I hope the game has a few Spartan III' s show up to kick some Covenant ass.

Ah, of course...! When I first heard of the Brute Chopper, I was thinking a helicopter! But this makes perfect sense.

Did you finish the last book that is out? There aren' t going to be any Spartan IIIs showing up, it' s just MC.

I might have told you earlier but I don' t have the H3 beta, my brother does.
Anyways, I was playing tonight and noticed he had one friend playing H3 beta, so I looked at it and it said he was playing a custom game! It also gave me the option to join so I did! Wowz they were just fooling around on high ground in an ffa setting so I left.
BUT THEN IT BROUGHT ME TO THE CUSTOM GAME MENU! ZOMY!
You can' t get to this menu from the beta normally. So I looked at all the options, they only let you choose from a list of pre-maid ones but they had different gametypes. The only new one that wasn' t in previous halo' s was VIP. They had options for different versions.
One is where one team has a VIP and tries to escort him to the other end of the map, everyone gets one life elimation style.
I tried it out, even though no one else was in my game.
YOU START OUT WITH THE H1 PISTOL WHEN UR VIP.
and you get the AR as your secondary.
It looks like the halo 1 pistol, you can' t zoom in, you can dual weild with it. No one else was in the game so i couldn' t test it but it seemed powerful. It blew up the barrels in one shot. It might be a 3 shot gun. It had a slow rate of fire, I think slightly slower than in Halo 1. But no zoom, so it would be good for close to mid range I supose. But wow, I don' t know how they were in the custom game, I can only assume someone was either modding or joined a custom game of someone working for bungie to test using a different version of Halo 3 that allows it.

Of course they said they would be constantly tweeking the weapons in Halo 3 and nothing would be the exact same as in the beta, but it was pretty cool seeing some of the options.
It would be cool if they had the rumored Halo 1 classic multiplayer options too.

I was one of the first folks to get into a custom game. I loved the look on folks friends lists when they saw that I had played custom games.

16 player matches pwn harder than anything I' ve played on the Beta yet. Leaps & bounds better than the 8 they' ve got now.

The sword is the same fare as Halo 2

The pistol is an absolute beast. I was consistently shooting at the head, seeing as the only times I got to use it were in close quarters, but it polished people off consistently in 4 or 5 hits. The rate of fire has been significantly decreased, and the mini-scope has been taken off, for obvious reasons.

More on custom gametypes later! I' m off to play another round!

Edit: Just returned from playing an interesting new gametype a friend of mine developed. Front shields on your charater are impenatrable, and you' ve got normal sheilds in the rear, with nothing but swords on the map. You have to sneak up on people and sword them from behind to win the match. It gets quite interesting trying to " outdance" the guy circle-strafing along with you.

Did you finish the last book that is out? There aren' t going to be any Spartan IIIs showing up, it' s just MC.

No I haven' t, I bought the book months ago but haven' t had time to open it yet. I read somewhere that there were some surviving Spartan IIIs though. I guess you understand what' s going on more than I do.

Yeah, I just finished the book last week.