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Did you not watch it? He put the shield up because of the incoming plasma bolts. Watch it again and pay attention, you'll see.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, I thought it was his grenade exploding like that :p

Never saw the blue thingys coming towards him ^^

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Great! I loved that gun. :)

The pistol was better :p When I got my 360 I lost all my saves in Halo 1 so I replayed the game and only used the pistol. The way you can zoom in, I really would like to see it in Halo3 :D

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The pistol was better :p When I got my 360 I lost all my saves in Halo 1 so I replayed the game and only used the pistol. The way you can zoom in, I really would like to see it in Halo3 :D

Only if they turn down the damage for it--it was too easy to kill others with just a few pistol headshots.

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sword (which is no longer unlimited in Halo 3, btw)

Thank god for that! Hopefully it doesn't resplenish either..

I hope the shield wasn't the new X button. It's not very "wow" imo. I hope Bungie has more up their sleeve :yes:

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Biggest I can get due to the small size of my monitor...

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I just love that pose :blush: that is just cool. Makes Masterchief special :p

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Threads should be merged. ;)

I started this one because it was related to the UK release but not US but they could be merged. I got a feeling we will see 1080p on this game!

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The girl at the start can't be cortana, more likely a fellow spartan...looking like from it...they both could be romanetically related. Cortana is a brain copy of the director of the spartan program (mum of miranda keyes).

While I do ultimately think that the kids on the ground are both Spartans (most likely John and **hopefully** Kelly), there's no way they could be romantically involved. The kids that grew up in the Spartan-II program see each other as a family. Especially John and Kelly (and the deceased Sam, R.I.P.).

Also, Dr. Halsey (director of the Spartan-II project, from whom Cortana was based off of) isn't officially Miranda's mom, although there's a nice speculatioin about that topic here.

And to add my own speculation, try this out:

The most likely explanation for when the two kids are talking would be that it's a flashback of John and another Spartan (most likely Kelly, since John, Kelly, and Sam were best friends). Other people have correctly noted that if that flashback were real, it can't be Cortana, since she's an AI based off of Dr. Halsey. But what if that flashback isn't real at all? What if, when John was knocked out on the ground, Cortana was trying to reach out to him from where-ever she is with Gravemind. She could have accessed his neural circuitry from where-ever she is and manifested herself as a little girl and then had this conversation with John. Their dialogue would most likely have contained a bunch of symbolism and metaphors that we'll look back at a year from now and say...Ohhh...I get it.

Now what would support this theory? Well, for one, when John is waking up and the little girl says "Time to go", Cortana shortly follows up and says, "Chief, Leave me". If my theory turned out to be true, this would translate into Cortana telling John to fulfill his ultimate mission, which is saving mankind (maybe even at the expense of Cortana and/or himself). As others have pointed out, Cpt. Keyes was the last person to say that to John, which led to Keyes's transformation into a flood form. Since we all know that Cortana is basically in the clutches of Gravemind, and may have fused with him, there would be some parallels there.

And yet ANOTHER theory that has yet to be explored is whether or not those kids weren't John and one of his Spartan-II comrades, but rather Spartan-IIIs from the new Ghosts of Onyx book. The Spartan-IIIs have always held the Spartan-II's in high regard, not only for the work they've done but also because of the near-mythical status that the Spartan-IIs have obtained (which is only fueled by the fact that the Spartan-II program has gone public in this book to boost mankind's morale. In addition, FYI, Spartans are never labeled as KIA when killed, only MIA or WIA). The Spartan-IIIs aspire to be like the godly Spartan-IIs. But then again, why would these kids be wondering what's up there if they've already seen the Covenant, who've killed the families of the Spartan-IIIs.

Sorry for the long post, and just for the record, I still believe that the kids are John-117 and Kelly-087 :D

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I now highly doubt that the boy is John for two reasons. Bungie has already said that the entire trailer occurs on Earth. John has not even stepped foot on earth until the events in Halo 2 begin.

As for the kids, maybe they are related to something the Halo universe sepcifically, or maybe they were there for the artistic pun that the trailer presented, being that most kids will wonder what its like out there with a war coming to them.

I honestly doubt that anyone knew that the commercial when it started was the Halo trailer until out of nowhere, hey looks, its the chiefs helmet!

If Bungie plays this story for all its worth, it will be great and emotional. It is my guess that in H3 we will be on Earth, a 3rd Halo installation if not back at Delta Halo, potentially High Charity with a potential conclusion at Reach.

As for the chief hearing Cortana in the commercial, I believe it is safe to imagine that Cortana is interlaced with the entire High Charity system where she could broadcast a signal all the way to the chief on earth; after all High Charity used Forerunner tech, similar to what she was exposed to in Halo 1.

