Halo 3 Trailer - HD Version

The ad was created by McCann Worldgroup San Francisco and it includes a mixture of live action and computer generated animation. Last night was the only time the commercial is scheduled to run on television, but it is also available worldwide through the Xbox Live Marketplace and Xbox.com. But if you don't have access to Xbox Live Marketplace TeamXbox has posted the trailer at their site in full HD.

[pmx]

The last battle of PS3

[Annihilator]

GoW RuleZ !!!

[power of Green]

Finish the fight, indeed!.

[DJ]

The game just started, hehe.

That CG video was f-ing awesome! Considering how great the footage looks, i think the Halo movie might as well just be animated.

[MoonDust]

It's a awesome game. I can't wait for the movie!

[Ravenator529]

The movie should have been created in CGI and released straight to DVD. It would have been a goldmine!

No overhead from a theatre release and every single person who has played Halo would buy the movie. Especially if it looked like that!

The Halo 3 hype machine has officially started!

[power of Green]

One of the teams is missing all it's key players, but yah the game has just started and it's the super bowl, hehe.

Anyways the trailer gave a human side to Halo in what must have been a flash back before the Halo wars, it did wonders for the game in my opinion.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

with DJ

[Boink]

I don't think I've seen so much excitement from a commercial!

[MoonDust]

When the bomb hits his shield you can clearly see the Halo:CE pistol!!

[Yo Wassap]

How do you notice those things?

That trailer was great, it's far better than just showing clips of gunfights. I'm really revved up for this!

[MoonDust]

http://screenshots.teamxbox...

[Ravenator529]

Not to mention that the vehicle in that screenshot is none other than the fabled "Mongoose" that was scratched from Halo 2.

But we already knew that from the Halo 3 screenshots in the latest issue of EGM.

[Schmitty07]

But don't expect it to have a scope w/ a 3 shot kill

[power of Green]

Does anybody else think at the end of the ad when Chief jumps, is different than the CGI and might be the ingame part of the ad Bungei said would be in the ad?.

[Smellslikepie]

Bungie never said there was going to be anything "in-game" in the advertisement. They said Live Action and CGI.

(I'm secretly hoping you can prove me wrong :p )

[ApocalypseShadow]

a cool trailer.no actual gameplay was shown,but very cool.i think games would be great if animation and camera work were at that level.what would also be cool if the the game was given the option for third person.and shooting in second person like in re4,splinter cell and gears of war.creating that cinema feel.

[kmis87]

Damn that was an awesome trailer, far better than the football game.

I'll be so much more hyped for Halo 3 (fps isn't really my forte) if they can create a great story for the last one and really make Master Chief a protagonist that the player cares about. Historically fps has been a genre where the characters are generic and unimportant to the understanding of the game. So far those flashback scenes look great.

[THAMMER1]

Man every time I see this I get hype.

[Marriot VP]

Imagine this, I heard from somebody that the girl little chief was with was his sister. What if master chief had the ability to bring his sister through the game in co-op. It would be like your typical halo co-op, but this time online with a different model spartan outfit. So that would match Gear's seamless online co-op.

Heck why doesn't he just bring along his whole family and have 4 person online co-op.

[Mr Murda]

There is no mention of a sister in the books (not that I recall, it's been a while), and we can't even confirm that this happened pre-entry into the Spartan program. It could possibly be post-entry and could be him and Kelly. I would LOVE to see Kelly come along with him to "Finish the Fight", of course there would have to be some crazy stuff for that to happen.

[beans]

I love fps games and love how in Halo you can see your full body which pulls you deep in the game! Games in 3rd person are cool but Halo was made to be 1st person except when on vehicles which is perfect for the game! This is honestly the coolest trailer I've seen all year and makes me even more excited about being a 360 owner!

[JIN KAZAMA]

but this game might sway me to get a 360. Who knows, maybe the price of the premium 360 will go down by then, and I will certainly pick up. So far, GOW is the only game right now that truly stands out on the 360. I look forward to more AAA games comming on the 360, which will make me pick one up.

[mellowspaz]

Is that really Jin Kazama, or did someone hack into his account to say those things? :0

[TheMART]

So why does Jin like the PS3 when there aren't even machines to buy and second...

There are no AAA titles on it at all? Strange kind of thinking this guy does towards the 360 when doing the total opposite on the PS3

[joemutt]

If you are dissapointed with the 360 game lineup, then you will be seriously dissapointed with the PS3's game lineup, plus they dont look as good as the 360 versions.

[nicodemus]

Jin's impressed with the trailer, as is most everybody, and if it sways him to get a 360, then why are you raggin on him? Sure he's historically been a ps3 fan, but if he's able to see halo for what it is - an awesome, system selling exclusive - then why are you trying to start something? the ps3 will have cool exclusives, as does the 360, so just leave it alone.

