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Halo 3 Live Action Trailer

Posted: 2007-07-11 01:59am
by JLTucker
This was on Microsoft's Press Conference at E3 '07. It reminds me of freaking "Marines" and "Army" advertisements. "Halo 3. Finish the Fight."

Posted: 2007-07-11 02:32am
by Durandal
I don't get it.

Posted: 2007-07-11 02:34am
by Chris OFarrell
Yeah, uh that did nothing for me at all...

Posted: 2007-07-11 03:00am
by phongn
Eh ...

Posted: 2007-07-11 03:18am
by Agent Fisher
If you didn't like that, try the other new trailer.Right here.

Posted: 2007-07-11 04:22am
by ray245
I thought it's on youtube for a while?

Posted: 2007-07-11 04:50am
by Ace Pace
Agent Fisher wrote:If you didn't like that, try the other new trailer.Right here.
Now thats actully impressive. ;)

Posted: 2007-07-11 09:04am
by Chris OFarrell
Now THATS the shit I was looking for.

A few interesting storyline things.

* A scene where The MC, GS and the Arbiter are standing together, looks like inside a Covenant ship, watching a hologram of Cortana...and she looks like she has a hell of a headache.

* Johnson, the Cheif and someone in an ODST looking suit in a Pelican diving right for a planet (Earth?) in the middle of a Space Battle, looks like they and a group of Pelicans dropped right out of a Covenant Cruiser. Probably the Elites gave the survivors from IAC a lift to Earth.

* A bit, might be Multi player, with the MC and the Arbiter holding chainguns from a Warthog and generally shooting the crap out of stuff.

* One sequence where the MC in a split second gets in the face of the Arbiter holding a pistol to his face.

* The MC standing on what looks like the same cliff edge in the announcement trailer, but with the Arbiter alongside him.

* Miranda Keyes facing off against a trio of Brutes, pointing two SMG's at two of them...(strange that they didn't get the same lady back to do her voice if they are having her appear in game)...

* UNSC Frigates of the same class as In Amber Clad firing what looked to be Archer missiles at something while inside an atmosphere.

Well I'm interested.

Posted: 2007-07-11 09:17am
by Vympel
As usual, Halo does nothing for me, but I did like the Terrence "Kneel Before Zod" Stamp voice over.

Posted: 2007-07-11 09:45am
by ray245

Posted: 2007-07-11 09:48am
by Resinence
Meh, seems ok I guess.

Posted: 2007-07-11 10:40am
by Noble Ire
Wow. :)

Live-Action Trailer: I'll admit, this one did lack a bit of energy, and looked like a truck commerical in places, but I was nonetheless impressed by the sheer amount of detail and prop-design that went into its production. If nothing else, this boosted my hopes for the Halo movie, when it finally gets off paper (and it will).

Game Trailer: Now that's more like it. I really like the look of the gameplay (a graphics boost, AI improvement, and gameplay tweaking is all I really wanted), and its looks like Bungie really added some good bits to te campaign; shooting marines out of the clutches of drones and killing a Scarab on foot? Hell yes. And the story-line looks quite promising as well, although I am a bit surprised that they have Cortana, the Arbiter, Keyes, and Johnson on Earth so quickly. Perhaps you rescue Cortana from the Gravemind early on, or something. It looks like the UNSC/Covenant Separatist alliance thing is pretty much confirmed, although its good to see that it doesn't happen without a few hitches (MC's pistol against Arbiter's jaw).

Posted: 2007-07-11 10:47am
by ColonialAdmiral
Makes me wish that there actually was a movie. I mean, I know that movies based on video games often aren't that great*, but this is one of the best selling games of all time...

*(My opinion)

Posted: 2007-07-11 11:00am
by Agent Fisher
Cortanna, is probably being shown by 343, and Keyes was in a forerunner location, you can tell by the architecture. Oh and it was sweet to see those frigates firing their MAC guns. Also, that scene with Johnson, the Chief and either a pilot or an ODST in a pelican is diving onto a Halo installation.

Posted: 2007-07-11 11:43am
by RazorOutlaw
The live action one lacked energy, but I was intrigued by the special effects. It was something out of the ordinary.

The second trailer was just a boring montage, and frankly I'm not impressed one bit. Ships flying overwhere, explosions, etc. do not always a good trailer make. If it had been a little shorter, sure.

Posted: 2007-07-11 12:24pm
by Natorgator
* Johnson, the Cheif and someone in an ODST looking suit in a Pelican diving right for a planet (Earth?) in the middle of a Space Battle, looks like they and a group of Pelicans dropped right out of a Covenant Cruiser. Probably the Elites gave the survivors from IAC a lift to Earth.
I think that's at a Halo installation. If you look to the left right as the scene pans away from the cockpit you will see the ring.

I'm so fucking excited about this game.

Posted: 2007-07-11 12:28pm
by Mr. Sinister
I kinda liked the live action trailer. It had sort of an Aliens vibe.

Posted: 2007-07-11 01:24pm
by Agent Fisher
From what I hear, the live action trailer was made as a sort of fuck you to the people who had killed the Halo movie.

Posted: 2007-07-11 01:25pm
by Tanasinn
Well, the UNSC in general has always seemed to vaguely echo the Aliens marines. =P

Posted: 2007-07-11 03:04pm
by Seele
Agent Fisher wrote:From what I hear, the live action trailer was made as a sort of fuck you to the people who had killed the Halo movie.
Well according the Ain't It Cool News, it's the 1st of several live action shorts directed by Neill Blomkamp. The guy who was contracted to do the live action movie. And WETA Workshop was involved as well.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33286

Posted: 2007-07-11 04:32pm
by CaptHawkeye
I've got to jump in with Chris and Noble Ire, Halo 3 is a definant must have for me. And the emphasis on single player this time is noticable thank god. Halo 2's single player was *clearly* lackluster.

Oh, and one other thing. The E3 trailer shows me, as always, Martin O'Donnel is a fucking genious.

Posted: 2007-07-11 11:16pm
by Noble Ire
CaptHawkeye wrote:Oh, and one other thing. The E3 trailer shows me, as always, Martin O'Donnel is a fucking genious.
I agree wholeheartedly; he means just as much to the Halo franchise as John Williams does to Star Wars. On that note, Bungie has yet another tidbit for the fans: a free MP3of the trailer's theme.

Posted: 2007-07-12 12:20am
by ThatGuyFromThatPlace
Agent Fisher wrote:If you didn't like that, try the other new trailer.Right here.
Gibblets!

I don't know why, but that was probably the best part of the trailer for me.

Posted: 2007-07-12 12:44am
by Hawkwings
Noble Ire wrote:
CaptHawkeye wrote:Oh, and one other thing. The E3 trailer shows me, as always, Martin O'Donnel is a fucking genious.
I agree wholeheartedly; he means just as much to the Halo franchise as John Williams does to Star Wars. On that note, Bungie has yet another tidbit for the fans: a free MP3of the trailer's theme.
Yay! More Marty genius work!

Have you seen the clip of him playing Karaoke revolution?

Posted: 2007-07-12 01:16am
by Durandal
Now that's a trailer worth a damn. If that live-action spot is the guy they slated to do the movie, I'm glad that it's on hold.