Imagine what these people could’ve made if their sets weren’t limited to paintball arenas. This was made a while ago, yet the CGI and props still hold up today
I was gonna bring up some bad CGI parts, but you know what. This thing is 10 fricking years old and I felt more Halo from rewatching this, than watching Master chief action scenes in the new Halo show. I feel so robbed that we didn't get a show with this quality.
@@sados6497CGI would've been better, the same guy who made Lord of the Rings was directing this too, this was the only edited section they got somewhat finished
@Sedition Case Right, real weird seeing people saying a decade in the comments. This came out around the time of Halo 3. (obviously) Fifteen years ago. We're getting old.
@@trehanero Peter Jackson was producing, Neil Blomkamp was director, and Alex Garland wrote the script. Alex Garland who wrote 28 Days Later and was actually a hardcore Halo fan and wanted to make a legit horror movie in the second half. What we could have had huh? The original script is still there by the way. It actually follows the first game pretty closely.
This footage was actually the test footage that Neill Blomkamp and Peter Jackson where using in order to try and prove to the studios that a live action Halo film could be made. It’s a shame we never got to see the finished product.
you actually have better than that today, but you terminated morons can't stop crying about it not being like you want it to be. At least I can enjoy how butthurt you are you salty kids
The best part is that I believe that this was part of District 9's development, and that is how District 9 was made. I may be wrong, so don't crucify me. But, this was wild for the era. The CGI is on point. What gets me is the Spiker being shot semi-auto, because the brutes knew humans were practically soft-body targets.
Yeah, it really does a good job of showing how humanity was losing during the Human Covenant war. People are used to seeing guys get hit by plasma but as soon as that ODST got hit with a spiker round it really makes you go “oh shit”
@Kagamine Rin loves oceania part of indonesia uwu:3 Spartans are seem to be considered as if they're the last resort, humanity's only hope for survival.
considering they'd been fighting the covenant for over two weeks on earth i'd say orbital resources were minimal if any. The UNSC fleet by the time of halo 2 wan't even a hundred strong (not counting prowlers and corvettes seeing as they don't even field MACs). Less than ten cruisers, under 80 frigates and destroyers, and some unknown number of prowlers (do field nuclear mines). The 300 orbital platforms might as well been dead in the water after a cluster goes dark or just cant get coverage over that part of africa.
Joseph Dundee it’s a story that happens to involve extra story in interesting military tactics, let people nerd out over it, and stop being killjoy. Also, why are you here bitching?
What really makes this hit so hard is the whole composition. Real and well done props and sets, the way it is filmed more like a war documentary than an actual action scene, and the effects that feel very real and violent. No eyesearing colors, everthing is as dirty as you would expect on a battlefield, no bombastic explosions of fire, but violent spouts of dirt and srapnel, no fancy coregraphys but just people scrambling about trying to survive, no super high esotheric stakes but a simple mission goal. It all works so well together and makes the whole thing have a feeling of realness that only the ODST trailer matched. And thats where the new show is faling in all categories. Really should have done a down to earth human perspective, more an Fullmetal Jacket than Power Rangers.
Sorry I'm 10 months late, but I wanted to disagree with you. Making Halo feel realistic shouldn't be the goal per see. I think what we all enjoy about this short video, is the effort gone into making live action adaptation of a game we've grown up with, and played for thousands of hours. The creators of the new show, didn't. You really hit the hammer on the head by calling it a passion project. This was a group of dedicated people who wanted to make something cool. With, in all honesty, basic physical/ practical effects, as well as superb computer graphical ones. I fully believe a dedicated team with the same passion can create something like this, to the same degree. It should require lots of money, but for a motivated teams, cheaper alternative can be found. This should not be a one off thing, something like this can be created again.
Why can't real Halo fans appreciate the lack of effort and lots money spent to show CHEEKS by paramount Halo show. When Kim Kardashian shows her Cheeks it's ok but when Master CHEEKS shows his everyone hates it. Hypocrites. Let's hope 343s new wide audience likes ASS.
the main reason isn't lack of skill,talent or funds to make a good show. the main reason is they have to shove (THE MESSAGE) whenever possible,and the bigger the franchise,the bigger the target for distortion and make it a sick parody. And they love to destroy anything that inspires and stirs the imagination. They don't bow to (THE MESSAGE) they get cut off.and a person's got to eat. so yes,they're getting payed to destroy beloved franchises. "Go woke,go broke" it's a myth.if it were true,people like Kathleen Kennedy would have been kicked along time ago by the shareholders,because the ONLY bottomline,is and always has been,making money. it's more like "You HAVE to go woke,or you REALLY go broke.and homeless.and possibly beaten by a screeching mob with serious mental ilnesses."
They'll ruin it and then it'll get panned hard by critics and audience alike and get cancelled. Since when has Hollywood respected original video games story and characters. Heck they even found thier way into video games and Ruined Halo 5. They always try doing it their own way and it always ends up being sub-par. Let's see how the story evolves after the shitshow that was Halo 5. Waiting for Halo Infinite...
Same thing that happened to Star Wars: Passion and talent were laid off/replaced with people who don't understand the universe but DO understand how to pander and virtue signal in this godforsaken new age.
Everyone is talking about the guy who stuck a banshee mid flight but can we talk about the absolute mad lad that had multiple spikes through his arm pinning him to a wall yet still manage to kill some brutes with his battle rifle in one hand
@@deltadude7417 Also that one marine who managed to get onto the warthog's turret and kill a few brutes before taking a spike to.. i'd wanna say the shoulder, would be the only thing that made him just... flop the way he did.
SinDawg030 i believe the director of these shorts dropped this project to develop district 9, the same guy who did chappie, i believe. it's on the Halo wiki how a movie was set in production back on 07, but so on and so on, then district 9. thus the same gritty style action present in both Halo Landfall and District 9. because of the director
Even now I still watch this from time to time to remember the hype and fun. Lol I am excited for halo infinite but it's just not the same as it was for halo 3
LynxenX correct ... what was suppose to be the halo movie became “district 9“ and the team still kept a lot of the props for halo ... aesthetically you can see how similar guns a ships are in district 9 to the halo universe
@@Determ1nat1on yea its kinda amazing how the brutes can just kill a odst with a punch but it seems like the brutes dont think that the humans can blow their heads from long distance kinda balanced
I'm still impressed by this, for this level of editing and cgi, this was way ahead of it's time and should've been thrown all of the funds for this type of style to be made into a movie.
Something I appreciate more about this and ODST now as an adult that I didn't really notice when I was much younger was how this really contextualizes why the Spartans are held in such high regard. These soldiers are trying their fucking _best;_ they're not lazing around and letting chief do all the work, they genuinely need his help and are putting up the best fight they can possibly muster until he can arrive. It adds a more gritty look at the stakes, makes you appreciate more what you're actually fighting for in game.
@@Pinewellgaze I was confused until I realized that "they" meant the space marines and not the covenant. No, it's hard enough keeping those suicidal idiots alive without adding on by killing them yourself. Similar though tactics for when your generally out of ammo: goad a covenant into attacking melee, play toro, kill said covenant with a back attack and you're done. Also, never underestimate the lowly plasma pistol. Near limitless supply, and you can either lay out fire all day or blow through them with charged shots.
