Did anyone notice how awful G4s coverage was last night? They went to commercial and missed Mass Effect and cut off the Halo 3 trailer! Not to mention all the all their other broadcast problems last night. ie technical problems, and Adam Sesslers mouth moving around like an old persons or cokeheads. What is wrong with that spastic and why is he on tv? Thanks Joystiq for letting me see the video they cut off. Anyone else notice the poor quality of G4 s broadcast?

layla kayleigh and olivia munn are hot. Kristin Holt is pretty hot as well. That would make a great video.

I thought the Halo 3 trailer looked impressive. A lot better than the mp beta, but with SP this was to be expected. I wish they showed more fps view instead of the cinematic view they seemed to favor. Overall pretty damn good.

You can download the Halo 3 trailer from the XBLM now in HD anyway.

I didnt like Halo2 at all... so I never went through the campaign mode... Is there a place I can "watch" the story mode movies so that I can catch up to the story?

This game looks sick!! Definitely the most anticipated 360 title this fall!!

Ok, this is stupid, but: they don't shatter the earth like glass, they heat up the planet until the sand turns to glass...

Yeah, You missed the new warthog variant at the very end.

The troop carrier is back.

did anyone read the ign impressions of the show and said that halo 3 was same old? does that make sense to anyone? the only reason that they said it was becuase they have seen so much halo 3 coverage that anything short of the game itself is disappointing. does anyone feel that way also?

The 1up website would't load up so I just watched the gamespot's live stream though there was a delay during g4tv live show and g4tv.com live stream was good.

It seemed like G4 had no idea what was going on during the e3live show there were quite a bit of times when they didn't know if they were going to commercial or if they weren't and had horrible timing going into a commercial cutting off the most important thing off the press conference which was the halo 3 trailer.


layla kayleigh is the hottest of the g4 crew and olivia has a big forehead but she would be second.

Is it me or was that just "Queer Eye for the Halo Guy."

Freelancepimp = my hero

The trailer gave me the impression of this being halo 2.5 more than halo 3, as apart from updated graphics and a little touch here and there it looks the same as halo 2. That said, it's just a trailer, and you can't really judge what halo 3 is going to be.

Just thought I'd throw out there that the new deployable looks like it may be one of the Covenant shields that could be found throughout Halo:CE and Halo2. Not sure if it is but the picture reminds me more of that than a shield door.

@squall
I dont understand what you mean by Halo 2.5, please explain. Is it that you want it to be a platformer, or maybe turned into an RPG? Or are you just that jaded a gamer that you can't muster any excitement for anything?

Yep, last time I get excited about a G4 live press conference. I ended just checkin' out the live updates on Joystiq. That was abolute BS the way they cut into the event with very long commercial breaks.

That was awesome production value for one of these dissecting videos. I especially liked the part where you not only opened your Halo weapon manual, but the music played to signify basic learning.

G4 made me so pissed when they skipped the Mass Effect trailer, but they did show the end of the Halo 3 trailer. Listen, though, if you want G4 to actually talk about games, you have to show them that viewers will watch their crappy E3 footage if you want better footage down the road of better game discussions and what not.

Adam Sessler is the man. I was so glad to see him and Geoff actually talking about games, but there was a good amount of repetition in what they talked about.

Also, don't say things like, "That broadcast was totally for 13 year olds," and then "Morgan Webb is so @#$%^&* hot LOL." It makes you look like a twelve year old, especially when she isn't just on that channel because of how she looks.

In other off-topic-ness, BioShock will really be innovating the single player FPS experience this fall. But halo can't do what BioShock is doing or it would not be Halo.

Halo 3 looks more like Halo 2 than Halo 2 did. What does that mean? It means Halo 2 was too different from Halo 1, and Halo 3 looks more like the sequel (in terms of gameplay mechanics like the open battle seen at 0:52 to the end) than Halo 2 did.

Great analysis, Jared and Joystiq! Thanks!

For Jason Axelrod:
http://halo.bungie.org/movies.html

Meanwhile, can the Joystiqqers here post the WMV or Quicktime version for us to download so that I don't have to call you that name again?

Nice video! I think it's rather funny, but I found that Halo 2's detractors were split between it being not enough like Halo 1, and TOO MUCH like Halo 1, haha. Looks like the same is going to be true of Halo 3.

Some notes on the video:
Unless they decided to swap the voice actors (did they?), that voice at the beginning isn't the Prophet of Truth. I suspect it to be the new Brute Chieftain, myself.

"Glassing" a planet refers to heating the surface with hot plasma until it basically melts into that form--no "shattering" involved.

I don't expect "Traxus" to be anything more than a nod to Marathon.

I'm looking forward to future analysis vids.

Hell yes it was the most amateur spectacle I have seen on television in a long time. Looks like their staff is all 12 year old basic cable public television employees. Munn is so goddamn charmming and Kayleigh is HOTTz. Webb is yeti with a living ovarian cyst called Sessler. FIRE THAT SPAZ DAMN! Get someone that can host and not grind my skull.Thanks to "teh internets" for good coverage. JOySiq FTW!

