Homebrew developer Xx FightStar xX tipped us off about the newest release of the homebrew game, Halo: Genocide, now upped to version 1.2 This is a side scrolling shooter in 2D of the game Halo: Combat Evolved for the PC. The storyline of this homebrew game precedes that of the PC video game.

Here's the game's latest changelog:

New features

* You must reach the "Pelican" ship to finish a level - No more camping!!.
* "Pelican" ship transports you to the next level.
* You now start with all 3 guns, but with limited ammo for each.
* Gun collection now gives you more bullets than in the previous version.
* Each enemy is stronger than the next, the elite being the strongest and grunt being weakest.
* Bullet shooting is now in for both player and enemy (you can now see the bullets), thanks to Charlie at www.evilmana.com for the shooting snippet, needed a lot of modifying to suit though (done by me )
* Ending scene is now in.
* Ability to return to menu on completion of game (may be buggy, shouldn't be!.
* 3 Continues upon loosing all your life's, after that press start to return to the games menu and try again.
* All cut-scenes bar the initial one and end one have been taken out, I didn't like the feature.
* More Level detail added, dead soldiers, crates etc.
* Improved AI.
* New Protective Shield image. Made by Buddy4point0.

Bugs fixed

* Health Getting Drained Excessively at random bug is fixed.
* Scrolling Bug that mainly happened when moving from left to right, is fixed.
* Weapon Selection bug is now gone, would sometimes prevent the "Sniper Rifle" being selected.
* Invincible enemy bug is now gone.
* Weapon Ammo bug now gone, would make your ammo reset to zero if you had over 499 bullets.
* Enemy "Overlapping" bug is now gone, enemy's never go "Over" each other now.
* Level Completion bug while doing nothing but stand in the same spot bug is now gone.
* Enemy's killing you during level change is now gone.
* Enemy's retaining the same position at the end of the old level and the beginning of the next one, bug is gone.
* Occasional "Image Load" error when reaching a certain level after a certain number of retry's bug is gone.
* Master Chief being hit noise happening when he wasn't under attack bug is fixed.