Bungie Recommends: spotlighting the best of Halo 3 user content

1Up’s featured one of the little known gameplay wrinkles that you can expect to see when Bungie Studios‘ Halo 3 comes out. Called Bungie Recommmends, it’s actually a special little place for the company to showcase exceptional user content.

For lack of a better way to describe it, think of Bungie Recommends as the rest area after a hard day’s fragging. Bungie folks will be there to serve up the freshest and finest bits of user-generated content so that players can try something new apart from going through the Narrows for the umpteenth time. In the case of Bungie Recommends, they’ll be serving up user-made map variants, gameplay types, and movies.

For the movies, which are more akin to gameplay footage, Bungie allows users to save a virtual record of a really intense fight from a specific point of view. If you’ve been in a really action-packed firefight, or if you’ve discovered some new technique to use on the battlefield, then it may just end up being shown in Bungie Recommends.

Of course, you know what this means, right? Everyone’s going to want to clamor for new content ASAP. Well, you’ll have to wait a while. Halo 3 will be coming out on September 25, and you ought to give the people a few days to actually experience the content first before they can actually try new things with it. That being said, Halo 3 is certainly looking up, as far as user-generated content is concerned.

1Up’s featured one of the little known gameplay wrinkles that you can expect to see when Bungie Studios‘ Halo 3 comes out. Called Bungie Recommmends, it’s actually a special little place for the company to showcase exceptional user content.

For lack of a better way to describe it, think of Bungie Recommends as the rest area after a hard day’s fragging. Bungie folks will be there to serve up the freshest and finest bits of user-generated content so that players can try something new apart from going through the Narrows for the umpteenth time. In the case of Bungie Recommends, they’ll be serving up user-made map variants, gameplay types, and movies.

For the movies, which are more akin to gameplay footage, Bungie allows users to save a virtual record of a really intense fight from a specific point of view. If you’ve been in a really action-packed firefight, or if you’ve discovered some new technique to use on the battlefield, then it may just end up being shown in Bungie Recommends.

Of course, you know what this means, right? Everyone’s going to want to clamor for new content ASAP. Well, you’ll have to wait a while. Halo 3 will be coming out on September 25, and you ought to give the people a few days to actually experience the content first before they can actually try new things with it. That being said, Halo 3 is certainly looking up, as far as user-generated content is concerned.