I think that the covenant found earth by following the Master Chief's Ship back home.

When you see g4 that little rodot thing.
He was messing with the control panel and he said "so much infomation why would you want to destroy it". So i think he found the info when he was surfing through the core.

The Covenant went through all the databases on the planet REACH and found it there, duh dummies

Well said. I picked up on that Aliens style vibe as well. I like it. I hope bungie uses lighting effects like the red ones seen in the ship, all over the game. I also hope this game has a darker, more scary feel to it, like all the games in the Marathon series. Sometimes those games would scare the ever-loving crap out of me. As for the MC's suit... I like the look and color scheme that he has. Its very military looking. I also love the way it is all dinged up from all of his previous battles. Rock on Bungie. I just wish that I didn't have to wait a year for this game...

Does anyone else feel the same vibe as me from this trailer? When Bungie created Myth2, they didn't use a new engine... they just added some limited features to it (Minor Physics adjustments, color parameters, map size, pathfinding, etc). This worked out nicely for the Myth series since Myth2 is strategy oriented, and they pretty much had the best they could do with the first one, the second was basically Myth1 with the much wanted luxuries... but the same at heart. After reading the interview on bungie.net about making the trailer, I noticed the guy was shy to reveal any exciting improvements that WOULD help the game, and not spoil too much. I'm talking about the latest technology, complex (dynamic?) lighting (not painted on), highly responsive/dynamic enviroments, advanced per-pixel effects). The point I'm getting to is, all that left out would be dandy if the game was centered around a heavily multiplayer based community, as myth was, because when people go out and buy this for the xbox.. it'll be like sitting through Jurassic Park 3.

PS. Maybe it was just because i was running QT on a Pc, but did anyone else get the wiff of "cut'n'paste" when they saw those alien ships drift by at the end of the trailer? :D

- Dan

Volition wrote on Friday, 09/6/2002 - 8:09 am:

: Well now that we've seen the trailer, I was pretty damn
: impressed by the steps that Bungie has taken with the new
: engine. The colours and textures are very good, mabye some
: more different elements might be incorporated to make it
: more 'active looking' and inviting. The MC looks great as
: well! His movements are very fluent and his actions are not
: corny. The MC's Mjolnir suit looks great too, mabye a bit
: less green would look better. Also a more lighter / deeper,
: metallic green than he has on his armour now that looks
: better than the snot green. Everything else looks incredible
: and definantly has some really good designs.
:
: I've noticed that much of Halo(2) might be derived from
: the movie Aliens and that sort of Starcraft genre if you
: know what I'm getting at. Kind of like a battle between
: different species using the most sophisticated technology
: and weapons. This is the kind of Sci-Fi glamour that I'd
: like to see more of and with the compelling and awesome
: story like Halo, I'd have to say that Bungie is definantly
: pushing the right buttons in terms of making one the most
: influential and realistic story yet!
:
: I don't think Halo should be referred as a game anymore
: but an adventure into a universe where the fate of humanity
: rests upon a 1 man bastion against a more powerful alien
: race. As for a story for Halo 2, well that's something I
: can't predict but rest assured I can say that it'll be
: extremely interesting to see what happens in the next
: chapter of Halo.
:
: Music is definantly compelling and it really does fit with
: what actually happens in the trailer. Also the music puts
: excellent passive emotive language to what's happening
: especially when the MC is hurtling towards Earth and is
: about to board one of the Covenant ships.
:
: Awesome work with Halo you guys at Bungie and keep it
: up!
:
: One last thing... How cool do those Covenant
: Battlecruisers look!!!

Hmm... I've seen everyone's posts. A lot of people have their own theories about where Halo 2 is going but they are all interesting.

1/ Covenant ships: If you have read the book 'Halo: The Fall Of Reach' then you'll know what the Covenant ships would roughly look like. The book describes them as massive, whale shaped ships and their hull has a heavy chrome of purple. When you apply white light (hence the sun reflection off the cruisers) you'll get that gleaming ship of light purple / blue / white chrome. The book says they're purple but that might mean that they have a hull with a majority of purple on it, usually when it's dark, after all it is in space. Also the 2nd mission on Halo the T&R is in the night area of Halo thus you see the majority of purple otherwise if you looked at it when they're in the trailer they have a heavy chrome on them. Otherwise you can say that this crap is wrong then mabye it's another Covenant ship that is the same class as the T&R (Note the under-fins at the head of the ship on the T&R and you can just make one of them out in the trailer on the ship closer to the camera, left-hand side) only it has a different paint job, mabye a ship with high significance like a flag-ship... 2 of them. In any case I think they're great, very unique and Bungie should keep them that way, 'nuff said.

2/ Explosions on Earth: Mabye it isn't Earth..... Even though it has a blue hue and there is a moon in the background..., mabye it's another planet like Earth?....

Even though we don't like the idea that it's not Earth, your probably wondering why you don't like the idea that it IS Earth. Mabye it's because the Covenant are already bombarding the planet and the MC is too late to save Earth, HOW THE HELL IS BUNGIE GONNA REVOLVE AROUND A STORY LIKE THAT you say? Not a very easy question to answer and unfortunatly I don't have an answer for it either but patience and you'll know soon enough. As for the 'Nuclear explosions' they do look mushroom-cloud in appearance but the hydrogen bomb does the same thing! One person pointed out it could be the humans blowing up low-level Covenant ships which mabye true. But the trailer gives the first impression of the Covenant bombing the planet. My best theory could be that the Covenant are doing what they did on Sigma Octanus when they were looking for that weird rock (read the book) and for some reason they might want to spare Earth to do something on it insted of glassing the planet. Which would probably mean the explosions are just their smaller weapons blowing up key areas on Earth where mabye planetary guns are there or some crap like that.

There's probably no end to theories but like I said before we gotta wait to find out, I know it sux but do something else in the meantime until Bungie announces another update. Hopefully soon enough!