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Well, it looks like the trailer that Bungie was forced to pull by Microsoft at E3 has finally been revealed and it is definitely just a teaser:

Watch the trailer yourself.


Their site says it is a "teaser for one of their current projects" and the title at the end of the trailer says "Halo 3".


The video seems to show New Mombasa, which was the city that you fought through and was subsequently trashed in Halo 2, and a bunch of drop pods landing into the city. The pods are those used by ODST drop troops in the game (you rode in one as Master Chief in Halo 2).

The pre-E3 rumor was that Bungie was working on a game set in the Halo universe that didn't star Master Chief. So this looks as though you may play an ODST trooper who is an elite (but regular) human perhaps defending earth from the Covenant invasion?

I'm very curious to see more being a big fan of all the Halo games.

This might be abit off-track but ive always had this burning question,

Why was halo such a run-away success when i thought that other first persons were way better, even now i think that halo 3 is ok but there are better first persons out there?

It's just personal taste.

I think all too often people get caught up in what is the 'best' FPS or the 'best' console, etc.

In reality, there are all sorts of great games and many of them appeal to different types of people.


I personally love Halo because it put all the elements of a good FPS together so well in a fun compelling universe.

At the time it had great graphics, the use of vehicles, indoor/outdoor environments, multiple paths in some levels, limited weapons focus player choice, a slightly slower movment pace than some of the crazy fast FPS's like Unreal, a recharging shield to keep the action moving, etc.

While none of those items were absolutely ground-breaking, they were put together in such a nice package that the game still is a pleasure to play.


But most importantly, the creators of the game, Bungie, tend to put a lot of love and care into their games and I think it shows. Which is why I look forward to any and all games they create.

Thankyou for answering me. You are the first Halo fan that has given me a straigh unbias answer which satifies my curiosity! =)

Im a RTS or RPG fan myself and have found the PS3 to have better range of them, i dont think that the PS3 is be all end and all and that all other consoles are bad, but to my liking the PS3 offers what i want and even has some nice FPS like resistant and killzone to chill too.

I respect people prefernces and views and im glad you did too.

Thankyou

ive allways loved halo snce it came out, but now im starting to think its all too bright and fluffy.

moved on to call of duty 4 now, just seems faster, loads less lag even at the worsed times, and just seems to have something that hal doesent.

I have also heard of a new Halo game coming out, called "Halo Wars," and it takes place before the struggle against the Covenant, when Reach was still intact and churning out Spartans.

Nofasse 'Eadhunta wrote:I have also heard of a new Halo game coming out, called "Halo Wars," and it takes place before the struggle against the Covenant, when Reach was still intact and churning out Spartans.

Yeah, but Halo Wars is something that's fairly well known and is in fact supposed to come out fairly soon I think.

This seems to be a mod for Halo 3, which judging from the teaser--is the ODST's counterattack into New Mombosa, after the Covenant established it as a base of operation and jumped one of their capital ships out during Halo 2's first few missions.

Nofasse 'Eadhunta wrote:I have also heard of a new Halo game coming out, called "Halo Wars," and it takes place before the struggle against the Covenant, when Reach was still intact and churning out Spartans.

Yes, but that game is being made by Ensemble, not actually by Bungie themselves. Microsoft owns the rights to Halo so I'm sure we'll be seeing more and more non-Bungie made Halo games in the future.

Kanluwen wrote:
Yeah, but Halo Wars is something that's fairly well known and is in fact supposed to come out fairly soon I think.

This seems to be a mod for Halo 3, which judging from the teaser--is the ODST's counterattack into New Mombosa, after the Covenant established it as a base of operation and jumped one of their capital ships out during Halo 2's first few missions.

The funny thing about that is, in Halo 2 it sure seemed like the jumping covenant ship pretty much wiped out the city. But in this new trailer it appears like the blast (if it is the ship jumping away, which I presume it is) seems much less potent than before.

yakface wrote:


The funny thing about that is, in Halo 2 it sure seemed like the jumping covenant ship pretty much wiped out the city. But in this new trailer it appears like the blast (if it is the ship jumping away, which I presume it is) seems much less potent than before.

