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If you listen closely right before you hear possibly Cortana say "chief! chief!" the little girl says "time to go".

  • 12.04.2006 8:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: SpArTaN117Ace
is there any where on the net i can down load it cause my internet just cant stream it right each time it just keeps playing sound ok but the visuals keep glitching so please tell me there some where i can download it.


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  • 12.04.2006 8:55 PM PDT
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ESPN DID NOT RUN THE AD IN HIGH DEFINITION. WAS THIS A MISTAKE? IT IS ALMOST 2007. WHO DROPPED THE HD BALL?


Relax, I'm sure it'll be available in ridiculously large format on xbox live tomorrow.


I sure as heck hope so!!! The version i saw was blurry, and about 4inches by 4inches!!!


Haha you mean ESPN actually played the ad? In Canada all I saw were talking Beavers & Home Hardware commercials...

You think they would play it on our hockey night over here, seeing as that is when almost ALL Canadians tune in to the boob tube.... Oh well. Wicked trailer in any case!

  • 12.04.2006 8:55 PM PDT

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OMG that was WAY better than Halo e3 trailer OMG it was soooo coooll. in 720 p hi-def with dolby surround 2.1 <drool sound> amazing. it is not online except for gamevideos .com which did not have sound for me at least, so i downloaded it off marketplace on Live i have to say OMG

  • 12.04.2006 8:58 PM PDT
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was the "what if there are people out there wondering about us" dialogue from fall of reach by any chance? i read the books a long time ago and cant really remember...

  • 12.04.2006 8:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: Distain
Pretty sweet, havn't changed my pants yet though...


lol, yea I'm gonna have to do that too

  • 12.04.2006 9:00 PM PDT

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I loved the trailer. The shield grenade is totaly sweet. I am pretty sure that they are all brutes at the end. they all have the new Brute gun in their hands.(i can't believe that I can't remember the name.) Love it I can't wait to play through the story.

  • 12.04.2006 9:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: NEVERFEAR
. I am pretty sure that they are all brutes at the end. they all have the new Brute gun in their hands.(i can't believe that I can't remember the name.)


then wtf are they wearing? and why are they so small?

  • 12.04.2006 9:06 PM PDT
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  • 12.04.2006 9:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: Leanord L Church
I think I understand what happened...ok, it was kind of out of sequence and was sorta wrong but here it goes. Basically it was saying that MC and Kelly we're in the same field that he now is battling at and he was always wondering, maybe I can go up there somtime and meet some creatures, but in reality he met some that want to kill him. The thing that is wrong about that is this, he was never on earth untill the war if I am correct, so how was he there when he was a kid, he was raised on reach untill keys and the halsey came and took him to a training center to become a spartan. But helkl yes the trailer was kick ass! Graphics are great and did you see when he jumps from the hill, the friggin elites know their place, they ran away! GREAT JOB BUNGIE!




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That was Master Chief and Kelly there so it did start with him, just a kid version. In the books it explains. His name is John BTW and the girl was Kelly a friend of his.


dude if you know anything about halo you would just safely assume like everyone else that the beginning of that trailer was just flashback from reach and the helmet going from the flashback to the fight was just a little eye candy also for all the people saying that the infamous x button might be the shield you could be wrong cause he did throw down that weapon, I'm not calling it a grenade cause they've already confirmed that there are only three types and you'll hold a max of two each, and that could have activated the shield cause the trailer was supposed to have live action in it but that could also be some more eye candy.

  • 12.04.2006 9:11 PM PDT

Yea that grenade looks awesome, I wonder if it would actually be the new x button function, what if it were just a new grenade that you threw on the ground like normal? also sum1 said earlier that that big cloud when he gets up looks like a nuke but i think it looks more like the cloud above the structure in the E3 trailer(you can see lighting in it), so maybe he's close to there. btw it might be cool if they reconsidered that old holster your weapon and sprint thing.(x button mayb?)

