Halo trailers have usually fallen into one of three categories: announcement, multiplayer, and campaign. Of these, announcement and multiplayer trailers are usually very straightforward, so here I'll be focusing mostly on the campaign trailers.
A Seamless World
halo movie possibly 2009 I don't know how reliable this source is so don't yell at me. and if you want to see what this movie is capable of check out arms race that was this directors first Halo short.
Kevin R. Grazier, a Ph.D in geophysics and a huge fan of Halo, has contributed to a book called Halo Effect that looks at the Halo phenomenon; his piece, Halo Science 101, is about the science of the Halo universe. Halo Science 101 is up now at Gamasutra.
GamePro.com has put together the list of the 52 "most important" video games of all time. Because it's a list done according to importance, it means that games that were significant, even if they were bad, are on the list. One assumes that's not why Halo is on it in position #45, which won a spot for "scores of subtle gameplay refinements", or why Halo 2 clocks in at #20 for its innovative matchmaking model.
Awesome O and Pillar of Awesome just announced that they've put together a Halo trivia quiz.
April 4 2007 Eric Nylund author of the halo books announced that there will be at least 2 more books following ghosts of onyx they will be based on showing exactly what was going on every where else while master chief was off blowing up a covenate sacred ring and disabiling a covenate armada on his way back.
here is my source.
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/13188/Halo-Ghosts-of-Onyx-Enjoys-Mass-Mark...
does any body have sheet music for The Last Spartan or Flawed Legacy
if you do please let me know
Frankie O'Connor at Bungie gave an interview near the beginning of this year, and one of the questions I found particularly interesting, especially because I've only recently had a chance to play Gears of War myself:
XCN: Are you influenced by other games like Gears of War, would you consider implementing some things like the Gears of War cover system in Halo 3?
Frank O'Connor: We're always asked about the influence of other games on Halo and recently the 'other game' often seems to be Gears of War. Will the cover system influence Halo? The honest answer is no. The gameplay for Halo 3 was decided long before Gears of War even shipped. If we put the cover system in Halo it would ruin the game because it's not about cover. It's about big encounters and open spaces and vehicles and so on. Gears of War is about cover. Sticking something like that onto our game wouldn't be a good idea. Anyway, there is a cover system in Halo - it's called ducking behind objects and using the environment to shield you from harm. But we won't be putting a cover button in, and it's certainly not the X button that we're often asked about.
Whenever a new game comes out with an ostensibly "new" feature it seems there's an exchange that runs something like this; where a journalist asks Developer of Last Year's Hit Game if they are going to implement Cool Feature from the newly released This Year's Hot Game in next year's Sequel To Last Year's Hit Game.
Whether the feature is appropriate for that game or not scarcely matters; it's a hip and trendy feature. In the case of Gears, it's the Cover button.
Think there's already too much Halo merchandise out there? Too bad. Corgi International today announced a partnership with Microsoft to add Halo products to their "Master Replicas" series of collectibles. No word on if they'll call them Master Chief Master Replicas.
From Corgi's site:
Keeping a company light on its toes by keeping the core creative staff small and outsourcing the fiddly bits is how Wideload Games is approaching the problem of rising game development costs.
Zombie Studio's Mark Long chooses his "games for a desert island" in a piece at Gamasutra today. Not surprisingly, for its cooperative play mode, Halo gets the nod: Halo 1, that is:
Bungie has the Waaambulance, where people who have been banned from Halo 2 matchmaking write in nearly incomprehensible questions and complaints, and Bungie makes fun of them.
I don't have the power to ban players from Halo 2 matchmmaking, not that I would if I could. What I do have is some search logs that indicate people end up at Rampancy.net looking for some pretty odd things.
The guy who shepherded the Halo novels through the labyrinthine halls of Microsoft, Eric Trautmann, has made an interesting blog post on storytelling in games. It started out as a review of the new Xbox 360 shooter Lost Planet, but took a u-turn somewhere and ended up with the conclusion that games, so far, are a stunted sort of storytelling:
The Escapist is calling Bungie a great artist in their piece on how the gaming industry shamelessly pillages the film industry, especially in the area of science fiction. The concept of the article: to make a list of movies so influential on the games industry that, if they had not ever existed, the gaming industry itself would be unrecognizable.
Halo, of course, warrants a mention: