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I ereally did best look a raven team and I was thinking the same but it seems Microsoft is solely focused on the Hololens at the moment and is thinking about pulling out of consoles... Still Raven team PC/VR port when?
if you have contractors fans have made a pretty damn good mod that recreates Halo 3 multiplayer I very much recommend checking it out since it's as easy as clicking a server hosting it. The mod really gives you an idea how awesome a Halo trilogy vr remake or new game would go.
Scandia in santa-rosa here HAS one. I just beat this game today for the first time. < ) This one has FOUR screens and FOUR-guns and seats - Side-by-side five by five. ^o^
One of the interesting aspects of Fireteam Raven's story is that it features elements from Halo: The flood, the novelisation of the first Halo game. Such as the attack on Alpha base and charcaters such Major Silva, an ODST officer with a grudge against Chief and the Spartens.
@@Omega4Productions I don't believe so. I can remember maybe Halo Canon-The UA-camr to avoid any potential confusion-being disappointed about her absence. I was going to include it in my original comment, but truthfully I forgot McKay's name...oops.
My buddies and I played this awhile back and got so absorbed we literally wasted all the points we bought to play games w/ on it. We just kept swiping the card to revive every time one of us died, we were so invested in getting to the end. And I'm the only one in that group that played that is a big Halo fan, my three other friends barely know anything about it so that kinda speaks volumes imo. I mean its far from a masterpiece, but for an arcade Halo experience you could do ALOT worse imo
My only wish was that it was a proper lightgun game with a plastic assault rifle you could hold instead of a turret style controller. Even better if it had a working ammo display on the gun
@@KeanineThe 4-player version has the typical lightgun of the arcade shooters instead of the turrent version which is the one used in the 2-players version
Seeing how successful Half-Life Alyx are at creating atmosphere with their world in VR. I would really love another ODST story, but this time with VR and more Jazz. I want to feel how imposing the Covenant truly are and how vulnerable I truly am without the benefit of a 2 meter tall power armor.
I wouldn't mind a game where a single elite is basically a boss that you need to avoid and kill through some convoluted environmental means because you can't hope to put enough rounds into him before he's on you in melee range. In the way that elites are the "mirror enemy" in the games typically, grunts and jackals are more your equal in terms of lethality, and squad leaders like elites or brutes are best avoided or very, very carefully handled.
As a kid only seeing the flood juggernaut in blurry screenshots that half the time I thought were fake, seeing it casually show up in an arcade game makes me so happy
The game isn’t my favorite but the full-bore ambition is neat - Silent scope: Bone Eater is kind of the holy grail for bizarre cabinets with a strong fan that blows in your face as you swoop from sniper nest to sniper nest.
1:02 those are 100% the models they used for Halo 2 Anniversary with a few tweaks like Reach’s Elite animations, the vambraces and shoulders seem different. The marines are also from Halo 2A. Also the juggernaut was in the Halo Wars 2 dlc Awakening the Nightmare which if my dates are correct came out before Raven.
I played this a few years back at a bowling alley that had some arcade cabinets. I was their for my cousins birthday but me and my uncle (he’s the person who introduced me to Halo) found this cabinet and spent quite a while playing it. Good memories.
It is so cool to see things that are mentioned in halo: the flood I was always really curious about what alpha base looked like And that mission about stopping the covenant reaching the the pillar of autumn kinda lines up with something that happened in the book All in all it had a lot of “yoooooooo, they actually put that in?” Moments
I live in the Philippines, every arcade has one of them. I actually played a couple times and I was pleasantly surprised to see the game is indeed very good and feels like halo !
Nice, they are pretty rare here in the United States, but everything is expensive as pants here. My mom was born in Manila in the Philippines and moved here when she was 9 back in the 70's. I do wish we had more stuff in Murica, but real estate is pricey so it has to sell well to make that profit.
My first time playing this was in a rundown cicis pizza it was the loudest game there for no reason and everybody would stare at you angrily for starting it up.
@@frankpurvis9189 i found 1 at a local bowling alley,but its only 1 screen and 2 guns, it felt like the difficulty was spiked because of the other 2 being not included.im guessing there might just be smaller models of the cabinet in particular but i couldnt really say.
I hope we get a console or PC version of this game at some point, like what we got for House of the Dead. It would be a shame if it was forever stuck in Dave and Buster’s. I’ve only had a few opportunities to play it because of that and would love to be able to play it whenever I want.
Now that modding is more prominent for MCC especially after the latest update. I’d love to see Fireteam Raven introduced into MCC or the campaign levels created by modders.
There is a 2 player Halo Fireteam Raven cabinet at the Cici’s Pizza buffet in a town near me. It’s very unique and I was surprised to see it not be in a Dave & Busters.
My local mall has this cabinet, though I never really bothered to play it. Maybe I'll give it a shot next time I go. And I would love if they made a full Halo game in VR. I think it would make the most sense to play as an ordinary marine, if not an ODST.
One of my friends and I have seen this arcade cabinet at two arcades in our State that aren't D&B's. One of them is a Bowling Alley with an arcade tucked in the corner of the building and the other is an arcade downtown from where we live. Both of the cabinets are only two-player with a single screen, but there's only two of us so it's not an issue. We had a lot of fun playing this game at both arcades, they did a great job with it.
For those of you in the UK, there is one of these machines at the Trafford Centre in Manchester, and one at Hollywood Bowl in Leeds. I believe there are a number in London also.
