i am very glad you listened to the recommandations for the Halo 3 ad campaign :) in my opinion Halo Reach was even better with that. 1:58 you will lose your shit playing Halo 3. This moment is in the game and even better 3:00 fun fact; marty once said in an interview that the execs at microsoft laughed at him for choosing the single Piano note as opener 4:30 this trailer was shown at the super bowl. 1 min is quite expensive :D and to my knowledge they never explained the opening of that scene, but i think its the spartans in a young age
You HAVE to react to the Halo ODST "We are ODST" live action trailer! Bungies really knew what they were doing when it came to marketing during peak halo days. It's a must watch.
HI! Film and marketing student (recently graduated woo!!)... the man who made the live action commercials wanted to make a proof of concept short film for a Halo film with steven Spielberg... the same production company that would ultimately pass it to paramount and come out with the awful Halo show we got last year... The gentleman who made the commercials ultimately left the project years ago to make DISTRICT 9 and won many awards for its realism in a documentary style scifi film. It is a real shame we never got a live action Halo that respected the source material like these short film ads did, but we did get an amazing film covering the issues of racism within South Africa using SCIFI to tell this lesson. .... da da da (rainbow music plays) THE More you know.... lol loved ur reaction btw.!!!
fun fact from books master chief was taken as a child like most of his kind and forced evolution kind of drug make them into super soldiers many died failing take the growth spurt and master chief is last survivor of his kind after a ambush while on a mission.
Halo Landfall was the original proof of concept footage filmed to show Hollywood a Halo movie could be made back in the day. Unfortunately the movie never got made, and the work done for towards it was re-purposed into the Film District 9
@@Lang7 "Believe"coupled with "Finish the fight" were so iconic and absolutely hyped this game more than any I've seen since, save ODSTs live action ad.
I used to work at a dog rescue, and they played classical music, and this was one of the songs that came on. Always stopped working to listen, felt nostalgic, and remembered this trailer
Halo: Landfall is the main reason why everyone is so pissed a Halo TV show or movie wasn't made. It showed it could be done and it could be done well. Then everyone got re-pissed when Paramount's Halo TV show came out because it completely ignored the lore of Halo in favor of generic daytime TV drama.
@@buddyguy4723 "MASTER CHEEKS, YOU MIND TELLING ME WHAT YOU'RE DOING IN THAT COVENANT TRAITOR?" "SIR, FINISHING THIS DYKE" END SCENE KINO CINEMA BRAVO PARAMOUNT
@@buddyguy4723 If they removed to self inert character one of the main producers added. The girl with the covenant, literally is from her own fanfic and is her self insert over the Arbiter, and is the only reason she got on the show was because she made this fanfic, she hated Halo. You can tell basically everyone else loved Halo except the writers and producers, and Mr John Halo himself who wanted to be the lead but hated the Idea of being Master Chief because "no one would know it was him" and "you can't show emotion without a human face" the Mandalorian was already doing huge numbers before production really took off for the Halo show.
The Landfall short was directed by Neill Blomkamp, who made District 9, Elysium, and Chappie. He was at the time supposed to make a Halo movie with Peter Jackson but it fell apart, which led to him working on District 9.
@@Luckyred7 I noticed that too. In Elysium when they did the initial heist with the CEO the black guy had a helmet that looks really close to a UNSC helmet.
The crazy thing is Peter Jackson was an actual Halo fan. He played Halo 2 while working on King Kong. We were on the verge of greatness. Instead we got Paramount’s garbage.
The late 2000s was truly The Golden Age of Gaming. EVERYONE had a mic shit talking in lobbies, nobody was "a sweat" or "a try hard" everyone just gamed to have fun and escape from reality. Devs made games with the soul purpose of having fun, not making a profit. Something that will sadly never return. For anyone too young or not born yet to be part of that time truly missed an incredible moment in gaming history. Halo 3 dropped when i was a Sophomore in High School. The feeling of finally playing Halo 3 after years of waiting after that Halo 2 cliff hanger was just...it felt like a dream. I would give ANYTHING to have just one more night reliving those old memories. All those endless nights playing Multiplayer, Co-op, and creating maps in Forge with my old friends. Many if not all I've lost touch with. Drinking Mountain Dew Gamer Fuel and eating Pizza. The only worry in life was waking up in time so you didn't miss the school bus. I cant help but tear up thinking about those times I've experienced. Halo was on top of the world with Bungie and it pains me to this day to see a Franchise I care so much about and love so much ran through the mud and neglected by the incompetent 343 and Microsoft. Lucy, I HOPE you can somewhat experience what we all felt playing Halo 3 all those years ago. Have fun and FINISH THE FIGHT.
You hit the nail on the head, I was a sophomore in high school at that time too, it was the perfect age to be. Something people forget about is how back in that day, most people still thought that playing video games was for losers. Halo 3 broke through that. The news was talking about it, it had TV commercials, it had its own flavor of Mountain Dew (yes Game Fuel was originally created for Halo 3) and the world started to understand that us gamers were ahead of the curve, it was undeniable. Now everyone in high school plays tons of games and it's no big deal. Wild.
@C6Z_Bob I completely agree, I feel the same similar thing happened with comic book films when The Avengers came out, during those years it was still just for nerds to watch comic book films but in 2012, Avengers and Dark Knight Rises together changed everything, now almost everyone has watched the majority of the MCU and so many other films that they never would've prior, its crazy. While I love that it's more accepted now, being a nerd in general, a lot of games and films have lost their special essence they used to have, it felt more pure back then, god I miss those days.
I came around a little later, and was a junior in high school for Reach. 3 was still in its prime at the time, as well. I always felt like I got the best of both worlds, and had the exact same experience with both, as you.
I just want you to know, you're not alone out there. This came out when I was 17. Now I'm 34... 17 years later. What. The. Hell. Nothing will ever beat the 2000s.
Fun fact with the starry night trailer. The little boy is Chief as a kid. The girl next to him was his best friend. She was one of the first to actually figure out Chief’s real identity because she saw him at the battle for earth and talked with him briefly.
Where is the lore of her after the trailer? Was it from the Halo: Evolutions short stories? I vaguely remember he ran into someone from his past before he was kidnapped and indoctrinated into the UNSC but can't recall if she knew who he was before.
@ I believe it was talked about in Hunt the Truth. Two of Chief’s childhood friends are mentioned I think. One thought he was dead and this one just thought he moved away.
@crazyguy_1233 Ah ok it was some audio logs. I might have to get around to listening to those. It's been a while since I've gotten into some Halo lore.
The "Believe" campaign nailed the true heart of Halo's story: humility, courage, and sacrifice. It resonated heavily as teen in 2007 surrounded by patriotic media during the early years of the Iraq & Afghanistan wars.
You gotta understand how insanely monumental Halo 2 was. It sold 2.4 million copies (earning $125 mil) the first 24 hours it was out and established Xbox live as a service, altering the trajectory for an entire industry. So Halo 3's marketing push was just absolutely mad. It did outsell Halo 2 by $45 mil on release day, so I guess it was worth it. It was this generation of games that started making more on opening day than Hollywood blockbusters made on opening weekend, cementing the status of the gaming industry as a financial juggernaut.
@@jasondolph2785 tbh it's mostly just investors paying people who allegedly know how the market works to tell them what the game should be about... And they basically get scammed.
The believe trailer always makes me cry. Back when Halo 3 first came out my older sister didn't care at all but years ago we were able to bond over halo after she finally got into video games. I'll never forget all those fun nights of us eating popcorn and playing Halo together. She passed away in 2021. Halo will always be so close to my heart
nothing will ever fill that hole of losing someone amazing like that, but at least you have amazing memories and wonderful feelings like that, Im sorry
@Novouto thank you. The pain of losing her will never leave but I'm more just happy for the time that I spent with her. I'll always be desperate for just one more moment but life goes on. I have the memories and I'm very grateful for them.
