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Subject: Halo CE cover.

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Just to give everyone something to do. Did you notice on the front of Halo CE's cover that you got 2 flying banshee's shooting overhead with no pilots flying them?
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  • 08.26.2010 7:38 PM PDT

Can't see pilots from the front.

  • 08.26.2010 8:52 PM PDT

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Yes, the Banshees are in the "open" position.
I'm sure that this is just a mistake by the artist. They probably only had an unoccupied banshee as a reference, unaware that it would look different when in motion.

[Edited on 08.27.2010 5:43 AM PDT]

  • 08.27.2010 5:42 AM PDT
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This is probably oldest "new" find I have seen. Almost decade old. It could have been the original concept of the Banshee or the artist just failed.

[Edited on 08.27.2010 6:50 AM PDT]

  • 08.27.2010 6:49 AM PDT

Oh, wow. Haha, I wasn't even paying attention last night. Nice find.

  • 08.27.2010 7:45 AM PDT

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The Banshee was originally going to have an open cockpit with moving rudders. This was changed just before release, and can be seen on the back of your case with the Silent Cartographer screenshot.

The Silent Cartographer level was Bungie's testbed/sandbox level and was the one shown to the press to flaunt Halo, hence why there's cut content still in the map i.e the Engineer, Bumblebee Lifepod or the Banshee (all still spawnable).

Hell, so much was changed just before release; just watch the videos that play if you leave the main menu unattended for a few minutes. Anybody could spot the differences.

EDIT: You'll also notice that the Banshees are firing straight beams of plasma, the icy mountains in the background and the Gas Giant in the background which looks more like Substance (Halo 2 Gas Giant) than Threshold (Combat Evolved Gas Giant), none of which made the final grade.

[Edited on 08.27.2010 8:57 AM PDT]

  • 08.27.2010 8:55 AM PDT

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maybe they are on auto-pilot

  • 08.27.2010 1:44 PM PDT
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If you never noticed, in scenes with scripted banshees like when they shoot down echo 419 in the last level, those flying banshees are also in the open position. Theres a few other parts in the game that are like that too.

  • 08.27.2010 5:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ghost Unknown
The Banshee was originally going to have an open cockpit with moving rudders. This was changed just before release, and can be seen on the back of your case with the Silent Cartographer screenshot.

The Silent Cartographer level was Bungie's testbed/sandbox level and was the one shown to the press to flaunt Halo, hence why there's cut content still in the map i.e the Engineer, Bumblebee Lifepod or the Banshee (all still spawnable).

Hell, so much was changed just before release; just watch the videos that play if you leave the main menu unattended for a few minutes. Anybody could spot the differences.

EDIT: You'll also notice that the Banshees are firing straight beams of plasma, the icy mountains in the background and the Gas Giant in the background which looks more like Substance (Halo 2 Gas Giant) than Threshold (Combat Evolved Gas Giant), none of which made the final grade.
That's crazy. I never realized any of that until just now.

  • 08.27.2010 6:42 PM PDT

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Posted by: Coviekiller125
Yes, the Banshees are in the "open" position.
I'm sure that this is just a mistake by the artist. They probably only had an unoccupied banshee as a reference, unaware that it would look different when in motion.

Yeah, but maybe the gunner killed the pilots? Because the bodies fall out, and the banshee opens when you kill the pilot right?

  • 08.27.2010 6:56 PM PDT
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Yup, I noticed that the first time I took a good look at the cover art long ago when I was just a lad.

  • 08.27.2010 10:48 PM PDT

Nice find Haha how have i never noticed this before.

  • 08.28.2010 7:08 AM PDT

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There's a lot of cool mistakes like that you can notice with this game. I've noticed that one before. Another cool one is if you sit at the main menu and wait for those in game action shots, there is one shot where friendly forces showed up on your motion tracker as green. Or maybe it was only vehicles showed up as green. I'd hafta go back and look.

  • 08.29.2010 2:22 PM PDT