A bit short for an ODST
Released and made available on the Xbox Live Marketplace only yesterday, Halo Waypoint lives up to expectations. When I heard of this little tool coming to XBL, I wanted it to combine the entire Halo community, all news, all achievement tracking and ViDocs into one platform.
A few hours ago I downloaded it and was far from disappointed. Here’s a rough overview of what this tool can do for you. Note that those are just the features that I discovered. There may be more as the service is fleshed out with more content.
- Achievement tracking of all Halo titles, including Halo Wars
- Keeps track of your gamer score, only counting points from your Halo titles.
- Offers you all the community news under one platform.
- Brings all the latest trailers, player videos, in-game screen shots and more media under one platform.
- Offers different daily programming, ranging from Spotlights to Behind the Scenes, Machinima, Strategy and more.
- Halo Legends!
- Free Avatar gear!
According to what I understood from the Halo Legends previews, players get to watch the 4 first Halo Legends episodes for free over Waypoint. Each episode will be available for free for the first 24 hours after upload. I am not entirely sure how easy this will be to handle for people in different time zones, but I’ll do my best to catch them when they’re live.
While you’re browsing the Waypoint, it also shows you if there are any buddies currently playing Halo. This way you can quickly jump out of Waypoint and into a match. The interface is not clunky, holds up the overall Halo theme and is backed by a hint of the old epic soundtrack.
Any Halo player should download this tool since there is essentially no reason not to use it. It’s free, it’s small, it combines all the useful community features people have been asking for and it provides you with some very cool unique and regularly updated content.
Click here to head on over to the Xbox.com Marketplace and add it to your download queue.
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