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Postby Forerunner » Wed May 10, 2006 7:59 am

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Bungie Shocks World with Surprise Game Announcement

Bungie announces Halo 3, the third and final game in the Halo Trilogy. Halo 3 will be released for Microsoft's Xbox 360 in 2007.

Release Date : 2007
Platform : Xbox 360
Players : TBA
Online Enabled : Yes (Xbox Live)
Type : First Person Shooter
Publisher : Microsoft Game Studios

Halo 3 is the third game in the Halo Trilogy and will provide the thrilling conclusion to the events begun in Halo: Combat Evolved. Halo 3 was first revealed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on May 6th, 2006. Halo 3 will be available for Xbox 360 in 2007.

Halo 3 will pick up where Halo 2 left off. The Master Chief is returning to Earth to finish the fight. The Covenant occupation of Earth has uncovered a massive and ancient object beneath the African sands - an object who's secrets have yet to be revealed. Earth's forces are battered and beaten.

The Master Chief's AI companion Cortana is still trapped in the clutches of the Gravemind - a horrifying Flood intelligence, and a civil war is raging in the heart of the Covenant. This is how the world ends...

The game was revealed to the world at the Microsoft press conference at Grauman's Chinese Theater, in Hollywood, CA. By the time you read this, the announcement trailer should be available for download on bungie.net and directly to your Xbox 360, in full HD glory from Xbox Live Marketplace. Read no further if you want to avoid spoilers.

Nobody saw it coming. Halo 3! Who knew? For the last year or two, people have speculated about what our next project was and surprisingly, in all that time, not a single person guessed that it would be Halo 3. Not one.

We declare it the best kept secret ever.

Sillhouette through the wreckage

Seriously though, it's been a chore biting our tongues on this one. Call it a combination of studio secrecy, corporate secrecy, Bill Gates already announcing it four times and, you know, whatever.

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.

"The trailer was built to have minimum impact on the development process"

We demonstrated the real-time nature of the demo after the press conference (thanks to our friends at Pioneer with awesome audio-video assistance) to a small group of reporters, so we'll wait and see what their judgment on the presentation was, but you should feel free to make your own.

The trailer was built to have minimum impact on the development process, and while it required long hours and hard work from many, many Bungie staffers, it utilizes real-game assets, fiction and locations from parts of the "real" game.

The Chief is back.

In fact, it's the stuff it doesn't contain that gives it a strange kind of context. You can see how detailed the Chief is, but that detail applies to our other, unseen, unrevealed characters, vehicles, environment and so on. There's no AI visible in the demo, no multiplayer, and the entire thing has been left deliberately subdued both to give scale to the artifact and because this is our announcement. The real stuff will come later.

Fans of Halo fiction will be able to guess at a vast array of possibilities, even from this short piece, and discuss them in our newly launched Halo 3 Forum. For those new to the series, we'll make every effort to bring you up to speed on the story in forthcoming Bungie.net updates. We'll also be resurrecting the true purpose of the Update-proper - a weekly diary on the progress of the game that has been stymied recently, by the absence of (reveal-able) information.

Of course the trailer itself is a teaser - with no multiplayer, a single Earth-based locale, none of our sweet new AI or gameplay technologies. No physics to speak of, no new features other than a sneak peek at the graphics and audio engines?but the other stuff is there, and we'll reveal more as time goes on.

"Cortana and the Chief being a galaxy apart is a situation we haven't seen before"

CJ Cowan, Bungie's director of cinematics discussed one of the most startling moments in the piece, the return of Cortana, "Given the variety of character and story arcs at the end of Halo 2, we wanted to boil down our announcement to a few key threads. Cortana and the Chief being a galaxy apart is a situation we haven't seen before, and is something that is a powerful component to Halo 3. We are using her transmissions in the demo to give the viewer a few subtle clues to her situation and state of mind, without revealing any specifics we want to save for the game itself."

Cortana

The Cortana reveal is the first evidence that this trailer might be for Halo 3, but the game's main protagonist is the item that seals that deal. CJ explains, "It is the Chief, back on a devastated and Covenant controlled Earth, standing over the excavation of a structure buried in the crust of our own planet that is the meat of our demo...


For the full article, as well as pictures and the E3 announcment trailer go Here.
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Postby Fitz Tayo » Wed May 10, 2006 9:05 am

Yeah... but it's on an X-Box.
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Postby Greatchickenman » Wed May 10, 2006 3:12 pm

Bungie Shocks World with Surprise Game Announcement



The beginning of the bullshit.
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Postby Teenr0cker » Wed May 10, 2006 4:50 pm

Halo three:The Quest for more money...


no, that can't be right...


Halo Three:Nobody saw it coming...

hmmm



Halo Three...So RVB can do another crossover...no...


Halo Three: So people will buy the 360, just like we did with the Xbox and the first 2 halos.


Yeah, just sounds right...
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Postby Sage Of The Wise » Wed May 10, 2006 5:16 pm

Shocking? Next your going to tell me you were surprised by Sony ripping off Nintendo yet again with its "6 points of freedom" bullshit.
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Postby Forerunner » Wed May 10, 2006 5:46 pm

Yeah ok, so maybe it's not shocking, but if you're gonna completely ignore the awesomness that is halo 3 because of one word then you're all morons.
and Teen you're just an ass.

Can't you be positive for once, just because you may not like it is no reason to insult it causing other people to be discouraged.
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Postby Burning_Flame » Wed May 10, 2006 5:55 pm

Teenr0cker wrote:Halo three:The Quest for more money...

YAY Spaceballs reference.
Well The only thing I've gotten out of Halo is multiplayer, and thats because its all my friends play.
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Postby Strayed Wanderer » Wed May 10, 2006 11:33 pm

Not a bad trailer movie.
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Postby Forerunner » Thu May 11, 2006 1:02 am

Heh, I havn't seen it yet... my computer would have taken 13 hours and 43 minutes to download it.
I'm gonna wait till someone at school gets it then bum it off them this weekend.
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Postby Sage Of The Wise » Thu May 11, 2006 5:20 pm

Yeah ok, so maybe it's not shocking, but if you're gonna completely ignore the awesomness that is halo 3 because of one word then you're all morons.

Can I ignore its awesomness of halo 3 because of the two sub-par games that are Halo 1&2?
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Postby Telephalsion » Fri May 12, 2006 12:17 am

Did anyone doubt Halo 3 was going to be made?
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Postby Greatchickenman » Fri May 12, 2006 5:32 am

Yes, a CGI movie really shows me how awesome Halo 3 will be.
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Postby EmperorJeramyu » Fri May 12, 2006 5:37 am

Forerunner wrote:Can't you be positive for once, just because you may not like it is no reason to insult it

Uhhh...
causing other people to be discouraged.

If you feel "discouraged" because someone insulted a videogame that you like, I think there are more issues there than just someone insulting a game.
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Postby Teenr0cker » Fri May 12, 2006 8:13 am

Telephalsion wrote:Did anyone doubt Halo 3 was going to be made?



Thus my list of possible titles.
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Postby Sling » Fri May 12, 2006 12:15 pm

The only good thing to come from Halo was RvB.
In this day and age, an era where there are people who actually throw shit at each other, anything, could be possible.
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