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Halo 3 trailer on xbox live now.

Mrbob said:
The trailer makes it sound like this is the last Halo game. :(
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Better to go out with a bang than to run the franchise into the ground. I mean, look at the Star Wars prequels - I don't know about you, but I thought Lucas should've quit while he was ahead. Sometimes it's a good idea to walk away while you're at your peak. (Besides, if this is the last Halo, I'm sure Bungie will just come up with something else that'll knock peoples' socks off. :) )
 
This will be the last single player Halo probably,but I'm pretty sure they'll keep releasing multiplayer stuff...hopefully...>.>
 
I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see them go back to stuff from like The Fall of Reach for games after this one is done...Halo will continue in one shape or another,too much money for them to just not make another Halo game ever.
 
Conclusion to the story arc doesn't really scream "last game".

Halo IV: Rebirth starring *gasp* a female Spartan on Xbox3 launch!
 
Halo 3 is indeed going to be the last of the trilogy.

However there will be spin offs, like a halo game for the handheld, a MMORG.....the movie will only help (I hope lol)
 
A bit late to the DL party, and the Halo 3 Cock Teaser was still pretty slow download.

It's nice to see a desert environment as a difference to the green environment of H1, and the mostly urban environment of H2.

-Ed
 
That trailer looks hot but I'll reserve judgement until I have the actual game in my hand after what happend with Halo 2. How the hell did the Covenant conquer Earth after what happend to them in Halo 2?
 
Systems_id said:
That trailer looks hot but I'll reserve judgement until I have the actual game in my hand after what happend with Halo 2. How the hell did the Covenant conquer Earth after what happend to them in Halo 2?
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The Covenant didn't come in full force during Halo 2, they weren't even expecting a human presence. Its obvious that they have brought their entire fleet this time and kicked our asses.
 
raYne said:
Conclusion to the story arc doesn't really scream "last game".
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Well, Halo is just another part of the Pathway to Darkness-Marathon timeline. They can do whatever they please, there is a vast universe to explore with new games and twists.
 
Gamespot said:
The demo shifted away from the crater to the part of the level you see the Master Chief walking in from. He was controllable, which means that the trailer is pretty much what the game will look like. Lehto was able to zoom in on the Master Chief with the camera, and you could see the many different ways light reflected objects onto him. For example, you could see light reflect off the ground and onto his armor. A new materials system shows the difference between his armor and the rubber undersuit. It's so detailed that if you bring the camera close to the Master Chief's visor, you see everything in front of him reflected in it, right down to the ammo counter in his rifle.

It goes without saying that Halo 3 looks really impressive.
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w00t
 
BigBoss said:
The Covenant didn't come in full force during Halo 2, they weren't even expecting a human presence. Its obvious that they have brought their entire fleet this time and kicked our asses.
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I guess you missed the part where half the Covenant split?
 
Systems_id said:
I guess you missed the part where half the Covenant split?
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Maybe they regrouped, who knows. What we can see from the trailer/teaser is that they have brought a pretty big fleet to Earth and there doesn't appear to be much of a force to repel them.
 
BigBoss said:
Maybe they regrouped, who knows. What we can see from the trailer/teaser is that they have brought a pretty big fleet to Earth and there doesn't appear to be much of a force to repel them.
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I hope the first couple of levels gives us the massive Earth battles that were promised to us. Tons of tanks, jeeps vs. banshees, ghosts, wraiths...I think I just soiled myself.
 
this should answer any questions about the real time aspect of it

[UPDATE]: Shortly after Microsoft's presentation, we had an opportunity to get a close-up look at Halo 3 with Bungie representatives. We spoke with Brian Gerrard, one of Bungie's community managers, as well as TJ Cohen, the cinematics director. Cohen stated that the trailer was a good example of where Halo 3 is going, in terms of fiction. By that, he means that the story is epic in scale, but dark as well, and Bungie is going for a distinct mood, since Halo 3 will represent the end of the trilogy.

The Bungie representatives made it clear to us that the trailer was running in real-time on the Xbox 360. The trailer is set in the African desert, and it was taken from roughly a third of the way through the game. Cohen noted that the constant battling has taken its toll on Master Chief, and you can see that by the many scars and gouges in his armor. The flashes of Cortana seen in the trailer fill you in on the state of her mind, and the Forerunner structure seen in the distance at the end of the trailer represents a pivotal point in the story.

