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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Bloody hell. That's a long script. I hope it aint real, cause it would suck to have the story out when the game isn't even announced yet.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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HOLY CRAP! So frickin sweet!
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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There is a very easy way to determine authenticity... Check to see if it has an ending =o)
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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i'm not looking at the ending ;)
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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My money says this is real. Cool fucking find. Thanks.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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anyone email me the pdf? not reg'ing for that site


mikehill33

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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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thanks for the pdf.

pretty good stuff!
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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I know it was one of their jokes, but Bungie would NOT put an actual level called "A Pimp at Sea" into their game. Hoax.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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^^^^^^
yes they would. they worked on that game for some time while halo 2 was in development.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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An email to Bungie got back confirmation that this is a fake. (It was pretty clear before the email - Joe is a better writer than that - but it's always nice to have confirmation.)
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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that multi-player information sounds pretty cool but it's very likely to be heavily altered considering how many times bungie has altered the halo 2 multiplayer gameplay since it came out
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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I'm a big Halo fanboy, so I actually read all 119 pages. I dont beleive this is from Bungie, and if it was it will now be changed anyway. It's still a pretty good read though. It brings in the Forerunners, Flood, Covenant, and everything else. One of the things that seemed at odds to me are some of the chapter titles. These have been funny in the first two Halo games but I dont think "Big Ass Sandbox", "A Pimp at Sea", and "Its raining Brutes, Hallelujah" are what we would see in Halo 3.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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in reply to number 7..
but they did make a level call
"I would have been your daddy"
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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I'd like the PDF as well. Thanks in advance:

mike_boland
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Straight from Bungie.net!

http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=biggorilla&p=4955829

~~~
The Great Hollywood Journey, Part II
No sense beating around the bush. I would only say that if you’re not already sitting down, you absolutely should.

A few weeks ago we were lucky enough to partner with two tremendous Producers from Universal, Mary Parent and Scott Stuber. In the short time they’ve been on board, Mary and Scott have joined with Peter Schlessel to accomplish unimaginably wonderful things. Example? They’ve secured an Executive Producer to help guarantee the creative integrity and technical excellence of the Halo film.

And that Executive Producer’s name is Peter Jackson.

I’ll give you a second to process. If you’re having a strong, emotional reaction, don’t panic. When I heard the news it took me the better part of a day just to stop smiling.

Yes. The Peter Jackson, Executive Producing the Halo film.

Needless to say I and the rest of Bungie are positively incontinent (Marty especially). But what really knocks us on our asses is we’re also getting the combined talent of the mighty men and women of WETA in the bargain. From fabricating Covenant weapons to building life-sized Forerunner structures to accomplishing shot after shot of complex live-action/CG integration – simply put, there’s no group of people we’d rather have realize the Halo universe on screen.

Indeed, I don’t think there’s another group that even could.

Mary and Scott know Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh because of their work on King Kong (which Universal is distributing), so I asked them for their personal take on this development:

"First, let me just say how honored and excited Scott and I are to be involved in this project. As huge fans of the game ourselves we know how high the bar is. We've made it our mission to try and involve the absolute very best people one can imagine in every capacity. Having developed a great relationship with Peter and Fran through the extraordinary Kong experience, and seeing first hand just how unique a filmmaking environment they have crafted, we approached them about the possibility of coming aboard to Exec Produce. Not surprisingly, they were already avid fans of the game, and given our existing shorthand, they said yes! To be able to continue our relationship with them – on HALO of all projects – is really a dream come true for us in the biggest possible way.”

I daresay me too. And did I mention that Mary and Scott are awesome?

Not surprisingly I’ve begun apartment hunting in Wellington – though Chris Butcher says I can bunk with his grandmother in Christchurch so long I don’t mind a bit of a commute…

I’m only half joking. Parsons and I are hopping on a plane to New Zealand next week to meet Mr. Jackson and his team, and I imagine it won’t be the last time we make the trip.

