Seven Minute Halo 3 Video on Marketplace

[Wondermonkey]

336 MB, post up your impressions.

[KEEZY]

Interesting.

No I have more, really. I like how the Brutes have been expanded. The Bungie guys had some good points about the Brutes. I love how they have monitors in the background, with the character looking up at a wall or something like that. In one of the shots, there was a circular aircraft that was hovering left and right. It looked like that ship they showed in the very beginning (from cutscenes from Halo 2, where the Brutes captured the woman).

My Halo-lore is terrible right now, and I don't even remember who exactly the captured woman was, or what the ships are called.

Hopefully somebody else can give their thoughts. Right now everything I type sounds like a 2nd grade book report...

[ProPain]

It's here too. http://xboxmovies.teamxbox.com/xbox-.../Halo-3-ViDoc/

[Wondermonkey]

That was an excellent report Keezy, but it was supposed to be on the Swiss Family Robinson, now please take your seat.

It's amazing how little the video actually showed in 7 minutes, but it seems that the Brutes are going to be even more of a bitch to deal with in Halo 3. I agree that they were weak and easy to take down in two though, so I'm glad Bungie beefed them up.

As far as who the woman being escorted in those Halo 2 clips was, her name was Miranda Keyes, Jacob Keyes daughter. If she returns in Halo 3, she will not be voiced by the same actress either.

So, what have we learned?

• Brute tipping over a Warthog instead of boarding... sweet.

• Brute ripping arms off a marine... sweet.

• Brute in bad-ass armor cutting the legs off an elite... sweet.

• Probably temporary Halo 3 menu screen showing the ark... sweet.

• Possibly four grenade types, maybe the fourth being the sheild grenade, see pic.

I wonder now if the sword animations will change and you will finally be able to rip limbs off characters with the energy sword. It may finally act the way it is described in the books.

All in all, cool video, I need more though Bungie. MORE.

[KEEZY]

Good call on the 4 'nades. That is definitely the shape of the shield grenade. A bunch of people on Bungie.net were talking about what the x button does. A major argument was that it was NOT the shield, and that the shield was a grenade; the supplementary argument was that the 4 grenades would be mapped to the d-pad.

I'll have to look, but does anyone know off-hand if the hands-on posted by EGM/1UP mentioned what the d-pad did or how the grenades were chosen?

[GoatMother]

When they showed the plain white graphics I was thinking it would be cool if they had some Elites in all white in a snow type level that weren't easy to see. Nice ambush situations, etc.

[KEEZY]

Oh, the shotgun looked sexy too BTW.

Right before they switched to the shotgun, he was using the new Assault Rifle. You know they left that last part of the switch in, just for foolin.

ALSO, what is that bar/meter across the top center of the screen? Halo 2 did not have anything there before. Could that be sprint? Or maybe they just moved the shield bar up there (before it was right above the radar).

[Jon Liu]

hmmm somehow watching this footage has made me just slightly less interested in the game. The AI and stuff was definitely interesting enough but, the graphics really didn't look like anything more than the glorified Halo 2 that a few others were saying. It definitely didn't look like the screen shots that were posted a little while ago.

I dunno... still gotta wait until closer to the actual game launch I suppose.

[KEEZY]

The build number shown in the bottom of the screen looked like it had a date in the number... if I remember correctly, it was early September. I'll have to double check.

[ZoomZoom71]

Yeah, the build date looked like Sept 15. It also said "pre alpha".

[Epyon MX]

I'm definitely intrigued. With Halo 3, Bungie really seems to be serious about fixing--what I view to be--the mistakes of Halo 2, while making improvements.

Also, have the brutes always bled green?

[KEEZY]

I noticed that too. I didn't think so. I know elites bled blue-ish color. It could be a placeholder?

[Wondermonkey]

Thankfully, Bungie knows how to deal with internet monkeys and all their internet monkey chatter. Here now, is the explanation for all the internet monkeys.

Last night, on December 20th at 2am PST (Pacific Standard Time) the US English version of our next “ViDoc” went live. What’s a Vidoc, you ask? A Video-Documentary. What’s it about, you ask? It’s about Brutes in Halo 3, but before we say more, read the following caveats just so there’s no confusion:

• There are no finished graphics in the documentary, and everything you see is a work in progress.

• The first version of the Vidoc, US English, went live at 2am, PST.

• The rest of the localized language versions were to be parceled out afterwards, hopefully within 24 hours. Please be patient.

• We will make another, non-marketplace version available tomorrow.

• It runs for seven minutes.

• Standard definition and high definition variants will be available.

After the release yesterday, of the seven minute documentary feature, we got a lot of questions (as expected) a lot of praise (always welcome) and a lot of criticism (on the internet! Who’d have thunk it?). Anyway, it was all expected so today we’re going to address as much of the rumor mongering and mi