Louis Wu at HBO noticed a new page of screenshots at Bungie.net's Truth & Reconciliation Halo site. They're full screen shots of cooperative play action. They're gorgeous, and all I can think of is... why can't we play like that? (It's a rhetorical question.)
IMG has a mention of Mac's upcoming Halo port, in an interview twixt Tuncer Deniz and Westlake's Glenda Adams. Not much, but its does clarify a few things.
Link snarfed from HBO.
Blackstar has posted a new fanfest LAN play highlight film entitled Work Or Die at Blackstar Productions, be sure to check it out.
Louis Wu over at HBO snagged this one: Not only is the Halo 2 Trailer the first game trailer we've heard of to get previews, but now it's even getting reviews, this one from Monsters At Play:
With all this news of the Halo National Tournament having splashed to a halt, it's easy to forget the little people. With that in mind, there's an upcoming tournament in New Mexico, taking place on October 12. Seems to be a pretty good deal, if you're in the area - site's here.
Ferrex, Jay Weinland, shibby, Kyle Burke, Louis Wu and others in the HBO forum all posted or submitted suggested changes to the Halo 2 Trailer script. The result looks a lot like the one Louis already posted at HBO. We're updating ours in the interest of accuracy. Changes are in italics.
Deimos 3of9 Fawkes over at Subnova put up their Halo 2 trailer stats so far:
http://mirror.subnova.com/hbo/halo2_announce_qt6_large.mov with 1,650 hits
http://mirror.subnova.com/hbo/halo2.wmv with 1,417 hits
Which adds up to over 10GB of Halo 2 goodness served up in less than 24 hours.
With the help of Ferrex, we've put together a rough script of the dialogue in the Halo 2 trailer. There are some missing bits, but it still makes food for thought.
Here's the best approximation we've been able to come up with for the dialogue in the Halo 2 Trailer, with some help from Ferrex.
Later, revisions were provided with the help of Jay Weinland at Bungie, Electric Sheep, shibby, Kyle Burke, Louis Wu and others in the HBO forum (italics):
Pilot: Sir... they just folded inside our formation!
Admiral: Son, I need you to calm down.
Pilot: ... additional contacts ... moving to engage.
Admiral: get your picket back to rally point alpha ...
BlackStar Productions has mirrored the large QuickTime version of the Halo 2 Trailer.
You're undoubtedly downloading the Halo 2 trailer by this time, but while you're waiting head over to bungie.net and read the spiffy new Making The Halo 2 Trailer (Part 1) article.
The Halo 2 Trailer is finally out, and we've got it right here at Rampancy. It's available in two QuickTime 6 versions: a large, 27 Mb file and a smaller 17 Mb version.
They are optimized for playback under QT6 on OS X. They should play under other software versions (OS 9, QT 5) but in this environment there may be problems with full screen playback (so-called present mode).
The small version is 320x192 (doubled), 15 fps, with 16 bit, 96kbps MP3 audio.
Well, now that the fateful day has come, there are a scant handful hours before the release of the Halo 2 Trailer. Exactly when and where? No one has yet said. Xbox.com seems a good bet, as they were the first site to put up a countdown. Bungie.net also seems like a likely candidate.
As for exactly when, Matt Soell dropped a trail of breadcrumbs for the faithful over in the HBO forum: