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.

The countdown at Xbox.com now says that the Halo 2 trailer will be released at 6 P.M. Pacific time today, about sixteen hours and ten minutes from now.

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:

With three days left until the Halo 2 Trailer, Matt Soell dropped into the HBO forum to add his sheckel and a half to a thread about it. He proffered:

Every so often we do something that makes me really, really proud to work at Bungie, and the Halo 2 trailer is one of those things.

Three more days... three more days...

Newly recruited Bungie.net reporter Mnemesis has written up a report in the HBO forum from the HNC Finals... where the Halo 2 Trailer was shown.

While the trailer itself has been written about numerous times already, he does add a few impressions of his own: