- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I'm sorry to break it to you but,
"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."
The humans were defeated, and the Earth is pretty damned war torn. Did you see the ruined new mombasa in the background? There's probably an insurgence of humans left, but nothing more. However this doesn't explain the box cover they have on ign.
http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/object/734/734817/H alo3_CantBeMoreRealThanDisBox_360-Boxartboxart_160w.jpg
There seems to be plenty of army left in that pic, but who knows? The covenant do have majority control of Earth, and a massive fleet.