Good video and nice dissection, gave me lots of info I did not see/notice. Thanks!

it's sad how fast they're starting to pump these things out now. it's been what 6 years and they're on the 3rd game. so i'm guessing we expect halo4 to be out 2009?

Why does everybody assume that the structures first seen in last years E3 trailer are the ark. In the E3 trailer last year, the Chief was approaching one before it activated, in the CG trailer it looked like it was already active (leading me to believe there are more than one) and now we see the Chief and the Arbiter standing over one, which further leads me to believe there are more than one. I think we've only just seen the ark today. I think it's what the Chief is looking at in the last scene in the trailer.

Yeah... I dont want a Halo 2.5... I want a Halo 1.5... Halo 2 was just a horrible game on all accounts when you compare it to the original. The single player and multiplayer both were better in the original.

BTW... Is there a place I can "watch" the story mode movies so that I can catch up to the story?

Are you actually defending hers and G4s integrity? They put her in maxim to advertise their network. She was the only attractive woman on tech and they put her on G4 to get the fanboy hearts (and fist) a-beating. Dont dare pretend that all of these women are not on here for eye candy. Munn in Playboy, Kayleigh in Maxim as well.(no munn was in the front hot chick feature not nude! dont start.)Do you claim to have some intimate knowledge as to why shes there then? And dont tell the guy he sounds like a 13 year old. You are no better than anyone else and making an easy attack on him. You sound like a snarky college freshman when you do that.

Off Topic: Finally 36 minutes until Ninty's show, get ready for it Joystiq

At first, i was DISSAPOINTED with the graphics of halo 3. But then i reran the trailer myself and paused hundreds of times. I realised the the speed of the trailer itself gave the impression of bad graphics. when i took a a closer look at the lighting, the water (and dare i say that water rivals bioshock in realism) and the SCALE, it looked phenomenal.Even the foliage was so damn detailed. Usually folliage such as in COD4 is all static and lacks AA. I also noticed how they stayed very close to the art style. Miranda's model was hardly any different because of the art style. However the character models for the covenant have been upgraded to hell. they look amazing.

They even showed a scene from the Announcement trailer. It looked EXACTLY the same besides the chief model because the artists chose to change it.

i advise everyone to go look at the screenshots on bungie.com
http://www.bungie.net/projects/halo3/asset_thumb_viewer.aspx?at=59&cc=21

check out the screenshot with the water. its attention to detail liek this that makes this games graphics phenomenal.

did anyone notice the warthog near the end of the trailer that looks like its a hog that has no turret and has three extra seats not including the driver.

Jared failed to point out the new type of warthog shown at the end, but I guess its self explanatory as he said.

Bungie has already said that Halo 3 is their last FPS in this storyline.

Given that Marathon and Halo are different stories in the same universe, that doesn't mean that there won't be yet another shooter series in that space, but it does mean that most likely it will be fundamentally different in various ways, enough so that you wouldn't call it "Halo" anyway.

I'd like to see Bungie go back into the fantasy space, personally. They're starting to get pigeonholed in the press as a one-franchise company, which is definitely not true, but may BECOME true, since companies tend to continue to do what they're good at, and tend to evolve into companies that specialize in what they have been successful at in the past.

In other words, if you make a lot of shooters, chances are, your staff is good at making shooters, and your next game is probably going to be a shooter. Every time you make a shooter, you reinforce that cycle.

The upside is that in a lot of ways, the vast majority of their staff is designers, artists, etc who can do all sorts of different games, they're not small shop that has a half dozen programmers who can only work one specific engine variant like iD.

One thing you didn't point out. 1:44 into the trailer, the Arbiter's holding what definitely appears to be a new weapon.

hey i see this

http://www.fotozone.es/foto/28,2007/fotozone_68200.JPG

and see this

http://www.fotozone.es/foto/28,2007/fotozone_68222.JPG

http://www.fotozone.es/foto/28,2007/fotozone_68228.JPG

http://www.fotozone.es/foto/28,2007/fotozone_68230.JPG

You can see the Fuel rod being fired. At 49 seconds in while chief is in the warthog turret the marine fires the Fuel Rod Gun.

Can we assume the entire race of the Elites will be "helping" the humans but also fighting the brutes?

Didn't the Hunters ally with the Elites as well , I quote Wikipedia

"Hunters usually show nothing but opprobrium towards the lesser Covenant races (even purposefully killing them if they become an obstruction during battles) and rarely communicate with any other race (including the Prophets) apart from the Elites. They are believed to have their own religion; it has also been noted that some Hunters even recite poetry and meditate in their spare time"

So Hunter have a different Religon,So they don't believe the Covenant.

Also We have yet to see Covenant Engineer called Huragok. It appears they were friendly with the Forerunners.

Also What were the Forerunners preparing for?
Halo is deep in Religion. The "Forerunner" in the bible is John the Baptist who prepared people of the coming of Jesus. So we can assume the Forerunner were preparing for someone.....say Master Chief?