[Antan]

agreed, everything in this thread was going well, even some of the PS3 boys having a constructive comment or two, till Mart popped in!!!!!! Come on Mart, don`t be so quick on the attack, no need for it. They both said they would consider a 360 for this game, which reading their posts for a long time is quite an achievement (though why they have not got a 460 yet is beyond me!!!). Looks good as far as trailers go! though i never played Halo 2 on 1st xbox ill defo pick it up when it lands on the PC, hopefully it will land BEFORE Halo 3!!! Kudos to Bungie.

[m23]

This is the best trailer I have ever seen, this trailer got me so hyped up. There is no gameplay at all, but hopefuly the final game can try and look close to that. Those are all Brutes by the way, Frankie already confirmed it.

[Islandkiwi]

Nice trailer that whets your appetite by showing interesting things without letting you see the gameplay. The assault rifle we knew about. But the pistol looks like the original Halo pistol, which is great because the pistol in Halo2 was worthless, even when you dual wielded them.

But the sprinting was new, the weapon changing was new, and the shield was awesome. I cen clearly see how useful that will be in multiplayer. When you need to buy a few seconds for your team you'd be able to block off corridors, or survive a laser/rocket attack if timed right.

And I love that they provide this stuff over Live. It really does help with that sense of community. All I can say is that, as with Bioware, Halo games are instant, ask not questions purchases.

[Marriot VP]

or even better, when a friend is dying you could throw that shield at them to protect them.

And yes, they are bringing back the original halo 1 pistol. Just look at the old pictures of it, and it matches up flawlessly. So much good stuff.

[BURLY]

I get tears in my eyes everytime I see a new Halo 3 trailer and it reminds me of when optimus prime died early in the Transformers movie.

Infact, I would not be surprised if the Chief also dies in Halo 3 in some noble sacrifice to save humanity. Just imagine Cortana speaking about post apocalyptic hope and the start of a new era, in which the Chief is nothing more than a legend - dust in the wind!

No doubt that the Chief will fight along side the Arbiter (that we got to play with in Halo 2) and there will probably be a new sparten that will emerge and fall in the Chiefs footsteps.

Honestly though, Halo is in a league of it's own. Infact looking back; I can honestly say that for all of the times that I tried to convert a Playstation fanboy to the Xbox camp last gen - it was primarily because I wanted everyone to experience what is truely the pinnacle of gaming - that being Halo.

Sure Grand Theft Auto and other PS2 games may have sold more in total but that is because they had much bigger install bases. Halo is by far the biggest franchise in video games because gamers voted with greater intensity by making the Halo 2 launch the biggest single day entertainment release in history. Bigger than any Star Wars movie, bigger than any console launch, bigger than even Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings.

Never before have so many stores stayed open at midnight and put on the types festivities that were experienced for Halo 2. And to see so many Xbox players stand up and salute a game that we all knew had touched our hearts and rocked our world - was beyond discription and definately a little strange / surreal.

Seeing the Chief get back up in the trailer and then start running directly to the covenant to kick some butt was awesome but for Halo fans it was more than just a cool CGI trailer - it was the return of THE CHIEF!.

The return of ROCK AND ROLL!

[Schmitty07]

When he just ran to the Covenant straight into a group of them to kick some A.

[Xtrm L1481L1TY]

Dude, you need to get out more.

[Silvia007]

You just know they are going to tease you so badly that you'll be out waiting in line weeks before the game even releases and then play it through straight and the only time you get a break is when you feel your 360 needs one.

[power of Green]

Listen here you little blue SOB! i can't find the full anouncment on Bungie's site, but check out Attack of the show on G4's web site because they anounced it as i put it in my comment above, they were under the impression that the ad was CGI mixed in with what we'll see in the game, all i can find is a shorter version of the MNF Halo3 anouncment.

I had a few beers that night but im sure they said it may be Cgi but they will have what will be in the game in that ad.

[Schmitty07]

It's CGI, nothing more.

[Smellslikepie]

Nope, it's CGI and Live action. That's what they said that it's ""not indicative of gameplay"". Which they later confirmed by saying "these images were not captured from the gameplay engine" (talking about the entire trailer).

I, for one, really hope that they can match this. But for now you HAVE to take it for what it is, which is entirely CG. Except for the Live Action.

