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7:07 !!!!!!?????

Prepare to Drop
The countdown has ended, and the reveal is... staggering. A new teaser trailer, filled with win. I won't spoil it for you, but I WILL tell you that there is a TON of information in this one. This will be picked over, frame by frame, but the Halo faithful - but even a first watching should get your blood pumping. It's available on Bungie.net, of course (WMP9 and QuickTime, served up from speedy Microsoft hosts), and shortly on Xbox Live Marketplace, in glorious HD. If, for whatever reason, you can't get to Bungie.net, the download links are here:

QuickTime: 180p (13.5 mb) | 360p (33.2 mb) | 720p (66.7 mb)
WMP9: 180p (5.2 mb)| 360p (12.0 mb) | 720p (47.9 mb)
Watch it... and start discussing! (Louis Wu 14:10:03 UTC) (permalink)

Stupid, or filled with win? You make the call.

http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=24038

MAC = Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, the UNSC's big gun. Railgun thingy carried by ships and orbital defense platforms. [/shutting up]

To me this looks perfectly in line with that squad-based ODST game idea of not long ago. Practice your Nathan Fillion accents and prepare to drop, uh-huh!

Not unlikely. DLC utilizing much of what you already have. Just keep the price and install size reasonable and I'm happy.

Posted By: poena.dare #CP#
Date: 2/1/03 12:26 a.m.
In Response To: Re: interesting tid-bit, to those who didnt know. (Yossarian)

> Just some trivia there for everyone.

I also hear there is a website devoted to the game by some guy in Scottlande or someplace. They say he's really crazy 'cuz his wife went into labor the day Marathon came out an she wouldn't let him go to the shoppe and buy it so when they got home from th hospital he cut her up and buried her in the yard and then ate his own baby with some chips, oh delicious chips. So they caught him but he managed to get his copy of Marathon and smuggled it into prison with him and the other convicts tried to take it away from him in the shower so he cut them up and ate them to, in fact he went on a rampage and ate all the prison guards with some chips, oh delicious chips. And then he sat down at the warden's desk and played the game straight through only stopping when he had to pee in a potted plant in the corner of the room. After he finished the game he found the prison surrounded by the Army and there was a guy on a bullhorn named Dr. Quartermass who was telling him to put down the fork and come out. But he managed to escape through the sewers and they couldn't catch him but they found his bag of chips, oh delicious chips. They say he's still hiding to this day in the mountains of Scotchland, the Alpes, updating his website every day using a portable microwave dish and a laptop. They also say of your are backpacking in the Alpes that you'd better not carry any chips, oh delicious chips. They say they'll never catch him to because there are laws that protect mountain people and the police are scared to go up there. But he has to come to a city once a month on the seventh day and he breaks into a house that has a computer and he plays Marathon straight through and he eats anyone at home with chips, oh delicious chips. So the police are hoping to catch him when he goes to the city but so far he's eaten over 3,000 people and 2,920 bags of chips, oh delicious chips so it seems like there is no stopping him. You may think I'm making all this up but it's the tru7h and I know it cause I asked my friend who works at Bungie and he said it's true so it is.

Earendil the Mariner wrote:

Bat wrote:

To me this looks perfectly in line with that squad-based ODST game idea of not long ago.

I agree, but branding it as "Halo 3" doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
Especially when it looks like it might be taking place during the Covenant invasion of Earth, which was mostly in Halo 2.
But I guess if it's DLC for Halo 3, it should carry its name even if it doesn't have much to do with it.

They've had plenty of time to think of good things to put in, and 4-way XBL co-op of cool events parallel to and following MC's adventures Earthside sound like fun. There's a lot to flesh out, making the trilogy closer to what it might've been if planned out and executed with foresight. Nobody knew what the universe would grow into, or that it would eventually stretch to 3 games. Story integration could benefit a fair amount; let's hope. I'm not sure we know the extent of this, might be more to come after this. Long as it's good and doesn't violate canon or get stale, I'm OK.

And because of that, I'm assuming that this video is in no way connected with Peter Jackson's thing?
When the hell are we going to get some solid info on that?

Wish I knew, but I'll have fun with this while waiting.

Nicholas D. Wolfwood wrote:

Yeah, if Bungie was going to show that at E3, I totally understand why Microsoft said that that was ridiculous and no we're not showing anything at the press conference.

