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Halo in third-person: Gamer plays Halo 4 as a third-person shooter

by GH Staff
by GH Staff
Halo played as a third person shooter

Troy Irving, a gamer in possession of a modded Xbox 360, was fiddling around with some real-time editing, and discovered that Halo 4 has a “third-person camera” setting for every gun in the game.

View some screenshots and read more details after the break.

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Upon trying the third-person camera settings out, Irving was surprised that Halo worked surprisingly well as a third-person shooter (ala Gears of War), subsequently playing through the game’s entire campaign from a third-person perspective.

Irving plans to play through Halo 3, Halo: ODST, and Halo: Reach using the game’s third-person camera settings, and stream/record the footage to later upload to YouTube.

However, due to the manner in which Halo 2 and Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary‘s maps are compressed, Irving has revealed that those particular games cannot be played in the same manner.

Irving stated the following in regards to his discovery:

“I have a modded Xbox, and was messing around with RTE (Real-Time Editing) on my RGH with some friends over and noticed a “Third Person Camera” setting for each gun. Tried it, and to my surprise, I found out that Halo plays shockingly well as a TPS.

So, I decided I’d play through a campaign all in third person; I had a blast. It was a refreshing and interesting change to an already awesome experience.

It was so good that I plan to play through 3, ODST, Reach, and 4 (again) this way. It will be streamed and recorded then uploaded to YouTube so you guys can see what it’s like.

Due to the way the maps are compressed, Halo CE: Anniversary cannot be played like this. There is a debug menu that allows third person, but it places MC in the middle of the screen so that’s a no go. Halo 2 is a completely different platform and even if I could edit things, it’d probably be in the center as well because third person weapons weren’t in that one either.”

 

You can view a sampling of screenshots taken by Irving below:

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You can view the entire screenshot gallery here:

What are your thoughts on playing Halo from a third-person perspective? Would you be interested in that prospect? Why or why not?

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Source: R/Halo subreddit

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