Check out the super dramatic vignette below. Also, a word of advice to the poor souls therein: Flight, you guys. Seriously, skedaddle. You do not want to be on that planet during the next few weeks.
Pause to 'Remember' this Halo: Reach live-action short
by Griffin McElroy 
on Aug 24th 2010 4:10PM
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Check out the super dramatic vignette below. Also, a word of advice to the poor souls therein: Flight, you guys. Seriously, skedaddle. You do not want to be on that planet during the next few weeks.
Reader Comments (72)
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:14PM WMcPete said
Yech. Now my mom is going to be buying her own copy of Reach, mistaking it for some new Lifetime program.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 5:30PM Marcus Carter said
@WMcPete lol!!!! now that was a .funny statement
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Posted: Aug 24th 2010 5:30PM Measlesopolis said
@WMcPete
Yeah these live action trailers for reach aren't up to snuff, but maybe that's cause the game is gonna be awesome. ODST had a crazy cool live action but the game sucked. Maybe that's how live action trailers work, they are don't in anyway represent the game they depict.
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Yeah these live action trailers for reach aren't up to snuff, but maybe that's cause the game is gonna be awesome. ODST had a crazy cool live action but the game sucked. Maybe that's how live action trailers work, they are don't in anyway represent the game they depict.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 5:46PM Puertoricarious said
@WMcPete
don't take this the wrong way, but i want to 1v1 your mom.
ok, feel free to take that the wrong way.
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don't take this the wrong way, but i want to 1v1 your mom.
ok, feel free to take that the wrong way.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 5:56PM Spaceghost said
@Measlesopolis
really? I thought it was the best halo since CE
If youve played all the halos youll notice that the gameplay is slowly returning to the way it was back in CE. Which, come on, was obviously the best one.
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really? I thought it was the best halo since CE
If youve played all the halos youll notice that the gameplay is slowly returning to the way it was back in CE. Which, come on, was obviously the best one.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:18PM thisredengine said
Awesome vid! Also clearly warranted an age check.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:20PM PirateEmery said
@thisredengine
Hey, mothers going on business trips are violent situations for a child. Who knows if she'll come back in three days like she promised?
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Hey, mothers going on business trips are violent situations for a child. Who knows if she'll come back in three days like she promised?
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:19PM PirateEmery said
There were civilian settlements on Reach? I thought it was a military outpost used as a Spartan "Factory" of sorts.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:24PM TheDarkWayne said
@PirateEmery it was the most heavily fortified world aside from Earth, so yes it was where the Spartans were trained as well as a massive military installation, but there were still cities on it. Think of how US Army forts work in the states, they're military bases but usually are near or part of a civilian community.
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Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:30PM PirateEmery said
@Tyler1210 / @TheDarkWayne
Thanks, perhaps now would be a good time to go back and reread 'Fall.'
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Thanks, perhaps now would be a good time to go back and reread 'Fall.'
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:19PM Zal said
I quite liked that. Did anyone else get some BSG vibes? Reminded me of Caprica but maybe that's just me.
Either way, kinda cool.
Either way, kinda cool.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:39PM No Fear Man said
@Haelie Awesome! I wasn't the only one thinking it then!
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Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:21PM CaptainProtonX said
Can we just see the Master Chief at some point? Seriously, it's all that matters.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:22PM thisredengine said
@CaptainProtonX
Yeah, gameplay be damned. We need to see Mr. Personality Master Chief in his armor.
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Yeah, gameplay be damned. We need to see Mr. Personality Master Chief in his armor.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:35PM CaptainProtonX said
@thisredengine
Halo gameplay is written in stone, epic tea-bagging et all.
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Halo gameplay is written in stone, epic tea-bagging et all.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 5:55PM TheDarkWayne said
@CaptainProtonX im hoping the game ends with the chiefs pod opening on the autumn
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Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:21PM LaughingTarget said
In the Halo universe, all soldiers speak in American accents and all civilians speak in British accents. Interesting.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 5:28PM Ballistic H said
@LaughingTarget
It's 500 years into the future and cars still have wheels. It's like the inability to carry med packs in Halo 3: ODST. It's the 26th century dammit!
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It's 500 years into the future and cars still have wheels. It's like the inability to carry med packs in Halo 3: ODST. It's the 26th century dammit!
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:22PM WolfForager said
Well that was terrible...
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:24PM AnthonyGalindo said
I hate the ads for Reach and Halo 3. They get me all excited that the games might actually be about something other than 6 hours of shooting aliens in the face. That they might actually have some emotional significance to them, that they might be something other than the standard first person shooter.It's false advertisement.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:37PM Iron Man said
@AnthonyGalindo
OH! How original! A comment about Halo being generic! Seriously man, I'll direct you to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EEyk-iohLw
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OH! How original! A comment about Halo being generic! Seriously man, I'll direct you to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EEyk-iohLw
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:41PM Ryuk said
@AnthonyGalindo
there is emotion. It's called humanity with it's back against the wall, united against a crazed heretic group of aliens.
There's a much deeper story than you think, the outer colonies start to rebel, and the people of Earth feel surrounded, and they created spartans to suppress the rebellions. Then came the covenant...boom goes Harvest, boom goes Reach. Idk i think it's a pretty cool story
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there is emotion. It's called humanity with it's back against the wall, united against a crazed heretic group of aliens.
There's a much deeper story than you think, the outer colonies start to rebel, and the people of Earth feel surrounded, and they created spartans to suppress the rebellions. Then came the covenant...boom goes Harvest, boom goes Reach. Idk i think it's a pretty cool story
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:55PM Colostomeboy said
@AnthonyGalindo
Having played the game (YES my friend is a hacker, NO i did not hack the game Yes i am telling the truth) it is a shooter at heart, but holy crap the narrative is much stronger and i cried at several points throughout the game.