With that though exists a problem, rampant AI. Not only is she filled with sensitive human data, but now two Halo's, High Charity and Covenant knowledge; she is an extreme threat to UNSC security. As well, she risks being "used" by Gravemind who has shown to interlace with everything in its path to feed and if that happens... light a candle for the Chief.

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I now highly doubt that the boy is John for two reasons. Bungie has already said that the entire trailer occurs on Earth. John has not even stepped foot on earth until the events in Halo 2 begin.

I'm not sure, but I was under the impression that John was born on Earth but taken from his parents at an early age to another planet, where the Spartan-II project commenced. I could be mistaken though as I haven't read the books in a while.
As for the kids, maybe they are related to something the Halo universe sepcifically, or maybe they were there for the artistic pun that the trailer presented, being that most kids will wonder what its like out there with a war coming to them.
Bungie said that everything in that trailer was placed intentionaly by Bungie, not the design studio. So I think there's more to the kids there than just an artistic addition.
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I'm not sure, but I was under the impression that John was born on Earth but taken from his parents at an early age to another planet, where the Spartan-II project commenced. I could be mistaken though as I haven't read the books in a while.

Bungie said that everything in that trailer was placed intentionaly by Bungie, not the design studio. So I think there's more to the kids there than just an artistic addition.

That doesn't mean they're a part of the story either. Just like sprinting is probably not a part of the actual game, but he sprints in the video.

I posted this in another forum:

A lot of you seem to be forgetting one thing: it's a commercial. It's supposed to build hype, not allude to a story (at least not one so intricate as the Spartan past). While them being spartans, or past spartans, or them being a flashback from the spartan who is in the video are all good theories, I think it might just be two kids talking about the sky and space and aliens.

It's the basic commercial setup: go for a 'wtf is this leading to' effect in the beginning (I don't think that a lot of people that are into Halo could've predicted that woulda turned into a Halo commercial had they not specifically been watching ESPN for that commercial), and then surprise and blow everyone away with what it is actually about.

And now that I think about it, even IF they are Spartans, what exactly does that add to the story more than if they are just two random kids. Not a whole lot except that John talked to girls when he was young :p

-Spenser

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John was actually born on another planet. Besides earth (cant remember the name). But it does talk about the planet eventually getting taken over by the covenant and getting glassed like all the other planets the covenant have taken over, in the Fall of Reach.

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I now highly doubt that the boy is John for two reasons. Bungie has already said that the entire trailer occurs on Earth. John has not even stepped foot on earth until the events in Halo 2 begin.

You're assuming that opening scene takes place on earth and that long grass you can lie in only grows on our planet. The boy could still be John if the scene is supposed to be a flash-back of his childhood up bringing on his home planet.

It's also just as likely to be completely meaningless as far as the story goes (they're just two unnamed kids in a field in the Halo universe) and are simply used to build up some interest before leaving us in awe at the rest of the advert, y'know to create that contrast between the silence and the sudden noise of war.

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You're assuming that opening scene takes place on earth and that long grass you can lie in only grows on our planet. The boy could still be John if the scene is supposed to be a flash-back of his childhood up bringing on his home planet.

Not assuming, as stated by Bungie, the trailer takes place on Earth. Chat transcript is a page back or so.

It's also just as likely to be completely meaningless as far as the story goes (they're just two unnamed kids in a field in the Halo universe) and are simply used to build up some interest before leaving us in awe at the rest of the advert, y'know to create that contrast between the silence and the sudden noise of war.

Exactly, that ones point that we keep forgetting. I believe the first part of the commercial was very artistic, it set the tone. In the beginning everything was innocent, very nonchalant then plasma bolt exploding all around. Late last night rabid fans worldwide were trying to decrypt the commercial transcripts. The screams we hear when the chiefs helmet comes into view and suddenly shifts to the war were thought to be the kids screaming before they were killed. Frankie came out and said its was "artsy". In all, I'm sure that everything "fits" into the Halo universe, but the kids are not as important as the rest of commercial.

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That doesn't mean they're a part of the story either. Just like sprinting is probably not a part of the actual game, but he sprints in the video.

But wouldn't you say that introducing characters in the trailer is a far more important aspect than a 'cinematic' sprint?

I'm pretty sure that the kids were a flashback while Master Chief was recovering from his destroyed warthog/blast/crash. Not only because I think the boy is John, but because when the kids were talking it was night/dark out and when the scene changes to show Master Chief it is the middle of the day/bright out. So I think it's safe to assume, at least, that it's a different time-frame and it becomes increasingly likely that it is a flashback.

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Not assuming, as stated by Bungie, the trailer takes place on Earth. Chat transcript is a page back or so.

Nope.

According to KP, the commercial takes place on Earth. It is not specified whether the ENTIRE commercial takes place on earth, or simply the bulk of it; it's possible the initial clip, with the children, takes place elsewhere.

See, you're only half right ;)

http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.f....pl?read=765595

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