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Subject: The Halo 2 announce trailer -- a sneak peek at Halo 3?

“We are the Mirratord. We strike with speed and stealth. Our enemies will not see their deaths. They will not know their fate. In darkness, we will see light. In light, we will see darkness. No matter the location, we will see victory. If we fail, no one will know. Like a ghost, our presence is a mystery. For the honor of the Mirratord" Join the Mirratord here

Are you all retarted, that trailer is in the game with only a few differences, mainly that the BR in his hands is actually a covenant bomb!

  • 07.02.2006 4:41 PM PDT
Subject: Is the Halo 2 announce trailer a sneak peek at Halo 3?

Good thinking.

  • 07.02.2006 4:46 PM PDT
Subject: The Halo 2 announce trailer -- a sneak peek at Halo 3?
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theres alot of "ifs" in your theory....Its very hard to determine how the outcome of H3 will be. and if that trailer took place in the middle of halo2. then why is he still talking to cortana as if she is still with him?

  • 07.02.2006 4:55 PM PDT
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I cant belive i didnt think of this before it shere genius(no im not being sarcastic)

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hmm, i remember when this trailer first came out, like the spring 2 years before H2 came out

it was the year before the 8 min gameplay trailer

there was a video that interviewed bungie employees, and they said that the 8 min video was something that they had to "throw together" really fast...

...which leads me to believe that they didn't know how the story was going to go at that time...

...so since this trailer we're talking about is BEFORE the 8 min video...

...i don't buy it as being H3 (not even story-wise), sorry

  • 07.02.2006 5:00 PM PDT

“We are the Mirratord. We strike with speed and stealth. Our enemies will not see their deaths. They will not know their fate. In darkness, we will see light. In light, we will see darkness. No matter the location, we will see victory. If we fail, no one will know. Like a ghost, our presence is a mystery. For the honor of the Mirratord" Join the Mirratord here

You guys obviously did not pay attention to cutscenes in the game.....

  • 07.02.2006 5:01 PM PDT
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If chief can speak with Cortana while Cortana is stranded at High Charity, why cant Chief talk to her now?

For all we know, Cortana could have copied herself before entering Covie battlenets, and she could still be with him! Just wait for H3! GOSH!

  • 07.02.2006 5:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: X13Classified31X
NO NO NO! I just started watching it, but it cant be, as you are watching it your here Cortanas voice and she sounds normal and is talking to the Marines, At the end of Halo 2 she was left in the clutches of the GraveMind, it cant be because she seems fine to me in the Trailer!!! It doesnt fit


Yeah but if it all went as planned and MS didn't rush Bungie it would have played out different and as said before, to Earth, Space, Earth. In the trailer I'm thinking first time to earth. So going to space....Gravemind get's her. When chief is back to Earth she is rampant.

  • 07.02.2006 5:04 PM PDT
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I have always thought along these lines, its good to see others that think this way as well. Halo 2 was supposed to be the end all at first, and they didn't deliver on a lot of the early promises because the early promises were so ridiculous, i think that it wasn't likely that Microsoft forced Bungie to cut the game off but that Bungie realized they couldn't do everything they wanted to on the scale they wanted to on the xbox1.

  • 07.02.2006 5:39 PM PDT
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The Marty Army

Ah, look at the lonely people...

Well, how about the Halo 2 "Desert Brigade" wallpaper? That's in a desert, but not in Halo 2.

  • 07.02.2006 5:42 PM PDT
Subject: Is the Halo 2 announce trailer a sneak peek at Halo 3?

when I first saw the title I thought you were crazy but now that I read your topic i agree but theres 1 problem unless cortana and chief are already reunited then how would she be there.
Actually when I was listening to halo3 special of podtacular at one point they say that bungie said that two levels in halo3 that were supposed to be the real end of halo2 were cut out and that they will be the first levels of halo3. So nice job with the idea

  • 07.02.2006 6:29 PM PDT
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Simply... NO...
-Think about it... Isn't earth supposed to be deafeated in H3?
-If you had watched the H2 Bonus DVD you would have seen that it was only a trailer for H2 and that once they returned from E3, they had less then they did before they went to E3.
-If it is H3, why are the Grunts and Brutes not killing each other?(*Grunts get owned*)

  • 07.02.2006 6:46 PM PDT
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whoa. i dunno if this has anything to do wit anything, but lisin to the halo 2 release trailer. araound 1:08, you hear a marine say "regret is bak". jus noticed that and it caught my interest.

  • 07.02.2006 6:51 PM PDT

-Its a MG42!
-My favorite color is bubble shield

I wish it was more like the trailer with the warthog through the city with the brute ripping people out of the driver street, destroying yhe phantom, then going right before the doors closed with the ghost whith the bet you can't stick it.Thats probabl y what they cut out

  • 07.02.2006 7:00 PM PDT
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we already know for a fact that Halo 2 was cut in half, Bungie told us this a while ago.

as far as the trailers and what not being a "preview" into Halo 3... well, maybe, inadvertantly.. VERY inadvertantly.