@@colinmackay92 That's one of the things that has majorly bothered me about Halsey's portrayal after the Bungie games and books of the era. Beyond the absolutely bizarre decision to make her into a war criminal, in the Kilo Five trilogy they depicted her as broken and sobbing about Miranda and her general state of affairs and her various regrets. That is not the Halsey from the original books. The original Halsey was often times a borderline sociopath and would have been defiant to the end with anyone looking to break her, especially someone like Parangosky. And she was very good at subterfuge and blackmail. And everything she did was originally about saving humanity, which evolved into protecting the Spartan IIs, who she saw as her true children and doing everything in her power to ensure their (and humanity's, by extension) survival.
The first trailer is special because it has one of the coolest Easter eggs: When Cortana says "This is the way the world ends", that is a nod to the origins of this franchise. When Bungie was working on the first Halo game, they started teasing fans by sending cryptic emails from Cortana to the homepage of their biggest game at the time: Marathon. You can look up "The Cortana Letters" and see the whole fascinating string of letters and what people were doing at the time to figure it out. The very first letter contains the line "Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong, THIS is the way the world ends." This is a reference to the poem The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot where he wrote "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper." So, by saying Eliot got it wrong, Cortana is implying the world will end with a bang, and repeating the line in the announcement trailer was both a nod to the Cortana Letters and Bungie's ending the trilogy with a bang.
Wow. I was just about to write a similar comment! Glad to know someone still remembers the Cortana Letters! I remember freaking out seeing this trailer because I distinctly remembered the lines "I have defied gods and demons...I am your shield. I am your sword" from those letters that had been written ages before Halo 3 was even a concept. It's amazing how it all came together. Felt like magic back then!
HALO Landfall is as close to a accurate depiction of a live-action show that we ALL wanted back then, and to this day! Man i love re-watching it. Thanks for reminding me of the glory days of HALO.💚
And to think we ALMOST had The Halo movie. If you remember a film called District 9, that was the remnants of the Halo movie after it fell through. ALSO you can actually read the whole 128 page script of what we were gonna get.
I love watching it sometimes but every time I get to the end of it I get sad as fuck and somewhat depressed thinking about what we could have had and angry when I remember what we ended up getting instead
The thing 343 forgot, was that Chief was only ever a bright spark in a doomed defiance. Humanity is literally clinging by our fingertips in Halo. The Whole idea of Halo is that as powerful as we (The player) are, we're just a small part of a much larger War. Chief showing up is meant to be like meeting an Archangel with a message direct from the almighty God himself. It's supposed to be rare but also incredibly fucking terrifying.
@@Anthony_Cika yes! For the fighter waist-deep in fighting, it'd be a huge boost to see Chief on the field--but also fucking terrifying because he doesn't show up for the small, easy skirmishes.
All those section of BELIEVE were cut up into 30 and 45 second commercial spots, so they’d start and the first time you’d see them you’d be unsure of what you looking at and then you’d be bawling at the end of the ad.
"Believe" is literally the reason I learned Chopin's prelude in D flat on the piano (21:35) It is still my favorite video game marketing campaign of all time
@@OrangeSodaKing same here! Between that and the piano fanfare of 3's theme , it really pushed me to work hard at learning piano. I still have the Chopin book I learned it from, basically falls open to that prelude because of how many times I'd played it
For context, in Starry Night that was John - the Master Chief - as a child, before ONI got their hands on him for the Spartan program. He and that friend would later meet as adults during the course of Halo 2's events, I believe, although neither would obviously have any idea who the other was.
@@LUCYJROBYN Good novel. The Flood doesn't add all that much to Halo CE beyond some marine/ODST points of view and some fun nods to moments in the game given additional context, but once you finish with that I'd highly recommend both First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx. First Strike basically details everything that took place between Halo Combat Evolved and Halo 2, and Ghosts of Onyx takes place alongside Halo 2/Halo 3 ODST to explain why certain key players were missing - along with adding some of the best additions to the overall lore. Onyx is a must read if you're eventually going to play Halo Reach as it adds a TON of context to the setting, and if possible I'd highly recommend getting your hands on a PDF copy of Halsey's journal which was included with the Collector's Edition of Reach. You'll notice real quick reading through the older books that Halsey isn't quite what a lot of people paint her as nowadays. She's a deeply controversial figure to be sure but the books do her considerably more justice while 343 Industries sort of went out of their way to demonize her in keeping with the newer and highly biased Traviss novels at the time. She's certainly flawed but she's also deeply human - if anything Parangosky and Ackerson are the names you should be looking out for if you're going to be working your way through the books. Halsey wasn't top dog at ONI and you'll remember in Fall of Reach that it was explicitly mentioned she was on a time table... and that any attempts to stall or delay for safer alternatives for the children would see her almost immediately set aside and replaced. Additionally, if possible - Halo Legends and Halo Evolutions are on the shorter side as self contained stories and may make for fun channel videos. They're generally well beloved by the community and Evolutions in particular touches on a lot of the darker and more complex issues of the setting during and after the war's end.
A little more context and a slight correction. The short story in question is "Palace Hotel" from the anthology Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe. And the friend in question is Lieutenant Parisa. She was his childhood friend and John did remember her but did not reveal his identity to her. However he did coordinate the Mombasa's city defense with her. Her fate is unknown after the battle.
@@slate8409 That's one of the things that has majorly bothered me about Halsey's portrayal after the Bungie games and books of the era. Beyond the absolutely bizarre decision to make her into a war criminal, in the Kilo Five trilogy they depicted her as broken and sobbing about Miranda and her general state of affairs and her various regrets. That is not the Halsey from the original books. The original Halsey was often times a borderline sociopath and would have been defiant to the end with anyone looking to break her, especially someone like Parangosky. And she was very good at subterfuge and blackmail. And everything she did was originally about saving humanity, which evolved into protecting the Spartan IIs, who she saw as her true children and doing everything in her power to ensure their (and humanity's, by extension) survival.
I was 17 when this game came out and remember spending weeks selling my mother on the idea of me skipping a couple of days of high school to play it, and a few friends of mine did likewise. I came to find out that my high school had to investigate the event because so many kids called out of school that week that they thought there was some conspiracy. I'm not sure any game release in history was more hyped than Halo 3's - and it's one of the few that fully lived up to its unbelievable hype. I'm sure you'll love it!
Halo 3 marketing is forever the BEST marketing for a video game I've ever seen. The dedication and money put into it, and the game just being a masterpiece as well. Overall, it's a 10/10
0:31 To this day, this is my favorite video game trailer of all time. The excitement when this first dropped in 2006 was unreal. The epic music, the cryptic stuff with Cortana, the wild imagery of an entire cliffside crumbling in front of Master Chief... and then capping it all off with "FINISH THE FIGHT" at the end. Masterfully crafted from start to finish.
I have always loved Starry Night the most. Two little kids looking up at the sky, wondering if there are aliens somewhere out there, and if we'll ever meet them. Full of wonder and optimistic sense of adventure. Then immediate flash forward 40 years, and humanity is tied in a decades long war against said aliens, and humanity is at the brink of extinction. And it's heavily implied that that little boy is John, and when concussed by that explosion Master Chief thinks back to that memory. I think it's beautifully done and it hits so hard, it tells such a deep story with so few lines.
@hylianchriss i remember being in 7th grade watching Monday night football and this ad plays for the first time ever. I cannot explain how hyped up I was for weeks
Landfall is incredible, not just visually or conceptually like everyone keeps saying, but also storywise. The entire video--all of the intensity, the blood, the pain and suffering, all the effort--just to TRACK the Master Chief. Not to save him, not to contact him, just to find out where he's going. He's THAT important that so many of these marines died just to be able to find out where he's gonna land after falling from space. It really shows how much these guys see him as their hero, and for good reason. He's a Spartan, a thing of legend who saved the entire human race once, and they know he's about to do it again.