Pre-empt complete games ready to sell at full retail for Q4 for a teaser of... DLC? Expanded campaign is the rumor out there based on the description when you download the video on Marketplace.

Which is why it earned an meh from me. I'll be more interested when they announce the details.

I'm fine with them doing their cryptic games but we already had one for Halo 3.

Microsoft's Halo team - and info on Bungie's next reveal
I wasn't going to post this, because much of the information (Payton, Yu, etc) had already been circulated... but then we got a tidbit I hadn't seen before. So: Edge Online (thanks, Michael Smith), along with ShackNews and Joystiq (thanks, bentllama) are reporting that Microsoft is confirming some of the new, big hires of the internal Halo team at Microsoft Game Studios: Ryan Payton, who worked on Metal Gear Solid 4, is heading up the Peter Jackson Halo project, working alongside Ex-Gearbox programmer Corrine Yu, her husband Kenneth Scott, formerly of Id, David Wu, from Pseudo Interactive, and Frank O'Connor, formerly of Bungie. (And, as we now know, Nathan 'bentllama' Walpole, also formerly of Bungie.) A pretty all-star team! Edge also confirms that there will be a major announcement from Bungie at next week's Tokyo Game Show, with reference to the recently released 'KEEP IT CLEAN' teaser. (Louis Wu 20:54:47 UTC) (permalink)

My under.

http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=24091

Heh, Ghost Recon meets Halo...and with no annoying Captain Mitchell...its ftw!!!

It's almost heeeere...

Bungie has several projects underway within the studio, one of which is a brand new campaign experience for Halo 3 that we teased two weeks ago. Now, at long last, we can lift the shroud of secrecy and shed a little more light on what we've been working on.

We'll have more to say later, but for now, check out our official announcement trailer which builds upon the teaser and provides new insights into what awaits next Fall.

As always, multiple download flavors are available here for your furious clicking fingers:

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Additionally, you can view an HD 5.1 version via Xbox LIVE marketplace.

Stay tuned to Bungie.net for the latest information about our next project.

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx … urnextgame

Halo 3: Recon
A few weeks ago, the KEEP IT CLEAN teaser was released on Bungie.net - and then there was nothing. No comments from Bungie, no explanations... nothing. Until tonight. The Tokyo Game Show keynote kicked off at noon, October 9 - which translates to 8 PM PST October 8, or 11 PM EST October 8 (about an hour ago). The Halo material was all shown in the last 15 minutes - the first half was Halo Wars (the Flood was revealed as another enemy you'll fight in the game), and then the new Bungie trailer was unveiled. You can download it for yourself, at Bungie.net, in a variety of flavors, or in 5.1 goodness from Xbox LIVE Marketplace - but it'll tell you that the new game is called 'Halo 3: Recon', it will be available next fall (Fall 2009), and it will show you the fight from the viewpoint of an ODST Marine. There's plenty more speculation and information on our forum at the moment - jump in! Update: The Recon page in Bungie's Projects section contains an acronym - who will be the first to decipher 'WHVIDLDSHBYJSDO'? Update 2: If the trailer wasn't enough for you, check out the Xbox.com page on the product (thanks, Naburu). (Louis Wu 04:13:28 UTC) (permalink)

http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=24154

Ha I called it...Halo meets Ghost Recon...wheres my inflatable Cortana to celebrate with!!

Umm, I mean...yay?!

Pretty sure I saw a suppressor on one gun, too. Quiet, stealth.

In other news, I keep getting new lines lately... wish I could remember 'em all. Other unique stuff too, after a year+. I got a chick Marine to the end of Tsavo Highway as my Wraith turret gunner, and she said something like "I just saw my life flash before my eyes... which reminds me, Chief, you still owe me five credits from last week." Chicks...

Later last night she said "grenade out" when the drones came in during The Storm, and it was one of two friendly fire incidents that kiboshed my first run at scoring there. Earlier, I saw a major flash early, and realized a Phantom had somehow been shot down (!), well before the Scarab appeared. I still have to look at a film from Monday to figure out how the AA gun got asploded when I was nowheres near.

Oh, and I did turn scoring on for both a little earlier. With just my faves (you know, the one Gold and 3 Silvers), I sailed thru Tsavo Highway with over 18k. I did jump the Hog and use the tribarrel to good effect there.