  • 12.04.2006 9:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: NEVERFEAR
. I am pretty sure that they are all brutes at the end. they all have the new Brute gun in their hands.(i can't believe that I can't remember the name.)


then wtf are they wearing? and why are they so small?


the brutes didn't look too small in 720p on my 57"

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apparently the brutes have totally taken over the elite's former role, including their armor. Also, look at the wraiths. Dont they look different? Brute Wraiths?O_o

Neverfear, It's called a spike rifle

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that boy was master cheif as a child.

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ya blah blah we all have HDTVs, compare them to the brute in the center, they look nothing alike what so ever. and Bungie describes the brutes as having skin thick enough to not wear armor, so if those are brutes, why are they decked out in full battle armor?

  • 12.04.2006 9:15 PM PDT
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bungie's got some splainin to do! with all these new concepts, i'm now VERY interested in what they're gonna come out with next and how the final game is gonna look and feel like. it was the perfect add, give a little and watch the public (like me) go crazy over it.

  • 12.04.2006 9:20 PM PDT
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Many are the woes of the wicked,
but the LORD's unfailing love
surrounds the man who trusts in him.

Remember guys that New Mombassa was completely destroyed when the Prophet bugged out into Slipstream in H2. The resulting explosion defintiely leveled the city. Also, if the big cloud that we see was the same cloud we saw over the structure in the E3 announcement trailer, then you are saying that the cheif is two places at once. HEck, maybe it is. It would make sense right, because the it looks like the Master Chief is walking toward the huge structure in E3 having just battled right? But wait. The huge structure in the background of E3; where is it in this ad?

Food for thought.

Also, before you say its not Earth, look at the scene with John and 'Kelly' The shot where he says "someone up there watching us down here deal.", I think you can see the moon behind the grass. But this is Bungie, and they are way too good to let it all off this easy.

Is there a high res version up at all?


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The brutes have all that extra armor cause Master Chief is gunning straight for them and that's not a good place to be also there is a new version of the Ghost just for brutes that has been confirmed it's a different color and the wings are bent upwards and somehow all that makes it look tube like.

  • 12.04.2006 9:30 PM PDT
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like irishproud34 said above
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apparently the brutes have totally taken over the elite's former role, including their armor.
Like in halo 2, why did the Brute high guards where the elites' armor then? its to show that they are replacing the elites

  • 12.04.2006 9:32 PM PDT
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Remember guys that New Mombassa was completely destroyed when the Prophet bugged out into Slipstream in H2. The resulting explosion defintiely leveled the city. Also, if the big cloud that we see was the same cloud we saw over the structure in the E3 announcement trailer, then you are saying that the cheif is two places at once. HEck, maybe it is. It would make sense right, because the it looks like the Master Chief is walking toward the huge structure in E3 having just battled right? But wait. The huge structure in the background of E3; where is it in this ad?

Food for thought.

Also, before you say its not Earth, look at the scene with John and 'Kelly' The shot where he says "someone up there watching us down here deal.", I think you can see the moon behind the grass. But this is Bungie, and they are way too good to let it all off this easy.

Is there a high res version up at all?




At that age John wasn't anywhere near Earth he was on Reach the planet that got glassed in the book The fall of Reach.

  • 12.04.2006 9:32 PM PDT
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all this format and quality aside where can i get my hands on a quicktime version for my ipod!

  • 12.04.2006 9:39 PM PDT
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This is going to sound a bit ansurd, so let me make my thoughts implicitly clear.

I thought that the commercial was great. It made me *want* to see a Halo movie. I think that two hours of this kind of stuff would be epic. But this is ~not~ Halo 3. I can distinguish between the two, and I appreciate how Bungie isn't trying to pull a Guerilla Games and say that it's "Real Time" or "Actual Gameplay;" to the contrary, they've made it very clear that it is in fact pre-rendered.

So a game it is not, but that doesn't mean that *I* don't like it. It actually made my friend mad, though.

