Meet The Person Who's Beaten Halo 3

xsynergyx | September 07, 2007 | News | XBOX 360 Company

Wouldn't so much weight be put on your shoulders if you played and beat one of the most hyped up games of the year before anyone else? Well that's what Francesca Reyes, Editor-in-Chief of Official Xbox Magazine is doing. She is the first person to play, beat and review(for 10 pages!) Halo 3 for the Xbox 360. You can read her 10 page review in the magazine which will be available on September 25th, the same date that the game is released. Meanwhile, occupy yourself with the interview at the source.

But the real reason we get into this business, of course, is to play all the games. Better yet? Experiencing them days, weeks, maybe even months before anyone else. And best of all? Knowing you're the first person to play something PERIOD.

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volacide | September 08, 2007

Was she disappointed with it too?

There's a kind of sick desperation in her smile.
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  Final Blade | September 08, 2007
  
  No Volacide if you read she was was actually happy about the game, and thought it was very good. Of course she can't say anything about the game you can kinda get her answer about it.
  
  Also according to her Halo 3 isn't like halo 2 but isn't too different. Meaning Its better than halo 2 and its not too different from the Halo series, Its a halo game.
  
  And from her Im kinda relieved about what to expect from this game, definitely a game to get along side with 360 one day, since that game would be my only reason for getting 360.
  So now i can say thats its going to be a good game for sure.
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    iLLmatic | September 08, 2007
    
    So because an employee, no, the Editor-In-Chief at Official XBOX Magazine says the game is good, you too can say that the game is good for sure. I just want to be sure I follow you. Matter of fact, lets scratch all that. If you ran into John Anyman on the street and he told you Halo 3 was the greatest game ever, would you still be a sheep?
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      Final Blade | September 09, 2007
      
      No cause one person's word isn't good enough, She actually played it and beaten it. There is a difference in your theory.
      
      Its like this would you believe someone that said(if you haven't played it) bioshock sucked if they never played it b4, to someone who has and said it was good. See Thats the problem with some reviews, most don't even play it, and make biased review.
      
      Experience is everything.
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  joshthegreat | September 08, 2007
  
  I can see it too... She'd probably get sacked for saying it was bad, knowing MicroSoft.
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    Final Blade | September 08, 2007
    
    How am i an idiot? Care to elaborate on that.
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  Cdemon | September 08, 2007
  
  But you "want Halo 3 to be good", right Volacide?
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    Xenctuary | September 08, 2007
    
    Hahaha
    
    And I really think someone needs to confiscate the size 4 tags from volacide!
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      volacide | September 09, 2007
      
      I do want Halo 3 to be good, but I still think it won't be. I mean if every game were awesome then that would kick ass and I wouldn't have anything to complain about.
      
      I still don't think it'll be any good though... history repeats itself.
      
      It was worth it for that Fight Club homage Xenc
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black doom | September 08, 2007

I agree with Finalblade, she was happy with it. But the mistake your makig is nit understanding that her awkward smile is from, well to put it properly, this:

GamesRadar: How difficult has it been to stay quiet? Are people bugging you for information? Besides us?

Fran: Hella hard. You want to really go into detail and tell people everything you saw and played, but you can't. I mean, because of the nature of how we do the magazine, we have to share information among the OXM staff - but other than that, mum's the word, really.
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FRoGBuster | September 08, 2007

She gets more money if she says the game is good
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Silver Mirror | September 09, 2007

Obviously if she said the game was bad you'd be hearing something like this on the news

"Francesca Reyes, Editor-in-Chief of Official Xbox Magazine was murdered earlier this morning, apparently Fran had just recently given Halo 3 a bad preview and witnesses say they saw Bill Gates speeding away from the scene in his tricked out Limo. Police after a long a interview with Mr Gates have released that they believe Sony are behind the attack. On a side note all police involved in the investigation have retired and moved to Condo's in the Carribean all supplied by Microsoft. This news is believed to be unrelated"
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  iLLmatic | September 09, 2007
  
  That was a really bad...'joke.'
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ConkerASkyJockey | September 09, 2007

She's possibly gonna get fired for her "joke".

Really, she's just advertising the game so that gamers would by there products. Its called business.
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  iLLmatic | September 10, 2007
  
  I was talking about what Silver Mirror said.
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Capn Droid | September 09, 2007

Heh heh, the editor-in-chief of an Xbox magazine, did I get that right?

If I did, I can say this... tihs is an XBox game; I presume they get at least a bit of cash from sales.
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xsynergyx | September 09, 2007

Being in her position, she probably has to say it's good or it'll upset fans/Microsoft/gamers, etc. If she says it's bad, Halo fans are not going to be happy with her, even if it's the games fault. They'll(Halo fans) are obviously going to be saying that Halo 3 is going to be good, even though it might dissapoint.
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Matt3224 | September 09, 2007

How do you exactly know she beat it First? I mean, hundreds of people could have already beaten it before it came out. Think about it. All the people that pirated halo 3 probably beat it first, then slammed into jail.
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  Hubub | September 09, 2007
  
  they cant pirate a game before its released, they can pirate the beta, but thats usually free.
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  Final Blade | September 10, 2007
  
  Not to mention if they did you might need a modded 360 to play it.
  And didn't we already see what happens when you play pirated games, yeah banned from XBL until 9999.
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iLLmatic | September 10, 2007

finalblade, obviously I meant that John Anyman hypothetically played the game too. I just used a generic name as an example. My point was that you said you're sure it will be a good game, based on what someone has else has said. Forget the entire fact that she works for XBOX magazine. You said experience is everything, yet YOU haven't experienced it.
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  Final Blade | September 11, 2007
  
  But she has case in point. Besides like i stated above Please respond
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  Its like this would you believe someone that said(if you haven't played it) bioshock sucked if they never played it b4, to someone who has and said it was good.
  
  You haven't so I wouldn't take your word for it, The way she responded gave me high hopes. You don't understand yet.
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    iLLmatic | September 12, 2007
    
    What are they teaching in reading comprehension in grade school these days? We are speaking as if everyone has played the game. Got that much? She said the game is good, so now you are sure that the game is good. Using this logic, if she said the game sucked, then you would also be a puppet and feel confident that the game sucks. And you're still ignoring the fact that she works for XBOX magazine lol. Its like I'm typing in hieroglyphics every time I converse with you.