If I didn’t make this clear in my previous update, Bungie’s in this for the long haul – 100% dedicated to making the Halo movie the best it can be. Now we have help. Ten thousand pound gorilla help. And that’s just about the best kind there is.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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All Bungie fans know that they have been producing a "Pimps at Sea" game for several years now.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Hm... this is too real.
It has to be real.

Story sounds pretty good so far. Im not saying anything for those of you who wouldnt want to spoil it incase it was real.
I like the way they are taking it but there is also another big thing im not pleased with.
Oh well, i suppose its hard not to keep em in..
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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IRT #15
Pimps at Sea was an April Fools joke. ALL Bungie fans know that.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Oh and the site doesnt need activation from your email, so you can put in a fake email to sign up.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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if claude errera (SP?) says its not real, its almost definately not.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Thanks for the official word Louis!
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Even if this just happens to be real, then Bungie will probably make changes to the storyline, so even if this is the storyline for the game in development, it won't be the final storyline eitherway.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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#6 You can download it from here if you want:

www.joystickwidow.com/media/movies/bungie/halo3/halo3_script.pdf
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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It's a fake. Read the news entry at halo.bungie.org.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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if it is a fake someone spent a good deal of time crafting it. It looked like an actual good story and worth reading if someone were to expand it into a novel.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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It's obviously fake. It doesn't fit at all into the brilliance of bungie. Besides, bungie already announced that it wasn't real.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Ah well, too bad its fake cause the multiplayer sounded absolutely kick arse.

:jaw: on the Peter Jackson thing... First good game-movie conversion?
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Does Tron count as a game-movie conversion? It's essentially snakes, right?
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Ok i read it and here is the run down:
I dont realy know if its real... it has its ups and down

It does look like its in proper form and it does use halo termonology like spooks, but it has some terrible dialog here and their.

Like this:
Master cheif:
"In a few minutes you'll be real impressed with my 'prophet-ass-kicking abilities" page 62
God just terrible, but thats not too say that the rest of the dialog seems bad, its just not that great.

Also if anyone remebers that april fools joke that bungie made that their next game would be pimps of the sea, well this script claims that the name of one of the levels is called "pimp the sea" funny reference but realy odd.

More info *SPOILES (?!) *
You get to drive a scarab
You become the Arbiter again
Arbiter Finds his son
Arbiter and elites work together with marines keys and johnson
You find out that Cortana is working with gravemind
New Flood form, very rare
Earth is a Halo
Halo's have been actiavted a few times
The Ark in is antarctica
Their are battles in space
Prophet of Mercy is still alive
New covenant species Drinol
Their is some new giant brute general
guilty spark is back

Cortana does turn evil but gravemind screws her over. It seems that she did survive at the end...

A new thin halo is ripped out of the earth

cephaus is the forerunner who activated the Halo's the last time. He named the oracles (like 343 guilty spark)

Prophet of truth is killed by the forerunners

Arbiters son dies at the hands of the new brute cheif tan

Gavemind gets on to "earth" and attacks the forerunners

Cortana is working with gravemind, she want acess to the Halo records because as we all know, Cortana is a smart AI and in 7 years she dies (also when she copied herself on the covenant ship she corrupted her files) but in the records of the Halo's, their is some way for her to survive. Gravemind promises her acess if she can help him. Cortana kills Both sameful anomaly and guilty spark. Cortana brought Gravemind to earth

Captin Keys was the first body in Gravemind, but the mind of Gravemind was around for thousands of years. The Arbiter found Gravemind on Halo and then took it on his ship, their it found its way back to the other halo. Their it met master cheif and the Arbiter again

Cortana goes somwwhat crazy, she activates a nuke on the few halo while the arbiter, gavemind, and master cheif are all on it and the new halo seems to be going to hell.

The new Halo falls apart because of the nuke and you are forced to fight Gravemind in space, MC vs Gravemind. The Arbiter comes and kills Gravemind by shoving a grenade into him but the Arbiter then falls into Earths atmosphere

At the end, Arbiter is at the bottom of the ocean and it seems that he gets attacked by Cortana (??not sure about this though??)

