{"id":372,"date":"2007-09-24T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T04:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp\/preparing-for-the-flood\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T21:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:22:35","slug":"preparing-for-the-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/2007\/09\/24\/preparing-for-the-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for the Flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">It&#8217;s only a matter of hours now. If you own an Xbox 360 it&#8217;s a pretty safe bet you&#8217;ll soon be &#8220;finishing the fight&#8221; when <a href=\"http:\/\/xbox360.ign.com\/articles\/821\/821911p1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Halo 3<\/a> is released tonight at midnight. Naturally, I&#8212;the big geek that I am&#8212;have a pre-ordered copy waiting for me and have cleared my schedule for the next 24 hours. I&#8217;ve even enlisted some help from a couple of like-minded geeks to do battle, eat snacks and really get our frag on, thoroughly and completely.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to see how much attention Halo 3 is getting outside of the gaming community. While the Halo 2 release was a huge deal among gamers, it wasn&#8217;t <em>nearly <\/em>the media phenomenon Halo 3 is shaping up to be. (When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1657825,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Time Magazine<\/a> is reporting on Master Chief, you know this thing has gone mainstream.) A lot of this has to do with the massive promotional campaign Microsoft is funding with its evergreen money orchard, but we shouldn&#8217;t overlook the fact that over the course of several years Halo has matured into a breakthrough brand based on its own merits.  Neither Halo nor Halo 2 were &#8220;perfect&#8221; games, but they were (are) a ton of fun with immense replay value. Just something to keep in mind before dismissing Halo as &#8220;just an FPS&#8221;, because without those things going for it, no money orchard in the world could maintain its appeal.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-JBE<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">joe at dpad dot ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only a matter of hours now. If you own an Xbox 360 it&#8217;s a pretty safe bet you&#8217;ll soon be &#8220;finishing the fight&#8221; when Halo 3 is released tonight at midnight. Naturally, I&#8212;the big geek that I am&#8212;have a pre-ordered copy waiting for me and have cleared my schedule &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link bs-book_btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/2007\/09\/24\/preparing-for-the-flood\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/2007-09-24.png?fit=700%2C310&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}