My friend is a tried and true graphics whore. He bought Gears of War, naturally, but found things to bicker at in that, and refuses to buy games that don't look "next gen." When he saw the commercial, he rightly was struck with disbelief "That ~can't~ be gameplay..."

I responded that of course it wasn't. What made him upset was that Bungie should even show that on TV without proclaiming it wasn't actual gameplay in big bold letters before it started. I asked if they had would it have mattered, and he said that no, because the game still won't look that good. He says the ad was showing something that doesn't exist, and it soured him on Halo 3, already. Especially when I suggested it might not come out 'til NEXT November. :-\

Well, again, I have no beef with it. If Bungie put up Alpha level graphics, the fanboys would riot. Placeholders? Why are the textures so flat? Is this what the final game will look like?

No, Bungie made the right call. They developed an ad that would make you want to take part in the Halo experience, and tonight, thousands of people bought it up, hook line and sinker.

Cheers, Bungie, and all you forum users. Pleasant dreams of saving the world from the apocalypse.

"*This* is the way the world ends."

  • 12.04.2006 10:05 PM PDT
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Psalm 32:10

Many are the woes of the wicked,
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More meaningless analysis. I would also like to second LordGringo.

Take back everything I said earlier. I just watched the 780 version of it and saw several things.

First, the huge cloud in the background DOES look a lot like the cloud over the Forerunner structure in the E3 trailer, it even has the hole in it like a donut. We also know that the planet the Chief is on in the E3 trailer is Earth. So, if it is the same cloud in both then its Earth.

I am 97% convinced that the 'X' button does not activate a shield. Then there would be no point for his MJOLNIR shield system, unless this is some new feature that Bungie is freaking us out with just to cause confusion.

Another thing, the troops that the MC is jumping on are brutes. I am 99% sure of it. Look at their toes and compare them with images we already have. If they are a new breed of brutes, then I hope they are the only new race in H3. Any more races and I think things would be getting a little two wild. We need to keep it real.

The Chief has new armor, or gloves, or both. I am 100% sure of the gloves. I am pretty sure we knew this from E3 but anyway....

To Bungie: The new Covie tanks are truly spectacular. Props to you guys. I sincerely hope to see some of the realistic things that we saw in the ad incorporated into gameplay. It would be tight if the chief could holster both weapons and sprint, or even if there was a sprint option. I know this sounds demanding and I know you are delivering another trendsetter, but I would love to see the Chief's motions a little more life-like or fluid.

CG's make me greedy.

Go Bungie. Keep the brainchilds comin'.

[Edited on 12/4/2006]

  • 12.04.2006 10:13 PM PDT
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The Ad was very cool. It is a pack of Brutes he's jumping into as most are carrying the Spiker rifle.

My guess from the ad is that the X button will be a sprint feature, because we all saw the Chief hall some major a$$ towards that cliff. The shield "device" was very cool and hope it finds it's way into the game.

Man Spring seems soooo far away and November 2007 too far. Come on, we all know it makes logical sense we will see H3 in Nov, right in line with a perfect 3 year cycle. Its like the Star Wars movies, May every three years, then a 20 year break. Tune back in in November 2027 for the Halo prequels. ;)

  • 12.04.2006 10:25 PM PDT
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"Do you ever wonder what's up there?" "Like what?"
"Maybe someone up there was wondering what it's like here." "I guess."
"Do you think we'll ever meet them?" "I hope so. Don't you?"
"Do you think we'll ever meet them?"

"Chief! Is anyone out there? Chief? Marines! Fall back now!"-radio chatter
"Any sign of the chief?"-Sgt Johnson (how do i know?)--->
"Negative Sarge. I think we lost him."-Marine
"Not yet."-Master Chief


Note that in between the second "Do you think we'll ever meet them?" and "Chief!" (quoted above), Kelly (or whoever) says "Time to go" and Cortana says "Chief, leave me." I've listened to that part over and over (in addition to watching the trailer over and over) and I'm positive that's what she says (not "Chief... Chief").

  • 12.04.2006 10:29 PM PDT