We next met with Marcus Lehto, Bungie's art director, who filled us in on the technology as he gave us a fly through of the locations in the trailer. The crater seen in the trailer is three miles across, and it's all rendered in real geometry. Halo 3 has a new global lighting system that now lights everything uniquely from the same source, which explains just how that setting sun looked that good as it illuminated everything in the trailer. Halo 2, on the other hand, used a lighting system that lit everything separately. Meanwhile, parallax mapping is able to give depth to structures in the distance, such as the clouds above the crater. A new particle system offers different levels of light diffusion to take the quality of the atmosphere into account, and that makes for different layers of light.

The demo shifted away from the crater to the part of the level you see the Master Chief walking in from. He was controllable, which means that the trailer indicates just how good the game will look. Lehto was able to zoom in on the Master Chief with the camera, and you could see the many different ways light reflected objects onto him. For example, you could see light reflect off the ground and onto his armor. A new materials system shows the difference between his armor and the rubber undersuit. It's so detailed that if you bring the camera close to the Master Chief's visor, you see everything in front of him reflected in it, right down to the ammo counter in his rifle.

It goes without saying that Halo 3 looks really impressive. We'll have to wait to learn more, but we'll keep you up to date with any developments.
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http://www.gamespot.com/e3/e3story.html?sid=6149725
 
Well since that article says this particular moment happens a 3rd of the way through the game,Im thinking the first part might be you getting to see Earth's ass getting kicked :lol
 
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CAN'T WAIT

That looks exactly like the final battle area in Halo 2, with the Index in the middle. But bigger.
 
Tieno said:
We won't ruin the content of our short presentation by describing it frame by frame, but we will note that everything you're seeing here is being rendered in real-time on the Xbox 360, using the current version of our Halo 3 game engine. The HDR lighting, self-shadowing, GPU-run particle system and many other effects should make it intact (and more) to our final game.
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Holy shit!
 
Looks like I should've just posted the pics as well instead of just the link... heh heh

U K Narayan said:
Holy shit!
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Yup... Bungie>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>all... ESPECIALLY that visor pic... it's incredibly insane...

I always wanted to see how Bungie would stack up to the competition with their own engine, especially with the UE3 engine - and once again they crush the competition... unbelievable...

All in-game, all playable right now, and it is guaranteed to look even better in the final version...

It's good to be a 360 owner...
 
I'm ecstatic. The trailer leaves little doubt it's the last one; I'd heard Bungie was getting tired of it. Hope their next IP isn't an FPS as well.

Definately realtime - you can tell on a good TV
 
It's hardly even a teaser, but I'm fine with that.. I'm guessing this is going to be Xmas 2007 so they will have a huge production/gameplay release for next E3.

If this does end this Halo Story Arc you can obviously see a prequel like the Fall of the Reach book, and I hope they make a Planetside style persistent world FPS. I don't know exactly how you'd handle splitting it up (one side Flood, one Covey, one Spartans?) but it could sell a ton
 
trmas said:
I'm ecstatic. The trailer leaves little doubt it's the last one; I'd heard Bungie was getting tired of it. Hope their next IP isn't an FPS as well.
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This "last Halo game" thing is kinda ridiculous. They could name it Halo 3: The Last Halo Game, and you'd know there'd be many more. They're not going to up and decide to throw away hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars by stuffing this franchise in the closet after Halo 3.
 
Wanna bet? MS may want them to continue it, but several people in Bungie are tired of Halo. That's straight from a friend who works for MS (and I don't care if you believe me or not)
 
I'm gonna get shot here, but I just finished my X360 downloads of all the trailers and of course I watched the H3 clip first and ummmm....wtf was that supposed to be the "MGS4" visuals of the X360?? I mean GoW looks a helll of a lot better graphically as do many X360 games. The scope was nice with lots of polygons pushed at one time, but the canyon textures were worse than the TGS MGS4 wall textures and the ships (besides the large one) looked like Halo2 ones in HD resolution. There wasn't really much next-gen about the trailer at all besides MC looking better and a good looking crashed down ship.

I know it's Halo 3 and so the gameplay will be ace (I even loved the Halo2 SP because the gameplay rocked so much), but Halo 1/2 were huge visual accomplishments. Halo 3 looks like one of the middle of the line X360 games, wtf has Bungie been doing?
 
Load up Halo2 on your xbox360 and say it looks like the trailer. It surely does not. If anything it looks like the Halo2 wallpapers bungie posted 2yrs ago.
 
I would dig a Halo prequel where the covenant kill all the Spartans.

Just one halo game per gen would be nice no need to over do it.
 
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