Ok i have read the whole thing so ask me questions if you have any.

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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Ok i read it and here is the run down:
I dont realy know if its real... it has its ups and down

It does look like its in proper form and it does use halo termonology like spooks, but it has some terrible dialog here and their.

Like this:
Master cheif:
"In a few minutes you'll be real impressed with my 'prophet-ass-kicking abilities" page 62
God just terrible, but thats not too say that the rest of the dialog seems bad, its just not that great.

Also if anyone remebers that april fools joke that bungie made that their next game would be pimps of the sea, well this script claims that the name of one of the levels is called "pimp the sea" funny reference but realy odd.

More info *SPOILES (?!) *
You get to drive a scarab
You become the Arbiter again
Arbiter Finds his son
Arbiter and elites work together with marines keys and johnson
You find out that Cortana is working with gravemind
New Flood form, very rare
Earth is a Halo
Halo's have been actiavted a few times
The Ark in is antarctica
Their are battles in space
Prophet of Mercy is still alive
New covenant species Drinol
Their is some new giant brute general
guilty spark is back

Cortana does turn evil but gravemind screws her over. It seems that she did survive at the end...

A new thin halo is ripped out of the earth

cephaus is the forerunner who activated the Halo's the last time. He named the oracles (like 343 guilty spark)

Prophet of truth is killed by the forerunners

Arbiters son dies at the hands of the new brute cheif tan

Gavemind gets on to "earth" and attacks the forerunners

Cortana is working with gravemind, she want acess to the Halo records because as we all know, Cortana is a smart AI and in 7 years she dies (also when she copied herself on the covenant ship she corrupted her files) but in the records of the Halo's, their is some way for her to survive. Gravemind promises her acess if she can help him. Cortana kills Both sameful anomaly and guilty spark. Cortana brought Gravemind to earth

Captin Keys was the first body in Gravemind, but the mind of Gravemind was around for thousands of years. The Arbiter found Gravemind on Halo and then took it on his ship, their it found its way back to the other halo. Their it met master cheif and the Arbiter again

Cortana goes somwwhat crazy, she activates a nuke on the few halo while the arbiter, gavemind, and master cheif are all on it and the new halo seems to be going to hell.

The new Halo falls apart because of the nuke and you are forced to fight Gravemind in space, MC vs Gravemind. The Arbiter comes and kills Gravemind by shoving a grenade into him but the Arbiter then falls into Earths atmosphere

At the end, Arbiter is at the bottom of the ocean and it seems that he gets attacked by Cortana (??not sure about this though??)

Ok i have read the whole thing so ask me questions if you have any.

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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Even if this script is a Hoax, it damn near feels like something Bungie would throw at you on the ending.

Leak or not though this would make a great story to add to the three books already out there.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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wtf is gravemind? i thought it was a level in halo 2, so how can master chief fight it?
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Yeah Bungie denied it, but they ALWAYS do. They won't even let anyone get away with believing they're working on Halo 3 yet. I'm not saying this script is definitely true, but just because Bungie says it isn't doesn't remove all doubt...
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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btw, to Jack, Gravemind was the name of that huge creature in the beginning of the Gravemind level -- you know, the one holding the Arbiter and MC in its long tentacles?
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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This script is leaps and bounds above anything that Bungie has ever produced in my opinion. If it is real than it is a glorious day in gaming. Unfortunately my money says that Bungie doesn't have the talent to produce a script of this caliber. This script not only ties up every plot hole that past Halo games have created but also manages to surpase nearly other kind of fictional story telling in the fantas/sci-fi genre out there; lord of the rings, star wars, you name it. This story in my opinion is brilliant. Way way to good to have been written by the (in my honest opinion) moron who wrote Halo 2; but before you flame, go to the Halo 2 IGN boards, the Halo 2 script was UNIVERSALLY despised there; and I personally can go into about 1000 reason's why, but this isn't the place. All I will say is "please god, let this be real".
