By now you have seen the Halo 3 Teaser Trailer for a new game or an expansion or who knows. The point is that in the trailer, the words can be seen, “Maddie, where are you?” So what, right? As it turns out, this is eerily similar to the campaign to find a missing British toddler, Madeline McCann who was taken from a Portuguese resort last year. The case garnered international attention after a worldwide search for the girl was undertaken. Slogans like “Find Maddie” and “Where’s Maddie” were banner headlines on newspapers around Europe.
Bungie has denied any intent to create publicity by exploiting the McCann disappearance, with a representative claiming “This is both an unfortunate and unintended coincidence” on the official Halo forum.
We’ve seen Steve’s take on what to expect from the upcoming Halo 3 expansion, but I have a different idea. I see the pods dropping, but I just don’t see them as the focal point of the video; that would just be too easy. I think, perhaps, the folks at Bungie are giving you that to lead you down a path of speculation that is incorrect.
The more I watch the trailer, and by now I have to have watched it a few dozen times and framed through it to catch certain details, there are lots of small clues scattered throughout the 60 second clip, enough to make me believe that it is more than just a drop ship game and we are marines again. It seems to take place on what is now the New Mombasa city and what is classified as a natural disaster has occurred and humanity has been instructed to evacuate.
My view from the teaser is that this may be a post apocalyptic view of the Flood being unleashed on humanity. You play as one of the citizens of Mombasa and try to stay alive in a city that is ravaged, with your only hope being the dropping pods. I would envision the game to be more like a survival horror game where you must survive and perhaps help the marines.
Thought I would make your lives easier and just put the the new teaser trailer for Halo 3 up for you all to watch over and over. Can you feel the speculation and anticipation yet? Scuba cracked the code of what this, he already has theories and they do not involve Big Foot.
Any remote fan of anything Halo knows a new game is coming. We got a glimpse today of a teaser trailer on Bungieabout the new game. It looks to be official and not a ruse or red herring. Furthermore, this is most likely what was delayed from the prior countdown around E3 or at least directly related to it. We at Loot Ninja are huge fans of not just the Halo games, but the Halo canon as well.
The trailer is for a new game and will be a parallel story to that of Halo 3. Anyone who reads the books knows that there is a lot more going on in the war against the Covenant besides what the Master Chief is up to. Furthermore, the UNSC army has other meaningful parts outside of the Spartans. It is known that a major developer for the GRAW series is now working with Bungie and new IPs.
The game that we think is being displayed here will be a third-person squad like shooter that involves the ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Troopers). These were considered the vey best in the UNSC outside of the limited Spartans. The teaser says, Prepare to Drop. This fits almost too perfectly. The game will expand the canon (storylines) further than just what we see in the games. We do not believe that this will be Master Chief type stuff because most people assume they are saving that for a Halo 4 launch with Xbox 720. The plot will run parallel to that of Halo 3 and I am sure that we will see some overlap in both plots because they eventually converge to the final ending. LucasArts has done this time and again; they use smaller characters to help grow a massive story with cameos of the larger and more well known to make the story worthwhile to hardcore fans.
What do you guys think? I have read every Halo related novel and feel that this is at least a plausible explanation. Above is an screen shot taken of what might be the release date. Thoughts?
We all know about the massive Halo 3 title update and the new achievements. Now, there seems to be 750 pts, not 500. If you go to Xbox.com, and look up your Halo 3 gamerscore or a friend’s if you don’t have it, you will see many of the new achievements have to do with Mythic Maps. We don’t know what that is yet. Furthermore, on these maps which it appears are 6 of them, there is a skull on each. Skulls have only appeared during campaign gameplay, not multiplayer. Hmm. Is there an expansion to the campaign or maybe some levels added in between. There are some multiplayer specific achievements such as infecting people and getting double kill. It appears they will be hidden on multi maps? Who knows. The wait is on. i wonder what the new skulls will do when enabled.
It is hard to believe that Halo 3 is almost one year old. I remember it like yesterday as MS shut down 5th avenue and grown men missed days of work go home and finish the fight. I just got mine the next day during lunch from Target. The new title update will gives us major, and I mean major changes to the game. Playlists are being modified or deleted altogether and the ranking system will be revamped completely. Here is all ye need to know about what goes down as the update will be ready on Sept 23 with all new achievements enabled except for the special birthday achievement. Get ready finish the fight again.
We saw some screen pics from PAX showing new achievements for Halo 3 and Bungie has been tight lipped ever since. Until now. In their weekly update, they confirm that a title update coming later this month will add 10 achievements for an additional 250 Gamerscore points. You can see them all after the jump.
However, the achievements they list aren’t all the ones we saw at PAX, and Bungie confirmed that more are coming, but who knows when. No word yet on when the new Assembly map will be released or what the whole Mythic stuff is all about. Only time will tell, since Bungie keeps everything close to their vest.
This is a pretty awesome compilation of Halo 3 clips, watch as this group of people take sticky grenades to the next level. They use sticky grenades to get running riots and send enemies hurling through the sky to some crazy Japanese music. Perhaps one of the best scenes was when everyone had the Brute Hammer and started to send each other flying. If this does not make you want to play Halo, well shame on you!
In their acceptance speech for the the Edge aware for Interactive Innovation for Halo 3, Bungie decided to show a cool video. Not only did they give thanks for the award, but they showed off some new Halo stuff coming. Doesn’t look like a new game, but some damn cool content coming to Halo 3. Could it be a complete map editor? It looks like we could see some additional characters, since they’re showing off Johnson and Keyes, who got killed off. The biggest thing is the statement made: “even though in Halo 3 you finished the fight, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the ride is over.”
Check out the video and decide for yourself. I have a feeling we’ll be hearing all about this new stuff at the Penny Arcade Expo in September.
Remember the Halo 3 commercial “Believe”? The one where they made all those models and probably made a lot of fanboys tear up with the slow, sad music? Viva Pinata just pwned it. Check this out.
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