I played this game at a local arcade in Phoenix called "Jake's" with my brother and sister back when I used to live there. It was on an unlimited play weekday so we got to experience the entire game in one go for the price of entry and half way through a random 8 year old kid jumped in and finished the game with us. It was a crazy fun time honestly. I've never seen it at an unlimited play arcade since so I haven't gotten to play it again :(
Bro I remember when this game first showed up at the arcade. My dad and I dropped like a solid $30 playing this game and monopolized the machine for well over an hour. He just liked the shooting stuff but I liked that it included stuff from Halo: The Flood
In the Flood novel (Halo CE), the remaining UNSC attempt to escape on the Truth and Reconciliation but fail to make it in time while Chief blows up the Pillar of Autumn. Only the Pelican with Johnson and a few others survived as well.
They do actually gain control of the Truth and Reconciliation with time to spare. Problem was, the ship was thoroughly infested with flood in compartments they'd merely sealed off. One of the Autumn's bridge officers decides to blow the ship rather than letting the other survivors break containment and return to UNSC space.
Ohio has this independent chain of family entertainment centers reminiscent of _Dave & Buster's_ called _Scene 75_ ; I worked at one that had one of these arcade machines. It was the newest machine while I worked there, and it left me impressed with how good it was. We also had a Tomb Raider lightgun game based off the recent reboots that used screen projection and thus had a huge screen (for an arcade game). And we also not only had dedicated VR bays (for playing a selection of PC VR titles), but a Raving Rabbids - themed VR roller coaster ride arcade machine. All of these were a pain to maintain, but well worth it for the customer experience. And playing them in your free time was a nice bonus, too. 😄
The Walmart I used to work in had this cabinet in their play area, we had the thing for about a year before the pandemic hit and things were closed off. God this thing ate up alot of lunch breaks
Nice video, I got the opportunity to play the first level in Akihabara. I was floored to see the cabinet in the wild because I didn't think it existed anymore. I would love to see it become more accessible.
Funny thing enough is that, this is one of the first halo campaigns I completed, the first one being halo 5 despite how much I played halo 2 during my middle school years.
I have played this game all the way through 4 times and every time i go up to Raleigh (which is about an hour and a half from me, closest Dave and Buster’s) I make it my mission now to play through it again.
I love this game so much. Some people complain about all the weapons feeling samey, but like, it’s a lightgun arcade cabinet. I’m not sure what they expect. A lot of the weapons feel similar IN GAME too.
@@Jarekthegamingdragon I'd argue a lot of that is differences with the operation of the gun as a platform though, not in how it feels to fire. The plasma rifle, brute plasma rifle, plasma repeater, and spiker all more or less feel very similar to fire, and have largely the same operational function. Some reload, some cooldown, some do "both". Firing the guns feel all very similar though. The MA5 rifles are all largely the same with the exception of the original MA5B from CE. Big differences in that line are actually attritubed to the addition of bloom to the game. The m7 and silenced M7 are literally the same gun, one just has a silencer. It more or less operates the same despite a faster fire rate on the silenced version. I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I also don't think a lot of the weapons are as diverse as one might initially think at a glance. There are of course exceptions, and some weapons are VERY different from others.
@@terrivel11 Halo weapons generally serve very specific niches within their sandbox. Plasma rifles/repeater fill the same role yes (Though the repeater isn't a fair comparison here since it basically replaced the plasma rifle) how ever the spiker is very different. Plasma serves as a shield destroyer. Spiker servers as a close range melee weapon, it doesn't strip shields that quickly. The assault rifle has pretty drastically changed in every game. Halo 1 was a close range bullet hose. Halo 3 functioned like a weak assault rifle. Halo 4 functioned like a "real" assault rifle. Halo 5 gave it headshot capability and made it absurdly strong with good range. Halo infinite functions more or less the same but toned down a bit. Halo weapons are all created for a specific purpose in their sandbox, especially with multiplayer.
@@Jarekthegamingdragon tl;dr Yes, the weapons do have some variation to them, but in broad terms, especially in regards to Fireteam Raven, they aren't significant enough to distinguish them. I'd argue that the plasma rifle/repeater is a PERFECTLY fair comparison, in consideration of the fact that the whole point of debate is the similarities between the different weapons. They do both exist simultaneously in Reach, so one is not a direct replacement of the other. It doesn't serve a useful purpose to just throw out data points like that. However I do concede a bit on the point of the MA5 line, I did specify a different between the MA5B and future iterations, but I didn't really emphasize it enough, and then brushed off the rest of the differences to bloom, which is an inaccurate comparison. I do however feel that the differences between the line from H2 and on aren't significant enough to say they have a huge change in firing mechanics. Damage types and whatnot aside, half the debate about Fireteam Raven's weapons all feeling "samey" doesn't have to do with how they perform or the damage distribution, but how they handle. Some of them just feel the same to use, because they've been simplified to suit an arcade game. The backing to that is that even in the console games, a lot of the weapons do fire mostly to each other mechanically speaking, meaning damage types aren't considered. However, I do need to admit that a lot of the actually samey weapons are not actually featured with Fireteam Raven, which is surely some kind of dramatic irony.
i played thru this entire game with my brother a year or 2 ago at Knoebels Amusement Park, and i really enjoyed the game enough to the point that i wanna buy the arcade cabinet when I get my own house
I played through a few missions of this in a fancy hotel in Texas. What a surprise to come across a Halo game I've never heard of before and not even in an arcade.
Ive actually seen a different version of this game where you stand and hold an unmounted MA-5 attached by a wire rather than sitting with a mounted turret. Typically its in smaller arcades in resort hotels and the like. The big booth one appears exclusive to DNB
Traveled a fair while to play this game a few years ago. Masterchief Collection has an exclusive nameplate if you play the game and connect it to your way Waypoint account. Its pretty cool!
On your VR comment, I totally agree. I mean, look at HLA and index. Different niches, but still. If microsoft throws its hat in the ring and make a good and approachable VR game, maybe then can break meta’s hold on the market
I played this game fully and it was wtvr, but it was still an insane treat to randomly come across a Halo arcade game I've never heard of that added to the story. And then they brought out those flood forms that never made it to the game, and I was fanboying. The juggernaut flood form was like originally found in the files of one of the first 2 halo games, I just don't remember which one. Pretty sure it was for Halo 2 since that game was unfinished but the best one. Ok nice you covered it :^)
I played this with a bunch of friends. We burned through a good chunk of our credits and loved it, which is saying something since we usually spend most of our D&B credits on ticket games and Mario Kart.
As a Brit, we don't have Dave & Busters and I've never seen the cabinet in the wild myself, so I'd love for the game to get remade as like a 4-player co-op campaign in the MCC, should port it to the MCC as an ODST addon. I think that'd be great. It'd be neat to play as another ODST team. It'd also be fun if they just kept the absolute mishmash of visual elements because it somehow works for Fireteam Raven. Either way, I'd love for it to expand beyond the arcade booth. We've seen a bit of that with the Fireteam Raven skins in Infinite and MCC, but alas it is unlikely that we'll ever get what could be a great expansion be made available on PC or Xbox.
I played this back when it first came out. I'd heard about it, but hadn't seen anything else. Went to a Dave and Busters and voila, Fireteam Raven. I think I wound up playing through it all in one shot, and hot damn, was I impressed. I've been a fan of Halo since I was a kid, and the burst of nostalgia this game gave me, everything from the Pillar of Autumn, to seeing the Master Chief himself being lore accurate, it was surreal. Fireteam Raven is a miniature dose of Halo and, sadly, it might have been the very last good Halo game. That ending was a glorious one, though, going out after some absolute badassery. I play it every time I go now, all the way through, first thing. Always sets a night right.
This game was probably the most popular one at the arcade I worked at. Lines would go and block the other machines. To be honst I rarely saw adults ever play it, which was just weird.
This is my favorite arcade game: its available at my local arcade in wales and its so much fun ive fully beaten it and have the top score, such a fun game and my first halo game ever
I think if you go out towards Hillsboro there's a pinball museum that only charges an entry fee and all games are free play, I'm almost sure they have the halo cabinet but it's only two players instead of four.
It's actually not exclusive to Dave & Busters; it's in most places that can grab modern arcade machines. Down here in Texas our version of Dave & Busters is a place called "Alley Cats" and I'm pretty sure a few "Round One" places have them too (another place with bowling and arcade games). It's a really fun game and we got to play it at the aforementioned Alley Cats.
An epic halo game I never played? Its at the mall I went to all the time growing up too? Just another day of Jarek coming in clutch with shooter recommendations. I know what I'm doing with the homies next time I'm in Portland.
The main problem I have with this machine is that it has forced damage and no way to recover life meaning you need to put another credit in. It's still why my fave light gun games will be Time Crisis or HoTD. This one is still fun but the impossiblity single credit being impossible irks me.
Oh I'm not worried about them going out of business. They actually get much more business locally than dave and busters ever could. Better offerings, more genuine, perfect culture fit for portland.
10:57 Foehammer knew to pick up the Chief from the Autumn so the survivors wherever she was based(Alpha Base had fallen to the flood at this point) at least would have known.
lowkey they should totally just make this a spin off game in the Halo 3 ODST style. Seriously the story ideas here are pretty damn awesome if done right.
10:50 Really reminds me of that Star Wars Republic Commando ending, hope we get a sequel sometime 12:20 Wow, I didn't know that, and I played the whole thing back then, 2 player version though.
Welp here to correct when you're... half wrong? You're never really wrong about what assets are used, I'm just specific because I'm a hardcore Halo fan. Because the level assets mostly use CE Anniversary Alpha base looks like Halo 4 textures and assets. But the Covenant models use the Halo 2 Anniversary models. Except for some reason the shield for the H2A Elites uses the Storm Elite shield overlay from Halo 4, which is a different model? The weapons are also H2A, but H2A is a mix of refreshed Reach and Halo 4 weapon assets (even Halo 4 are refreshed Reach in most cases). The Assault Rifle though is the CEA model which is a retooled Halo 3 model. Likewise they use the Reach/Halo 4 Banshees in the first level in space (not even the space-banshee models from Reach), but then H2A model in Alpha Base (which is itself a different model and shape than the previous, even though it is IN SPACE) I don't even know where that Wraith came from, it looks almost like a rebuilt Halo Wars wraith. Side-tangent to your side-tangent, Microsoft/Xbox NEEDS to do more with VR. They say that VR is too small for them right now. Which is paradoxical knowing the industry. It is so small because not enough big companies are producing games or hardware for VR. Its cyclical logic. It will be big, if someone makes it big. Microsoft needs to realize they can fuel the VR scene. It took them over a decade for them to remember that most PC's have windows, therefore they own not just Xbox but also most PC's. As far as gaming is concerned, they have two concurrent "consoles" in the market fighting against Sony. Heck Nintendo, Sony, and even phones have gyroscope in their controllers, but Xbox won't even implement that! I swear Xbox is scared to do anything after the kinect and the Xbox One's launch. They need to take risks now.
I am pretty sure I have seen this game here in India in a mall that also has an arcade. Next time I go there hopefully I can record some footage of this masterpiece.
YO, Jarek that's the same Dave and Buster's I played Fireteam Raven at. I clicked vid this because as a Halo fan I finally got around to playing it when I moved to near Clackamas Town Center a few months ago. So weird seeing you hang out in "my" mall!
Saw this yesterday at a tenpin bowling alley in Coventry, UK. They had a few similar machines and I wondered why they no longer use guns but these turrets instead. Looked the best machine there.
The magnum thing is a thing from the canon actually, only people with enough strenght can hold it like a spartan, ODST's can't bacause is to heavy Keyes have it just to use it as melee since it can be use as a big object
Regular marines use it in CE all the time so none of this lore stuff matters. Also it's DEFINITELY not too heavy for a regular person to hold. It would just have a ton of recoil.
It actually would have been really cool if you make it all the way to the end and then the game did pull a Halo Reach Lone Wolf and thrusts you into a neverending gauntlet against the flood to see how long you can hold out. Would have certainly boosted the replay value as now high scores could be really pushed to the limits
i played this game solo and i shit you not, its a different experience, it took me atleast 1 1/2 hours to complete in just 800 rupees ($ 9.12), i kinda had problem fighting in two parts though, the juggernaut boss and the turret sections because strangely the bullets somewhat pass through, another sad part was i couldnt record my high score on halo waypoint due to not getting network in the arcade which sucked, planning to go back again someday just to be clear, these started to pop up here in arcades in india since past year. any halo fan living in india must check this out atleast once
Me and my friends played this whole game at a Dave N Busters Best thing ever that even one of the employees watched us beat the game Definitely a great game, just wish it was more available to everyone
I have seen this game a few years ago in either Las Vegas or a Dave and busters in my hometown Madison, WI. The Halo can really impressed me watching others, I never tried it myself cuz Dave and busters is overpriced. I must have seen it in the Dave and Busters here in Madison then cuz I have been there a few times to visit other people. I think the fact it is exclusive is its biggest downfall, exclusivity always kills a game if it's not super popular. And this cabinet looks EXPENSIVE. Though maybe one day collectors will have this thing in their garage. This is one of the reasons I want a pair of Sinden Light Guns with recoil. This would be so fun to play on two TV’s at home with friends I don’t have. Dave and Busters has some exclusive games I want to try with VR like the Men In Black ride (which was my first time trying out VR and was very fun, but I can't find that game anywhere except D&B), same goes for Halo. Only at D&B so it will probably not be emulated in MAME for a very long time. Like at least 5-10 more years. I am still surprised though that we don't have Microsoft games in VR, they make some bad business decisions at times. I would guess they are waiting until it is more mainstream. Ngl that Scarab explosion was a little lackluster for the finale, the Halo 3 scarab's explosion STILL impresses me to this day.
They actually had one in Okinawa Japan! I never did get to beat the gane though. Also, what is that VR game at the end that you showed?!? I am sure its fan made but still looks good!
Ngl, I have one of these in my country, but the machine was probably overheating cuz the framerate on the machine was dropping below 30fps during certain setpieces.
Sucks that this is not a thing over here in Europe...Seems even more awesome than i imagined it to be. That 343 really did dedicate to this so much.....
the elites you said seemed to be halo reach models, they were H2A models just they had there mandibles together, you can tell from the helmet accents and feet
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Thought this game was great, wished it was ported in some way to PC or VR
I ereally did best look a raven team and I was thinking the same but it seems Microsoft is solely focused on the Hololens at the moment and is thinking about pulling out of consoles... Still Raven team PC/VR port when?
if you have contractors fans have made a pretty damn good mod that recreates Halo 3 multiplayer I very much recommend checking it out since it's as easy as clicking a server hosting it. The mod really gives you an idea how awesome a Halo trilogy vr remake or new game would go.
@@heroicdairy Yea but that's a far cry from a full AAA halo release
Scandia in santa-rosa here HAS one. I just beat this game today for the first time. < ) This one has FOUR screens and FOUR-guns and seats - Side-by-side five by five. ^o^
One of the interesting aspects of Fireteam Raven's story is that it features elements from Halo: The flood, the novelisation of the first Halo game. Such as the attack on Alpha base and charcaters such Major Silva, an ODST officer with a grudge against Chief and the Spartens.
Doesn’t McKay show up as well?
@@Omega4Productions I don't believe so. I can remember maybe Halo Canon-The UA-camr to avoid any potential confusion-being disappointed about her absence. I was going to include it in my original comment, but truthfully I forgot McKay's name...oops.
And the ai Wellesley.
I found out that if you throw a grenade at the juggernauts when the critical health bar shows up you can instantly kill it.
My buddies and I played this awhile back and got so absorbed we literally wasted all the points we bought to play games w/ on it. We just kept swiping the card to revive every time one of us died, we were so invested in getting to the end. And I'm the only one in that group that played that is a big Halo fan, my three other friends barely know anything about it so that kinda speaks volumes imo. I mean its far from a masterpiece, but for an arcade Halo experience you could do ALOT worse imo
My only wish was that it was a proper lightgun game with a plastic assault rifle you could hold instead of a turret style controller. Even better if it had a working ammo display on the gun
@@KeanineThe 4-player version has the typical lightgun of the arcade shooters instead of the turrent version which is the one used in the 2-players version
@@Sterndust0324 Well now I need to seek out that version, that sounds fantastic 😄
Seeing how successful Half-Life Alyx are at creating atmosphere with their world in VR. I would really love another ODST story, but this time with VR and more Jazz. I want to feel how imposing the Covenant truly are and how vulnerable I truly am without the benefit of a 2 meter tall power armor.
Really lean into that noir feel, letting us solve the puzzles and shoot some Covenant...I'd buy it.
I wouldn't mind a game where a single elite is basically a boss that you need to avoid and kill through some convoluted environmental means because you can't hope to put enough rounds into him before he's on you in melee range. In the way that elites are the "mirror enemy" in the games typically, grunts and jackals are more your equal in terms of lethality, and squad leaders like elites or brutes are best avoided or very, very carefully handled.
OG halo gameplay could work well in VR tbh. A port like RE4s VR port would be awesome.
This is why we need more halo spin offs. The halo universe is massive and there’s so sooo much they could do.
Yeah, but they'd rather show everything in the books and other EU content.
As a kid only seeing the flood juggernaut in blurry screenshots that half the time I thought were fake, seeing it casually show up in an arcade game makes me so happy
The game isn’t my favorite but the full-bore ambition is neat - Silent scope: Bone Eater is kind of the holy grail for bizarre cabinets with a strong fan that blows in your face as you swoop from sniper nest to sniper nest.
one of the reasons I miss Arcades as a kid and cabinets in general, they always had very unique experiences you couldn't get at home.
1:02 those are 100% the models they used for Halo 2 Anniversary with a few tweaks like Reach’s Elite animations, the vambraces and shoulders seem different. The marines are also from Halo 2A. Also the juggernaut was in the Halo Wars 2 dlc Awakening the Nightmare which if my dates are correct came out before Raven.
That was the Abomination in HW2, basically just a massive Juggernaut.
I played this a few years back at a bowling alley that had some arcade cabinets. I was their for my cousins birthday but me and my uncle (he’s the person who introduced me to Halo) found this cabinet and spent quite a while playing it. Good memories.
My friends and I play regularly at a local bowling alley after our lanes closed
It is so cool to see things that are mentioned in halo: the flood
I was always really curious about what alpha base looked like
And that mission about stopping the covenant reaching the the pillar of autumn kinda lines up with something that happened in the book
All in all it had a lot of “yoooooooo, they actually put that in?” Moments
I live in the Philippines, every arcade has one of them. I actually played a couple times and I was pleasantly surprised to see the game is indeed very good and feels like halo !
No way! Where can I play this? I've been to diff. malls I've never seen Halo Fireteam Raven.
@@umbralknight6596timezone here in australia
Are they in any of the SM arcades? Because I did not see any of them have this game on them.
Glad to see American machines arrive overseas.
Nice, they are pretty rare here in the United States, but everything is expensive as pants here. My mom was born in Manila in the Philippines and moved here when she was 9 back in the 70's. I do wish we had more stuff in Murica, but real estate is pricey so it has to sell well to make that profit.
I love this - both the game and the IRL video. Those masterchief cameos gave me goosebumps!
My first time playing this was in a rundown cicis pizza it was the loudest game there for no reason and everybody would stare at you angrily for starting it up.
They weren't worthy of the Great Journey.
hahah
@@darkaoshi27Heretics
I really wish it could get ported to MCC. I enjoy that it basically connect books stuff, with CE in a playable manner.
I found this at a movie theater and as a halo lore fan who's favorite book is halo the flood it blew my mind
@@frankpurvis9189 i found 1 at a local bowling alley,but its only 1 screen and 2 guns, it felt like the difficulty was spiked because of the other 2 being not included.im guessing there might just be smaller models of the cabinet in particular but i couldnt really say.
same, but with enough time it might end up on mame. you never know
@@JasonNZ42 mame?
@@navybr0wnie It stands for multiple arcade machine emulator. With the right technology it could happen
I hope we get a console or PC version of this game at some point, like what we got for House of the Dead. It would be a shame if it was forever stuck in Dave and Buster’s. I’ve only had a few opportunities to play it because of that and would love to be able to play it whenever I want.
Now that modding is more prominent for MCC especially after the latest update. I’d love to see Fireteam Raven introduced into MCC or the campaign levels created by modders.
I'm also hoping for this!
They have actually, in Halo Revolved mod.
Just an FYI the enemies and marines seem to mostly use the Halo 2 Anniversary assets. Probably since those are fan favs
There is a 2 player Halo Fireteam Raven cabinet at the Cici’s Pizza buffet in a town near me. It’s very unique and I was surprised to see it not be in a Dave & Busters.
My local mall has this cabinet, though I never really bothered to play it. Maybe I'll give it a shot next time I go.
And I would love if they made a full Halo game in VR. I think it would make the most sense to play as an ordinary marine, if not an ODST.
One of my friends and I have seen this arcade cabinet at two arcades in our State that aren't D&B's. One of them is a Bowling Alley with an arcade tucked in the corner of the building and the other is an arcade downtown from where we live. Both of the cabinets are only two-player with a single screen, but there's only two of us so it's not an issue. We had a lot of fun playing this game at both arcades, they did a great job with it.
I've played through fireteam raven multiple times with different groups of friends, it's an absolute blast
Been playing this with my kids at timezone for years now. Enjoy it every time and it was the gateway for them to loving halo in everyway to this day
For those of you in the UK, there is one of these machines at the Trafford Centre in Manchester, and one at Hollywood Bowl in Leeds. I believe there are a number in London also.
I played this game at a local arcade in Phoenix called "Jake's" with my brother and sister back when I used to live there. It was on an unlimited play weekday so we got to experience the entire game in one go for the price of entry and half way through a random 8 year old kid jumped in and finished the game with us. It was a crazy fun time honestly. I've never seen it at an unlimited play arcade since so I haven't gotten to play it again :(
For anyone wondering, this arcade machine can also be found in Universal Studios Orlando
Bro I remember when this game first showed up at the arcade. My dad and I dropped like a solid $30 playing this game and monopolized the machine for well over an hour. He just liked the shooting stuff but I liked that it included stuff from Halo: The Flood
In the Flood novel (Halo CE), the remaining UNSC attempt to escape on the Truth and Reconciliation but fail to make it in time while Chief blows up the Pillar of Autumn. Only the Pelican with Johnson and a few others survived as well.
They do actually gain control of the Truth and Reconciliation with time to spare. Problem was, the ship was thoroughly infested with flood in compartments they'd merely sealed off. One of the Autumn's bridge officers decides to blow the ship rather than letting the other survivors break containment and return to UNSC space.
Juggernauts do make an appearance in Halo Wars 2 as well which is also cool. They are in the Flood Firefight mode as a boss wave.
Ohio has this independent chain of family entertainment centers reminiscent of _Dave & Buster's_ called _Scene 75_ ; I worked at one that had one of these arcade machines. It was the newest machine while I worked there, and it left me impressed with how good it was. We also had a Tomb Raider lightgun game based off the recent reboots that used screen projection and thus had a huge screen (for an arcade game). And we also not only had dedicated VR bays (for playing a selection of PC VR titles), but a Raving Rabbids - themed VR roller coaster ride arcade machine. All of these were a pain to maintain, but well worth it for the customer experience. And playing them in your free time was a nice bonus, too. 😄
"yeah cuz you kept stealing my kills"
"Then kill better"
lmao
The Walmart I used to work in had this cabinet in their play area, we had the thing for about a year before the pandemic hit and things were closed off. God this thing ate up alot of lunch breaks
Nice video, I got the opportunity to play the first level in Akihabara. I was floored to see the cabinet in the wild because I didn't think it existed anymore. I would love to see it become more accessible.
Funny thing enough is that, this is one of the first halo campaigns I completed, the first one being halo 5 despite how much I played halo 2 during my middle school years.
There's also a stand-up cabinet with a big single-screen 4K monitor and light guns shaped like the MA5B assault rifle.
I have played this game all the way through 4 times and every time i go up to Raleigh (which is about an hour and a half from me, closest Dave and Buster’s) I make it my mission now to play through it again.
I love this game so much. Some people complain about all the weapons feeling samey, but like, it’s a lightgun arcade cabinet. I’m not sure what they expect. A lot of the weapons feel similar IN GAME too.
I agree with the first part but the second part isn't true. Halo weapons feel very different from each other and all have their own utility.
@@Jarekthegamingdragon I'd argue a lot of that is differences with the operation of the gun as a platform though, not in how it feels to fire.
The plasma rifle, brute plasma rifle, plasma repeater, and spiker all more or less feel very similar to fire, and have largely the same operational function. Some reload, some cooldown, some do "both". Firing the guns feel all very similar though.
The MA5 rifles are all largely the same with the exception of the original MA5B from CE. Big differences in that line are actually attritubed to the addition of bloom to the game.
The m7 and silenced M7 are literally the same gun, one just has a silencer. It more or less operates the same despite a faster fire rate on the silenced version.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I also don't think a lot of the weapons are as diverse as one might initially think at a glance.
There are of course exceptions, and some weapons are VERY different from others.
@@terrivel11 Halo weapons generally serve very specific niches within their sandbox. Plasma rifles/repeater fill the same role yes (Though the repeater isn't a fair comparison here since it basically replaced the plasma rifle) how ever the spiker is very different. Plasma serves as a shield destroyer. Spiker servers as a close range melee weapon, it doesn't strip shields that quickly.
The assault rifle has pretty drastically changed in every game.
Halo 1 was a close range bullet hose.
Halo 3 functioned like a weak assault rifle.
Halo 4 functioned like a "real" assault rifle.
Halo 5 gave it headshot capability and made it absurdly strong with good range.
Halo infinite functions more or less the same but toned down a bit.
Halo weapons are all created for a specific purpose in their sandbox, especially with multiplayer.
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tl;dr
Yes, the weapons do have some variation to them, but in broad terms, especially in regards to Fireteam Raven, they aren't significant enough to distinguish them.
I'd argue that the plasma rifle/repeater is a PERFECTLY fair comparison, in consideration of the fact that the whole point of debate is the similarities between the different weapons. They do both exist simultaneously in Reach, so one is not a direct replacement of the other. It doesn't serve a useful purpose to just throw out data points like that.
However I do concede a bit on the point of the MA5 line, I did specify a different between the MA5B and future iterations, but I didn't really emphasize it enough, and then brushed off the rest of the differences to bloom, which is an inaccurate comparison.
I do however feel that the differences between the line from H2 and on aren't significant enough to say they have a huge change in firing mechanics.
Damage types and whatnot aside, half the debate about Fireteam Raven's weapons all feeling "samey" doesn't have to do with how they perform or the damage distribution, but how they handle. Some of them just feel the same to use, because they've been simplified to suit an arcade game.
The backing to that is that even in the console games, a lot of the weapons do fire mostly to each other mechanically speaking, meaning damage types aren't considered.
However, I do need to admit that a lot of the actually samey weapons are not actually featured with Fireteam Raven, which is surely some kind of dramatic irony.
i played thru this entire game with my brother a year or 2 ago at Knoebels Amusement Park, and i really enjoyed the game enough to the point that i wanna buy the arcade cabinet when I get my own house
I played through a few missions of this in a fancy hotel in Texas. What a surprise to come across a Halo game I've never heard of before and not even in an arcade.
Ive actually seen a different version of this game where you stand and hold an unmounted MA-5 attached by a wire rather than sitting with a mounted turret. Typically its in smaller arcades in resort hotels and the like. The big booth one appears exclusive to DNB
the bowling alley in my town had one of these. That bowling alley shut down during the pandemic
Traveled a fair while to play this game a few years ago. Masterchief Collection has an exclusive nameplate if you play the game and connect it to your way Waypoint account. Its pretty cool!
On your VR comment, I totally agree. I mean, look at HLA and index. Different niches, but still. If microsoft throws its hat in the ring and make a good and approachable VR game, maybe then can break meta’s hold on the market
I played this game fully and it was wtvr, but it was still an insane treat to randomly come across a Halo arcade game I've never heard of that added to the story. And then they brought out those flood forms that never made it to the game, and I was fanboying. The juggernaut flood form was like originally found in the files of one of the first 2 halo games, I just don't remember which one. Pretty sure it was for Halo 2 since that game was unfinished but the best one. Ok nice you covered it :^)
Fun fact, you can find these Cabinets in England too. Ik this bc I played on such 2 days ago lol, made it up to mission 4. It was ALOT of fun!