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Having played the game (YES my friend is a hacker, NO i did not hack the game Yes i am telling the truth) it is a shooter at heart, but holy crap the narrative is much stronger and i cried at several points throughout the game.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 5:02PM F1 Basu Gasu Bakuhatsu said
@Colostomeboy
What part's? I mean the narrative was good and all (at least from a shooters perspective though the books take narrative and turn it to awesome) but most of the time any scene that was dramatic just made my trigger finger a bit more itchy.
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What part's? I mean the narrative was good and all (at least from a shooters perspective though the books take narrative and turn it to awesome) but most of the time any scene that was dramatic just made my trigger finger a bit more itchy.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 5:33PM TheDarkWayne said
@Ryuk The Halo universe might be deep and interesting, but the games tend to be anything but. The Halo 3 ad campaign made it seem like the games were going to tell a story of hope among desperation, but come on, let's be honest with ourselves, the ad campaign had a deeper more resonating story than the games. I hope Reach will finally live up to the promise the ancillary universe products give us
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Posted: Aug 24th 2010 6:46PM Xcrucio said
@TheDarkWayne
I think that Halo 3: ODST did a good job of providing us with a story that was up to the quality of the books and other material. While the story was rather insignificant overall, it was a nice look into the desperation of a city and humanity when it's back is against the wall, much more so than Halo 3 which was more of a "Well master chief is boss and saves everyone."
Here's hoping that Reach captures more of that character driven story that ODST had.
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I think that Halo 3: ODST did a good job of providing us with a story that was up to the quality of the books and other material. While the story was rather insignificant overall, it was a nice look into the desperation of a city and humanity when it's back is against the wall, much more so than Halo 3 which was more of a "Well master chief is boss and saves everyone."
Here's hoping that Reach captures more of that character driven story that ODST had.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:27PM TheDarkWayne said
Hrm, those guys marching up the stairs didn't look like UNSC troops, I wonder if Reach's plot is going to begin with putting down insurrectionists rebellions rather than the invasion
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:58PM F1 Basu Gasu Bakuhatsu said
@TheDarkWayne
Probably militia since if they were rebels you can bet people would be freaking the hell out.
Not only that they're were more than just space marines in the Halo Universe. The only reason we didn't see them in the previous games was because A: Every Spartan was Marine, and B: By the time we got to see and fight on Earth the marines were pretty much all that remained in the area that Key's had under her control.
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Probably militia since if they were rebels you can bet people would be freaking the hell out.
Not only that they're were more than just space marines in the Halo Universe. The only reason we didn't see them in the previous games was because A: Every Spartan was Marine, and B: By the time we got to see and fight on Earth the marines were pretty much all that remained in the area that Key's had under her control.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 5:00PM TheDarkWayne said
@F1 Basu Gasu Bakuhatsu would people really be freaking out? I mean it's not like their uniforms would just say REBEL on them.
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Posted: Aug 24th 2010 5:05PM F1 Basu Gasu Bakuhatsu said
@TheDarkWayne
Rebel's didn't use a standard uniform. And since Reach was the most secure planet in UNSC control if people were running around with guns and without uniform, people would immediately freak. Especially since the populace were on hair trigger as well.
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Rebel's didn't use a standard uniform. And since Reach was the most secure planet in UNSC control if people were running around with guns and without uniform, people would immediately freak. Especially since the populace were on hair trigger as well.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 5:07PM F1 Basu Gasu Bakuhatsu said
@TheDarkWayne
Liken the rebels to terrorists in Iraq and you'll get what I'm saying.
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Liken the rebels to terrorists in Iraq and you'll get what I'm saying.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:28PM iluvalima said
I quite liked that. Makes me wishes the games actually contained stuff like that, with British accents.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:29PM xbashingx said
GOOSEBUMPS
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:35PM Ryuk said
Just make a dam movie already!!! SERIOUSLY. You dirty teasing hookers
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:58PM Ryuk said
@Ryuk
you know, I love Halo, but I hope to god they don't go up to 7. Hell I think it should stay where it is, and end on Reach, but we all know that won't happen.
I don't know about 343 industries yet...but if they can get a movie going they'll gain some cred points i guess
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you know, I love Halo, but I hope to god they don't go up to 7. Hell I think it should stay where it is, and end on Reach, but we all know that won't happen.
I don't know about 343 industries yet...but if they can get a movie going they'll gain some cred points i guess
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 6:01PM Nintendo Tim said
@Ryuk - If we take all the available live action footage, get all these guys that are doing the live-action Metal Gear Solid and Half-Life movies that keep popping up on YouTube, we can have our very own Halo movie.
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Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:44PM Nintendo Tim said
Wait a second: Manassas, Planet Reach? My hometown picks up and moves to Reach in 500 years?!
I've got to warn the mayor about the impending doom!
I've got to warn the mayor about the impending doom!
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 5:38PM Nintendo Tim said
@Ryguy226 - Considering the large military and government presence throughout NoVA - especially Quantico - I'm not all surprised.
Hell, I get all giddy when Gibbs & Co. need to head into a nearby city on NCIS. One episode had them going to an address on Balls Ford Road. That's 3 streets away from me.
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Hell, I get all giddy when Gibbs & Co. need to head into a nearby city on NCIS. One episode had them going to an address on Balls Ford Road. That's 3 streets away from me.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 4:46PM Prboi said
Halo always gets the biggest marketing push (excluding ODST). I swear, they really should just make the damn movie. MS has the money, they're just pussyfooting around & not getting anything done
