- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The background of the image is the exact same as the first few moments of the Halo 3 trailer, before the camera starts panning out... before the Master Chief is even visable.
I think its fake, since the sun isn't directly over the trees in the trailer, and their isn't any "lens flare" at all, just bloom from the HDR lighting.
It wouldn't be that hard to cut and paste a carefully done pose like the one in this supposed screenshot. Blurring the edges of the gun and the arm is a convenient way to sort of anti-alias differences in resolution, while at the same time making it seem like the arm is moving.
If you look carefully, the shimmering armor of the hand doesn't really match up to where the sole light source is coming from. The back of the hand should be duller, since it is in the gun's shadow (self-shadowing IS in the real trailer).
That and the gun's preportions look kinda wonky.