Halo 3: Flamethrower & Firebomb Grenade Revealed

It's one of the most infamous screenshots in Xbox history. An early screen grab showed Master Chief wielding a flamethrower. That awesome weapon never made it into the original Halo or Halo 2, much to the chagrin of fans. Good news Halo faithful, Master Chief will finish the fight packing the ultimate Covenant toasting device. The flamethrower has made its way into Halo 3. You may now call in sick the week of September 25.

[MoonDust]

Burn BABY! BURN!

[eLiNeS]

Flame On!!!

I'm bring this to the next flame war! ;-)

[eLiNeS]

<<<<<<<

[ShiftyLookingCow]

I was thinking of that too. It should be called "Hell Tap" - Fresh Fires from the boiling depths of Hell

[Tackle990]

Wow, this is awesome...

(Also dont forget to check the second page of that article.)

[Rattles]

with a flamethrower is good to me and man that thing looks BADASS

[batman2million]

my god..does it ever stop?! we just keep hearing more n more n more about this game!!

i can't wait!!

[MoonDust]

Everyday there is news about it.

[cookiemonster]

f*ckin awesome. this can give ratchet and clank a run for it's money in terms of sheer number of weapons

[Zhuk]

OMFG FLAMETHROWER!!!! :)

[NextGen24Gamer]

There won't be time for any other game....Multiplayer will be taking MOST of my time. I still play Halo 2 and this looks to be 100 times better....WOW....

[s8anicslayer]

one of the best shooters of all time gets some new killing tools, thank you bungie!

[ParaDise_LosT]

I MISSED YOU OHHH LOVELY FLAMETHRWER I MIIIIISSSSEEEDD YOU!
THIS BETTER BE TRUE!!!

Aheam...
Now...
What Would you Have your Arbiter Do? :)

[Daxx]

ZOMFG!!! Fire weapons!!

I can see it now "1001 ways to cook a grunt" ^_^

[X_GAMER_X]

Is this picture ingame or what?
dosnt he look amazing ??

[GunPants]

i can't think of any time other than the halo3 ad (and they were very clear in stating that it was not in game)that bungie has shown any non-ingame pics or vids. only devs that are scared to show what they have do that.(heres looking at you gorilla games) and yes halo 3 looks awesome!!!

[Delt4]

im at work and cant check the page would you mind someone posting a link strait to the pic for me!

[TnS]

http://xbox360media.ign.com...
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[IQUITN4G]

I often imagine a scenario where i have to choose just the one game to last me the rest of my life.From all the games that have ever been released and those currently on the horizon, i would bet my being most happy with Halo3 - the fun seems like it will be endless and while we don't actually know if Halo3 will deliver ,i'll quite happily bet on it right now.Waiting on this is becoming truly difficult.

[Delt4]

Your so my best friend right now!!!! i wonder if the flame thrower might melt the snow, i bet it does cause this time around bungie seriously thought of everything! i personally thought the beta was sick so adding everything they have talked about just makes the game sound un-topable ( is that a word?) anyways cant wait

[JokesOnYou]

is flaming the competition! lol=

JOY

[Daxx]

I'm so making a game variant called "Hell". :D

[Daxx]

SPARTANS!!! TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!!!

XD :P :D

[Fezthebest]

love the spartan comment there. hehehehe

[Marriot VP]

I forgot all about this.....

HURRAY!!

[Bnet343]

This game is going to be fudgin' epic.

[X_GAMER_X]

do u think this shot was in game guys?

[The Chief of Mjolnir]

well, this is totaly killing the rumor about the flashbang. It´s shown in the E3 trailer too. It got the same shape. Why can´t September come any faster? You´re killing me, Bungie.

[Hooby]

I'm pretty sure the flashbang is a piece of equipment.

But it could still be nonexistant.

[GunPants]

the Flare, as it is called is an equipment. it was confirmed in the recent E.G.M.

[Lygre]

If you go to Bungie.net u can download the new Bungie Podcast that came today. They actually mention that a jackal sniper uses a flare (flash bang) in the campaign while he's fighting a couple of brutes.

So I guess we now have 5 different grenades:

Frag Grenade
Plasma Grenade
Spike Grenade
Flare (flash bang)
Firebomb (fire grenade)

[Evoluti0n]

The flare (flashbang) is a piece of equipment, NOT a grenade; It's in the new EGM.