I love how it shows how the Battle of Earth extended far outside of just east Africa as we saw in the game. For example, Halo: Landfall takes place in Afghanistan.
These started a long tradition of Halo getting epic live action trailers for almost every new game, Reach and ODST both have epic live action trailers. Reach’s live action trailer is just as heart wrenching as Halo 3s because Reach is about showing you what the war was like when you aren’t the Master Chief standing against the endless Covenant onslaught, almost no hope and no escape just bitter war and sacrifice.
E3 was such an iconic expo, you could feel the hype of people in the crowd, who came to watch irl, hyped to get hyped by whatever new licence or sequel to famous game
This is the peak of the video game genre. Nobody ever stuck the landing like Bungie did with Halo 3. Mass Effect came close but ME3 just didn’t quite get it done. I’m just happy young people like you can go back and experience it for the first time. Can’t wait to see the VoD of you “Finishing the Fight”.
Damn. BELIEVE almost got Lucy to pop in the game right then and there. It is definitely one of the top marketing campaigns of the 2000s. Imagine the fervor this produced for the millions of fans just waiting to finish the fight. I was one of them.
Halo is not just a video game. Its a culture, I have several novels in german and english and it gives me so much. Halo made my whole childhood and apparently the rest of my life. I turn 31 in January. Halo is SO MUCH.
Your reaction was genuinely heartwarming, it’s like experiencing these trailers for the first time again. Believe campaign really got me in the feelings this time though for some reason, really great stuff
The little girl was named Ellie Bloom she was Chief’s childhood friend back on his homeworld of Erdanus II. They would often star-gaze until she left the planet in 2517 the same year John met Halsey. The sad thing is Chief would likely remember her but he is forever sworn to secrecy by ONI.
While growing up, I played quite a bit of halo 2 at my friends house, it was a blast. Later on I started working part-time. The day halo 3 came out I just knew what to do, with the money I earned I bought my xbox360 with Call of duty 4 and of course Halo 3. (Along a 12month xbox live sub) The begining of one hell of a great adventure. So many fond memories. Writing this reminded me I nearly made it to max rank in Halo 3 free4all 💭😊 The part of the trailer when chief bubble shield the wraith shot is forever engraved in my mind. Heck I use that image to block out bad emotions sometime.
I have to admit - watching you experience all of this for the first time, and seeing the different emotions that you conveyed; sadness, happiness, hope...made me, a 39 year old man, tear up as I watching. Believe.
IIRC "Starry Night" debuted during a commercial break during an NFL game (can't remember which one). We knew which game it would be but not when the trailer would play.
The diorama from Believe was real. I remember how, at the time, they had done a 3d scan of the whole thing and uploaded it into the games website. They ran a program similar to google maps street view to let you see the diorama from many angles. I spent hours there in high school, waiting for my chance to finish the fight. I believed.
I remember all of these marketing videos from back then. I was blown away then because of how incredibly cinematic, creative, and compelling all of these short videos were. Looking back on them now with no rose tinted glasses on, and they were still ahead of their time. These seriously kicked ass.
I remember the "Starry night" trailer was shown as a commercial for a monday night football game. My friends Dad said "holy cow this looks real". And my friend ran to the living room to see what he was talking about. It was Halo 3. He called me immediately to tell me to try to find it online and watch it. The next day at school all way talked about was that trailer. Halo 3 and the months leading up to it wasn't a normal game. It was a holy experience. We were religious fanatics waiting for our Jesus to return. And when the game finally came out. It was the best gaming experience ive ever had. The campaign, the music, the friends i made. I would come home, boot up my xbox, get into a custom games lobby by myself. And then go make a snack. Come back and the lobby would be full of other people waiting to play some custom games and crazy maps. Cuz thats how awesome the community was. One person would see me come online and invite their friends who would invite their friends. And so on and so on. One kid would make a crazy map or game mode and they could share it to everyone. Halo 3 was the Pinnacle of online gaming. Truely the PEAK of the Golden era of gaming.
Gives me chills seeing these videos again. My buddy and I stayed up all night grinding Halo 3 when it released. Sleep deprivation made the final mission way more difficult than it needed to be. That was my most memorable gaming experience.
If you're confused, Bungie was the original creators of Halo. They're also the same devs that made Destiny and Marathon. (Ik the audience knows this, just pointing it out)
I have already been feeling tad more nostalgic as we get closer to Christmas..but this..this right here takes me back to when my 3 sons were younger and we spent many Friday and Saturday nights playing together. Many memories were made because of this game.
For some reason every time I see that e3 trailer with the music and the drums pounding, I get incredibly emotional and teary-eyed. I don't know what it is about that trailer. It's just special.
they cant do it like they did with that 3:19 trailer. that shit enthralled me as a teen. I couldnt name a single game franchise that holds my heart strings the way Halo did.
Yoooooo your're awesome for doing this, many people just jump straight into halo 3 without knowing the generational hype it had. Halo was one of the biggest gaming franchises, on par with GTA in terms of popularity in the US and these trailers are an important aspect of why there was so much hype around halo 3. Heck when halo 3 released, it became the biggest launch in entertainment medium, single handedly pulling down the box office of movies released along with it. Once again thank you for seeing these trailers and hope you do the same for Reach !
The guns the brutes were using in Landfall were Spikers, sort of a brute SMG that fires large spikes but unlike the needler projectiles, they don’t create an explosion.
As the sizzling sounds would indicate though, the projectiles are screaming hot, molten even, when fired so it's still quite a crule weapon in it's own way. As an asside though, man, in the old books even the needler sounds like such a nightmare, even if the needles miss and just blow up near you, you still get peppered with razer sharp micro-shrapnel that would be a nightmare to remove, or in Fall of Reach in particular the descriptions of even Mjolnir armor struggling to handle a few direct hits from plasma weapons and the extensive surgery Halsey had to do on Linda and Kelly. A lot of the content around the original Trilogy, ODST, and Reach really showed how desperate things were from the beginning of the Human-Covenant war and even moreso towards the end, the new stuff has entirely forgot what the spirit and story of Halo was originally it's probably no wonder why a lot of older players have fallen off in the years since
I didn’t read any of the books or extended universe stuff so I couldn’t figure out how I knew that Spartans could only be listed as Missing In Action prior to Halo 4. Of course it was from that commercial.
The fact that you went back and watched the marketing for the third game before playing it is incredible, most streamers or youtubers dont do that for "older" games, thats amazing, now being a new fan you can understand the beauty and hype of it all and youre right, when this trailer came out, people went bonkers. 2007 was a stacked year too, Halo faced competion with Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4, Bioshock and even Uncharted, those were the best times. I remember staying up whatching a South Park because they were going to premiere a Call Of Duty Moder Warfare 2 trailer in 2009, they did and me and a lot of my friends stayed up just to see it, so anxious and excited for the game. I miss the golden years of gaming, it was truly amazing. Also I will say watch the marketing for Halo Reach as well when you get to it, that was amazing too especially considering it was Bungies official send off of the series for them.
Being a teen waiting for Halo 3 to release and watching the marketing campaign videos really was a “You just had to be there” moment, there was nothing like it.😢
still get goosebumps watching this. I was there. Opening night, midnight launch, with a bunch of friends who I played with for years. Both those times and those friends are very distant now, but man, this game brought us together in a way that could never be achieved otherwise. Thank you, Bungie. A true golden era of gaming.
Halo 3 was my proper introduction to Halo back in 2007 and it all started because this marketing stood out from all the other games. The marketing was so different, it didn't just seem like another shooter. No pun intended, but the marketing made you BELIEVE in this story and you can just feel that the original developers did as well. Soul was put into Halo's original trilogy. And when I got my hands on Halo 3, I didn't realize I was going to be experiencing one of the most legendary games of all time. I wish you were there to see it. And the best part, they handed US the keys to keep creating memories through something revolutionary: Forge and Theater mode - the first addition to Halo where you can create your own maps and films. At the time, that was so damn big. Players were able to express there full creativity and share them with everyone through Halo 3 with ease of access. everyone made their own shows, scripts, stories, mini games, social hubs, everything. The original creators wanted US to create our story once they ended theirs.
Landfall is one of my favorites because of how it *shows* the way the battles extended far outside of where we see fighting in the games. Landfall takes place in Afghanistan. It even gives exact coordinates you can google maps: 32°53'12.0"N 69°27'48.0"E. And other major battles are just neat to remember, like the critical Battle of Cleveland, Battle of Havana, and of course the nuking of Antarctica.
I am still losing my mind every time I watch these, this franchise is such a central part of my childhood. I am thankful for all the good memories, friends and growth I got from this period. Halo is love, Halo is life.
So much Nostalgia in this. I was a Senior in High School when this came out. 17 in 2007. So hyped watching all these then. Even read all the books and everything. Went to the midnight release and having LAN parties in the garage with 4 CRT Tvs back to back. Pizza and Game Fuel Mountain Dew. Before Social Media. Love your reaction video and commentary. I'm Subscribing now.
Starry Night was directed by Joseph Kosinski (Tron Legacy, Oblivion, Top Gun Maverick), it's fantastic. I'm not a big fan of Halo but this first two Halo 3 trailers gave me goosebumps when i saw them. the last one is really cool too.
I remember that 3d art piece being interactive and being able to move through it with clicks of your mouse back in the day. Wish it was still up somewhere. Coolest stuff to look at waiting for the game to come out.
The hype for Halo 3 was absolutely stratospheric back in the day and it delivered beyond even those expectations. The community back then was incredible and to this day I’ve never experienced anything like it. Halo: Reach was close but it still never reached the heights Halo 3 in my opinion. I still come back to watch these videos every now and then to reminisce about those good times when I was looking forward to a bright future. I’m glad you enjoyed these!
The day halo 3 came out, me and my three roommates all had copies and played campaign together until the sun came up. One of my best memories. The hype was so thick you could carve it out of the air spread it on toast
Brings back so many memories. My cousin and I waited until thanksgiving to play the campaign and stayed up all night while our parents were Black Friday shopping. For memories like that, Halo 3 is special.
I kinda wonder if the old giys were really actors or ex military from Vietnam or korea that were asked to do those bits and just swapped out vietnam for halo lore. They definitely made it feel more real.
@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 dude how old do you think this is? They could have been GWOT vets. Vietnamese vets would have been 60s and 70s at the time.
Halo Outpost Discovery had laser tag, it had all the sounds for the BR and low shields, it was a fun experience. Also the BR's were really heavy, you can tell they really tried to make them feel real to what they are suppose to be. They also had it to where you can enter and link your Xbox gamertag to get exclusive rewards and items for your Xbox avatar. Steve and Jen were there but I missed the panel for it, they had a pelican ride and it simulated what it was like and it was amazing. You would've loved all of it C:
@@LUCYJROBYN It was fun, you defiantly need a 2-3 pass to see everything. They even had a giant LAN party, don't remember which Halo they were playing during it. But I enjoy people getting excited over Halo, I appreciate that you're getting into it! C:
My bestfriend and I had a 3 day long sleepover when this game came out, beat the whole game on legendary with him that weekend. He got his xbox 360 with Halo the day it released. I just checked when it came out, holy shit I was 7 so he was 8 when this happened 16:10 yo why are my eyes tearing up at this? lol I know I love and grew up with this series but damn AHHHHHH 18:45 I havent seen these vids since I was a kid, as a 20 year old man this shit breaks my heart
I absolutely loved this video. I love the appreciation you show for this series too! Absolutely love your videos and reactions to this franchise. I do wanna ask do you plan on playing Halo Wars? And if not do you plan to at least react to the cutscenes? That’d be a good idea if you’re not into RTS games but still wanna give your reaction! I would absolutely still watch the video!
I have never played a moment of Halo, but I remember the BELIEVE campaign from when it was airing. I got choked up watching those commercials back then and it still gets me now. It was brilliantly done.
Seeing all these again is giving me goosebumps. Its crazy how long its been since halo 3 came out, easily one of the best games I've played and so many memories
This really transported me back in time and hit me in the feels! 😭 I remember watching these trailers before the release of Halo 3 like it was yesterday!
Awww man the nostalgia hits so hard.. they make these games with love just look at all those trailers.. they care about halo till Reach. Good times and good memories we were part of something huge.
I was in High School when the Marketing Campaign was releasing. So I’d rush home everyday after school and hit refresh to see if another trailer dropped. Great and simple times Edit* ODST also had an amazing live action trailer to watch
I will never forget that first time I saw the words Finish The Fight flash across my eyes. Woke up very early and made breakfast for a couple of friends, plugged my PC into the big screen TV and watched the Microsoft conference together.
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i am very glad you listened to the recommandations for the Halo 3 ad campaign :)
in my opinion Halo Reach was even better with that.
1:58 you will lose your shit playing Halo 3. This moment is in the game and even better
3:00 fun fact; marty once said in an interview that the execs at microsoft laughed at him for choosing the single Piano note as opener
4:30 this trailer was shown at the super bowl. 1 min is quite expensive :D and to my knowledge they never explained the opening of that scene, but i think its the spartans in a young age
You HAVE to react to the Halo ODST "We are ODST" live action trailer! Bungies really knew what they were doing when it came to marketing during peak halo days. It's a must watch.
HI! Film and marketing student (recently graduated woo!!)... the man who made the live action commercials wanted to make a proof of concept short film for a Halo film with steven Spielberg... the same production company that would ultimately pass it to paramount and come out with the awful Halo show we got last year... The gentleman who made the commercials ultimately left the project years ago to make DISTRICT 9 and won many awards for its realism in a documentary style scifi film. It is a real shame we never got a live action Halo that respected the source material like these short film ads did, but we did get an amazing film covering the issues of racism within South Africa using SCIFI to tell this lesson. .... da da da (rainbow music plays) THE More you know.... lol loved ur reaction btw.!!!
fun fact from books master chief was taken as a child like most of his kind and forced evolution kind of drug make them into super soldiers many died failing take the growth spurt and master chief is last survivor of his kind after a ambush while on a mission.
Halo Landfall was the original proof of concept footage filmed to show Hollywood a Halo movie could be made back in the day.
Unfortunately the movie never got made, and the work done for towards it was re-purposed into the Film District 9
All these years later, "Believe" is still the greatest piece of marketing in video game history.
@@Lang7 "Believe"coupled with "Finish the fight" were so iconic and absolutely hyped this game more than any I've seen since, save ODSTs live action ad.
Still haunts me
Hands down the best.
@@Brettskeithe part where Huffman puts the weapon back down 😭
I used to work at a dog rescue, and they played classical music, and this was one of the songs that came on. Always stopped working to listen, felt nostalgic, and remembered this trailer
Halo: Landfall is the main reason why everyone is so pissed a Halo TV show or movie wasn't made. It showed it could be done and it could be done well. Then everyone got re-pissed when Paramount's Halo TV show came out because it completely ignored the lore of Halo in favor of generic daytime TV drama.
@@greenfire31 I didn't hate the Halo TV show but it could have been better.
i’d have killed for something even just like episodic war moments. doesn’t have to be about chief.
@@buddyguy4723 "MASTER CHEEKS, YOU MIND TELLING ME WHAT YOU'RE DOING IN THAT COVENANT TRAITOR?"
"SIR, FINISHING THIS DYKE"
END SCENE
KINO CINEMA
BRAVO PARAMOUNT
You're so right. Exactly how I felt and still feel.