@@TheBurningWarrior oh shit lol I thought he meant the Marines I'm always against killing the Marines, and I go to great lengths to try and keep them alive in game... So I got slightly triggered and didn't read into it enough lol
I wish there was a game made about unsc’s marines and the struggles they must overcome and the process of ranking up to be better respected among the marines. I feel like that would be a perfect side story for Halo lore kinda like Halo 3: ODST
@@davidmckee3903 we should never see his face. Dredd and the Mandalorian have proved you can have a knockout film or TV show and never see the protagonist's face. I just think it's a shame it has never been done. An expansive universe with great characters, we have great directors like Blomkamp who can make it work and cgi and practical effects are so advanced now
ThisisDan I’m totally cool with never seeing his face. I’m more a fan of practical effects being bolstered by cgi I’m so sick of shorty over the top cgi it’s not even funny man they need to also stop showing every good part of movies in trailers too i’m literally to the point in my life where if I want to see a movie I will not watch any trailers so that I can actually enjoy the fucking movie
Detail I never noticed before; the medic uses her own body to shield the marine pinned to the wall after she warns them about the incoming plasma, and only after the round hits does she move to cut him free. Love that.
That's what Halo is imo, the struggle of Humanity for survival, brothers and sisters in arms setting aside any differences and any dispute to fight for a greater good, knowing that in the face of extinction, every human life is precious as we are all one family. I can just imagine the bonds you'd create with people from very different cultures if we were to fight an alien invasion together.
Medic’s are the most scarred in the battlefield. I mean, infantry watch their brethren collapse and fall and you juat gotta keep on pushing. Medic’s watch as a suffering soldier gasps his last wishes as if they could do anything about it, wishing they could have done more. Its just really sad
That’s war. Medics are the fucking shit. Watch saving private Ryan where they’re trying to just save a guys life and the nazis were such shit bags that they shot the barely alive soldier in the head. Just to fuck with the medics. They seen too much.
Because it is realistic, unpolished, and these are actual human beings fighting, and not some poorly written filler characters blabbing their mouths and telling you what is going on instead of showing. There are so many small details, like the robotic voice warning of the banshees like it is the war time radio that would announce air threat warnings. There is the marine medic running around doing her job in that hell trying to save people. People get hurt, they show emotion, pain, fear, and heroism. The explosions are actual explosions that grenades and rpgs make and not some hollywood fuel canister explosions. This feels so real to an actual battlefield that it is insane.
@@s0ulshot it definitely gives the desperation that halo should have for the marines. I mean we have all this without any Spartans at all. It would be a great intro to how difficult the force is to fight. Then once we see the Spartans things feel a tad less desperate until the eventual flood reveal and everything is hopeless again and terrifying again
Because there was heart and care put into this and it was for the fans. Not for 40yo Jane and here 3 kids who think the show is based off the Foo Fighters song (no hate to them)
Props to the medic marine, poor girl was running all over the place trying her best to tend everyone while risking the chance of getting spiked herself.
@@Arvyn992 And the PTSD stress seeing her friends being impaled against the wall and then having to cause one of her squad mates serious pain by vibrating that same impalement rod as she's sawing it off, that's some dark shit right there.
Well, i wouldnt watch 9 episodes of shaky camera. Its also a way to hide bad cgi. The rawaness of the action is cool though and the brutes move naturally.
@@samulimustonen2047 First episode of this this show makes Forward unto Dawn looks like masterpiece. CGI looks awful. Elites look weird. Cars look like repurposed modern cars, same goes for insurrectionist weapons. So far best visually live action footage from Halo is short "Halo Landfall" and "Deliver Hope". They even look better visually than this woke abomination.
Damn... That's is why I'm afraid to start it. I'll still probably watch it but Landfall is still epic imo. It still looks great and I'm able to believe the world they create in such a short time.
This. This is what changed my actions when I play a Halo game as Master Chief. Ever since I was a little kid and I saw this trailer there was such a build-up of guilt and pity that every time I play a game like Halo or others like Call of Duty I try my hardest to make sure every trooper makes it out alive. The number of times I've loaded the last checkpoint because that one marine got obliterated by a grenade from an enemy I could've killed in time.
That's why I couldn't rest until I got that achievement in Halo 1 anniversary, The Silent Cartographer... Every Marine on that beach survived and I'm proud of that.
The amount of time that went into this short film is beyond amazing. From the acting, costume, CGI, production design is just amazing. Still always amazed on how beautiful this was.
This goes so hard. The intense atmosphere, the shaky camera and the lack of a hero and victory (besides locating MC) this AD of all things depicts war super well and also shows what halo would be like as a marine in live action, bungie was truly ahead of their time not just for making games but for advertisement aswell.
To give you guys some context. This stuff was filmed as camera tests with Neill Blomkamp who was at some point considered to do the HALO MOVIE. All you see here are basically just CAMERA TESTS he did during his trial runs. This stuff is so good Bungie decided to use it as Trailer material for the third game. Which is incredible because you can see the stuff published which isn't happening too often. Anyway what basically happens is that the ODST "Search and Rescue Team" is trying to acquire the data on where the MASTER CHIEF is gonna land. This whole operation just for the LOCATION on where he is gonna land so they can be by his side before the covenant .. Man this is so good it's surreal the only missing thing is him actually making the movie but what can you do maybe some day in the future ...
United Potatoes Peter Jackson was also going to direct a Halo film, imagine how good it would be since he did Lord of the Rings, it would’ve been a masterpiece.
Still waiting for it. Forward Unto Dawn is neither a bad movie nor the one we want. Just look at this trailer. Dark, dirty and bloody. That's how a war with Covenant would be. Damn. I want it so bad. 14 years for Incredibles 2, hope not for HALO movie :D
It's weird that nobody can come anywhere near to as good as this, even with the technology we have today. Actually, I suppose it makes sense. It's not about the tech. It's about the passion, and the want and drive to make something memorable, and unrealistically fantastical. Nobody who handles Halo seems to have that anymore, and the ones that do aren't allowed to do it.
The props, the sound effects, the costumes are all too great. The only thing that could improve is the cgi. But for the time it's still very good when mixed in the gritty tone.
Yes, it's not about the effects. Props, real locations, real sized sets and etc makes for a better movie overall. And when you add passion into it, then we get this result, instead of that half baked crap we got with the series. Even the writing is bad.
Came back to watch this after halo got a season 2 still holds up to this day. Was more engaged to this than an hour of the first episode of the tv show!
As dated as the VFX look, this still has some of the hardest Halo action I’ve ever seen. It really captures just how fucked the human race was before the Spartans came to be. Yeah it takes place moments before Halo 3’s opening, but I remember reading one of the books and it was just loss after loss after loss. The humans were hopeless to stop the Covenant. I really wish Neil got a chance to make his Halo movie, but if it weren’t for the cancellation, we wouldn’t have gotten District 9.
@@_Cato_ better than I remembered on rewatch but still not close to best sci fi movie in recent years. I do hope Neil gets put onto a halo show because this shit was so good.
POV: You came here to see what a real Halo show would be like as opposed to the abomination Paramount made. Edit: It’s over friends. The nightmare is finally over. Though it cost many of us a fair amount of sanity, were finally free.
it's a shame they couldn't get him to do a movie - my friends and i were so geeked out at the idea when this came out. still holds up so well so many years later
That corpsman is definitely one of the MVPs here. Poor girl running around while being under fire trying to save as many Marines as she can. The scene of that Marine spiked to the wall screaming in pain from the vibration of her saw no doubt forever replaying in her mind.
I mean... the vibrations "could" have made it worse, but I think the main problem was the giant hole the spike round left in his arm. Also medics never get the props they deserve, they always risk it to help the troops.
The best part about this is that it makes the soldiers look capable. You could imagine them combating insurrectionists but also see them as sensible soldiers instead of mindless NPCs.
