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smroadkill15 on 18 July 2011

When you pre-order CE Anniversary you will get the Grunt Funeral Skull. Basically when you kill a grunt it will explode with a plasma grenade. There is a video deminstrating this. http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/18/halo-combat-evolved-anniversary-trades-avatar-armor-for-pre-ord/      

Fun Fact: If you notice in the video 343 changed the look of the assualt rifle to the original CE look instead of the Reach look.  



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Lostplanet22 on 18 July 2011

That is rather annoying =p.



 

Thechalkblock on 18 July 2011

I must say this is remake is probably the one I've been excited for the most.



yo_john117 on 18 July 2011

That's a pretty stupid pre-order bonus....totally makes the game piss easy.



Potable_Toe on 18 July 2011
yo_john117 said:
That's a pretty stupid pre-order bonus....totally makes the game piss easy.


That it does. I think, because I am going to pre-order this eitherway, that Legendary should be the only way to go with this skull turned on... hopefully you can turn skull's on or off unlike in Halo 1 where each level had its own skull that had to be found each time you played through it and was only in effect for that level, so for that matter it would be good to actually be able to collect the skulls this time 'round.

 

EDIT:Ignore the above until further notice



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zultar on 18 July 2011
Potable_Toe said:
yo_john117 said:
That's a pretty stupid pre-order bonus....totally makes the game piss easy.


That it does. I think, because I am going to pre-order this eitherway, that Legendary should be the only way to go with this skull turned on... hopefully you can turn skull's on or off unlike in Halo 1 where each level had its own skull that had to be found each time you played through it and was only in effect for that level, so for that matter it would be good to actually be able to collect the skulls this time 'round.


I don't even remember there being skulls in halo one.  Is that a PC only feature perhaps?  I'd think you couldn't get any achievments with a skull that powerful turned on.



yo_john117 on 18 July 2011
Potable_Toe said:
yo_john117 said:
That's a pretty stupid pre-order bonus....totally makes the game piss easy.


That it does. I think, because I am going to pre-order this eitherway, that Legendary should be the only way to go with this skull turned on... hopefully you can turn skull's on or off unlike in Halo 1 where each level had its own skull that had to be found each time you played through it and was only in effect for that level, so for that matter it would be good to actually be able to collect the skulls this time 'round.

I don't think the original Halo had skulls.



Potable_Toe on 18 July 2011
yo_john117 said:
Potable_Toe said:
yo_john117 said:
That's a pretty stupid pre-order bonus....totally makes the game piss easy.


That it does. I think, because I am going to pre-order this eitherway, that Legendary should be the only way to go with this skull turned on... hopefully you can turn skull's on or off unlike in Halo 1 where each level had its own skull that had to be found each time you played through it and was only in effect for that level, so for that matter it would be good to actually be able to collect the skulls this time 'round.

I don't think the original Halo had skulls.

I'm sure I read it in OXM or something years back... an article along the lines of a guide, but it seems digging around just now disproves that. I am somewhat disappointed :(



yo_john117 on 18 July 2011
Potable_Toe said:
yo_john117 said:
Potable_Toe said:
yo_john117 said:
That's a pretty stupid pre-order bonus....totally makes the game piss easy.


That it does. I think, because I am going to pre-order this eitherway, that Legendary should be the only way to go with this skull turned on... hopefully you can turn skull's on or off unlike in Halo 1 where each level had its own skull that had to be found each time you played through it and was only in effect for that level, so for that matter it would be good to actually be able to collect the skulls this time 'round.

I don't think the original Halo had skulls.

I'm sure I read it in OXM or something years back or something... along the lines of a guide, but it seems digging around just now disproves that. I am somewhat disappointed :(

Yeah...I do hope they have skulls that you have to search for in the Halo remake though.



Potable_Toe on 18 July 2011
zultar said:
Potable_Toe said:
yo_john117 said:
That's a pretty stupid pre-order bonus....totally makes the game piss easy.


That it does. I think, because I am going to pre-order this eitherway, that Legendary should be the only way to go with this skull turned on... hopefully you can turn skull's on or off unlike in Halo 1 where each level had its own skull that had to be found each time you played through it and was only in effect for that level, so for that matter it would be good to actually be able to collect the skulls this time 'round.


I don't even remember there being skulls in halo one.  Is that a PC only feature perhaps?  I'd think you couldn't get any achievments with a skull that powerful turned on.

As for the skull business I already explained about how I had a dream of reading a guide on how to find the 'Skulls in Halo 1' and mistook it for real life, the amazing thing is I did this before Halo 2 too :|. But I would imagine that achievements for completing the game or levels would be disabled with that skull turned on, if not then that is a major oversight because vast amounts of the game would suddenly become stupidly easy even on legendary.