New Halo 3 ad makes TV debut

360 News | New weapon ahoy.

It's not often we'd report on a TV advert for a game, but then Halo 3 is perhaps an understandable exception. If you missed the news earlier this week, Microsoft was planning to premiere a new Halo 3 trailer on December 4 in the US, and also in parts of Europe. Well, it's been and gone, and the footage is now available for all and sundry to pore over, either on Xbox.com, or by downloading it from the Xbox Live Marketplace (in HD, we might add).

The 60-second ad was broadcast during ESPN Monday Night Football in the US earlier today, and in the UK on Channel 4 just, ooh, half an hour ago. It opens on two children star-gazing, pondering the possibility of life on other planets as they recline in a grassy field. As the camera pans away from them, the ad switches from their innocent daydreaming to Master Chief, slugging it out on some unidentified battlefield. Look! There's the pistol! And the voice of Cortana! A battle rifle, an upturned warthog and - ZOMGBBQ! - a new weapon, a grenade that generates a protective forcefield around Master Chief. Nice.

Anyway, we won't spoil it all for you - head here to see the new trailer in its entirety.

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15 Comments

Spanca

5 years ago

I wanted to see a video of Master Chief's "man cannon"

Karai Pantsu

5 years ago

Justin Timberlake better pack his bags and go home - that new Halo 3 trailer just bought the sexy back.

Okay, sorry... I'll leave quietly now

Jellyfish

5 years ago

^ That's so bad it's good

As for the ad... It was as Bungie say "nifty".

Jim Dash

5 years ago

Too short for my liking though, and I want to see more than one new weapon!

Master Chief looks better than ever.

Sunrider

5 years ago

Jim Dash wrote

Master Chief looks better than ever.

That's what happens when you just use a pre-render.

ZNMS

5 years ago

Jim Dash wrote

Too short for my liking.

Likewise.

Jim Dash

5 years ago

Sunrider wrote

That's what happens when you just use a pre-render.

Yeah, even though the MC model was supplied by Bungie and will be used in-game for Halo 3.

Jellyfish

5 years ago

Actually it's most likely Nightmare Armour that's had CGI over the top. As apparently there's Live Action in there, and the Chief is the only thing that's really Live Actiony.

So don't get too excited Jim.

Aftershock

5 years ago

I wanted to see some footage of that red lazery thingy (weapon) ive seen in some screenies.

Lord Halo Nerd

5 years ago

is there a better version than that preview because its stuffed on my Media Player

Jellyfish

5 years ago

You'll need an Xbox 360 to get the good version.

Lord Halo Nerd

5 years ago

nikack wrote

You'll need an Xbox 360 to get the good version.

BLASTOISE!

thebigm

5 years ago

nikack wrote

You'll need an Xbox 360 to get the good version.

No you don't

Jellyfish

5 years ago

^^ 5.1 & 720p?

thebigm

5 years ago

nikack wrote

^^ 5.1 & 720p?

720P: Yes, 5.1: No

Still a "good" version, just not the "best" though

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