I played this with a bunch of friends. We burned through a good chunk of our credits and loved it, which is saying something since we usually spend most of our D&B credits on ticket games and Mario Kart.
As a Brit, we don't have Dave & Busters and I've never seen the cabinet in the wild myself, so I'd love for the game to get remade as like a 4-player co-op campaign in the MCC, should port it to the MCC as an ODST addon. I think that'd be great. It'd be neat to play as another ODST team. It'd also be fun if they just kept the absolute mishmash of visual elements because it somehow works for Fireteam Raven.
Either way, I'd love for it to expand beyond the arcade booth. We've seen a bit of that with the Fireteam Raven skins in Infinite and MCC, but alas it is unlikely that we'll ever get what could be a great expansion be made available on PC or Xbox.
Imagine how good a single player version of this game would be in VR, like each mission you can play as the different ODSTs
I just want a full on Halo VR game in general that isn't just a mod
@@Jarekthegamingdragon all we have is Halo Recruit 🤣
Though there almost was one called Halo Reverie
@@Jarekthegamingdragonreal. If ODST ever gets a remake, I'd love for it to be in VR
I played this back when it first came out. I'd heard about it, but hadn't seen anything else. Went to a Dave and Busters and voila, Fireteam Raven. I think I wound up playing through it all in one shot, and hot damn, was I impressed. I've been a fan of Halo since I was a kid, and the burst of nostalgia this game gave me, everything from the Pillar of Autumn, to seeing the Master Chief himself being lore accurate, it was surreal. Fireteam Raven is a miniature dose of Halo and, sadly, it might have been the very last good Halo game. That ending was a glorious one, though, going out after some absolute badassery. I play it every time I go now, all the way through, first thing. Always sets a night right.
A Shame they didn't use the foot-pad cover system from the Time Crisis series. Then it would have fit the Halo series perfectly.
This game was probably the most popular one at the arcade I worked at. Lines would go and block the other machines. To be honst I rarely saw adults ever play it, which was just weird.
I played Fireteam Raven a few times at an arcade in Burbank California a few times, its actually pretty good for what it is
This is my favorite arcade game: its available at my local arcade in wales and its so much fun ive fully beaten it and have the top score, such a fun game and my first halo game ever
I think if you go out towards Hillsboro there's a pinball museum that only charges an entry fee and all games are free play, I'm almost sure they have the halo cabinet but it's only two players instead of four.
It's actually not exclusive to Dave & Busters; it's in most places that can grab modern arcade machines. Down here in Texas our version of Dave & Busters is a place called "Alley Cats" and I'm pretty sure a few "Round One" places have them too (another place with bowling and arcade games). It's a really fun game and we got to play it at the aforementioned Alley Cats.
It was a limited time exclusive to dave and busters. I mentioned you could find it else where in the video, just rarer.
Fireteam Raven is a really fun rail shooter.
lol nice! I was just messing around with this the other day. My local Zap Zone arcade has one! I love it! Thanks for covering this!
Pretty sure the Elite Minor models from the start are from Halo 2 Anniversary Campaign.
I think they still have one in the Trafford Centre in Manchester. Never got the chance to play it, unfortunately.
An epic halo game I never played? Its at the mall I went to all the time growing up too? Just another day of Jarek coming in clutch with shooter recommendations. I know what I'm doing with the homies next time I'm in Portland.
The main problem I have with this machine is that it has forced damage and no way to recover life meaning you need to put another credit in. It's still why my fave light gun games will be Time Crisis or HoTD. This one is still fun but the impossiblity single credit being impossible irks me.
American arcade design amiright
Appreciate you low-key plugging your local businesses at the beginning 👍
Oh I'm not worried about them going out of business. They actually get much more business locally than dave and busters ever could. Better offerings, more genuine, perfect culture fit for portland.
10:57 Foehammer knew to pick up the Chief from the Autumn so the survivors wherever she was based(Alpha Base had fallen to the flood at this point) at least would have known.
SHIIIITTTT I played this when I was drunk asf on a cruise ship with my brother! What a blast I had ❤🔥🔥🔥thanks for the video!
Cripes. I still want to play this game. Unfortunately, I live outside of the US, so places that have it are really few.
Same, i don´t even know where to look🥲
We actually have this here, I really need to play it. I only tried it once when I checking out the arcade but never really went back.
We got one here in San Antonio. My gf and I are going to give it a spin soon cuz it seems worth the high price to play.
lowkey they should totally just make this a spin off game in the Halo 3 ODST style. Seriously the story ideas here are pretty damn awesome if done right.
10:50 Really reminds me of that Star Wars Republic Commando ending, hope we get a sequel sometime
12:20 Wow, I didn't know that, and I played the whole thing back then, 2 player version though.
Welp here to correct when you're... half wrong? You're never really wrong about what assets are used, I'm just specific because I'm a hardcore Halo fan. Because the level assets mostly use CE Anniversary Alpha base looks like Halo 4 textures and assets. But the Covenant models use the Halo 2 Anniversary models. Except for some reason the shield for the H2A Elites uses the Storm Elite shield overlay from Halo 4, which is a different model? The weapons are also H2A, but H2A is a mix of refreshed Reach and Halo 4 weapon assets (even Halo 4 are refreshed Reach in most cases). The Assault Rifle though is the CEA model which is a retooled Halo 3 model. Likewise they use the Reach/Halo 4 Banshees in the first level in space (not even the space-banshee models from Reach), but then H2A model in Alpha Base (which is itself a different model and shape than the previous, even though it is IN SPACE) I don't even know where that Wraith came from, it looks almost like a rebuilt Halo Wars wraith.