I think a big statement across halo media was that while the UNSC was super far behind the covenant in energy technology and space travel, they had retained superior ground warfare tactics and strategy whereas if the covenant couldn't just take something or convince a race to join them, they just glassed them. So when humans are holding something they want enough that they can't laser it from space, they really start to lose. The strength and jealousy of the elites and brutes and raw waves of grunts only worked out against colonial security forces and pockets of grunts literally exhausted of ammo.
the scene of the guy feeling a lot of pain because of the thorn the guy taking the grenade from the Brute and throwing it at the banshhe The guy shooting even though he was injured And the tcdo shooting sniper, and blowing up the Brute It makes you respect them, and have more empathy too.
Halo Landfall shows what we would get if the person in charge of the movie/show would actually know the feel, the look, the mood of Halo. This was made by someone who actually cared and was passionate about Halo. That is why this test footage has been important to Halo fans since it released. It is a symbol of something we will never get. Because the people in charge of Halo now, just don't care about it as they used to. This footage and what we get now is perfect proof.
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@@KwadDamyj In my day, we didn't have fancy shmancy tanks. What we had was two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon, and we had to share the rock. Buck up boy you're one lucky Marine. -Seargent Major Avery J Johnson.
@@baneblade48halo to me has always been about unending hope even in the most dire of circumstances, they are starting to rediscover it in infinite but it might be too little to late
I can't stop watching this it's sooooo good. Even how the drills screw in the Sniper Rifle barrels, how the weapons shake slightly when the rack they are opening up on stops. Man. NEIL PLEASE COME BACK!!!
Just watched the new episode and then watched this. Although the Paramount show has an exponentially higher budget, just compare this to the opening of episode 1. It’s insane how this scene is more memorable despite the discrepancy in budgets.
God I love this short, it's such an engaging fight to watch, you can feel the desparation, the CG is straight out of 2007 but that literally doesn't matter because the actors played their parts so well it made it believable that they were absolutely terrified, fighting for their life, and carrying on knowing they probably weren't going to survive, but completing their mission meant that the world had a chance. I love this short and We are ODST, they're works of art. I can see Marty and Michael were conceptualizing the music for Reach here already with the driving drum beats.
What gets me is I wish they showed more of the brutes, more covenant vehicles, even knowing the CGI may not have “held up” it was still good enough for me to want more
Yeah, I can't tell what parts are supposed to be 'bad CG'. The tables of marine helmets, and the partially built warthog? Are those CG, or are they props? The worst part of this is we know what the marines and ODSTs were doing whilst the Master Chief was on Delta Halo for months: HIDING IN THEIR BUNKERS.
I like how the ODST soldier with the sniper takes off when he hears the brute chief grunting coming after him shows there just a wild space beast with armour
@Abyssal Horror Yes, but because they are a beastly species it doesn't mean that they don't know how to get to steath to take a sniper... Even more a chief that he is chief just for his combat experience
**Marine is throwing the activated spike grenade into the air and destroyed a Banshee** Marine: "Dude!... I think I leveled up!" (A quote by a random Marine from H3)
@@CrimesForDimes what do you mean what? He said fuck 343 and I agree with him, they completely ruined this series, the last good Halo game was the last one Bungie made, Halo 4 was a cod knockoff and they've sucked ever since
@@americanusrex5975 Well only half, halo masterchief collection used to be a joke now its one of the best games to get for 40 bucks i do agree 343 sucks but still bungie fans need to chill the fuck down, like the sprint situation, bro theres a fucking cutscene where master chief sprints in halo ce, plus do you even know how hard it is to develop a game which i think you do hell 343 employees are getting underpaid which could explain the effort. halo 2 anniversary was great, halo ce anniversary wasn't. So in a nutshell half of 343 does suck like bro halo 5 is a let down, hell hunt the truth had better story then halo 5 so the company is a 6 out of 10 for me. Anyways the reason why i said "yo what" is because they mans was fucking immature like dude tell me a reason on why it sucks don't say fuck 343 and not giving us on why. And please don't get angry at a stupid comment if you are angry then you're not a clown your an entire circus. Any ways fuck Ea also known as Egay and have a good day sir
This trailer all in all - even if it didn't really represent the feel of what Halo 3 was actually like, was still so cinematic and gritty that it was almost realistic. And that is what makes this trailer better than any promotional material since Reach. The trailers on their own good at building up hype, but they never build on anything, never set the tone in the same way that Landfall or Believe did.
I though it caught the feel just right. Your just seeing the perspective of a normal marine instead of an unstoppable war machine like Chief. Normal marines have it rough.
@5:25 IRL, removing that spike prior to transfer to a field hospital is just going to make his day worse. As painful as that shit is, a penetrating object is the only thing stopping massive hemorrhaging.
@@ThePyro3825 you forget in the halo universe they have Bio foam that fills up the wound, stops the bleeding numbs the pain and seal it up tight, leaving him with a huge heated spike inside him would be more punishment simply cause the bio foam is like a miracle fix all till they are properly patched up
I thought she screamed “He’s Gone.” Because she ran up to the Marine who just seconds earlier was manning the turret on the warthog, and got spike. As he falls, you can see the spike in his chest.
Such a shame this is so much better than the Paramount show...why couldn't we get this instead? This clip is over a decade old and still holds up, imagine what could've been if they had the go-ahead to make a movie. Amazing to see this battle scene line up with the opening of the Halo 3 game too....instead we get this non-canon shit from Paramount
*sigh* it's sad that they stated it's non-canon so they'd be able to use the Halo influence, without making it a show about halo. Just some weird fanfiction sci-fi shit with a Halo skin.
I'm both happy and sad that this lighting in a bottle will never be captured ever again. This was truly the golden age of Halo lore in gaming culture. Thank you to all how come here watching this video both young and old. As an og Halo Combat Evolved gamer, it warms my gamer spirit reading all the love in the comments this video gets more than a decade later. All us fans at the time knew this was something special, knew this video would extent beyond our generation, and inspire those who haven't yet played this game.
These guys are heros, but at the same time the chief had a neural implant, the most expensive implant actually, and his implant has a tracker that he can activate, so I don't know why these men had to die when he could have just turned on his tracker. I love this trailer, but the chief got at least 2 people killed.
+goldenhedgehog9 No one really gives a shit. As far as I'm concerned, they didn't even have names. They are in no way important to the series. They serve as meat shields for the Chief most of the time.
Dragon Knight 56 No, they serve as meat shields for YOU when you play the games. In the lore, the chief tries his best to keep the men he fights with alive, and doesn't hide behind them while they get torn to pieces.
this and the "believe" ad campaign make me so nostalgic. Honestly, the feel and atmosphere of the Halo universe was so good in the Halo 3 days, and now everything's just so shiny and futuristic and generic that it's just uninteresting. I fell in love with what Bungie had made like with no other game before or since, and to have lost that is really upsetting. Just waiting on Halo 3 anniversary
New Halo just lacks the same stakes as original trilogy. Instead of a genocidal conglomeration of (mostly) mislead aliens trying to eradicate humanity in a one-sided war, it's giant robots lead by evil Cortana who want to enslave organic life. Cristopher Burch, it's more like dedicated fans doing Halo better than 343i doing Halo; go figure.
You're not alone on that one. Its sad to think I cared about NO OTHER game when Halo 3 was in its prime and I had gotten on Xbox live for the first time to play this with old friends. Now its even easy to forget the good old days if it wasn't for me stumbling on a video like this.. Nothing stays the same in anything in life I suppose, for better or worse. The utterly badass memories still remain though haha
Ya!! I got on live only for halo 3 too. It was pure magic experiencing all the live content after playing the campaign obsessively, and that atmosphere took over my whole life for awhile. I had a pretty interesting/active life growing up, but to say halo 2 and 3 are actually by far the happiest and most magical memories of my childhood.... It really says something
Fucking hell I get chills everytime I watch this. Id give anything for a halo show or movie made like this. Gritty and true to the lore. And it doesn't focus on chief. It shows the struggles of regular soldiers and how much they rely on chief for their hope.
To this day I still think this the best piece of live action halo media we've had. Nothing else really sells the weight and power of these characters and weapons. And the way it ties into the start of Halo 3's campaign is just great.
I remember the day I saw this for the first time like it was yesterday. Realizing that we could have an entire movie or show like that to enjoy and cherish. Constantly checking back in on TH-cam to see if there was any more made. Years went by and then we finally got word of a halo series, one with a huge budget, one with endless possibility. Our dreams were finally gonna come true, and the writers didn’t even bother playing the games. Have finally accepted that this 7 minutes is as good as it was ever gonna get and I will forever appreciate the people who poured themselves into making this masterpiece.
Nah writers just think they can make a better story so they make it up using halo set pieces. There is literally endless material between the games and books (which are canon as well).
Are we not going to talk about the one marine that got shot by a SPIKER and got stuck to a wall just to lift his battle rifle and kill the brute that shot him into the wall AND continued to shoot even as the medic is cutting him out? Give that guy a purple heart man!
Sometimes I come back to this clip and just watch it a couple of times while thinking back on my Halo 2/3/Reach days, the old group chats and custom games, and what we could've had if this Halo movie had come to be or at least if Bungie had kept control.
@@gatoazul6918 They obviously did, this was made with set pieces and the intention of a movie. Money was spent making this and it took at least a few months. Bungie had a lot more done than Microsoft ever has with several comics, waypoint was very active with new content every week for years, new community content was added like Grifball, there was over a dozen books with Ghosts of Onyx being my favorite, and the advertisments often had live action stuff like the Believe campaign for Halo 3, ODST, and Reach's ads on TV. You can't look at all that and say they had zero desire to make a movie.
This short film, less than 10 minutes long, has MUCH better graphics than many Hollywood action and sci-fi films in the last 10 years. You are drawn into this because it feels so vivid like you're watching found footage, that you could've been there in person. I can't remember ever being this impressed by an action or sci-fi movie. Every single person who worked on the film needs to create their own company because if they make movies like this, you know I'll be watching every one of them.
The CGI work is abysmal but that isn't rhe point. Everything else: the tone, sounds, the acting, the intensity, the gritty realism, is by far and away generationally superior to every moment in the Halo show.
Not just Blomkamp. The original writer who wrote the script was Alex Garland, or also wrote 28 Days Later. He is also a hardcore Halo fan so it is even better
3:16 after all this time i only realised that the ODST Hartley got shot when the spiker round went THROUGH his Battle Rifle! Damn that is some detail and make's even more scared of Spikers.
Delta Dude I believe in the description of the gun it says it turns molten metal into the spikes and launches them. So they form while leaving the barrel.
Has to be a tough job considering plasma can inflict some serious burns, needles also leave tons of shrapnel after they explode, and spikers are a nightmare. Covenant weaponry overall is terrifying, I'd hate to be a med in that situation.
@@marlonquintana3466 being as halo is literally the entire species of humanity fighting for survival they could cast whoever they dam well pleased and it would have 0 bearing on the story. This isn't a white person playing a japanese man in japan story so it literally wouldn't even get touched by that issue
I've figured out why this short is so good. It's believable. All the body cam footage makes you feel like you're right there with them. That on top of very good acting and radio chatter just really makes it feel technically correct.
Coming back to this video after watching the pilot of the Halo TV show has put the final nail in the coffin for modern Halo for me. The budget for Landfall must have been a fraction of the TV show, yet you can tell it was made by people who actually cared for the franchise and wanted it to be as authentic as possible. After the immense disappointment of Infinite and now one of the worst TV shows I have ever seen in my life I am left with no doubt that 343 must be replaced, and the franchise must be placed in competent, caring hands.
12 years later and into season 2 of a Halo-called tv-show which is vaguely based on bungies game, this is still the best depiction of a live action version of the Halo franchise except the "Believe" campaign. I am thankful for bearing witness to what was your story, bungie, but i am sad for what it has become. I am waching that tv-show the same way one might stare at an vaguely blocked off accident on an autobahn. As i said, thank you for Halo, the experience, the stories, the thousands of fun battles, the friends i met and kept till today, thank you, you are legend for this. ❤❤❤️
Why is it so hard to make a Halo series that follows this kind of visual aesthetic? It's dark, mysterious, and understated. Why is it so hard to do justice to the Halo universe?
Because its sabotaged from the inside. Today's generation is entirely made up of very very different and lost people than they were just 10 years ago (normal people)
The next person who tells me "but they had to show his face to make it more personal!" I'll slap. I just watched 6 minutes of action for the 100th time in a decade wishing for nothing but more of it
as a longtime halo fan since ce, i realize that the series is not what we expected. but if you ignore small beauty mistakes (why does he have brown eyes, wtf) and recognize that paramount has turned specifically against a book / game adaptation and makes its own story in the halo universe with game / book references, it is really successful. and even if i said in the beginning that the removal of the helmet is an absolute myth break, i like the actor very much. he plays the chief as if he had years of military training. sits up straight, stands at attention, moves appropriately. well, that keyes is black now, you have to disregard that. but they changed the skin color of characters back in halo 2 annyversairy xD but i love these little details, the shield sound, the plasma burns, the coin of halsey, the lesson about the wolf pack... all in all very well done, if you ignore the story.
@@KamikazeReilly Why are people constantly apologizing for these bad shows? It's like you want to like it so bad you forgive all the terrible decisions they've made.... the Halo TV show is a bad show, made badly. End of story. They could have made a faithful adaptation with that budget, they could have made it good, but they did not. And now I will stop watching it and pretend it doesn't exist. Halo will no longer live rent-free in my head. If I want to remember Halo fondly, I will re-play Halo 1 2 and 3. And Reach. And maybe ODST.
This is what the fans wanted. Grounded stories that tie into the main series. This one mini movie is legendary, and all it does is provide a backstory to how the UNSC found chief after he jumped from orbit
It gives off a real sense of... I dunno, righteous determination? Like, "This is what they did for you. These soldiers fought and died to save you, so you could save us all."
Imagine what these people could’ve made if their sets weren’t limited to paintball arenas. This was made a while ago, yet the CGI and props still hold up today
They made District 9 is what they made. It's all they could do after they had Halo ripped from them.
Literally what I was thinking! Glad I'm not the only one to return to simpler times
I was gonna bring up some bad CGI parts, but you know what. This thing is 10 fricking years old and I felt more Halo from rewatching this, than watching Master chief action scenes in the new Halo show. I feel so robbed that we didn't get a show with this quality.
@@sados649715 years old actually.
@@sados6497CGI would've been better, the same guy who made Lord of the Rings was directing this too, this was the only edited section they got somewhat finished
They're trying to rescue Master Chief from Paramount.
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hahaha, man I just watched about half the first episode last night.....how awful.
😂
Nah.. MC is still sleeping. Series was over after Reach
I was ok with the series until episode 8. I lost all respect then and there. Fuck this show
7 minutes, and a decade old. Better than the entire new Halo series combined.
@Sedition Case Right, real weird seeing people saying a decade in the comments. This came out around the time of Halo 3. (obviously) Fifteen years ago. We're getting old.
Of course.
Creator of this ..he is a master.
This became district 9 instead
The entire 90s Halo 3 Belive Diograma was better than the Halo TV series
@@trehanero Peter Jackson was producing, Neil Blomkamp was director, and Alex Garland wrote the script. Alex Garland who wrote 28 Days Later and was actually a hardcore Halo fan and wanted to make a legit horror movie in the second half. What we could have had huh? The original script is still there by the way. It actually follows the first game pretty closely.
This footage was actually the test footage that Neill Blomkamp and Peter Jackson where using in order to try and prove to the studios that a live action Halo film could be made. It’s a shame we never got to see the finished product.
This does feel like a Neil Blomkamp movie
I knew I heard some of Peter Jackson’s LOTR music.
Blomkamp would have made an amazing film. Such a shame what we got instead.
you actually have better than that today, but you terminated morons can't stop crying about it not being like you want it to be. At least I can enjoy how butthurt you are you salty kids
The best part is that I believe that this was part of District 9's development, and that is how District 9 was made. I may be wrong, so don't crucify me.
But, this was wild for the era. The CGI is on point. What gets me is the Spiker being shot semi-auto, because the brutes knew humans were practically soft-body targets.
I like how they portrayed the brutality of the Spiker here, looks horrible getting hit by one.
Yeah, it really does a good job of showing how humanity was losing during the Human Covenant war. People are used to seeing guys get hit by plasma but as soon as that ODST got hit with a spiker round it really makes you go “oh shit”
@Kagamine Rin loves oceania part of indonesia uwu:3 Spartans are seem to be considered as if they're the last resort, humanity's only hope for survival.
They usually explode too
Hm, I would have made the spikes with barbs so you can’t take it out.
Then make it hollow so you can’t cut it. Make them like porcupine quills.
I wonder how Miranda felt lol
“I’m hit”
BLOOD ALL OVER THE WINDSHIELD
“Suck it up”
Totally unrealistic.... if it was true to the game the Marine driving should have flipped the Warthog by now.
@@johnnywhitsel1583 At least it's not kat
@@johnnywhitsel1583 I thought it was the other ODST
@@someguy7531 ODST, Marine... what's it matter? None of them can drive for shit in-game.
@@johnnywhitsel1583 Yeah thats true I guess.
All those lives lost just to find out where the Chief was gonna land. That just shows you how important the Spartan 2’s were to humanity’s survival.
@The Watcher Dunno mate, Alien invasions tend to cause Abit of internet troubles.
considering they'd been fighting the covenant for over two weeks on earth i'd say orbital resources were minimal if any. The UNSC fleet by the time of halo 2 wan't even a hundred strong (not counting prowlers and corvettes seeing as they don't even field MACs). Less than ten cruisers, under 80 frigates and destroyers, and some unknown number of prowlers (do field nuclear mines). The 300 orbital platforms might as well been dead in the water after a cluster goes dark or just cant get coverage over that part of africa.
@Joseph Dundee And you're a dumbass
@@tavianarmstrong974 the unsc home fleet was around 180 ships and 300 odps. The covenant probably had around 90 ships at earth overall
Joseph Dundee it’s a story that happens to involve extra story in interesting military tactics, let people nerd out over it, and stop being killjoy.
Also, why are you here bitching?
What really makes this hit so hard is the whole composition. Real and well done props and sets, the way it is filmed more like a war documentary than an actual action scene, and the effects that feel very real and violent. No eyesearing colors, everthing is as dirty as you would expect on a battlefield, no bombastic explosions of fire, but violent spouts of dirt and srapnel, no fancy coregraphys but just people scrambling about trying to survive, no super high esotheric stakes but a simple mission goal. It all works so well together and makes the whole thing have a feeling of realness that only the ODST trailer matched. And thats where the new show is faling in all categories. Really should have done a down to earth human perspective, more an Fullmetal Jacket than Power Rangers.
Very well said
Well said!
From what I hear, this style was highly influential to District 9. I imagine from the glowing review that you would like it.
Sorry I'm 10 months late, but I wanted to disagree with you. Making Halo feel realistic shouldn't be the goal per see. I think what we all enjoy about this short video, is the effort gone into making live action adaptation of a game we've grown up with, and played for thousands of hours. The creators of the new show, didn't. You really hit the hammer on the head by calling it a passion project. This was a group of dedicated people who wanted to make something cool. With, in all honesty, basic physical/ practical effects, as well as superb computer graphical ones. I fully believe a dedicated team with the same passion can create something like this, to the same degree. It should require lots of money, but for a motivated teams, cheaper alternative can be found. This should not be a one off thing, something like this can be created again.
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Crazy how awesome this was years ago, and a professional studio with millions of dollars cant even come close to it.
Why can't real Halo fans appreciate the lack of effort and lots money spent to show CHEEKS by paramount Halo show. When Kim Kardashian shows her Cheeks it's ok but when Master CHEEKS shows his everyone hates it. Hypocrites. Let's hope 343s new wide audience likes ASS.
This was made by Neill Blomkamp, he went on to make District 9 & Elysium. Hardly some pimply nerd living in his mom's basement.
He never said it was tho? He is just saying paramount sucks ass at trying to make a halo show
Because there’s absolutely no love that went into it IMO
the main reason isn't lack of skill,talent or funds to make a good show.
the main reason is they have to shove (THE MESSAGE) whenever possible,and the bigger the franchise,the bigger the target for distortion and make it a sick parody.
And they love to destroy anything that inspires and stirs the imagination.
They don't bow to (THE MESSAGE) they get cut off.and a person's got to eat.
so yes,they're getting payed to destroy beloved franchises.
"Go woke,go broke" it's a myth.if it were true,people like Kathleen Kennedy would have been kicked along time ago by the shareholders,because the ONLY bottomline,is and always has been,making money.
it's more like "You HAVE to go woke,or you REALLY go broke.and homeless.and possibly beaten by a screeching mob with serious mental ilnesses."
To the creators of the Halo show being released in 2022, this is your standard.
Edit: my day is ruined.
They better use the Warthog being stored in Weta Workshops basement
There's no way they'll reach this level. Still, it'd be awesome if they did!
Back when the developers knew the game was about war and not space fantasy.
I really worry that they're going to do something much safer than this.
They'll ruin it and then it'll get panned hard by critics and audience alike and get cancelled. Since when has Hollywood respected original video games story and characters. Heck they even found thier way into video games and Ruined Halo 5. They always try doing it their own way and it always ends up being sub-par. Let's see how the story evolves after the shitshow that was Halo 5. Waiting for Halo Infinite...
After all of these years, why has nobody mentioned how that one marine absolutely puréed that chieftain with the rocket launcher
I’m sayin bro shit kills me everytime the way the armor just flies in every direction 😂
The people have forgotten sadly 😔
I'm impressed the rockets don't have a backblast. In reality, whoever was behind that thing would've been fucked up.
@@VengefulMaverick just fucking goneded
It's f****** hilarious honestly
2007 : Unbelievable excitement
2010 : Nostalgia
2023 : Tears
What happened to halo?
😢 I don't know man.. They failed us
Same thing that happened to Star Wars: Passion and talent were laid off/replaced with people who don't understand the universe but DO understand how to pander and virtue signal in this godforsaken new age.
Finish the fights boys, there’s always hope.
Bungie sold out. Thats what happened
The woke happened to Halo.
Everyone is talking about the guy who stuck a banshee mid flight but can we talk about the absolute mad lad that had multiple spikes through his arm pinning him to a wall yet still manage to kill some brutes with his battle rifle in one hand
These people should be fireteam madlad
Battle rifle yes, but he was shooting it like an automatic when it's not.. Flaw
@@deltadude7417 Also that one marine who managed to get onto the warthog's turret and kill a few brutes before taking a spike to.. i'd wanna say the shoulder, would be the only thing that made him just... flop the way he did.
@@michaellandstrom1233 almost every unsc gun has a full auto mode. Including the br and the dmr
@@michaellandstrom1233 that's a game mechanic, pretty sure they wouldn't make a gun that could ONLY burst fire in real life
The ODSTs are definitely the unsung heroes of the Halo universe.
Lol basically anyone who fought without a Spatan's Armour are the mvps
@@SuperKnight263 Ha! True. Kind of like the Imperial Guard in 40K.
@@Patrick-pk4kj I've been saying this for years.
i mean there is an entire game named after and about them,
This reminds me of the Halo 3 ODST game, you know about it?
If they ever make a Halo movie, then the combat scenes should be as gritty and dark as this was.
SinDawg030 i believe the director of these shorts dropped this project to develop district 9, the same guy who did chappie, i believe. it's on the Halo wiki how a movie was set in production back on 07, but so on and so on, then district 9. thus the same gritty style action present in both Halo Landfall and District 9. because of the director
Michael Pollante Yeah, Blomkamp did an excellent job with District 9 and Elysium but still, what might have been . . .
SinDawg030 Peter Jackson did these trailers, Blomkamp was an executive
***** Other way around.
SinDawg030 exactly, plus there aren't any cheesy lines or bad acting and the special effects are really good.
When a 7 min trailer of a game is better then a whole season of a game TV show.
look how butthurt those kids are, this will be because of you if I don't have a season 3. I'd gladly calm your ass down buddy.
@@arths17777??? What are you trying to say
@@arths17777Are fuckin with me? The paramount show is such a blatant slap in the face to life long Halo fans
@@arths17777we got ourselves a real kiss ass over here
@@arths17777 show fkn sucks and is a slap in the face to all halo fans
"Package secured, need immediate evac!"
"Roger, Warthog inbound"
"THATS NOT WAS I ASKED FOR!"
@@JJSmalls too hot to land I imagine. Like in 'nam. If they took the time to slowly land and stay in place they'd be tore up from small arms fire.
Even now I still watch this from time to time to remember the hype and fun. Lol I am excited for halo infinite but it's just not the same as it was for halo 3
@@JJSmalls The Pelican wasn't for them, it was for the Master Chief.
I think it's because they had to get to the right area to laze chief as he was coming down.
I was thinking the same thing
Holy shit I totally would pay for a movie like this
Lui118 Lets just hope Disney doesn’t try to touch it lmao knocks on wood.
@@antoine121 wtf this ain't their property lol
This was supposed to be a movie. Its test footage for the halo movie that got scrapped. They turned it into Halo: Landfall.
It had serious potential as seen here
LynxenX correct ... what was suppose to be the halo movie became “district 9“ and the team still kept a lot of the props for halo ... aesthetically you can see how similar guns a ships are in district 9 to the halo universe
damn dude the Brute chieftain tenderizing the ODST still gets me every time
Too Close for Comfort
ODSTs are like paper to the Brutes.
@@Determ1nat1on yea its kinda amazing how the brutes can just kill a odst with a punch but it seems like the brutes dont think that the humans can blow their heads from long distance kinda balanced
@@n0ble621 yeah, Brutes are pretty straightforward beasts caring not of their lives but only killing in their savage ways.
Yeah
Took me a while to realize that this is how the UNSC found Master Chief at the beginning of Halo 3. THE STORYTELLING MAN, WHAT HAPPENED
It’s no longer politically correct to tell the story
@@j.w.31Halo been woke like a long time
@@j.w.31 It's more important than ever to tell the story.
3:57
This man just ripped a brute grenade out of a concrete wall and used it to kill a banshee
100% MadLad
Thats because he is THE Chipps Dubo! It all makes sense!
Mr_No_One idek how he ripped it outta the concrete wall, it was in there pretty good
@@goodbyeimakenewaccount8228 it's an odst... Don't expect normal things from him...
@@sirghostington6305 that was a marine
@@nezo1813 oh yeah... Forgot abut that LOL
I’d still be impressed if this came out today
Same
Halo is Timeless
I'm still impressed by this, for this level of editing and cgi, this was way ahead of it's time and should've been thrown all of the funds for this type of style to be made into a movie.
I am forever bummed that this isn't a full length movie
Vouch
Something I appreciate more about this and ODST now as an adult that I didn't really notice when I was much younger was how this really contextualizes why the Spartans are held in such high regard. These soldiers are trying their fucking _best;_ they're not lazing around and letting chief do all the work, they genuinely need his help and are putting up the best fight they can possibly muster until he can arrive. It adds a more gritty look at the stakes, makes you appreciate more what you're actually fighting for in game.
@Son Gohan Goad them into attacking, (sword, shotty, or grav hammer) and jump clear to back attack. Now you have the power weapon.
@@TheBurningWarrior or you could just trade your gun for theirs lol
@@Pinewellgaze I was confused until I realized that "they" meant the space marines and not the covenant. No, it's hard enough keeping those suicidal idiots alive without adding on by killing them yourself.
Similar though tactics for when your generally out of ammo: goad a covenant into attacking melee, play toro, kill said covenant with a back attack and you're done. Also, never underestimate the lowly plasma pistol. Near limitless supply, and you can either lay out fire all day or blow through them with charged shots.
@@TheBurningWarrior oh shit lol I thought he meant the Marines
I'm always against killing the Marines, and I go to great lengths to try and keep them alive in game...
So I got slightly triggered and didn't read into it enough lol
It also makes you see exactly how much of a badass 117 is. Whats work for ODST is just a flex for Master Chief.
What the HALO series should have been.
so butthurt you are
@@arths17777 Yo boy, what are you doing?
yeah... seriously this video is just...amazing...
All these years later, and this still gives me chills.
Facts. Straight facts.
Especially when the music kicks in at the end
BEST MEDIC EVER. 💯
straight up footage from a paintball arena@logangoulet7522
I know, right. I miss the old days of playing halo.
Bruh this is just a documentary from 500 years in the future, this is no game trailer
Well said Hans.
Could be true kameraden
I wish there was a game made about unsc’s marines and the struggles they must overcome and the process of ranking up to be better respected among the marines. I feel like that would be a perfect side story for Halo lore kinda like Halo 3: ODST
it was test footage for a halo movie that ended up being district 9
You're not wrong
Why is it 2019 and we still haven't been given a feature length Halo movie directed by Neill Blomkamp?
Good Question
Ikr it's stupid
Because the world isn’t ready to see master chiefs face yet lol
@@davidmckee3903 we should never see his face. Dredd and the Mandalorian have proved you can have a knockout film or TV show and never see the protagonist's face. I just think it's a shame it has never been done. An expansive universe with great characters, we have great directors like Blomkamp who can make it work and cgi and practical effects are so advanced now
ThisisDan I’m totally cool with never seeing his face. I’m more a fan of practical effects being bolstered by cgi I’m so sick of shorty over the top cgi it’s not even funny man they need to also stop showing every good part of movies in trailers too i’m literally to the point in my life where if I want to see a movie I will not watch any trailers so that I can actually enjoy the fucking movie
Detail I never noticed before; the medic uses her own body to shield the marine pinned to the wall after she warns them about the incoming plasma, and only after the round hits does she move to cut him free. Love that.
That's what Halo is imo, the struggle of Humanity for survival, brothers and sisters in arms setting aside any differences and any dispute to fight for a greater good, knowing that in the face of extinction, every human life is precious as we are all one family. I can just imagine the bonds you'd create with people from very different cultures if we were to fight an alien invasion together.
That poor medic once she's done with one guy another gets hit lol
A corpsman never has a slow Tuesday
Medic’s are the most scarred in the battlefield. I mean, infantry watch their brethren collapse and fall and you juat gotta keep on pushing. Medic’s watch as a suffering soldier gasps his last wishes as if they could do anything about it, wishing they could have done more. Its just really sad
She was a corpsman.
