Halo 2, 60 Second TV Spot

[Biohazzard56]

Some of you may have seen this, ive only seen it twice. Its on G4TechTV and a few other channels but its rare and only runs on TV every few hours. Its a good trailer and shows that Halo 2 is also going to be a great cinematic game as well.


http://www.battlefieldzone.com/Bioha...commercial.zip

[Hezzy]

You can also download it from fileplanet. I was going to post this before, but I forgot.

[HunterKiller]

Halo 2 comes out November 9th, can't wait to get it.

[JetRaiden]

hfs. a little more then a week to go...

[MrPaul]

Wow, I've not been totally ignorant, but I've not been paying a lot of attention to this game. Those giant walker-thingies look 31337!!

[Octavian]

Did anyone notice the Hunter in the video? The textures looked the same from the old Halo.

[EarlyDawn]

HFS!

I have the shorter version of the trailer, but it dosen't have half the detail that one does.

Observations:

• There seems to be some disagreement among the Covenant Hiararchy. "I will continue my campaign against the humans", and the brute attacking what looks like an elite.
• The Halo obviously has some secrets we, and even to Covenant don't know. ("The Halo has secrets..." line.).
• Defenitely a shot of a Halo going off. (Bear in mind there are approximately four Halos in the Milky Way galaxy.

My story theory:

The Covenant make it to Earth as told in First Strike. Although crippled by the loss of the Unyeilding Herophant, they manage to jump a relatively large fleet to Earth.

Still reeling from the devastating loss on the majority of our fleet, Earth defenses manage to hold off the vast majority of the fleet, but a ground invasion begins. (It has been around three weeks since the Reach Incident, and two since the destruction of the first Halo. However, time is disrupted because of the "crystal" events in First Strike.)

Some kind of vacume forms in the Covenant leadership. Could be a lot of reasons, but I'm going to speculate that it's probably racial tension. (Not all the species in the Covenant are willing participants. I've read that the Hunters and possibly the brutes are on the verge of revolt. That said, the only races that seem to be truely happy with how things are going would seem to be the Elites and Prophets.)

The other likely reason is because there are similar "treasures" on Earth, as there was on Reach. (I'll avoid specific discription to minimize spoilers.) One Covenant faction wants to retrieve the artifacts, one wants to simply exterminate us.

I have absolutely no idea how it will end, other then to say that I would *LIKE* them to simply wow everyone by pulling a last minute explanation that ties Halo 1, Halo 2, the Marathon series, and the ILoveBees.com and Cortana Letter incidents together. One big interconnected, epic ending that would blow evereyone off their feet.

[Doop]

My newest "your post made no sense" pic. =D

EarlyDawn: Indeed. The Elites, Prophets and Engineers founded the Covenant and the rest were taken by force. That's a good theory. Me, having read the books myself, can see that happening. We'll find out in a week. Also, EarlyDawn, I'll send Divine Bovine an invite, accept a Friends invite from Giygas.

[Octavian]

Wow, that's actually good Doop.

[Doop]

I should also mention, on www.bungie.net there is a new update, a snippet from the Limited Edition DVD up for download. Cheggitout. Pretty cool.

The customizable emblems are AWESOME. As is the Warthog reticle, it spins while you shoot. Coolio.

[WritheNC]

The best Halo 2 sneak peek I've seen yet.

I'm playing it for the Single player campaign. I know most people want Multiplayer, but imho it's just going to be too much like UT2k4, and it will never match the scale of PS I have grown to love.

And uh, I read a little of that ilovebees site...so can someone tell me in plain english what it is? I'm guessing it's a Halo fansite encrypted as a beekeeper's website?

[Electrofreak]

I've decided not to look at a single one of these "sneak peeks". I want Halo 2 to be as big a surprise as possible, personally.

[Everay]

http://ilovebees.com/humptydumpty.html

I love bees, that is basicaly the entire story (all that is finished, story, according to the Axon hunters, people that answer the telephones, will end on Nov9th, and these Wavs, are whats happening before the Covies invade.)

link to the cortana letter and Marathon series

[AztecWarrior]

Niiiiiice!

Makes me want the PC version.

[Octavian]

The PC version that will be out in 2 years? Better for you anyway, you'll probably end getting a whole lot of technical goodies.