Yeah not set in America, not worth playing ay?

Geez I reckon they could've just made the trailer 15 seconds entirely consisting of closeups of Master Chief's helmet with a jeep roll by and you guys would all still be gushing while Megalith slags it off.

A-N-N-O-U-N-C-E-M-E-N-T TRAILER.

So why the excitement though? Were you reminded that it exists?

It was confirmed. Up until now, Bungie made it believed that Halo 3 didn't exist or wouldn't confirm it.

Needler! Fuck, that's it. Didn't want to look around. Been a while since I played it.

I wonder what would happen if this got cancelled.

With all the comments about the fanfare, I have to agree: the music was the most rousing part of the trailer. And about the story, do you really need to read that novel to get that much of a better understanding of it?

@DEVO: I knew it was gonna be made, but after all the time Bungie put in the Halo games (they started working on 2 when the first one came out), I wasn't surprised if they would've announced something else. It just confirmed it.

@Evergreen: To enjoy the whole mythology, yes, you need to read, AT LEAST The Fall of Reach which is about the birth of the Spartan project, which is an awesome story.

So Fall of Reach isn't some cheapo airplane novel read?

I thought the trailor was pretty spiffy...if it was for a movie. For a game, it just makes me think, wtf, mate?

I still enjoyed it though :).

It was never confirmed.

@Evergreem: Don't worry, it's something. It tells the story of Master Chief or John. How he was one of the few hundred kids recruited to take part in the Spartan project. The trained and pump these kids full of products to enhance their minds, body and bone durability. They were around 200 when they started and ended up with 20/30. The rest died during treatments, training or are disabled and disfigured for life. It's really good, I can't stress it enough. It took more than 20 years to complete the training and 'building' of the Spartan soldiers.

Find me the announcement and you win a puppy dog.

What kind of puppy dog are we talking about here? Edible?

Of course! Is there any other kind!

Sometimes, the meat gets kind of tough, like when you let it roam too long. Of course all puppies are edible; I guess I just meant delectable.

Oh well, it's the cheap kind, Dr. Pop-Chow.

Form where i cant get The fall of reach.
If i can't (easily), then please summarize the whole story.

Long story short; the humans fight a war that may be lost against the Convenants. They have a back up plan, Project Spartan. They chose around 200 childrens (around 9) based on their physical and mental capabilities. The final test is for them to watch a coin being thrown in the air and know on which side it'll fall. They need to be 100% sure since they are looking for kids with highly developped senses. Good instincts.

During the following years they are put through training of regular, adult soldiers. Some of them die. They are then injected with products to make them more resistant. One of those treatments change their bones which makes them unbreakable. More of them die from the treatments while others gained deformed bodies and are transferred to operational positions in the army. John (Master Chief) nearly died during that period.

Later on, they try on the first Mjolnir armor that his produced. To wear a Mjolnir armor, you need to have the training and the treatments that the Spartan Soldiers received. A normal soldier tried one of the suits near the final stage of preparation for the training, which resulted in horrible results for him. The suit is connected to your head, to your impulses and instincts. So if you think about moving your arm, your arm will automaticaly move.
And since that soldier didn't have the proper training and treatments, he broke nearly all the bones in his body and died.

Years later, after the second and final Mjolnir armor was created, the final step in the Spartan Projects arrived. After that, the Convenants found Reach, the military planet for the human defenses and the residence for the Spartan Projects. They wiped out all the humans of Reach and are digging in the planets ground, looking for something (which may have been what you saw in the HALO 3 trailer). One Spartan is left with Dr. Catherine, the creator of the Spartan Project and the basis for Master Chief's AI, Cortana. They evacuated in a spaceship while Master Chief went on with Captain Keys to escape the Convenants attack and stumbled upon the HALO construct.


Maybe I missed some details, but that's about it.

^ You see that's why I like Halo. It basically starts out as "I am mr. badass supersoldier. I flip military jeeps with one hand and have a half ton indestructible armor that has selfregenerating forcefield. It's me vs. endless army of aliens. GO".

BUT in the reality, the aliens are a religious fanatic crew, humanity is being wiped out slowly, you fight in constructs and against creations that predate known life in the universe, and there's a serious, interesting BACKSTORY and wonderful background music setting incredible mood. It's as fun in single player as it is in multi. You can just shootout or you can immerse in the massive background history, and so on. And to top that, the game is very solid and plays well too.