@@buddyguy4723 If they removed to self inert character one of the main producers added. The girl with the covenant, literally is from her own fanfic and is her self insert over the Arbiter, and is the only reason she got on the show was because she made this fanfic, she hated Halo.
You can tell basically everyone else loved Halo except the writers and producers, and Mr John Halo himself who wanted to be the lead but hated the Idea of being Master Chief because "no one would know it was him" and "you can't show emotion without a human face" the Mandalorian was already doing huge numbers before production really took off for the Halo show.
The Landfall short was directed by Neill Blomkamp, who made District 9, Elysium, and Chappie. He was at the time supposed to make a Halo movie with Peter Jackson but it fell apart, which led to him working on District 9.
District 9 was a fantastic movie, but I still wonder about the alternate timeline where we got a live action Halo movie in 2009ish.
@@corey8378 A Halo movie with the writing and visual quality of district 9 would have been much better. We were robbed. :(
Some of the unused props for the cancelled halo movie are in a few of Blomkamps movies
@@Luckyred7 I noticed that too. In Elysium when they did the initial heist with the CEO the black guy had a helmet that looks really close to a UNSC helmet.
The crazy thing is Peter Jackson was an actual Halo fan. He played Halo 2 while working on King Kong. We were on the verge of greatness. Instead we got Paramount’s garbage.
When that one actor pauses and says "I dont like it" after holding the spiker. Top tier, fantastic bit of acting.
The late 2000s was truly The Golden Age of Gaming. EVERYONE had a mic shit talking in lobbies, nobody was "a sweat" or "a try hard" everyone just gamed to have fun and escape from reality. Devs made games with the soul purpose of having fun, not making a profit. Something that will sadly never return. For anyone too young or not born yet to be part of that time truly missed an incredible moment in gaming history.
Halo 3 dropped when i was a Sophomore in High School. The feeling of finally playing Halo 3 after years of waiting after that Halo 2 cliff hanger was just...it felt like a dream. I would give ANYTHING to have just one more night reliving those old memories. All those endless nights playing Multiplayer, Co-op, and creating maps in Forge with my old friends. Many if not all I've lost touch with. Drinking Mountain Dew Gamer Fuel and eating Pizza. The only worry in life was waking up in time so you didn't miss the school bus. I cant help but tear up thinking about those times I've experienced. Halo was on top of the world with Bungie and it pains me to this day to see a Franchise I care so much about and love so much ran through the mud and neglected by the incompetent 343 and Microsoft.
Lucy, I HOPE you can somewhat experience what we all felt playing Halo 3 all those years ago.
Have fun and FINISH THE FIGHT.
You hit the nail on the head, I was a sophomore in high school at that time too, it was the perfect age to be.
Something people forget about is how back in that day, most people still thought that playing video games was for losers. Halo 3 broke through that. The news was talking about it, it had TV commercials, it had its own flavor of Mountain Dew (yes Game Fuel was originally created for Halo 3) and the world started to understand that us gamers were ahead of the curve, it was undeniable.
Now everyone in high school plays tons of games and it's no big deal. Wild.
@C6Z_Bob I completely agree, I feel the same similar thing happened with comic book films when The Avengers came out, during those years it was still just for nerds to watch comic book films but in 2012, Avengers and Dark Knight Rises together changed everything, now almost everyone has watched the majority of the MCU and so many other films that they never would've prior, its crazy. While I love that it's more accepted now, being a nerd in general, a lot of games and films have lost their special essence they used to have, it felt more pure back then, god I miss those days.
I came around a little later, and was a junior in high school for Reach. 3 was still in its prime at the time, as well. I always felt like I got the best of both worlds, and had the exact same experience with both, as you.
@@BIGWojo68 Was also a HS Sophomore when 3 came out.
LAN parties were a weekend special. So many good memories.
I just want you to know, you're not alone out there. This came out when I was 17. Now I'm 34... 17 years later. What. The. Hell. Nothing will ever beat the 2000s.
Fun fact with the starry night trailer. The little boy is Chief as a kid. The girl next to him was his best friend. She was one of the first to actually figure out Chief’s real identity because she saw him at the battle for earth and talked with him briefly.
Where is the lore of her after the trailer? Was it from the Halo: Evolutions short stories? I vaguely remember he ran into someone from his past before he was kidnapped and indoctrinated into the UNSC but can't recall if she knew who he was before.
@ I believe it was talked about in Hunt the Truth. Two of Chief’s childhood friends are mentioned I think. One thought he was dead and this one just thought he moved away.
@crazyguy_1233 Ah ok it was some audio logs. I might have to get around to listening to those. It's been a while since I've gotten into some Halo lore.
@@stevenfriedman2902 Some of the best audio log lore building pieces of media that 343 unfortunately dropped the ball with when they released halo 5
@@Crazyguy_123MC hunt the lies
“How did you manage to keep it together?”
“We knew Master Chief was still in the fight.”
Still hits deep to this day.
The "Believe" campaign nailed the true heart of Halo's story: humility, courage, and sacrifice.
It resonated heavily as teen in 2007 surrounded by patriotic media during the early years of the Iraq & Afghanistan wars.
@@UNYEILDING big fax
You gotta understand how insanely monumental Halo 2 was. It sold 2.4 million copies (earning $125 mil) the first 24 hours it was out and established Xbox live as a service, altering the trajectory for an entire industry. So Halo 3's marketing push was just absolutely mad. It did outsell Halo 2 by $45 mil on release day, so I guess it was worth it. It was this generation of games that started making more on opening day than Hollywood blockbusters made on opening weekend, cementing the status of the gaming industry as a financial juggernaut.
Leading to investment companies ruining the modern gaming industry.
@@jasondolph2785 tbh it's mostly just investors paying people who allegedly know how the market works to tell them what the game should be about... And they basically get scammed.
The believe trailer always makes me cry. Back when Halo 3 first came out my older sister didn't care at all but years ago we were able to bond over halo after she finally got into video games. I'll never forget all those fun nights of us eating popcorn and playing Halo together. She passed away in 2021. Halo will always be so close to my heart
I'm so sorry.
nothing will ever fill that hole of losing someone amazing like that, but at least you have amazing memories and wonderful feelings like that, Im sorry
@Novouto thank you. The pain of losing her will never leave but I'm more just happy for the time that I spent with her. I'll always be desperate for just one more moment but life goes on. I have the memories and I'm very grateful for them.
@dancingmonkey08 absolutely. I'll never lose those memories. I'm very grateful for them
@@colinmackay92 That's one of the things that has majorly bothered me about Halsey's portrayal after the Bungie games and books of the era. Beyond the absolutely bizarre decision to make her into a war criminal, in the Kilo Five trilogy they depicted her as broken and sobbing about Miranda and her general state of affairs and her various regrets.
That is not the Halsey from the original books. The original Halsey was often times a borderline sociopath and would have been defiant to the end with anyone looking to break her, especially someone like Parangosky. And she was very good at subterfuge and blackmail. And everything she did was originally about saving humanity, which evolved into protecting the Spartan IIs, who she saw as her true children and doing everything in her power to ensure their (and humanity's, by extension) survival.
That final diorama shot of chief, and then he picks his head up and it cuts to "Believe". Man that still gives me chills every time I see it.
@@adamedgerton1030 that trailer always brings a nostalgic tear to my eye.
The first trailer is special because it has one of the coolest Easter eggs:
When Cortana says "This is the way the world ends", that is a nod to the origins of this franchise. When Bungie was working on the first Halo game, they started teasing fans by sending cryptic emails from Cortana to the homepage of their biggest game at the time: Marathon. You can look up "The Cortana Letters" and see the whole fascinating string of letters and what people were doing at the time to figure it out.
The very first letter contains the line "Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong, THIS is the way the world ends." This is a reference to the poem The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot where he wrote "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper." So, by saying Eliot got it wrong, Cortana is implying the world will end with a bang, and repeating the line in the announcement trailer was both a nod to the Cortana Letters and Bungie's ending the trilogy with a bang.
@@aden538 to add to the Hollow Men connection, the reversed speech in Black Tower is a paraphrased excerpt from that same poem.
Wow. I was just about to write a similar comment! Glad to know someone still remembers the Cortana Letters! I remember freaking out seeing this trailer because I distinctly remembered the lines "I have defied gods and demons...I am your shield. I am your sword" from those letters that had been written ages before Halo 3 was even a concept. It's amazing how it all came together. Felt like magic back then!
HALO Landfall is as close to a accurate depiction of a live-action show that we ALL wanted back then, and to this day! Man i love re-watching it. Thanks for reminding me of the glory days of HALO.💚
And to think we ALMOST had The Halo movie.
If you remember a film called District 9, that was the remnants of the Halo movie after it fell through.
ALSO you can actually read the whole 128 page script of what we were gonna get.
@@BIGWojo68 Oh i was there, 3000 years ago... What a blunder.
I love watching it sometimes but every time I get to the end of it I get sad as fuck and somewhat depressed thinking about what we could have had and angry when I remember what we ended up getting instead
The thing 343 forgot, was that Chief was only ever a bright spark in a doomed defiance. Humanity is literally clinging by our fingertips in Halo. The Whole idea of Halo is that as powerful as we (The player) are, we're just a small part of a much larger War. Chief showing up is meant to be like meeting an Archangel with a message direct from the almighty God himself. It's supposed to be rare but also incredibly fucking terrifying.
@@Anthony_Cika yes! For the fighter waist-deep in fighting, it'd be a huge boost to see Chief on the field--but also fucking terrifying because he doesn't show up for the small, easy skirmishes.
That is!!
Chief is terryfing during the initial years of war, watch it on gane would be phenomenal
An epic made in a time of war. It really does represent that time in history
All those section of BELIEVE were cut up into 30 and 45 second commercial spots, so they’d start and the first time you’d see them you’d be unsure of what you looking at and then you’d be bawling at the end of the ad.
"Believe" is literally the reason I learned Chopin's prelude in D flat on the piano (21:35) It is still my favorite video game marketing campaign of all time
@@OrangeSodaKing same here! Between that and the piano fanfare of 3's theme , it really pushed me to work hard at learning piano. I still have the Chopin book I learned it from, basically falls open to that prelude because of how many times I'd played it
For context, in Starry Night that was John - the Master Chief - as a child, before ONI got their hands on him for the Spartan program. He and that friend would later meet as adults during the course of Halo 2's events, I believe, although neither would obviously have any idea who the other was.
Omg! I didn’t realise that. I’ve been reading The Fall of Reach where we meet young John🥺
@@LUCYJROBYN Good novel. The Flood doesn't add all that much to Halo CE beyond some marine/ODST points of view and some fun nods to moments in the game given additional context, but once you finish with that I'd highly recommend both First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx.
First Strike basically details everything that took place between Halo Combat Evolved and Halo 2, and Ghosts of Onyx takes place alongside Halo 2/Halo 3 ODST to explain why certain key players were missing - along with adding some of the best additions to the overall lore. Onyx is a must read if you're eventually going to play Halo Reach as it adds a TON of context to the setting, and if possible I'd highly recommend getting your hands on a PDF copy of Halsey's journal which was included with the Collector's Edition of Reach.
You'll notice real quick reading through the older books that Halsey isn't quite what a lot of people paint her as nowadays. She's a deeply controversial figure to be sure but the books do her considerably more justice while 343 Industries sort of went out of their way to demonize her in keeping with the newer and highly biased Traviss novels at the time. She's certainly flawed but she's also deeply human - if anything Parangosky and Ackerson are the names you should be looking out for if you're going to be working your way through the books. Halsey wasn't top dog at ONI and you'll remember in Fall of Reach that it was explicitly mentioned she was on a time table... and that any attempts to stall or delay for safer alternatives for the children would see her almost immediately set aside and replaced.
Additionally, if possible - Halo Legends and Halo Evolutions are on the shorter side as self contained stories and may make for fun channel videos. They're generally well beloved by the community and Evolutions in particular touches on a lot of the darker and more complex issues of the setting during and after the war's end.
In the short story she was a Marine that was looking at a picture of John from when he was a kid and he remembers her but doesn’t say anything.
A little more context and a slight correction. The short story in question is "Palace Hotel" from the anthology Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe. And the friend in question is Lieutenant Parisa. She was his childhood friend and John did remember her but did not reveal his identity to her. However he did coordinate the Mombasa's city defense with her. Her fate is unknown after the battle.
@@slate8409 That's one of the things that has majorly bothered me about Halsey's portrayal after the Bungie games and books of the era. Beyond the absolutely bizarre decision to make her into a war criminal, in the Kilo Five trilogy they depicted her as broken and sobbing about Miranda and her general state of affairs and her various regrets.
That is not the Halsey from the original books. The original Halsey was often times a borderline sociopath and would have been defiant to the end with anyone looking to break her, especially someone like Parangosky. And she was very good at subterfuge and blackmail. And everything she did was originally about saving humanity, which evolved into protecting the Spartan IIs, who she saw as her true children and doing everything in her power to ensure their (and humanity's, by extension) survival.
I was 17 when this game came out and remember spending weeks selling my mother on the idea of me skipping a couple of days of high school to play it, and a few friends of mine did likewise. I came to find out that my high school had to investigate the event because so many kids called out of school that week that they thought there was some conspiracy. I'm not sure any game release in history was more hyped than Halo 3's - and it's one of the few that fully lived up to its unbelievable hype. I'm sure you'll love it!
Halo 3 marketing is forever the BEST marketing for a video game I've ever seen. The dedication and money put into it, and the game just being a masterpiece as well. Overall, it's a 10/10
0:31 To this day, this is my favorite video game trailer of all time. The excitement when this first dropped in 2006 was unreal. The epic music, the cryptic stuff with Cortana, the wild imagery of an entire cliffside crumbling in front of Master Chief... and then capping it all off with "FINISH THE FIGHT" at the end. Masterfully crafted from start to finish.
And if I recall there was no indicator it was a Halo trailer before it played, so the Chief walking out the smoke was such a thrill.
Someone actually filmed this at e3 on his phone and it gives me goosebumps hearing them all cheer
I still get goosebumps from that one
I have always loved Starry Night the most. Two little kids looking up at the sky, wondering if there are aliens somewhere out there, and if we'll ever meet them. Full of wonder and optimistic sense of adventure.
Then immediate flash forward 40 years, and humanity is tied in a decades long war against said aliens, and humanity is at the brink of extinction.
And it's heavily implied that that little boy is John, and when concussed by that explosion Master Chief thinks back to that memory.
I think it's beautifully done and it hits so hard, it tells such a deep story with so few lines.
@hylianchriss i remember being in 7th grade watching Monday night football and this ad plays for the first time ever. I cannot explain how hyped up I was for weeks
Landfall is incredible, not just visually or conceptually like everyone keeps saying, but also storywise. The entire video--all of the intensity, the blood, the pain and suffering, all the effort--just to TRACK the Master Chief. Not to save him, not to contact him, just to find out where he's going. He's THAT important that so many of these marines died just to be able to find out where he's gonna land after falling from space. It really shows how much these guys see him as their hero, and for good reason. He's a Spartan, a thing of legend who saved the entire human race once, and they know he's about to do it again.
I love how it shows how the Battle of Earth extended far outside of just east Africa as we saw in the game.
For example, Halo: Landfall takes place in Afghanistan.
“No soldier should be honored for doing what is expected” got me in the feels.
You have no idea the flood of emotions this brought back, I feel like those old men, I was there almost 20 years ago….
These started a long tradition of Halo getting epic live action trailers for almost every new game, Reach and ODST both have epic live action trailers. Reach’s live action trailer is just as heart wrenching as Halo 3s because Reach is about showing you what the war was like when you aren’t the Master Chief standing against the endless Covenant onslaught, almost no hope and no escape just bitter war and sacrifice.
Also HALO: ODST marketing is also 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yooo this was a nice treat! I wasn't expecting a "prep for H3" upload, but this was a great idea!
When Chief looks up and then “Believe” pops just makes me so emotional. The one I really remember as a kid is starry night though.
E3 was such an iconic expo, you could feel the hype of people in the crowd, who came to watch irl, hyped to get hyped by whatever new licence or sequel to famous game
Halo 2 and 3 had the best marketing campaigns of all time.
@@Rberg1105 I'd say Halo 3 with the live action war stories from the 'vets'
@ ya. Halo 2 had I love bees though
This is the peak of the video game genre. Nobody ever stuck the landing like Bungie did with Halo 3. Mass Effect came close but ME3 just didn’t quite get it done.
I’m just happy young people like you can go back and experience it for the first time. Can’t wait to see the VoD of you “Finishing the Fight”.
That Believe piano still gets me all these years later.
Halo Landfall isn't technically a Halo 3 advertisement. It is Neil Blomkampf's concept pitch of a Halo movie (that never happened).
Damn. BELIEVE almost got Lucy to pop in the game right then and there. It is definitely one of the top marketing campaigns of the 2000s. Imagine the fervor this produced for the millions of fans just waiting to finish the fight.
I was one of them.
I'm glad that with Halo 3 we're finally getting Marty's actual music.
this took me right back to 2007, it felt so real at the time and the hype was over the roof. please watch the ODST trailers before you play it too!
aaaaaaand i was already tearing up at 1:30. i miss this halo so damn much :(
Halo is not just a video game. Its a culture, I have several novels in german and english and it gives me so much. Halo made my whole childhood and apparently the rest of my life. I turn 31 in January. Halo is SO MUCH.
Your reaction was genuinely heartwarming, it’s like experiencing these trailers for the first time again. Believe campaign really got me in the feelings this time though for some reason, really great stuff
The little girl was named Ellie Bloom she was Chief’s childhood friend back on his homeworld of Erdanus II. They would often star-gaze until she left the planet in 2517 the same year John met Halsey.
The sad thing is Chief would likely remember her but he is forever sworn to secrecy by ONI.
I still get so hyped when Chief says, "Not yet" all these year's later
While growing up, I played quite a bit of halo 2 at my friends house, it was a blast. Later on I started working part-time. The day halo 3 came out I just knew what to do, with the money I earned I bought my xbox360 with Call of duty 4 and of course Halo 3. (Along a 12month xbox live sub)
The begining of one hell of a great adventure. So many fond memories.
Writing this reminded me I nearly made it to max rank in Halo 3 free4all 💭😊
The part of the trailer when chief bubble shield the wraith shot is forever engraved in my mind. Heck I use that image to block out bad emotions sometime.
I have to admit - watching you experience all of this for the first time, and seeing the different emotions that you conveyed; sadness, happiness, hope...made me, a 39 year old man, tear up as I watching.
Believe.
IIRC "Starry Night" debuted during a commercial break during an NFL game (can't remember which one). We knew which game it would be but not when the trailer would play.
The diorama from Believe was real. I remember how, at the time, they had done a 3d scan of the whole thing and uploaded it into the games website. They ran a program similar to google maps street view to let you see the diorama from many angles. I spent hours there in high school, waiting for my chance to finish the fight. I believed.
I did the same...man that thing was awesome.
I remember all of these marketing videos from back then. I was blown away then because of how incredibly cinematic, creative, and compelling all of these short videos were.
Looking back on them now with no rose tinted glasses on, and they were still ahead of their time.
These seriously kicked ass.
*laying down bleeding out with a spike in me not knowing how long I got to live*
Marine: “can you do your job?”
"yes"
fuck yeah.
That rendition of the theme still gives me goose bumps, and the veteran interviews still make me tear up every time
I remember the "Starry night" trailer was shown as a commercial for a monday night football game.
My friends Dad said "holy cow this looks real". And my friend ran to the living room to see what he was talking about. It was Halo 3.
He called me immediately to tell me to try to find it online and watch it.
The next day at school all way talked about was that trailer.
Halo 3 and the months leading up to it wasn't a normal game. It was a holy experience. We were religious fanatics waiting for our Jesus to return.
And when the game finally came out. It was the best gaming experience ive ever had.
The campaign, the music, the friends i made.
I would come home, boot up my xbox, get into a custom games lobby by myself. And then go make a snack. Come back and the lobby would be full of other people waiting to play some custom games and crazy maps. Cuz thats how awesome the community was.
One person would see me come online and invite their friends who would invite their friends. And so on and so on. One kid would make a crazy map or game mode and they could share it to everyone.
Halo 3 was the Pinnacle of online gaming. Truely the PEAK of the Golden era of gaming.
Gives me chills seeing these videos again. My buddy and I stayed up all night grinding Halo 3 when it released. Sleep deprivation made the final mission way more difficult than it needed to be. That was my most memorable gaming experience.
If you're confused, Bungie was the original creators of Halo. They're also the same devs that made Destiny and Marathon. (Ik the audience knows this, just pointing it out)
I have already been feeling tad more nostalgic as we get closer to Christmas..but this..this right here takes me back to when my 3 sons were younger and we spent many Friday and Saturday nights playing together. Many memories were made because of this game.
For some reason every time I see that e3 trailer with the music and the drums pounding, I get incredibly emotional and teary-eyed. I don't know what it is about that trailer. It's just special.
they cant do it like they did with that 3:19 trailer. that shit enthralled me as a teen. I couldnt name a single game franchise that holds my heart strings the way Halo did.
5:04 This footage was shot for a canceled live action Halo movie. After the movie was canceled, they used the footage to advertise Halo 3.
The museum spots are some of the greatest ads ever.
Yoooooo your're awesome for doing this, many people just jump straight into halo 3 without knowing the generational hype it had. Halo was one of the biggest gaming franchises, on par with GTA in terms of popularity in the US and these trailers are an important aspect of why there was so much hype around halo 3. Heck when halo 3 released, it became the biggest launch in entertainment medium, single handedly pulling down the box office of movies released along with it.
Once again thank you for seeing these trailers and hope you do the same for Reach !
Those actors playing veterans are OG halo fans in a couple years, some older teenagers of 2001 are reaching 40 yo.
Me only just now realizing Halo 3, my favorite game, came out when I was 3 years old makes me both feel young as hell and love the game more.
The guns the brutes were using in Landfall were Spikers, sort of a brute SMG that fires large spikes but unlike the needler projectiles, they don’t create an explosion.
As the sizzling sounds would indicate though, the projectiles are screaming hot, molten even, when fired so it's still quite a crule weapon in it's own way.
As an asside though, man, in the old books even the needler sounds like such a nightmare, even if the needles miss and just blow up near you, you still get peppered with razer sharp micro-shrapnel that would be a nightmare to remove, or in Fall of Reach in particular the descriptions of even Mjolnir armor struggling to handle a few direct hits from plasma weapons and the extensive surgery Halsey had to do on Linda and Kelly.
A lot of the content around the original Trilogy, ODST, and Reach really showed how desperate things were from the beginning of the Human-Covenant war and even moreso towards the end, the new stuff has entirely forgot what the spirit and story of Halo was originally it's probably no wonder why a lot of older players have fallen off in the years since
21:00 Spartans never die.
If you're looking into the extended universe you'll be reading this line a lot.
I didn’t read any of the books or extended universe stuff so I couldn’t figure out how I knew that Spartans could only be listed as Missing In Action prior to Halo 4. Of course it was from that commercial.
The fact that you went back and watched the marketing for the third game before playing it is incredible, most streamers or youtubers dont do that for "older" games, thats amazing, now being a new fan you can understand the beauty and hype of it all and youre right, when this trailer came out, people went bonkers. 2007 was a stacked year too, Halo faced competion with Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4, Bioshock and even Uncharted, those were the best times. I remember staying up whatching a South Park because they were going to premiere a Call Of Duty Moder Warfare 2 trailer in 2009, they did and me and a lot of my friends stayed up just to see it, so anxious and excited for the game. I miss the golden years of gaming, it was truly amazing. Also I will say watch the marketing for Halo Reach as well when you get to it, that was amazing too especially considering it was Bungies official send off of the series for them.
that ever looked enoiugh. /shrugF F Ever" Eveer never, nah.... F-RIP... RIP to anyone
Being a teen waiting for Halo 3 to release and watching the marketing campaign videos really was a “You just had to be there” moment, there was nothing like it.😢
These legit brought back so many memories and emotions. Such a great time in life. Such hype for a game like this can never be replicated
The man who played Roland Huffman deserved an Oscar for that performance
Halo 3 is my favorite game of all time. Just hearing the first piano note gives me chills. Thank you for this.
still get goosebumps watching this. I was there. Opening night, midnight launch, with a bunch of friends who I played with for years. Both those times and those friends are very distant now, but man, this game brought us together in a way that could never be achieved otherwise. Thank you, Bungie. A true golden era of gaming.
I've watched Landfall so many times...
A work of art!
Halo 3 was my proper introduction to Halo back in 2007 and it all started because this marketing stood out from all the other games. The marketing was so different, it didn't just seem like another shooter. No pun intended, but the marketing made you BELIEVE in this story and you can just feel that the original developers did as well. Soul was put into Halo's original trilogy. And when I got my hands on Halo 3, I didn't realize I was going to be experiencing one of the most legendary games of all time. I wish you were there to see it.
And the best part, they handed US the keys to keep creating memories through something revolutionary: Forge and Theater mode - the first addition to Halo where you can create your own maps and films. At the time, that was so damn big. Players were able to express there full creativity and share them with everyone through Halo 3 with ease of access. everyone made their own shows, scripts, stories, mini games, social hubs, everything. The original creators wanted US to create our story once they ended theirs.
The halo 3 marketing campaign material always makes me get emotional and teary eyed. ALWAYS
Watching the diorama ad still gives me chills even though I've watched it many times now lol
Landfall is one of my favorites because of how it *shows* the way the battles extended far outside of where we see fighting in the games.
Landfall takes place in Afghanistan. It even gives exact coordinates you can google maps:
32°53'12.0"N 69°27'48.0"E.
And other major battles are just neat to remember, like the critical Battle of Cleveland, Battle of Havana, and of course the nuking of Antarctica.
I am still losing my mind every time I watch these, this franchise is such a central part of my childhood. I am thankful for all the good memories, friends and growth I got from this period. Halo is love, Halo is life.
So much Nostalgia in this. I was a Senior in High School when this came out. 17 in 2007.
So hyped watching all these then. Even read all the books and everything. Went to the midnight release and having LAN parties in the garage with 4 CRT Tvs back to back. Pizza and Game Fuel Mountain Dew.
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Starry Night was directed by Joseph Kosinski (Tron Legacy, Oblivion, Top Gun Maverick), it's fantastic. I'm not a big fan of Halo but this first two Halo 3 trailers gave me goosebumps when i saw them. the last one is really cool too.
I remember that 3d art piece being interactive and being able to move through it with clicks of your mouse back in the day. Wish it was still up somewhere. Coolest stuff to look at waiting for the game to come out.
4:20 it 480p was amazing back then, but now, it's hard to remember it being that bad of a quality😅😅
The hype for Halo 3 was absolutely stratospheric back in the day and it delivered beyond even those expectations. The community back then was incredible and to this day I’ve never experienced anything like it. Halo: Reach was close but it still never reached the heights Halo 3 in my opinion. I still come back to watch these videos every now and then to reminisce about those good times when I was looking forward to a bright future. I’m glad you enjoyed these!
The day halo 3 came out, me and my three roommates all had copies and played campaign together until the sun came up. One of my best memories. The hype was so thick you could carve it out of the air spread it on toast
God I just stumpled upon this and started crying. Dammit nostalgia.
Brings back so many memories. My cousin and I waited until thanksgiving to play the campaign and stayed up all night while our parents were Black Friday shopping. For memories like that, Halo 3 is special.
When you get to 22:54 and all you hear in your head is "Hello I Am Master Chief, lolololololol" 😂
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I kinda wonder if the old giys were really actors or ex military from Vietnam or korea that were asked to do those bits and just swapped out vietnam for halo lore. They definitely made it feel more real.
@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 dude how old do you think this is? They could have been GWOT vets. Vietnamese vets would have been 60s and 70s at the time.
@@duck_rifle5879 yeah thats kinda the point? did you see how old those guys were???
Halo Outpost Discovery had laser tag, it had all the sounds for the BR and low shields, it was a fun experience. Also the BR's were really heavy, you can tell they really tried to make them feel real to what they are suppose to be. They also had it to where you can enter and link your Xbox gamertag to get exclusive rewards and items for your Xbox avatar. Steve and Jen were there but I missed the panel for it, they had a pelican ride and it simulated what it was like and it was amazing. You would've loved all of it C:
Oh shit that’s so cool!!
@@LUCYJROBYN It was fun, you defiantly need a 2-3 pass to see everything. They even had a giant LAN party, don't remember which Halo they were playing during it. But I enjoy people getting excited over Halo, I appreciate that you're getting into it! C:
Back Wan Microsoft Nailed there Marketing campaigns I miss them days
This video was in my recommended and I could not but help watch the whole thing because of how phenomenal these ads were for Halo 3. BELIEVE.
My bestfriend and I had a 3 day long sleepover when this game came out, beat the whole game on legendary with him that weekend. He got his xbox 360 with Halo the day it released. I just checked when it came out, holy shit I was 7 so he was 8 when this happened
16:10 yo why are my eyes tearing up at this? lol I know I love and grew up with this series but damn
AHHHHHH 18:45 I havent seen these vids since I was a kid, as a 20 year old man this shit breaks my heart
I recommend watching Halo Landfall again literally right before you start Halo 3. It adds a lot of context when you do them back to back.
I absolutely loved this video. I love the appreciation you show for this series too! Absolutely love your videos and reactions to this franchise. I do wanna ask do you plan on playing Halo Wars? And if not do you plan to at least react to the cutscenes? That’d be a good idea if you’re not into RTS games but still wanna give your reaction! I would absolutely still watch the video!
I have never played a moment of Halo, but I remember the BELIEVE campaign from when it was airing. I got choked up watching those commercials back then and it still gets me now. It was brilliantly done.
Seeing all these again is giving me goosebumps. Its crazy how long its been since halo 3 came out, easily one of the best games I've played and so many memories
Man the believe campaign never fails to make me tear up
The shooter I grew up playing, in my opinion the best way to start shooters.
This really transported me back in time and hit me in the feels! 😭 I remember watching these trailers before the release of Halo 3 like it was yesterday!
Awww man the nostalgia hits so hard.. they make these games with love just look at all those trailers.. they care about halo till Reach.
Good times and good memories we were part of something huge.
I was in High School when the Marketing Campaign was releasing. So I’d rush home everyday after school and hit refresh to see if another trailer dropped. Great and simple times
Edit* ODST also had an amazing live action trailer to watch
I will never forget that first time I saw the words Finish The Fight flash across my eyes. Woke up very early and made breakfast for a couple of friends, plugged my PC into the big screen TV and watched the Microsoft conference together.