  • 07.02.2006 7:03 PM PDT
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very good idea but i dont htink its right sry but it is a good thought

  • 07.02.2006 7:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: t00fat
We all can hope. I hope H3 has everything they promised us in H2.


Yes. Hopefully.

  • 07.02.2006 7:29 PM PDT
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I hope Halo 3 is like the Halo 2 trailer. It just looked so much more action packed and cinematic. I'd die for a Halo 3 like that. Hope it happens. Plus, it looked more haloish. Like in the original game, teh weapon models were more of teh screen and it looked like classic Halo. I hope some of you know what i mean. In Halo 2 the weapon models were smaller and the melee attacks weren't as cool. I hope in Halo 2 the Needler gets its spiked boxing glove melee attack back instead of the craptacualar melee it has now. Hope Halo 3 is more like Halo than Halo 2, though by no means was Halo 2 bad.

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Posted by: Ferretwave
I hope Halo 3 is like the Halo 2 trailer. It just looked so much more action packed and cinematic. I'd die for a Halo 3 like that. Hope it happens. Plus, it looked more haloish. Like in the original game, teh weapon models were more of teh screen and it looked like classic Halo. I hope some of you know what i mean. In Halo 2 the weapon models were smaller and the melee attacks weren't as cool. I hope in Halo 2 the Needler gets its spiked boxing glove melee attack back instead of the craptacualar melee it has now. Hope Halo 3 is more like Halo than Halo 2, though by no means was Halo 2 bad.



wow... that's... deep! i agree with you 100%. mostly because this is one of the few posts that make sense lately!!

  • 07.02.2006 7:49 PM PDT

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Or read my fanfic, "Effort Cannot Conquer Faith" -- it won a signed novel from Eric Nylund!

Alright, I've been gone for awhile (went to see An Inconveniant Truth -- an excellent movie)), so let me clear a few things up:

1) I'm talking about the trailer where the Chief dives down from the spaceship, not the E3 one where he fights in the city.

2) Cortana's presence there is no problem -- how hard could it be to splice her voice in after the fact? It's not like she actually appears in the trailer. It wouldn't be too hard to reconfigure it so that she isn't there at all. On the other hand, it's possible that in the original story, Cortana wasn't absorbed by Gravemind until later on, after the space battle.

3) Yes, in the Halo 3 trailer, Earth is conquered. But that trailer takes place halfway through the game. If my theory is correct, then the H2 announce trailer takes place almost immediately after the end of Halo 2, when the Earth is still under attack by Truth's forces. Remember Lord Hood in the damaged Cairo Station bridge, talking to the Chief? "Finishing this fight", etc? That's roughly when this trailer takes place, in my opinion.

  • 07.02.2006 9:07 PM PDT

Check out all my theories and creations at HBO!

Or read my fanfic, "Effort Cannot Conquer Faith" -- it won a signed novel from Eric Nylund!

Oh, and as for those who say that the scene in the trailer took place in Halo 2, on the Cairo station level, this is what SPARTAN-034 on the HBO forum had to say (I posted my theory there, too):

Posted by: SPARTAN-034
If anyone tries to disprove this by saying "Oh but that cutscene in the Halo 2 announce trailer WAS in Halo 2", they're wrong. If what this guy says is true, then Bungie would've panicked, knowing that if they didn't have a cutscene in Halo 2 that was SOME VERSION of the announce trailer, people would get suspicious. So they took the announce trailer, added a big covenant bomb to the MC, took out the plasma explosions ravaging the Earth's surface, and made it the cutscene that ended the Cairo Station level. But the amount of destruction and the level of Covenant invasion in the Halo 2 announce is what this guy is saying is REALLY what happens at the beginning of Halo 3.

  • 07.02.2006 9:11 PM PDT

Hail the SI. Keep It Clean

Or maybe Bungie just likes big cliffies. Trust me, have you seen how many games change from the trailer and then released? A lot. They changed up a few things like the Brutes coming to Earth, sure they didn't put a lot of things you saw in the trailer onto the released game, but its still good without all that stuff. It would anger you by ending the game that way and saying there's another one coming out. It just puts excitment in you. And with the new generation of game systems that came out, why not put it for the Xbox 360?

Crap! I still sound like a Ninja sometimes... It scares me.

  • 07.02.2006 9:16 PM PDT
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the trailer is exactly like the first or second level with the bomb. and mc takes it and blows the shiip

  • 07.02.2006 9:16 PM PDT
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finally - someone with a level head around here. the OP theory is nice, but supported by almost no facts, so to claim its veracity as anything more than a wild guess is is sheer lunacy. it's far more likely that it in fact is the cutscene from the end of cairo and they decided to make some changes.

  • 07.02.2006 9:21 PM PDT

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