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Subject: Why does everything happen in Africa?
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Because Africa is were civilization started, and if were talking about humans being the forunners, the forunners started their life in Africa, so why not put the ark there also !

  • 05.09.2006 6:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: sora_flair
Because no other game does Africa.



Yeah, how many games do you see being based in Australia aswell

For all we know, what we saw in that Movie could be in Australia....Most of Australia is Desert....that Movie was in the Desert.....

  • 05.09.2006 6:17 PM PDT
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The forunners were the ancestors of the humans.They put the ARK on africa.After all,the first humans were on africa.

  • 05.09.2006 6:23 PM PDT
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It's a product-placement to boost African tourism?...

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Africa also has lots of AIDS so don't complain about everything happening in Africa unless you want to die of AIDS...which you don't

  • 05.09.2006 6:25 PM PDT
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The Lion King lives there!

  • 05.09.2006 6:26 PM PDT

Another reason could be to have a variety of different levels in the game, i mean africa has jungles, deserts, big cities, mountains, is along the ocean, and it has a lot of history, and mystery to it.

  • 05.09.2006 6:28 PM PDT
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its the ark of the covenant!!!!!!! the covenant come to earth to use it. it controls all of the halos in the universe. !!!!!!!! i think in h3 while mc fights to get to ark you fight as the arbiter againts the flood to get back cortona!!!!

  • 05.09.2006 6:31 PM PDT
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http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=219534 88&player=Neuvost

Africa is where the first humans ever walked. It is the beginning of human civilization. Plus, it has enough uncharted area to hide the Ark underground. Plus, if Mombassa is the only place the Covenant decided to land in Halo 2, don't you think it was for a reason? It would be silly to change the area of the planet that the Covenant are interested in now.

  • 05.09.2006 6:31 PM PDT
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cause thiers lions there.

  • 05.09.2006 6:33 PM PDT
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Because it's the Cradle of Life Brainiac, and because everything religious just about happens there. Read up alittle, will ya?

  • 05.09.2006 6:33 PM PDT
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Bungie didn't like how the brotha's and sista's were left out.


Posted by: spartan0369
Africa is teh shiznit, yo.

Or that.^

  • 05.09.2006 6:35 PM PDT

"There is no surer sign of insanity than trying the same thing repeatedly expecting different results."
-Albert Einstein

Because all good sci-fi stories take place in dry, arrid, dessert like places: Firefly, Star Wars (Tatooine), Star Trek (sometimes), Dune, Lawrence of Arabia, oh wait, that's not sci-fi.

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Humans are originaly from Africa. If a powerful artifact is on this planet than Africa would be the place.

  • 05.09.2006 6:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: i r spartan
Bungie didn't like how the brotha's and sista's were left out.


Posted by: spartan0369
Africa is teh shiznit, yo.

Or that.^


Dude, theirs have Sgt. Johnson, we need no one else. And he can't die. *Wipes a tear*

  • 05.09.2006 6:39 PM PDT

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New and old mombassa, Zanzibar, and now this


When you say "now this" are you refering to the dome? If you look in the backround you can see what might resemble part of the bridge from (New Mombasa I think) so it might be the same location...

Bungie says in the Halo3 section that the ancient artifact is uncovered in the sands of Africa. Also, going along with the life originating in Africa, that is exactly what I was going to say, according to Halo the forerunners built the ark in Africa and then they left the ark to become what we now know as Humans, this explains why the ark is there

[Edited on 5/9/2006]

  • 05.09.2006 6:40 PM PDT
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As most people here have pointed out, Africa is the cradle of civilization. Furthermore, Africa hasn't been as well excavated and developed as the rest of the world, save Antarctica (where I expected the Ark to be located before watching this teaser), and there's thus a lesser chance of human's finding Forerunner artifacts.

Problem is, Africa doesn't exactly have very dynamic terrain (in the area that Halo focuses on, I know the continent is wildly diverse), so the fantastical outdoor levels as seen in Halo 1 might be absent. Unless yet another Halo (s?) come into play.

  • 05.09.2006 6:41 PM PDT
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it hink that The 4got10 Furby is right.... seriously

  • 05.09.2006 6:43 PM PDT
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((( Ephemeral Psychogenic Fugue )))

LOL what's wrong about Africa ?

  • 05.09.2006 6:47 PM PDT
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Because Sgt. Johnson will get to use a spear.



But yeah seriously what everyone else said...

  • 05.09.2006 6:50 PM PDT
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well first of all, human history traces back to the first humans comming from africa, scientificly not religously. the ark, the weapon to activate all halo installations 1-7 is from the ark, which is the main point of the forerunners on earth. the human race is decendents of the forerunners, believed to be heritics banished from the forerunner homeplanet according to the covenant. thats why at the end of halo 2, the monitor says that all the halos are ready to fire on demand from the ark, which the arbitor asks, then it shows earth. everything can change, so dont i wont get cocky. i believe that the arbitor has traveled to earth on many covenant assault carriers, and also many battlecruisers which are the size of unsc's the class marathon cruiser. i have predicted that elites have allied with the human unsc to stop the covenant loyalist side form activating the ark, which they think will take them to glorious salvation. humans need to get up and try to evacuate all humans and inerstellar bomb earth, to save mankind and every other living organism in the milky way. the unsc is not going to win at a front to front battle with the covenant, we will just have to trust the chief and marine ground forces

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Well everything happens in Africa because they can and if u make the game than make it somewhere else if u want i mean does it matter.

and what every1 else said its the cradle of life.

omg the forerunners were black?

Sgt johnson no longer feels alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 05.09.2006 6:57 PM PDT

When the Master Chief was on that ledge, I was expecting to hold up a baby lion, and a whole bunch of Covenant would bow, like in lion King.

  • 05.09.2006 7:00 PM PDT
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crap sry didnt see meh post...

[Edited on 5/9/2006]

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The country is poor, so they need to know about modern tech and a sympathetic pat on the back. Even though Africa has cool monkeys. And parrots.

  • 05.09.2006 7:02 PM PDT

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