Well, I'm sorry for being a smurfing SOB. Hopefully, you don't think that I'm attacking you because of all my smurfing posts, it's just I was hoping you COULD prove me wrong. Oh well, smurf happens :p

[PS360PCROCKS]

cgi or not it was pretty cool when he throws the shield and that explosion happens, rocks my surround sound indeed! :) Oh and... "The ad is a mix of live and computer-animated footage, but it won't include any in-game shots." so probably the last scene which looks a little more like a video game is in game in engine assets but not necessarily in game footage, so it wont look like the trailer, but we all know it will still look good...Bungie was definetly the first company to get a 360 machine

[FirstknighT]

Its nice to see a thread from an exclusive 360 game and see no flamewars...even dj and the horrible jin kazuma gave praise! They still have a chance on being a real gamer! :p

Anybody here play Halo 2??? Gamertag please for custom games!

[Smellslikepie]

smellslikepie1 - that's my gamertag.
I play Halo 2 a little, although you'll probably find me on Viva Pinata and Gears of War the majority of the time at the moment.

[Sphinx]

UnmaskedHero

[ApocalypseShadow]

but even when they have something good to say(jin,dj)they still get attacked.that's why some of you don't make any sense.they liked the video,get attacked.doesn't mean they have to play the games you like to be "real gamers".and as for mart,if the only game jin sees to get 360 for is gears of war and halo 3,what's wrong with that?he has the right to choose the games he likes for the system he gets.

and no, master chief is not in the same league as optimus prime(the old one)

[Grown Folks Talk]

downfall of the series. people were pissed at hotrod for getting prime killed, and rodimus prime wasn't going to be given a chance because of it. what happened to good cartoons? the stuff kids watch now a days i can't get down with. they ruined g.i. joe, he-man, transformers, space ghost, ect. the last good one to me was pirates of darkwater. after that it was downhill.

[mellowspaz]

I think the reason why the mart is attacking jin, is because of comments he made about GOW before. Specifically Jin was comparing GOW to Resistance, the number of enemies on screen, and how the 360 cant' handle more than 8 for online play. Just seems a little hypocritical for Jin to say now that GOW is one of the reasons that might lure him in purchasing one.

[shysun]

Good trailer...I still don't care for this game!:(

[f1r3waII K1LL3r]

I am hyped up now on this game, I cant wait for Halo 3, if somehow the game could actually look like that CG(sigh). It was so awesome I really like that Grenade shield. f1r3waII K1LL3r level 29 team slayer.

[holynerds]

the Killzone E3 trailer kicks the new H3 trailer square in the pills

[Marriot VP]

that's pathetic, you compare a 60 second trailer to Killzone's. The difference being halo's trailer was announced as CGI and not lied about like Killzone's. Also how much can they show in 60 seconds???

[nicodemus]

The reason you are wrong is because the E3 Killzone trailer was initially presented as "realtime gameplay," while Bungie was upfront about the Halo 3 trailer being CGI the whole time.

[holynerds]

I hate to break it to you, but they are both trailers. Visually, actually the entire presentation of the KZ trailer (remember that word trailer kiddies) stomps both trailers of H3.

as far as the 60 seconds comment - take any 60 seconds you want of the Killzone trailer, and it would be a better piece of CG then the 60 seconds of the H3 trailer.

[Optimus Prime]

no one gives a rats a$$ about killzone. as you can see i believe this would be halo 3 for the xbox 360.

[Ravenator529]

LOL!

The sad thing is that for some reason, Sony fanboys are still hoping that Killzone will be the "Halo Killer".

Get over it, it's not going to be! So far there are 3 Killzone games on the market and each one of them has sucked @ss!

And all you are essentially doing is comparing two pre-rendered videos. It's stupid!

At least the Halo 3 commercial had other intentions in mind. We are learning a little about Master Chief's past, new weapons, enemies, and vehicles.

The Killzone movie was done just for eye candy. And in turn, it backfired right in Sony's face.

So for all intents and purposes, the Halo 3 commercial does more for its intended audience.

[DJ]

which after a year and a half is amazing, you gotta admit that this was some great stuff. Shield grenades are the best FPS idea that I've seen in a long time.

I can't wait to see how these two titles end up comparing next year.

[Marriot VP]

"While the Killzone trailer is still king"

Fine, like I care if it is. Like it means anything, Killzone just took more man hours and resources to make. I didn't get excited because of the CGI in the halo trailer, it was the new innovations and other features being added.

-Shield grenade
-Halo 1 pistol...at last
-New breed of brutes
-possible sprint option

[ernande]

I never liked Halo.

Now I'm interested in Halo 3.

Mission accomplished Microsoft.

[beans]

Why would anybody want to compare Killzone to Halo? Granted both trailers were great but H3 had that just cool feeling with it's deep story you just didnt feel in the Killzone trailer! Yes Killzone was very pretty and what I hope the game looks like one day but it's not Halo and will never be Halo or better!

