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"re-introduced the Chief, show that Earth is thoroughly conquered, with Covenant everywhere,"

"It is the Chief, back on a devastated and Covenant controlled Earth,"

W-W-What?

When did this happen?

  • 05.10.2006 1:18 PM PDT
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Before people could even start foaming at the mouth and overturning cars in excitement after Microsoft's press conference today, the first trailer of Halo 3 emerged on Bungie's website. And now you can see it for yourself.

You won't know this by watching, but the scene takes place in the African desert, about a third of the way through the game. The three-mile-wide structure that opens up is actually a weapon built by the Forerunners - the race that constructs the Halos. It's now poised to annihilate the Earth. Amidst this grisly image, Master Chief appears, as the voice of digital-vixen Cortana lays out this happy message:
"I define gods and devils. I am your shield. I am your sword. I know you - your past, your future. This is the way the world ends."

Halo 3 will finish the ongoing story that began in 2001 on the original Xbox. As it's dealing with the end of civilization, this game will pack more despair and darkness than the previous titles.

  • 05.10.2006 1:20 PM PDT
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After the 1/3 of the game that the trailer skipped.

  • 05.10.2006 1:20 PM PDT
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maybe... I think hes dreaming or recicving a transmission from cortona. and WHAT is that big dome underground


MAYBE it is a forerunner installation used to kill the flood like the halos?

  • 05.10.2006 1:21 PM PDT
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I'm a BLACKJACKass and proud of it.....
The place to be.....
Ownage.....
The Hax War!.....
Conquerer of Sniper McGee's empire..........

Maybe..............I'm glad the story is darker though................(hopefully).............

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  • 05.10.2006 1:23 PM PDT
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soz but Read the Story Under the Halo 3 Announced: quote from it:

"The Cortana reveal is the first evidence that this trailer might be for Halo 3, but the game's main protagonist is the item that seals that deal. CJ explains, "It is the Chief, back on a devastated and Covenant controlled Earth , standing over the excavation of a structure buried in the crust of our own planet that is the meat of our demo."

  • 05.10.2006 1:23 PM PDT
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I dont understand, if earth deflected the first invasion and the covenant are at civil war. Where did this huge force come from to kill humanity. Then again maybe its not important since this might not even be the way things turn out.

  • 05.10.2006 1:33 PM PDT
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shhhhhhh

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I dont understand, if earth deflected the first invasion and the covenant are at civil war. Where did this huge force come from to kill humanity. Then again maybe its not important since this might not even be the way things turn out.


Let me just say one thing, we do not know that the force seen in the movie is there to kill humanity. Notice how the ships go right past MC and not even see him. Also, when the Forerunner device is activated, you can see some of the ships flee. So, it is a possibility that the Covenant fleet seen in the trailer is on MC's side.

The description says a Covenant controlled Earth, but which side of the Covenant? When we left Halo 2, there was a civil war in the Covenant, so we could assume that the side of the Covenant against the humans took control of Earth, but now MC is taking it back, with the help of the other side of the Covenant.

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  • 05.10.2006 1:36 PM PDT
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the master cheif could be the general

  • 05.10.2006 1:39 PM PDT
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perhaps the first third of the game will be the story of the chief fighting a losing battle to repell the covanent assult on earth with or without the help of the "other half" of the covanent. It sounds like the the next part of the game will be a lot about the cheif finding out the secrets of the forerunners, not about him leading an army.

  • 05.10.2006 1:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: ghost91
I dont understand, if earth deflected the first invasion and the covenant are at civil war. Where did this huge force come from to kill humanity. Then again maybe its not important since this might not even be the way things turn out.


Let me just say one thing, we do not know that the force seen in the movie is there to kill humanity. Notice how the ships go right past MC and not even see him. Also, when the Forerunner device is activated, you can see some of the ships flee. So, it is a possibility that the Covenant fleet seen in the trailer is on MC's side.

The description says a Covenant controlled Earth, but which side of the Covenant? When we left Halo 2, there was a civil war in the Covenant, so we could assume that the side of the Covenant against the humans took control of Earth, but now MC is taking it back, with the help of the other side of the Covenant.


The only problem with that theory is that the covenant civil war was taking place on the other side of the galaxy during all of this. Chances are, that elites arn't all of a sudden going to start shooting brutes because there is a civil war on another planet. It's very possible that WHILE the MC was away, the Earth got overrun by the covenant forces.

  • 05.10.2006 1:56 PM PDT
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But HOW, the Covenant only came with a small fleet in the first place and lost 2 ships. And they only landed in Mombassa, NOWHERE else. The Covenenant couldn't have taken the entire world, it doesnt make sense. Mabye Mombassa and the surrounding area. Plus when the 1 forerunner ship with MC on board comes back Lord Hood is still fighting in space with Covenant.

  • 05.10.2006 3:05 PM PDT
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Some how thoroughly conquered, and devastated earth dont seem to be words chosen to express a freindly covenant.

  • 05.10.2006 3:09 PM PDT