[Fezthebest]

its great that Microsoft is bringing back flamethrower to HALO 3 but SOME of you are thinking like its a new weapon for the HALO franchise. it was in HALO COMBAT EVOVLED(PC). but its pretty sweet that they are bringing it back.

[Delt4]

most people missed out when it was on the pc now they can enjoy like the rest of us

[COCK]

MASTER CHIEF SHOULD BE ABLE 2 USE A DILDO HE WOULD GO ONB A RAMPAGE FINGERING UNNESPECTING FOES WITH HIS NEW WEAPON THE DILDO BUT LITLE WILL DEY NOE THE DILDO HAS AIDS DER FOOS WILL DIE A SLOW N MISERBLE DEATH N LESS THAN 2 SECONDS

[ben hates you]

i take it you just hit puberty or something

[ben hates you]

this will blow mulitplayer games away

[ALIEN]

That flamethrower is the s@!#. I think we're having a fiesta on sept 25th. I can't wait to see ya'll online.

[jay3]

Halo online,

So from me it's:

Yeah, looks so awesome! Can't wait to hide from you in a corner online!

[MannyHarlem141]

It's no doubt that all post Halo shooters borrow from it one way or another... but Halo 3 TAKES from resistance rather blatantly..

Fire Bomb Grenade = Resistance's Air-Fuel fire bomb (this one can stick to the environment and Player characters as well)

Flamethrower = Resistance's L11-2 Dragon (it sucked on Combat Evolved folks.. for real. think they saw how well insomniac implemented it)

The Bubble Shield Equipment = Resistance's Backlash Grenades (not exact same function.. but essentially a large bubble that remains on field that can encapsulate player(s))

The New Spike Grenade = My fav. Resistance's Chimeran brainchild the Hedgehog grenades (they don't adhere to surfaces but shoot spikes everywhere not just in a directed conical fashion like the Halo 3 version)

Has anyone else noticed the uncanny similarities between the new Brute Spiker weapons and Ratchet Clank's (also by Insomniac) Seeker.. Resistance will never be as culturally significant or as renowned as Halo, though it deserves to be, but i just think credit should be given when due

Edit: Haze's asymmetrical multiplayer system also takes monumentally from resistance's human vs. chimera online battles

[AkUmAzRaGe lRl]

get out of here you sony fan troll

[toughNAME]

everyone copies everyone else...get over it

[Marriot VP]

so since resistance used those few things before bungie, the Halo franchise has to miss out on them???

Get real, nobody even plays resistance and it's not AAA game, it's still good though.

[Gil]

I knew you Sony fanboys were stupid, but I figured you could at least read, guess I was wrong. The article states that the flamethrower was planned for Halo 2 but could not be implemented due to the hardware. Check the dates, I may be wrong, but I am pretty sure that Halo 2 came out before RFOM.

[MannyHarlem141]

not a fan troll fa99ot i have an xbox 360 send me a request "Militant Sniper" so I could destroy u and a friend in gears and show u how big a sony fanboy i am.. and resistance is very much a AAA title (gears equivalent in my eyes).. i bet u haven't even played it...

seriously get at me... ill rape any of u xbots on ur beloved platform Tag: Militant Sniper

[The BS Police]

1. The Flamethrower was in Halo 1 for the PC, so that proves you wrong.

2. The Bubble Shield and other weapons/equipment was actually planned long before RFOM was released, just so you know.

[killercam19]

just incase u didnt know halo 1 pc version had the flamethrower so trust me they didnt have to take that from resistance

[Gil]

You're calling people out on a forum? to do what? try and beat them at a video game? You're pathetic. Thanks for you gamertag though. I am sure there are people here that will make good use of that information.

[killercam19]

harder, better, faster, stronger

[ben hates you]

do want to know something i feel resistance copied from halo, the chimera=flood, they infect what they kill, hmmm.. reminds me of the flood from halo, besides resistance doesn't have anything on this game and never will

oh and anyone who uses the term xbot is a sony fan troll

[eLiNeS]

or he is now if you know what I mean.

[beavis4play]

the guy is right. if you read what he's saying, it's true. its lucky for bungie that microsoft has terrible first party games except for halo. if there were other good titles in the ms lineup, you crazed lunatics might see that halo 3 is going to be just like halo 2 which is just like the the original halo. someone tell bungie to come up with some new material....oh, you fanboys act like you've never heard of a flamethrower before. get a grip!

[toughNAME]

see this is why resistance was forgotten about...fanboys like you compare!

Resistance is a great game
but when you compare it to Gears...
no chance.

[progx]

Can't compare a piece of sh*t like RFOM to Halo. The ONLY reason its sold as much as it did is cuz it was a launch title. Ive played it, its garbage. It brings nothing new to FPS's and the multiplayer is sh*t. Its so awesome how the chimera can sprint and see through walls...*rolls eyes* And its such a blast playing with 40 ppl in complete silence...NOT.

[persian_prince]

awesome anyone?

[Marriot VP]

ummmm

YES

[killercam19]

fo real man i need to play with some n4g people on halo or gears my tag is andapaul add me if u want

[crazyman]

well there was a N4G clan at one point and I was a member but I dont think anything became of it.

you'd have to contact LUCID.

[AkUmAzRaGe lRl]

ill be more than happy to rape the sh!t out of you in gears

[Bloodmask]

is the king.

Flame on

[Charlie2688]

Looks pretty sweet :D

[IQUITN4G]

MS sure are treating us nice - we're lucky F!ckers

[JokesOnYou]

Either they lie about owning a 360 or they actually own it and play more games on it than their beloved poo-ray3 yet they are under mind control like MannyHarlem kid, he thinks just cause he owns both no one cant see hes a blind sony kid pretending like hes neutral, in fact many sony kids who actually trash talk the 360 are playin and having more fun with it than what the delaystation offers= hypocrits but they suffer from so much mind control they still have to bash it so they can be cool and keep their spg badge. I garuantee you sony kids will be playing 360 games like Bio H3 and ME but still talkin shiii about 360 even when Lair is collecting dust after 10 min. -ha ha sony kids are so pathetic=

JOY

[MattFoley]

but with only 2 games I would play this year Resistance and uncharted its not worth buying till next year this time or later after more games and another price cut.

[beavis4play]

wasn't it bill gates who said halo 3 releases the same day ps3 launches? that's a delay. what about all the millions of 360's that are catching dust at repair centers? not going to be playing much on those systems any time soon. and i have played games on my friends 360 but i didn't like it. the thing sounds like a blender grinding up rocks and if you set within 20 ft. of it you begin to sweat because of the volcano-like heat it puts off. but, since you've been BRAINWASHED into believing it's a good system, enjoy yourself.

[gogators]

but alas, you're not.

[Lygre]

Join me if you want to Live™

[MattFoley]

pants cause I just sh!t them!

[beavis4play]

sorry, maybe adult diapers would help.

[MattFoley]

no time uncontrollable. Felt real good though.

[ArmrdChaos]

Bungie knew what they were doing. Instead of blowing their entire wad at E3 they decided to save their best bits to gradually build up the anticipation all the way up to Sept. 25th...every couple of days we get a little more info...building up more steam until the release date.

[The Chief of Mjolnir]

Everyone with a brain, can see that!

If you put the best you got about your game on E3, people just wanna have something new when the game comes out. And if you don´t have time to think about new stuff to add, you´re f**ked.

[WilliamRLBaker]

MGs4 and KZ2 had the 1 and 2 spot for a while, halo 3 went down to 3rd position then bungie released all this great info, and BOOM halo 3 is back to the number 1 on this site!

[Rattles]

the make the flamethrower work we'ev seen a little of one in haze and it dont look to good the one in rfom dont work to good ever im starting to think devs have never seen a world war movie now thats how there ment to look a big bloody fire ball. i hope GG make one for Killzone AND MAKE IT WORK WELL DAME IT!!!

woops thats i bit messy just hope they make it work weel thats all.

[MattFoley]

Bungie wouldnt have put it in the game if it didnt work extremely well.

[PS360PCROCKS]

Are you fuc*ing kidding me?! :-O I am in shock and in awe...I'm all giddy now, BUNGIE GIVE ME THIS DAMN GAME NOW!!!!

[BURLY]

...the Halo universe is about to expand by leaps and bounds.

The launch of Halo 2 was the biggest single-day entertainment release in the history of mankind because of the culture that was built-up by Halo 1. It grossed more revenues than Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter, ...you name it - it destroyed them all!