Yeah, that's what made me skeptical too.

The only thing I can think of is akin to the bit from "Ghosts of Onyx", where the remainder of the Spartans were fighting in Cuba I think it was, at the Black Stalk orbital lift elevator...

/shrug.

Who knows, they're sure getting us going for a buzz right?

A sequel to a successful franchise? *gasp*

I really want them to subtitle this one "Blood from a Stone".

BYE

The final title is Halo 3: Recon, and it's release date is currently Fall 2009. Extended trailer! It's set to be a standalone game I believe, and there has been some (non-final) boxart released.

Also, I am totally psyched for this.

You and me both Dreadnote.
<3 ODSTs.

Squig_herder wrote:Im a RTS or RPG fan myself and have found the PS3 to have better range of them

Huh? At the moment the 360 has more RPG's and RTS's than the PS3, including a Warhammer RTS.

I'm more interested in Halo Wars at this point myself.

Oooooh. Very cool. When I read this I ran downstairs and downloaded the trailer to my Xbox.

Very pretty. I can't wait to play this game. I hope Bungie doesn't keep the hero's face a secret the entire time as they did with Master Chief.

The need for a completely faceless hero is a concept just isn't needed for this game.

I wonder if they'll actually 'evolve' combat this time, of if it'll just be a new version of pixel shader.

I was under the impression that it was just the Halo 3 engine actually... but yeah. Master Chief sucks gruel through a straw.

I think we might be getting an AI squad to play around with during solo campaigns.

I might be wrong. But given that one of the Ghost Recon design team was hired by Bungie awhile before this announcement...

Who knows, maybe I'm just seeing delusions of awesomeness.

The only thing I ever wanted to do in Halo was play as Covenant and kill HUMANS.

PM me when they release that one.

Till then, UT04 is the king of shoot!

Arctik_Firangi wrote:I was under the impression that it was just the Halo 3 engine actually

It is.

Kanluwen wrote:I think we might be getting an AI squad to play around with during solo campaigns.

We won't, it's confirmed as FPS and will not feature squad based gameplay. 4-player co-op (along with all the other halo 3 features like screenshots, forge etc) will still be included however.

Squig_herder wrote:Thankyou for answering me. You are the first Halo fan that has given me a straigh unbias answer which satifies my curiosity! =)

Duh. It was the shield, the player speed/physics and the vehicles. I've told you that countless times. And if you wanted an answer did you ever think of asking one of your friends who just HAPPENS to be a halo nerd? Or did you forget about me? (And Xboxdoes have the Warhammer RTS, and Fable coming out. Admit, you like PS3 because it's got more FF, thats the only reason)

Anyway, it's about ODSTs and is set in New Mombassa, just after the Slipspace jump in Halo2, if you couldn't tell from the trailer. The weekly update over at bungie http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=15806 answered a few questions, such as... it will be a fps, it will run on Halo 3s engine, it will be a standalone game, you will be playing as an ODST and you will get the Mythic Map pack for free if you buy it. Of course, the pack comes out around January, so 3/4 of a year is an awful long time to wait just to get 15-20 bucks off (or whatever the price is, not sure atm)

And btw, i think it was only one of the GRAW team that was hired by Bungie.

The Dreadnote wrote:

Arctik_Firangi wrote:I was under the impression that it was just the Halo 3 engine actually

It is.

Kanluwen wrote:I think we might be getting an AI squad to play around with during solo campaigns.

We won't, it's confirmed as FPS and will not feature squad based gameplay. 4-player co-op (along with all the other halo 3 features like screenshots, forge etc) will still be included however.

Well that's a kick in the nuts.
Squad based Halo has been something I've longed for :(

Yeah, hopefully they cater more towards cooperative play.

Holy Crap this just made my day. I already can't wait.