@@denal4654 no one asked
That’s war. Medics are the fucking shit. Watch saving private Ryan where they’re trying to just save a guys life and the nazis were such shit bags that they shot the barely alive soldier in the head. Just to fuck with the medics. They seen too much.
How is this STILL just infinitely better than the series out right now?
Because it is realistic, unpolished, and these are actual human beings fighting, and not some poorly written filler characters blabbing their mouths and telling you what is going on instead of showing.
There are so many small details, like the robotic voice warning of the banshees like it is the war time radio that would announce air threat warnings.
There is the marine medic running around doing her job in that hell trying to save people.
People get hurt, they show emotion, pain, fear, and heroism.
The explosions are actual explosions that grenades and rpgs make and not some hollywood fuel canister explosions.
This feels so real to an actual battlefield that it is insane.
This was made by people who actually cared about Halo
@@s0ulshot it definitely gives the desperation that halo should have for the marines. I mean we have all this without any Spartans at all. It would be a great intro to how difficult the force is to fight.
Then once we see the Spartans things feel a tad less desperate until the eventual flood reveal and everything is hopeless again and terrifying again
Because there was heart and care put into this and it was for the fans. Not for 40yo Jane and here 3 kids who think the show is based off the Foo Fighters song (no hate to them)
because it has zero plot and is an action movie, the way Halo is intended to be
Props to the medic marine, poor girl was running all over the place trying her best to tend everyone while risking the chance of getting spiked herself.
Just imagine how exhausted she must have been later
@@Arvyn992 And the PTSD stress seeing her friends being impaled against the wall and then having to cause one of her squad mates serious pain by vibrating that same impalement rod as she's sawing it off, that's some dark shit right there.
@@voin5371 someone's got to do it
It should be Corpsmen not Medic. Medics are Army Corpsmen are navy who survive with marines
@@Autobotmatt428 Either way, the point doesn't change but thank for the correction of termonoligy.
12 yo me: Playing airsoft with my friends.
The lore:
I had a Cheap electric Airsoft Famas i'd pretend is the Halo 2 BR.
When something 10 years ago is better than the current series...
Well, i wouldnt watch 9 episodes of shaky camera. Its also a way to hide bad cgi. The rawaness of the action is cool though and the brutes move naturally.
@@samulimustonen2047 First episode of this this show makes Forward unto Dawn looks like masterpiece. CGI looks awful. Elites look weird. Cars look like repurposed modern cars, same goes for insurrectionist weapons. So far best visually live action footage from Halo is short "Halo Landfall" and "Deliver Hope". They even look better visually than this woke abomination.
@@kamilpotato3764 I like forward unto dawn too!
Damn... That's is why I'm afraid to start it. I'll still probably watch it but Landfall is still epic imo. It still looks great and I'm able to believe the world they create in such a short time.
15 or 16 was first released in 2007
This. This is what changed my actions when I play a Halo game as Master Chief. Ever since I was a little kid and I saw this trailer there was such a build-up of guilt and pity that every time I play a game like Halo or others like Call of Duty I try my hardest to make sure every trooper makes it out alive. The number of times I've loaded the last checkpoint because that one marine got obliterated by a grenade from an enemy I could've killed in time.
Yaaadude
I feel you, but since I play mostly on legendary and heroic sometimes it’s not worth the pain.
@@thunderring8056 heroic totally doable. Legendary nah
That's why I couldn't rest until I got that achievement in Halo 1 anniversary, The Silent Cartographer... Every Marine on that beach survived and I'm proud of that.
Did the same as a kid hahaha
The amount of time that went into this short film is beyond amazing.
From the acting, costume, CGI, production design is just amazing. Still always amazed on how beautiful this was.
@Darth Vader if it were made today the cgi would have been amazing. for 2012 standards this is pretty decent.
@Darth Vader fair point lord vader
Smile for Discord it’s not even 2012. This video was published in 2012 but this advert was before Halo 3 was released so like 12-13 years ago
@Darth Vader for 2007 this is amazing.
@Darth Vader thats a high budget feature length film tho.
This goes so hard. The intense atmosphere, the shaky camera and the lack of a hero and victory (besides locating MC) this AD of all things depicts war super well and also shows what halo would be like as a marine in live action, bungie was truly ahead of their time not just for making games but for advertisement aswell.
To give you guys some context. This stuff was filmed as camera tests with Neill Blomkamp who was at some point considered to do the HALO MOVIE. All you see here are basically just CAMERA TESTS he did during his trial runs. This stuff is so good Bungie decided to use it as Trailer material for the third game. Which is incredible because you can see the stuff published which isn't happening too often. Anyway what basically happens is that the ODST "Search and Rescue Team" is trying to acquire the data on where the MASTER CHIEF is gonna land. This whole operation just for the LOCATION on where he is gonna land so they can be by his side before the covenant .. Man this is so good it's surreal the only missing thing is him actually making the movie but what can you do maybe some day in the future ...
United Potatoes Peter Jackson was also going to direct a Halo film, imagine how good it would be since he did Lord of the Rings, it would’ve been a masterpiece.
Still waiting for it. Forward Unto Dawn is neither a bad movie nor the one we want. Just look at this trailer. Dark, dirty and bloody. That's how a war with Covenant would be. Damn. I want it so bad. 14 years for Incredibles 2, hope not for HALO movie :D
No wonder it looks trash
At least District 9 was born out of the Halo Movies ashes.
well a halo tv show is in the works
Almost 10 years ago and its a trailer and still looks better than the halo tv series
Facts💯
It's from 2007 actually.
It has an actual artistic vision, yeah.
I came back here to find this exact kind of comment. Not disappointed.
Way better. Astronomically better. Good job fucking it all up bungie.
It's weird that nobody can come anywhere near to as good as this, even with the technology we have today.
Actually, I suppose it makes sense. It's not about the tech.
It's about the passion, and the want and drive to make something memorable, and unrealistically fantastical.
Nobody who handles Halo seems to have that anymore, and the ones that do aren't allowed to do it.
The props, the sound effects, the costumes are all too great. The only thing that could improve is the cgi. But for the time it's still very good when mixed in the gritty tone.
@@Scruffy72 True, but again, it's not all about the tech.
Never has been.
Yes, it's not about the effects. Props, real locations, real sized sets and etc makes for a better movie overall. And when you add passion into it, then we get this result, instead of that half baked crap we got with the series. Even the writing is bad.
Facts, it’s all about spreading wokeness nowadays or just capitalizing on a franchises name and having shitty writers write the for said show.
It's not about the content for them. It's a quick cash grab. Nothing more.
Came back to watch this after halo got a season 2 still holds up to this day. Was more engaged to this than an hour of the first episode of the tv show!
As dated as the VFX look, this still has some of the hardest Halo action I’ve ever seen. It really captures just how fucked the human race was before the Spartans came to be. Yeah it takes place moments before Halo 3’s opening, but I remember reading one of the books and it was just loss after loss after loss. The humans were hopeless to stop the Covenant. I really wish Neil got a chance to make his Halo movie, but if it weren’t for the cancellation, we wouldn’t have gotten District 9.
To be totally honest, while I love D9...
I would trade it and all memory of it for a halo movie of the caliber this short delivers.
@@randalthekidd7006 lol it's considered one of the best sci-fi movies made in recent years, weirdo
The VFX look for for something made in 2007, whose budget was probably 1/20th of the modern TV show's
@@_Cato_ better than I remembered on rewatch but still not close to best sci fi movie in recent years. I do hope Neil gets put onto a halo show because this shit was so good.
I LOVED district 9, but when I found out that it was between that or Halo, I was devastated. Would give anything for this movie to have been made
POV: You came here to see what a real Halo show would be like as opposed to the abomination Paramount made.
