Transcript of Major Nelson's Interview With Marty O'Donnell At E3 2006

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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.

Halo 3 E32006 Announcement Trailer H.264 .MOV

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:

Is This The Ark?

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?

Halo 3 E32006 Announcement

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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.

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