Douglass C. Perry at IGN has posted a blow by blow description of the Halo 3 trailer. It's awkwardly worded at points-- the reference to "two remaining Spartan soldiers" has some fans scratching their heads, but I think it's just an oblique reference to Kelly, who obviously does not appear in the trailer, and the Master Chief, who does.
Louis Wu at HBO pointed out a short video interview that Xbox Live's Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb did, presumably for his unofficial Xbox blog, MajorNelson.com.
Major Nelson of Xbox Live did a short video interview with Bungie's Audio Director, Marty O'Donnell, at E3 in 2006. This DivX version is transcoded from the QuickTime version courtesy of HBO's Louis Wu.
For those who don't want to bother with the download there is a transcript available.
At E3 in 2006, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, who runs the unofficial Xbox blog MajorNelson.com, interviewed Bungie's Audio Director Marty O'Donnell about the Halo 3 announcement trailer.
Below is an unofficial transcript of that interview.
Major Nelson: All right, Major Nelson, here, in Hollywood, with the man himself, Marty O'Donnell. Hi, Marty.
Marty O'Donnell: Hi, how are you doing?
Major Nelson: I'm doing well, how are you doing?
Marty O'Donnell: I'm doing really good.
Rampancy.net will have its own Halo 3 FAQ of course, but in the meantime, we've taken the Bungie.net FAQ and read between the lines a little bit, just to whet everyone's appetite.
To see Bungie's questions and answers interspersed with my own commentary and additional questions, click "read more" from the front page.
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. View no further if you want to avoid spoilers.
When downloaded from XBLM, the following text accompanies the trailer:
The ancient structure buried in Africa that the Covenant seem to want so much. The Prophet of Regret may have been here already, but he left and fled to Delta Halo.
Now the Prophet of Truth is back. He told the Covenant the Great Journey begins at Earth. But what does he mean by that? What is this artifact, and perhaps more importantly, what does Truth think it is?
At least we know Halo 3 will have at least one familiar face. Or at least a mostly familiar one-- Cortana seems to have gotten another renovation, although the H2 new haircut seems to have stuck.
There are strong indications in the trailer, however, that Cortana is currently undergoing some kind of transformation...
The full-scale devastation of Earth that some fans complained they didn't get to see in Halo 2 has happened.
Well, what do you know, real-time reflections are back!
The Master Chief is back, with even more texture detail that we really, really hope won't pop-in on a production Xbox 360.
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.
As everyone else living in a normal timezone already knows, Bungie announced that Halo 3 is in development for the Xbox 360 and is expected to be released in 2007. The announcement says in no uncertain terms that this is the final game in the Halo series, confirming what others have suspected: that about nine years is enough to make even the most interesting scenario boring to developers that aren't SquareSoft.