[kornbeaner]

When i saw this i thought this was gonna turn in to some stupid ass agruement about the 360 over the PS3 or vice-versa, while some post showed potential for it, nothing came from it.

As far as the trailer goes it looks F'n awesome. I not a big Halo fan as i feel the game tends to be overrated, but the trailer looks awesome and just great. The only other trailer that can even compare would be the killzone trailer. I hope that this game will change my mind because i just wanna have stuff to play all the time if even a weekend rental.
I wish they could release the Halo movie in CG much like they did with Advent Children. Am not a fan but i'll watch the movie over and over if it looked as good as the trailer.

[The Ender]

Wow!
I knew the trailer was going to be
awesome.
But i didn't think it was going to be
that awesome.
For being able to combine magnificent
presentation and hints of Halo related
backstory, I have no doubt that Bungie
is in the process of creating a game that
will epitomize the pinnacle of first-person
shooters.
:D

oh and by the way,
i'd like to thank everyone for
keeping this thread pleasant and
free of hostility,
for once i felt like i didn't
have to bring a knife with me online.
haha.
just kidding.
:D

[ChickeyCantor]

the trailer was well made, but this wasnt ingame......ofcourse the beauty of such CGI is amazing.......but im used to "ingame" cutscenes and not CGI when it comes to halo.

never the less ill get a halo 3 pack when its out...untill then i wont be getting a xbox360

[OminaeYu]

Who ever keeps talking about killzone quit it coz you know the original was crap and you wished you were playing halo the whole time you was struggling with killzone. besides the halo trailer was better from a Directors perspective. The halo trailer was only done cause the graphics side of things aren't far enough in dev to show yet (in the Devs opinion) so they did a cgi trailer to show u some bits of things to come like the shield and the OLD (better) hand gun also after the last explosion the rest of the trailer is in game.

[kornbeaner]

if you weren't in awe of the killzone trailer then somthing had to be wrong with you. As far as the orignal game goes i never played it cause it didn't look that good to begin with. I played Halo and that it was heh. Didn't do much for me. I perfer shooter with a slower pace and with more thinking involved, Gears, F.E.A.R. game like that and looking foward to Bioshock. But yeah the HALO trailer looks f'n great.

[highps3]

Umm I yawned and missed it? Why so short?

[Antan]

Teaser trailer only. Why let all the cat out of the bag? the whiskas will do fine for now.

[PSN Starfleets]

When you are told the TEASER trailer will be 60 seconds long, then - you should expect it to be 60 seconds long.

What is the point with coming up with a comment like that "erm, why was it short?"

It makes you look retarded

[ChickeyCantor]

i guess you are anti-xbox franchises.....but you know damn well that the this teaser looked good, now replace masterchief with a nother character( like....from a ps3 game ?......) then i know your keyboard would be sticky right now.

[borgome]

Where are my undies? I need fresh undies!

[Fresh_A]

Man this game gonna be sweet cant wait...(=

[zonetrooper5]

Just one more year until i and many others will be able to play the final game of Halo 3 on mine and their Xbox 360's. This trailer is awesome and it does show a few more things which could be in the game. Hopefully in Halo 3 we will learn more about Master Chief's past, and yes i have read the books. In the UK OXM 360 theres this quote about the 20 second single player trailer that was shown to them. "When Bungie said blink and you'll miss it, it was right. But we spotted them- Spartans! For the first time in a Halo game MC looks to have back up in the form of other Spartan warriors. We briefly saw an AI- controlled Spartan Run over to a new type of vehicle we've never seen or heard before, jump on and join the battle."

Here is another quote from the UK OXM 360 "The multiple levels of the environment housed turrets that had been manned by both Covenant and human soldiers. Everyone was firing everything they had, or could get their hands on, at each other - all at once! With this much action going on, you might expect some slowdown from a game in early development, but everything ran smoothly."

[Trickedbullet]

This trailer screams CGI movie NOW!!!!!! Who needs actors and such when you have the power for ultimate eye candy goodness that is CGI?

PS. I also thought the original transformers were awsome, but then they made it sooooooooo incredibly stupid I began to hate it and stopped watching it years ago.

[deepio]

Halo 3 is gonna be the shiznit. I can't wait. I'm totally hyped now. I was a bit dubious over the graphics having seen all the rather "halo 2" looking multiplayer screenshots but the reports on the single player campaign paint a different picture with great smooth graphics and a lot of action going on at the same time.

Anyone have anymore single player excerpts from the magazines?

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

I would be trying to push sales of the first two. These sales would realy go up about 3-6 months before Halo 3 comes out. A little more scratch never hurts.