The reason for this was because Halo fans voted with intensity when they stood outside at Midnight to get their copy of Halo 2. That level of passion was never before seen for any other entertainment franchise and although some people felt that Halo 2`s campaign was somewhat disappointing, Halo 2`s multiplayer still managed to take the franchise to an all new level. Heck even 7-11 has stepped-in to accommodate the demand with their 24 hour convenience!

Well now with Halo 3 set to launch in September (and with more pre-orders than Halo 2) the anticipation is starting to boil-over because deep down that seeded passion that was initiated with Halo 1 is starting to be rekindled and those rusty thumbs that used to melee the heck out of people in Halo 2 multiplayer are starting to jitter for the return of the Chief.

This time though things are going to be taken to an even greater level with the whole new saved film feature because these videos are going to flood all other forms of marketing entertainment an take on a life such that nobody will be able to deny that Halo is the biggest franchise that the videogame industry has ever seen.

This game is most likely going to sell more consoles than any other game because the universe and culture that it will create will have all of the right ingredients to make people want to JUMP IN!

[TheBeginningOfTheEnd]

so thats what the mysterious granade was.

SWEET.

so pumped for this game... can't wait...

[Lygre]

Bungie talked about it just now. If I'm not totally mistaken.

So by my mathically calculations Halo 3 will feature 5 grenade types.
(That I know of)

[pandarus]

is a piece of equipment, not a grenade.

[MoonDust]

Can't wait.

[Whoooop]

Showing HALO fans some love..

Here is a wallpaper I made. It's the same with different colors.

PM if you want it..

Enjoy.

[Daxx]

Now that there is a flame thrower and fire gernades my FUBAR game variant well be da bomb.

If you want to know what my game variant FUBAR is, take a look for yourselves.
"FUBAR http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
"F*cked Up Beyond All Reason" is what I'll call it. Beyond all repair makes sense because your using a vehicle but I'll just use all reason.

The game would be on sand trap and the Elephant will be put in an area that is surrounded by every vehical, weapon, and turret. Also the elephant won't be able to move very far at first because it will be trapped within a ring of boxes and on those boxes would be fusion cores. And it will be like 1 bomb assault as the elephant team trys to move it's huge fortress to the enemy base while getting pwned in every direction. Sure the elephant is indesructable but the team inside isn't."

What do you guys think?

[ASSASSYN 36o]

You will burn until your world is but glass.

[ParaDise_LosT]

"Your world will burn until its surface is but glass"
I think :)

"What would you have your Arbiter Do?" :D
^^^best phrase in H2 :) Arbiter FTW

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Halo 1 to Halo 2 the differances were big at that time but not like to Halo 3 WOW!!! Story/Graphics/Gameplay/Player Customization/Matchmaking/Onli ne/MP map and gamplay Customization/smooth bug free gaming/FUN/WEAPONS! WEAPONS! AND WEAPONS! That is what Halo 3 is to me and I come from Atari.

[MoonDust]

Frankie said they have a bunch of unrevealed suits/armor/weapons/vehicles!
Can't wait!

[The Chief of Mjolnir]

About the Flare. Sorry.

Well, if they are giving us new guns and stuff, they shouldn´t show them, because that would spoil the fun, right?

[otherZinc]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO THEY DIDINT! This is the second greatest day of my life! THE F L A M E T H R O W E R ! The ALI, the JORDAN, the BUNGIE of ALL WEAPONS!

This my folks, is the game of the year!

I will take the week off to play this game, My game playing days will be complete when this game is in my house, everything else will be gravy.

[360Crusader]

Man a flamethrower very cool.

On a unrelated note: Hey question for anyone who can help. How fast of a high speed internet connection do you need to play Gears of War smooth.
Anyone in here use Verizon DSL? I heard 3 megs over 768 is way to slow for that game? Any recommendations?

[GnaM]

The flamethrow in HPC was crap, but hopefully with the new fire physics, it will actually contribute something to the game this time.

The firebomb actually sounds pretty cool. I'm curious to see how all this flame stuff works out.

And I have to admit, the little interview blurbs Bungie writes up for the weapon descriptions are fairly clever. I think it works better for fictional weapons like these than on some of the real-world weapons like the assault rifle. If you know anything about real weapons, you could tell that the blurbs about it for the MA-5C description were BS designed to make the arcadisms of the weapon in-game seem believable.

[Salvadore]

Loved the flamthrower on Halo for PC.

[JokesOnYou]

"If you shoot a pillar, the liquid in the flamethrower will adhere to it and burn there," O'Connor explained. "Likewise with the floor and with bad guys. It will cause continual damage to a vehicle. When the flames start to cool down and evaporate, it stops causing damage. If you're lucky enough to keep it on a Warthog, then you will in fact take it down with a flamethrower."

Ok now I think Bungie is just showing off. btw that pic of him with the flamethrower is in-game fking sweeetness!

[ER1X]

And that's identical to how it is in Resistance. Nothing new there.

No I'm not flaming or trolling. I could care less what system/games anyone prefers. :-)

Good day.

[zonetrooper5]

Wow this sounds awesome, Halo 3 just keeps on getting better and better. I never used the Halo PC flamethrower but I have heard that it was kinda sucky.

[i rule]

all of the sony trolls want halo. They want it so bad they dream about it. Thats why they always flame it.

[mcgrawgamer]

Halo 3 is pushing the envelope. I knew bungie wouldn't sit down and let gears take their crown without a fight. Now com'on epic make gears of war 2 a contender to the throne. Seriously after gears, halo 3 had a lot to prove, and if screen shots and demos are any indication of how great this game will be they delivered. hands down.

[xTCx Death]

can u imagine how good gears 2 could be if they just put in some of the obvious online options. like changing maps or matchmaking? albeit i doubt any console shooter will feature more than what halo 3 has shown already

[xeon121]

First of flame thrower oooooohh yess i cant wait for this
second
26 - Resistance Fall of Man
It's no doubt that all post Halo shooters borrow from it one way or another... but Halo 3 TAKES from resistance rather blatantly..

Fire Bomb Grenade = Resistance's Air-Fuel fire bomb (this one can stick to the environment and Player characters as well)

Flamethrower = Resistance's L11-2 Dragon (it sucked on Combat Evolved folks.. for real. think they saw how well insomniac implemented it)

The Bubble Shield Equipment = Resistance's Backlash Grenades (not exact same function.. but essentially a large bubble that remains on field that can encapsulate player(s))

The New Spike Grenade = My fav. Resistance's Chimeran brainchild the Hedgehog grenades (they don't adhere to surfaces but shoot spikes everywhere not just in a directed conical fashion like the Halo 3 version)

Has anyone else noticed the uncanny similarities between the new Brute Spiker weapons and Ratchet Clank's (also by Insomniac) Seeker.. Resistance will never be as culturally significant or as renowned as Halo, though it deserves to be, but i just think credit should be given when due

Edit: Haze's asymmetrical multiplayer system also takes monumentally from resistance's human vs. chimera online battles

are you serious??? how much time did it take for you to think of that god damn fanboys oh and by the way human vs chimera is a just a rip of perfect darks zero's infection mode see we could do this all nite

Bungie we love you

[BLACKJACK VII]

Awww,.... somebody's jealous !

This is NOT a PS3 thread or a PS3 news article fanboys. Go "Flame On" elsewhere.

[ParaDise_LosT]

PC Halo 1 Flame thrower...
Happy now resistance fans? :(

[Gamer13]

The world await Halo 3 - can MS it that expectation target---time will tell.

But i can,t wait to get my hands on this game.

IM OUT.

[God of Gaming]

Ok... again, if anyone has the plans for a time machine I would like to borrow it to zip forward to September 25th... NOW!

[jinn]

lets see these weapons in gameplay and see if their really worth it.

[The Chief of Mjolnir]

Prepare for glory!

And Sony trolls: If you are comparing RFOM with Halo CE, you guys are really stupid. It´s like, more than 5 years between them. Don´t you think that games can evolve in that time?

"Fate had us meet as foes, but this ring will make us brothers."-Gravemind

[heroman711]

im not trying to be a fanboy or anything i mean i wanna play halo 3 as much as the next guy bu i think you guys are taking this a little too seriously. Its just a flamethrower it wont make the game 10 x better or anything. The flamethrower for halo 1 comp sucked. Its my opinion so dont go crazy calling me a fanboy