 with the flight stick,A Kingdom for Keflings, A World of Keflings.
Bonus Kinect Games: Happy Action Theater and Sesame Street.
*Skyrim was so bad on PS3 that it almost deserves to be #1*

Husker42c155d ago

I really loved Shadow Complex.

P_Bomb155d ago

Ah yes, Shadow Complex! Good indies back in the day. Summer of Arcade. I enjoyed Trials Evolution as well.

ChasterMies155d ago (Edited 155d ago )

Was this made by a.i.? No human being would put Shadowrun, Fable III, and Splinter Cell: Conviction into a list of the 7 best Xbox 360 games.

Abnor_Mal155d ago (Edited 155d ago )

Would love to play Ace Combat6 on PlayStation, but Xbox decided to buy exclusivity and keep it off a competing platform.

The only mainline game I never played except for one level at a friends place. Game sold less than any other in the series if I remember correctly.

darthv72155d ago

360 had Namco hitters AC6 and RR6... both quality titles. You should at least bust out the 360 for AC6 if you can score the flight stick. Its great.

Hofstaderman155d ago

When the current gen XBOX offering is so lacking people need to refer to games released two generations back....

Profchaos155d ago (Edited 155d ago )

It's a nostalgia peice same reason we get thousands of YouTube videos on sega genisis. Something people have fond memories for but the era is long gone.

It's xboxs golden year imo it was their genisis years the time where they stuck it to the market leaders Sony.

BehindTheRows155d ago

They stuck nothing. Sony screwed themselves giving Xbox an opening. They would have gotten the usual smack down if the PS3 had launched at $399 and was easier to develop for.

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Xbox 360 Turns 18: Three Cheers to Live, Halo, and Red Rings

The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.

darthv72167d ago

Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.

isarai167d ago

The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.

TheBrainZ166d ago

So many brilliant games. I still have one stored somewhere.

LG_Fox_Brazil166d ago

I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces