DBZ remastered

February 6th will mark the beginning of DBZ season set releases with season one on DVD. It's completely digitally remastered in high definition wide-screen and contains the original Japanese or English dub. It even has the option for English with Japanese music. Set one contains the first 39 episodes on 6 discs (over 900 minutes!), a 24 page booklet, and behind the scenes footage of the re-mastering process. All of this can be had for as low as $37.50 off Amazon with free shipping ($49.98 normally). This is by far every DBZ fan's dream come true!

Meet the iPhone

It's a widescreen iPod with touch control, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet communications device! At least, that's what Apple CEO Steve Jobs says. This thing is seriously cool, though. It runs Mac OSX, the same operating system in iMacs and Macbooks. Think of it as a mini Mac Mini that makes phone calls. Check out apple.com for more information and to watch the full (over an hour long!) keynote with demonstrations.

Halo 3 Beta: the easy way in

If you buy a specially marked copy of Crackdown for the Xbox 360 beginning February 20th, you're automatically in the H3 beta. Simple as that. You get a code to download the beta to your Xbox. A hard drive and an XBL gold membership are required to participate.

Gameweb Awards '06

Our GOTY awards are up at Viewpoint. Go check it out!

Gameweb Awards 2006

So, what were the best games of '06? Prepare to find out in the Gameweb Awards 2006!

Gears of War reviewed

Gears of War
Xbox 360
Review by RaiderBear

Halo 3 has a lot of ground to cover if it even hopes to hold a candle to the incredibleness that is Gears of War!!! This game sets a new bar for third and first person shooters everywhere, and is so amazing I don’t know where to begin. So, I’ll start with the back-story all of you probably know by now: Gears of Wars takes-place in the some-time future, after Emergence Day, or the day when the Locust Horde attacked every major city on Sera (hard to believe, but makes for an interesting plot, unlike Halo 2). The Gears (Earthlings) engage in intense battles against the Locust Horde and are getting their a$$es kicked left and right. You play as Marcus Fenix, who was in jail for not following orders (I won’t reveal much more past that). The game starts off that Dom, one of your army buddies, busts you out of jail…but then again everyone is dead so it’s not must of a “bust”. The game immediately puts you into the action, and starts off with small enemies than grows massive until you have to hold off tons of Locusts, from Wretches (you will learn to absolutely hate these guys, especially the exploding ones) to Boomers (big-stupid Bazooka Locusts).

Great Single-Player: the single player campaign is awesome. The game perfectly designs a duck, over, and run third-person shooters with an in-your-face adrenaline-pumping total machine-gun warfare! Complete with senseless violence and gore galore!!! While weapons are limited, the game play is incredibly. The replay value is also high since you unlock more things by completing it in hard (which is code-named Insane). The game is complete with incredible game-play, interesting story-line, stunning graphics, and a villain that you fell like beating the living hell out of. At times, however, especially as you progress, the game seems impossible and the enemies seem endless – but this is the joy of the game – don’t give up and keep trying and when you beat one of those difficult parts, you fell pride and accomplishment!

Look-out Bungie: As we all know, Halo 2 was a big disappoint despite high-sales, and the mod for online play ruined it. Gears of War sets a new bar for shooters with its long hours of gameplay, endless xbox-live multiplayer (which could be better but isn’t bad), innovative game-play system, and everything else. This game meets and surpasses all the hype, and is a must-buy for 360 owners everywhere. And if you don’t own one, save up money and buy a 360 with Gears of War!

Breakdown:
Graphics: 10
Single-Player: 10
Replay: 9
Story: 8/9
Online play: 7/8
Controls: 10

+ Graphics
+ Senseless violence and gore
+ Chainsaw!!!!!!!
+ Game-play
+ Endless hordes of enemies
+ Baird’s smart-a$$ jokes
+ Replay-value
- Way too little weapons
- At times game seems impossible

Overall rating: 10/10

We're two years old today!

I almost forgot! Gameweb is officially two years old today! To celebrate, the site has undergone a makeover courtesy of the new Blogger. Enjoy!

Actual info for Halo 3!

This has been translated from the German gaming magazine "LEVEL":

(Oh, and if you want to be surprised when the game comes out, don't read this.)

"Three Multiplayer levels were tested: Three different multiplayer levels does our own Halo-Fanboy Thomas Wiborgh have time to try out and the levels are limited by invisible walls. If the player reaches to far outside of the level they will be attacked by an automatic defense. Whats the point of it is not presented in the text.
One of the multiplayer level is called "Snowbound". It's a battle level in winter territorie with large Covenant bases. On the levels are also bunkers that are protected by energyshields. These shields can't be penetrated by bullets and grenades, but players can go through it though.
Another level is called "Highground", its shaped for teamplay and reminds of the Halo 2 level "Zanzibar". One team has to defend a base that is on a hill. The other team begins in a beach below the base and has the mission to attack it. In the base you can open alarge gate that lets a warthog from the beach drive inside the base.
The third and last level is called "Valhalla" and is a forest covered level with mountains in the horizon. It's so big that it is made for vehicles and has two large bases placed out. (It's suppose to be the new "Blood Gulch".)

