Halo 3 Pre-Release Discussion

[Flawless]

In this fascinating short, you'll see some of the teamwork, thought processes and imagination that went into this Halo 3 teaser. You'll see the actual orchestra and choir session, some of the in-studio production work and interviews with some of the key folks who worked on the E3 presentation. You won't see everyone - lots of folks who slaved over hot keyboards to make this trailer a reality were simply too busy to be interviewed - and to them, our heartfelt appreciation.

But you will see some footage from the trailer that didn't make the cut, and you'll see angles and views from the realtime footage that we kept for this piece. And if you look very, very carefully, you'll see hints of things to come. Nothing too dramatic, but the fans will spot stuff, of that we're certain.

http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?link=e3makingof

[Flawless]

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That was a great video.

I think I saw the Grunts for Halo 3.

Maybe an Elite?

[Flawless]

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Bungie Weekly Update

A loosely held together with tape and string tournament has started at Bungie, where we'll be playing against other teams of two in Halo 3 multiplayer. I have teamed up with KP to form Team Cobra Kai. We'll be sweeping knees next week on two of the more polished levels. One of those is waaaaaaay more finished than the other, and is probably the most graphically accomplished Halo thing ever. And it's not finished. While playing that level, we got killed over and over again because we were staring at the HDR lighting and the eerie, iridescent surfaces that make up some of the objects on that map.

It's thrilling to think that the graphics we see in that map are the absolute baseline for how good our stuff should look. Even that pretty, pretty map is missing a bunch of graphical features, although to be honest, I had to be told that. The more detailed character models look surprisingly good on SD TV sets too. I had kind of assumed that they would be best appreciated on an HD set, but the fact is that the extra shadow, detail and realism looks every bit as impressive on our crappy old 14 inch test sets.

http://bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?link=bwujunesixteenohsix

[Beantown]

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And so it begins.

[Kevin26385]

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You guys know Halo 3 could have been playable with multiplayer at E3 right?

[Beantown]

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Yeah...but it wasn't...

so the post-trailer hype train is getting its engines warmed up

[Flawless]

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Bungie Weekly Update (6/23/2006)

Lars also let us try out a new map Sketch and I like to call "Jub-Jub," much to Mr. Bakken's discontent. And it's my favorite new small map. An instant classic like Lockout and on roughly the same scale, with similar pacing and feel, although it looks very, very different.

I am finally starting to love the Assault Rifle (the one from the trailer) in MP. It's good stuff, although weapon balancing and tradeoffs may change its subtle variances between now and launch. And it could even be removed. Who knows? That's the normal course of development, finding what works and what doesn't. Right now, it works great.

http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=8471

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[heelsman22]

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According to The Feed this afternoon, Halo 3 will be released on November 16, 2006. They said they got the information from Best Buy execs.

So the countdown begins.

[Beantown]

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Isn't that the rough/tentative date for when the PS3 is coming out?

[jdros13]

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Isn't that the rough/tentative date for when the PS3 is coming out?

I think that's the plan...

[Beantown]

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I think that's the plan...

Yeah, I know...I just find it funny that they're actually going to go through with it.

[Flawless]

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According to The Feed this afternoon, Halo 3 will be released on November 16, 2006. They said they got the information from Best Buy execs.

So the countdown begins.

I look for this to be in Bungie's weekly update.

G4 + Best Buy execs :y4:

[Flawless]

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From Bungie.net forums

This thread is locked. People continuing to bring this up will be warned, then banned. Posting to a BUNGIE message board that we don't know the release date of our own game, especially when we said it was going to be arriving in 2007... well, that's just the height of idiocy. I am not in the mood to suffer fools today, so I suggest you guys knock it off. Bungie is the only entity that can tell you the date of Halo 3's release. It will be in 2007. We'll elaborate more on that when we're ready to pin it down for you.

[heelsman22]

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From Bungie.net forums

Yea, guess I spoke too soon. Doesn't matter though, I'm still amped for this game.

[Lintyfresh85]

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oh well I'm sure there will be plenty of other great games out in November that will hold people over till Halo 3 comes out.

Does anyone else want the ability to change skins in MP? Like maybe to a human skin... or create your own? I know that doesn't fit in with Halo... but I would love to see it. Give us a change from all the Master Chief knockoffs running around.