Halo 3 and Suicide Sticky Bombing
6:47 pm November 5th, 2007 by Sal Cangeloso
There is a great article on Wired about suicide grenade-ing in Halo 3.
Or to put it another way: The structure of Xbox Live creates a world composed of two classes — haves and have-nots. And, just as in the real world, some of the disgruntled have-nots are all too willing to toss their lives away — just for the satisfaction of momentarily halting the progress of the haves. Since the game instantly resurrects me, I have no real dread of death in Halo 3.
Notes:
- Clive Thomspon really is a great writer. The more I read his stuff the more I like it.
- You could do this in Halo 2, though not as effectively from what I have seen. The alien grenades are sticky so while it took a lot of skill to tag an opponent with the grenade it was a great tactic. The secret is getting out alive- something which Clive seems to have given up on. It was always a good tactic to drop grenade as soon as you know you are beat because you can sometimes grab that post-mortem kill.