At least two new vehicles A new vehicle has been revealed: "Moongoose". It's smaller and faster then a warthog and has only two places to sit on. It is used primarily for fast transportations. Another vehicle by the name "Man Cannon" has been mentioned, but no further explination has been presented.

Lots of new weapons When it comes to weapon a lot of things has happend. Bungie has listened the critics from Halo 2, that primarily didn't like that it was so important to use two weapons at the same time, so called Dual-wield. Now they have done the standard weapon Assault Rifle a bit more powerful, but it's still not so good as the other weapon in the game.
All the weapon the players carries are being visiulazied in the game. I.e. you can now see an opponent carring around a Shotgun on the back.
Spartan Laser is the name of one of the new weapons. It's made for destroying vehicles and even if it takes time to use and its not so hard to avoid it makes a lot of damage. You dont want your vehicle to be hitted by its red heating ray.
Another new weapon are the Brutes "Spiker". Its like a one-hand Shotgun but shoots out a lot of nails. A new grenade has Bungie also put in. It blows its harvest of nails in one direction and can be placed on walls or the ground.

New Controll The control has some new features: RB and LB (the upper shoulder buttons) are used for reloading the weapons, while RT and LT (the lower shoulder buttons) fires the gun. If you have a weapon in your right hand you reload it with the RB and if you have a weapon in your left hand you reload if with the LB. The X-button is being used for something that is going to "change the whole game", but Bungie are not ready to tell about it yet.

Legendary Edition Bungie are going to release Halo 3 in a "Legendary Edition" that looks like Master Chiefs head. It contains four DVD disc's. One with the game, another with documentaries and commentator tracks, one contains "spinoff-material" like Red VS Blue and Spark of life. And one with all film clips from the game series in a chronological order.

Like the E3-Trailer One game sequence is from the singelplayer part is being showed up too. Accordingly to Wiborgh it reminds of the Halo 2 film that was being shown on E3 2003 and it shows that the game is taking place on earth! This time its going to accordingly from Bungie being directly game parts taken directly from the game."

The ATV is in!!! Whooo!!! Some of this stuff sounds a little off, though. "Man Cannon"? A brute nail gun? Time will tell. Keep in mind, this is translated from German so it doesn't make the greatest of sense.
*UPDATE!*
This site: http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2006/10/27/halo-3-collectors-edition-unveiled-bungie-shows-pictures-of-new-levels-weapons-vehicles-and-talks-multiplayer-and-other-features.htm#more-2802
has scans of the magazine containing the first ever in-game shots. These graphics are by no means final. Expect the finished game to look even better!

It's just my opinion...don't kill me!

Well, I've written up how I think Halo 3 should end. Read it at Viewpoint now. I warn you, it will spark controversy!

The Ultimate Halo 3 Ending

Hey! I randomly back for some reason, and I'm randomly posting what I think would be the ideal ending to Halo 3! Now, I know when most of you read this you'll probably send me hate mail, hunt me down, and kill my family, but just remember that it's one man's opinion. It probably won't turn out anything like this, I just think it would be cool. Also, I don't have enough details to go into details... except for the very end, which is the important part anyway.

It's the final battle. The other remaining Spartans are battling the covenant on Earth (For those of you who don't know, the Spartans are: Will, Linda, Fred, Kelly, and John- apparently there are more MIA, crippled, away/unaccounted for, or retired. Also, there is Nicole from DOA4 and, apparently, Spartan IIIs- but I won't get in to exceptions. We'll assume there are five Spartans left.) while the Chief, who has gotten himself back on High Charity- now in orbit around Earth, is taking on the Flood and Covenant. He manages to take down High Charity and crash it into the Ark on Earth. The resulting explosion destroys the Ark. Now, here comes the good part:

At this point, the Covenant are beaten, Gravemind is dead, and the Chief is near death from the crash. The other Spartans come to his aid, but it is too late. Kelly holds up the Chief as he dies in her arms. You can hear her crying under her helmet as she takes off his helmet and strokes his hair. The other Spartans are also deeply saddened. The camera pans out and Cortana says something about the world being saved and his sacrifice or some such nonsense. You never see the Chief's face because Kelly is blocking it. Oh, and sad music is playing as the final cutscene fades into the credits.

Sad, yes. But that's the way things should be.