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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(cough)35's a PLANT (cough)
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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The screenplays of the previous Halo games were rather bad in my opinion. Just your run-of-the mill space opera. This might be real because it has about the same quality level. Holds your attention while it lasts, which is more than you can say for most videogames' screenplays today.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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I agree with 36. PLANT!
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Hey, can someone send the pdf to my email?

Slayermayer@gmail.com

Pretty please?:(
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Can someone send me the script to my email!!! PLEASE!!!!!!


justafrikkinsn@comcast.net
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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SEND ME THE PDF!!!...I'LL BE ABLE TO SAY IF ITS REAL OR NOT!!
CHRISTOPHERMARKUSTHEPRINCEOFDARKNESS@HOTMAIL.COM
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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I'd love the pdf as well, if it wouldn;t take too much of your time.

sgtbrate@hotmail.com

If you could send it, it would make my day!
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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It's funny how in this day and age, how short people's memories are.

Remember how many "leaks" there were of the Halo 2 script, and they were so far off the mark that even a noob could see it. Now here we are, and people think that Microsoft and Bungie would allow something like this to "leak".

Think back to how many real leaks there are of actual MGS games, and you'll be thinking for awhile. MS and Bungie will have this clamped tighter then a virgin, so don't think that the fact some little putz decided he'd sit down and write a sub-high school standard script entails we have to get all hot and bothered.

Somewhere, someone's parents' basement is filled with laughter at how ludicrous this is.
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Personally, after looking over this script, I find it pretty lacking. Yes, the overall plot is monumental, and somebody had an incredible amount of creativity to envision something like this. But basic things like grammar are sometimes off (ex: insulant? the word is insolent, foo), as is dialogue. Would the arbiter really say something like "With absolute certainty (pause) but it's been a while". The Arbiter doesn't use slang and he doesn't use contractions. Also, a thing with names: Outlaw, Drake, Neophyte, Vilarius (who happens to be one of the villans), and of course Oberion, which is a straight rip of Oberon, a star formation. Additionally, the climaxing action is unbelievable, essentially. The Forerunner, a new involvement in Halo 3? Also, think of the battle writings. While the Xbox 360 is rumored to have powers previously unknown to man, I highly doubt it can construct a battle environment with more than 50 characters and vehicles on it. That takes a hell of a lot of computing power. C'mon now, kids, don't be duped by all this. I had a ton of fun reading it, and hats off to the writer for all the time and energy that must have gone into it, but it's a fake. And fortunately, too. All of you've read it by now, and if it's real, then you'll be fairly disappointed to know the entire story and gameplay before the game is even released. In this case, all, ignorance DOES happen to be bliss. Agreed?
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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id like to see it if that kewl my email is -

hizziy_0925@hotmail.com

thanks a bunch =))
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Ok. I`ve read the script, and, I personaly think it seems very Bungie-like. And legit. Aside from that, do you really think Bungie would say that it was real? No, they would call it a fake. Just as they have called every other leak that has been true. The multyplayer info, altho I think seems a little off. (from a post with the link to the script, and some info on the MP) Lockout will be returning. Now, that doesnt make much sence as LOckout was on Instalation 04. It wouldhave been destroid. But, I do think that it would be nice to have such lage levels. Arowhead, a entire human city. Firefight, a level inbetween fighting cruisers.

Oh by the way, if this is real...
Fricking Ivory Tower, man. how sweet is that?
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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Read it, loved it. It seems like there is too much stuff to fit into one game though.

Fake? Well whatever Bungie say, the overall plot structure is excellent. i really hope this is the script for the game. Kudos! :)
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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hey i've been waiting for someone to say they have the script for a long time, i dont care if its fake i wanna read it but im not registering to another site so could some1 e-mail it to me, i would be very gratefull thanx oh yeah e-mail me at escarenoc@prodigy.net
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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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hey i've been waiting for someone to say they have the script for a long time, i dont care if its fake i wanna read it but im not registering to another site so could some1 e-mail it to me, i would be very gratefull thanx oh yeah e-mail me at escarenoc@prodigy.net
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