Halo 3 – Beckons
by
Charlie Bess
I was able to get my copy of Halo 3 the day after it came on the market and have only been able to spend a few hours roaming around the beginning of its world. Everyone’s heard by now that MS hit this one out of the ballpark. I need to play quite a bit, since I have to get good enough that I am not too embarrassed when my son gets back from college during his winter break.
This game is clearly a step ahead of the graphics and interaction than Halo 2, but you can read stories from experts about that.
There have been quite a number of complaints about the amount of marketing mindspace the Halo premier has taken – I must have been living under a rock, because I just didn’t see much advertisement until the week before it was released. Sure I saw the random Mountain Dew Game Fuel bottle, but that was about it.
I wonder when this technology will be used more effectively for business. Sure, people are doing interesting work on Second Life, but the security model is not up to the task today. Google is about to enter into the market and that should be interesting. We’ve clearly just hit the tip of the iceberg on how our thinking can change. Combine 3D modeling, a collaboration network and a Microsoft Surface device and we could see a whole new way of developing enterprise models and architectures.