Side-tangent to your side-tangent, Microsoft/Xbox NEEDS to do more with VR. They say that VR is too small for them right now. Which is paradoxical knowing the industry. It is so small because not enough big companies are producing games or hardware for VR. Its cyclical logic. It will be big, if someone makes it big. Microsoft needs to realize they can fuel the VR scene. It took them over a decade for them to remember that most PC's have windows, therefore they own not just Xbox but also most PC's. As far as gaming is concerned, they have two concurrent "consoles" in the market fighting against Sony. Heck Nintendo, Sony, and even phones have gyroscope in their controllers, but Xbox won't even implement that! I swear Xbox is scared to do anything after the kinect and the Xbox One's launch. They need to take risks now.
So thankful my local arcade has this one, quite fun especially with a full squad and compared to other arcade rail shooters
I am pretty sure I have seen this game here in India in a mall that also has an arcade. Next time I go there hopefully I can record some footage of this masterpiece.
YO, Jarek that's the same Dave and Buster's I played Fireteam Raven at. I clicked vid this because as a Halo fan I finally got around to playing it when I moved to near Clackamas Town Center a few months ago. So weird seeing you hang out in "my" mall!
Didn't know you lived in Portland, so that was a bit of a mind blown moment.
Hah, spent a lot of my childhood in that mall.
Truly the layers of this game are astounding.
Saw this yesterday at a tenpin bowling alley in Coventry, UK. They had a few similar machines and I wondered why they no longer use guns but these turrets instead. Looked the best machine there.
I actually got the chance to play this game a while back, funny to see it get the attention it deserved
I played this at dave n busters. sadly the internet was so poor I could not sync my play with my profile
This needs to become its own MCC mod wtf
Great video man! I'm gonna try it out at my local D&B.
I’m pretty sure there’s one at the Beaverton Big Al’s also. Idk if Clackamas is closer to Portland or not, still new to the area
I've played it with my wife in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and she really wanted to finish the fight!
The magnum thing is a thing from the canon actually, only people with enough strenght can hold it like a spartan, ODST's can't bacause is to heavy
Keyes have it just to use it as melee since it can be use as a big object
Regular marines use it in CE all the time so none of this lore stuff matters. Also it's DEFINITELY not too heavy for a regular person to hold. It would just have a ton of recoil.
I played this game on my birthday 3 years ago with my dad and it was so damn fun
It actually would have been really cool if you make it all the way to the end and then the game did pull a Halo Reach Lone Wolf and thrusts you into a neverending gauntlet against the flood to see how long you can hold out. Would have certainly boosted the replay value as now high scores could be really pushed to the limits
This was actually my first halo expirience.
tbf if there was a halo made for VR I would buy it just to experience a true VR halo that wasn't a fan mod for pavlov or contractors
i played this game solo and i shit you not, its a different experience, it took me atleast 1 1/2 hours to complete in just 800 rupees ($ 9.12), i kinda had problem fighting in two parts though, the juggernaut boss and the turret sections because strangely the bullets somewhat pass through, another sad part was i couldnt record my high score on halo waypoint due to not getting network in the arcade which sucked, planning to go back again someday
just to be clear, these started to pop up here in arcades in india since past year. any halo fan living in india must check this out atleast once
My local bowling alley up in Tacoma has this one, really fun light gun game!
Me and my friends played this whole game at a Dave N Busters
Best thing ever that even one of the employees watched us beat the game
Definitely a great game, just wish it was more available to everyone
That place.looks nicer than our current humid hot florida weather =(
Trust me, the pacific northwest hasn't been spared from the heat. Summers are terrible now a days, full of constant wildfires.
You know what... hell yeah!!! I am gonna go play this at Dave & busters
I have seen this game a few years ago in either Las Vegas or a Dave and busters in my hometown Madison, WI. The Halo can really impressed me watching others, I never tried it myself cuz Dave and busters is overpriced. I must have seen it in the Dave and Busters here in Madison then cuz I have been there a few times to visit other people. I think the fact it is exclusive is its biggest downfall, exclusivity always kills a game if it's not super popular. And this cabinet looks EXPENSIVE. Though maybe one day collectors will have this thing in their garage.
This is one of the reasons I want a pair of Sinden Light Guns with recoil. This would be so fun to play on two TV’s at home with friends I don’t have. Dave and Busters has some exclusive games I want to try with VR like the Men In Black ride (which was my first time trying out VR and was very fun, but I can't find that game anywhere except D&B), same goes for Halo. Only at D&B so it will probably not be emulated in MAME for a very long time. Like at least 5-10 more years.
I am still surprised though that we don't have Microsoft games in VR, they make some bad business decisions at times. I would guess they are waiting until it is more mainstream.
Ngl that Scarab explosion was a little lackluster for the finale, the Halo 3 scarab's explosion STILL impresses me to this day.
They actually had one in Okinawa Japan! I never did get to beat the gane though. Also, what is that VR game at the end that you showed?!? I am sure its fan made but still looks good!
I wish Raw Thrills would release this on ANYTHING the way they put out Cruis’N Blast
Played it in Vegas.
It was AWESOME
I played this with my grandpa once at dave and busters several years ago
Ngl, I have one of these in my country, but the machine was probably overheating cuz the framerate on the machine was dropping below 30fps during certain setpieces.
Sucks that this is not a thing over here in Europe...Seems even more awesome than i imagined it to be. That 343 really did dedicate to this so much.....
Europe is an entire continent... weird that you've lumped it all in together. I live in the UK and I've seen this game in many different arcades.
Lol ive been to that exact dave and busters multiple times and me and my friends would always joke about playing fire team raven. Good times.
the elites you said seemed to be halo reach models, they were H2A models just they had there mandibles together, you can tell from the helmet accents and feet