Halo Reach live action trailer

Published 25 August, 2010 Duration 2:54

Headshots Microsoft's ad budget.

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  • seandog #1 2 years ago

    Well that was a bit of a let down!!! Certainly no ODST!!!

  • adofessex #2 2 years ago

    Yeah kind of hoping this is just some intro to some longer and a more action packed scenes.

  • Climhazzard #3 2 years ago

    Worst trailer ever, of all time.

  • Raznilof #4 2 years ago

    Fantastic!

    Bungie wanting the series to regain its tension (which admittedly is a hard sell when all your enemies are purple ; ))

    Microsoft wanting to do a film and showing exactly how that could work, even if it has a Battlestar Galactica vibe to it.

    The tension building in this, the time they take, the soundtrack (sparse but very effective). No instant gratification, instead it is slower, and obviously building. The storytelling is one of the many reasons to love the halo series (but I did disliked two and three for trying to introduce far too much of a story to a game which is really just about fun combat, impressive vista's and a little bit of mythology and mystery... for me it's certainly not political intrigue or little shop of horror flood plants..sorry, graveminds...urgh..)

    Very much on par with the ilovebees halo 2 radio-play promotion (look them up if you haven't listened to those, they are quite excellent) . Love it!

    Edit: typo's and removed a bit about explosions, there will be explosions in due time.
    Edited by Raznilof at 25/08/10 @ 11:15

  • jack_klugman #5 2 years ago

    Enjoyed the tone, but lacked any kind of catharsis. Really needed a big reveal of some kind at the end. As it is I'm just left wondering "WTF?".

  • Raznilof #6 2 years ago

    @jack-klugman I think they made these with the "knowledge" that viewers already know everyone on Reach will die. Though I am not certain about this (obviously) but knowing that gives it enough gravitas to work (for me anyway). It does seem like fan pieces though, far more than the stand alone ODST and Halo 3 ones.

    edit: added spoiler tag
    Edited by Raznilof at 25/08/10 @ 12:37

  • jack_klugman #7 2 years ago

    @Raznilof I would posit that anybody who knows that much of the fiction (undisclosed in any of the games as far as I remember) is likely to buy the game without the need to pander to them with expensive marketing.

  • Raznilof #8 2 years ago

    @jack-klugman in ODST there is mention (unmissable) that the covenant are going to do the same thing here all over again, which is to "glass" the entire planet just like on Reach. Same is also mentioned during Halo 3's campaign.

    My point isn't so much that it makes "sense" if you know the back stories and therefore it's fantastic. My point is that I believe it is deliberately NOT action oriented. It's not aimed at people who want the "explosions" because for that they already have the in-game trailers.

    This is meant to establish the "covenant" as something threatening again (by showing what is at stake). And it's also meant to broaden the scope of the franchise, much like previous live action films did. For me it works, but that's of course something personal.

    Having said that, I don't mean to say your conclusion is "wrong" or far fetched. The reveal will possibly come in the game itself. I wouldn't be surprised if these people show up in the game somehow.

    I'd be interested to know what the idea and success rate of these films are. Seems that many people don't like them.
    Edited by Raznilof at 25/08/10 @ 14:31

  • knightmt #9 2 years ago

    Wow fashion is circular.

  • MrTeatime #10 2 years ago

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  • waynenot #11 2 years ago

    Jesus - it's a fucking game where you run around in a motorbike helmet shooting aliens in the face. Do we really need this kind of overblown sop to let people know it's in the shops soon?

    LOL at the 'actors' playing the stroppy couple. They've both got bright careers ahead of them on the Shopping Channel, flogging gallon drums of Paula Yates' 'Paula', like the Scottish male nurse from Eastenders.
    Edited by waynenot at 25/08/10 @ 16:31

  • BlackKraken #12 2 years ago

    I like the names of places, even if in reality we'd end up just calling everything "new new new york" or "new new newer London 2.0"

    Settlers tend to be people without imagination.

    I think it would have been fine without the balloon bit, that made me cringe.

  • mukki #13 2 years ago

    eh?
    that so pseudo emotional...so lame ass.. so Battlestar wanna be
    Liked the tone but if fell flat...
    I am all for games being more emotional and using a different tone and trying to appeal to possibly a different target group
    but please.... and what is up with accents? UK campaign only?

    Sorry older Halo ad campaigns have been better...

    @Raznilof could you possibly be working for the MS or the agency that produced the spot? ;)


  • Tonka #14 2 years ago

    OH NOES NOT THE BALLOON!
    NOOOOT THE BALLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

    ;_;

  • rhinoxious #15 2 years ago

    Greed, it's poor, it needs a pay-off, and the red balloon is beyond belief - quite simply the most derivative and tired piece of shit to ever be connected with the Halo franchise.

    The ilovebees radio dramas were good, and add a humanising angle to a dehumanised game world, this is just tripe.

  • Raznilof #16 2 years ago

    @mukki... ha you'd be right to think that. No not at all, but I can appreciate the tone and approach they took in this. And I will admit that I am running through a library with no books and just a blue spark to follow ; ) Being a halo (1) fanboy that is.

    I also happen to agree with you, it's right what you say. But still I like it for it ties into what Bungie has said they want Reach to be, grittier, more real, more about humans and the covenant an enemy that they (quite literally) cannot understand. So back to basics.

    This is not Tarkvosky film making and I certainly I don't watch it as such either, but I do so appreciate it for the choice they took in doing it this way. The impending doom DOES come across (for me at least).
    Edited by Raznilof at 26/08/10 @ 19:49

  • RedSparrows #17 2 years ago

    I quite liked that. Yes, it's pretty derivative, but the doom was obvious. Also gave me a bit of a C&C cut-scene vibe, haha.

    It's also not the only HR ad. By a long shot.

  • bushwod #18 2 years ago

    booooooooooooooring!

  • Bluetooth #19 2 years ago

    Oh she is so hot