Edit: It’s over friends. The nightmare is finally over. Though it cost many of us a fair amount of sanity, were finally free.
True! Also, came for this comment🤣🤣🤣🤣
And the live action trailer for Reach. Still amazing
Facts
That and the odst trailer
Thank you! This is the truth, from up high.
Goes to show what a good Director like Neil Blomkamp can do with a sniff of a budget. District 9 still one of my favs.
Cant wait for district 10
it's a shame they couldn't get him to do a movie - my friends and i were so geeked out at the idea when this came out. still holds up so well so many years later
He made this??
@@PzShockz yes he was supposed to make a movie but fell through
@leafjerky damn it probably would of been amazing!
In 7 minutes this was 10000% better than the entirety of the TV series seasons
That corpsman is definitely one of the MVPs here. Poor girl running around while being under fire trying to save as many Marines as she can. The scene of that Marine spiked to the wall screaming in pain from the vibration of her saw no doubt forever replaying in her mind.
Hell yeah
I mean... the vibrations "could" have made it worse, but I think the main problem was the giant hole the spike round left in his arm. Also medics never get the props they deserve, they always risk it to help the troops.
Even worse, out in the open and taking fire. The marines and ODSTs are tough as hell.
She’s actually a Corpsman not a Medic. Medics are army Corpsman are Navy/Marines
@@Autobotmatt428 Oh yeah you're right abt tht, shit.
Oh boy a bunch of Marines are gonna kill me...
Paramount Halo would have them finding Chief at the recovery area butt naked.
Or butt naked with just his helmet on you know to "subvert" our expectations.
It scares me that this is highly likely
Fcking master cheeks🤦🏽♂️
so butthurt, enjoyable
He’d drop in and do a clap with his ass to make a shockwave
The best part about this is that it makes the soldiers look capable. You could imagine them combating insurrectionists but also see them as sensible soldiers instead of mindless NPCs.
I think a big statement across halo media was that while the UNSC was super far behind the covenant in energy technology and space travel, they had retained superior ground warfare tactics and strategy whereas if the covenant couldn't just take something or convince a race to join them, they just glassed them.
So when humans are holding something they want enough that they can't laser it from space, they really start to lose. The strength and jealousy of the elites and brutes and raw waves of grunts only worked out against colonial security forces and pockets of grunts literally exhausted of ammo.
all they do in the paramount show is march around on reach and die stupidly its sad
the scene of the guy feeling a lot of pain because of the thorn
the guy taking the grenade from the Brute and throwing it at the banshhe
The guy shooting even though he was injured
And the tcdo shooting sniper, and blowing up the Brute
It makes you respect them, and have more empathy too.
@@raphaelgonzaga1044
Exactly, they're seen as marines and not as a grunt's equal.
@@djprogramer973 if it was like that in the game the enemies would run because there were more determined marines than spartans alone
Halo Landfall shows what we would get if the person in charge of the movie/show would actually know the feel, the look, the mood of Halo. This was made by someone who actually cared and was passionate about Halo. That is why this test footage has been important to Halo fans since it released. It is a symbol of something we will never get. Because the people in charge of Halo now, just don't care about it as they used to. This footage and what we get now is perfect proof.
Agree
Theres a timeline where Neill Blomkamp made his Halo movie and we're not living in it
:(
holy shit your right
There's another timeline where halo is a PC only rts game so I'm good tbh 😆
@@stumped6468 or the timeline where halo 1 wasn't packaged with every xbox and it never rose to fame
if we are talking about timelines theres a timeline where this shit actually happens and we could be living in it but none of us would ever know. 0.0
Johnson "Oh I know what the ladies like"
Factory "Oh I know what Johnson likes"
so... what ladies like is what the factory likes which is what johnson likes which is what the ladies like which is what the factory likes which is what johnson likes which is...
@@elwillyrets7505 big . . . fuckin . . . tanks . . .
Our big green style cannot be defeated!
"Thanks for the tank. He never gets me anything."
@@KwadDamyj In my day, we didn't have fancy shmancy tanks. What we had was two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon, and we had to share the rock. Buck up boy you're one lucky Marine.
-Seargent Major Avery J Johnson.
6 minutes of this was better than the 2 seasons of Halo on Paramount Plus.
It honestly amazes me that an ad for a game can encapsulate both dire desperation and undying hope in one action sequence. We were blessed.
That's what made the Bungie games great. Desperation and hope in a bitter fight for humanity. The new ones lack direction and theme
@@baneblade48halo to me has always been about unending hope even in the most dire of circumstances, they are starting to rediscover it in infinite but it might be too little to late
And all without making humanity look too weak
@@danieltobin4498 yeah dude I hate how bungie writes Marines and especially ODSTs to be weak.
I can't stop watching this it's sooooo good. Even how the drills screw in the Sniper Rifle barrels, how the weapons shake slightly when the rack they are opening up on stops. Man. NEIL PLEASE COME BACK!!!
I really wish the paramount series would have gone with a faithful plot, it could have been really well done but of course, they had to mess it up
If they do adapt New Mombasa and the ODST, Neil has to be the one to do it. No one does gritty war scifi like Blomkamp.
Just watched the new episode and then watched this. Although the Paramount show has an exponentially higher budget, just compare this to the opening of episode 1. It’s insane how this scene is more memorable despite the discrepancy in budgets.
would honestly rather watch this on loop than the new paramount thing coming out
waited since forward unto dawn, this is better than the paramount series
@@Dainith forward unto dawn was pretty good tbh, i enjoyed most of it
To this day, this and the ODST trailer still give me chills. What could have been but never was.
Damn just realized that this is basically Rogue One for Halo 3
Now I know how to describe this trailer to someone who hasn’t seen it without giving anything away
would say rougue one is halo lanfall but for star wars
Rogue One is the Reach of ST
@@wonder5933 probably just without the rogue part
Halo Reach is the Rogue One of Halo CE
God I love this short, it's such an engaging fight to watch, you can feel the desparation, the CG is straight out of 2007 but that literally doesn't matter because the actors played their parts so well it made it believable that they were absolutely terrified, fighting for their life, and carrying on knowing they probably weren't going to survive, but completing their mission meant that the world had a chance. I love this short and We are ODST, they're works of art.
I can see Marty and Michael were conceptualizing the music for Reach here already with the driving drum beats.
No replies.... unacceptable
@@Yourhandlesystemsucks I think that just means everyone agrees right?
What gets me is I wish they showed more of the brutes, more covenant vehicles, even knowing the CGI may not have “held up” it was still good enough for me to want more
Yeah, I can't tell what parts are supposed to be 'bad CG'. The tables of marine helmets, and the partially built warthog? Are those CG, or are they props?
The worst part of this is we know what the marines and ODSTs were doing whilst the Master Chief was on Delta Halo for months: HIDING IN THEIR BUNKERS.
@@sirspamalot4014 it means that a bunch of bots upvoted the comment, because this a bot comment, stolen from another commenter.
I like how the ODST soldier with the sniper takes off when he hears the brute chief grunting coming after him shows there just a wild space beast with armour
odst sniper
you know nothing about brutes...
@Abyssal Horror Yes, but because they are a beastly species it doesn't mean that they don't know how to get to steath to take a sniper... Even more a chief that he is chief just for his combat experience
He put up a fight of survival. I thought he was going to survive or someone was going to help.
Kyle John He should have ran. He was popping off with a pistol like that was going to help. 🤦♂️
Anyone still get goose bumps from this 11 years later? This could have been such an amazing intro to a Halo TV series or movie.
**Marine is throwing the activated spike grenade into the air and destroyed a Banshee**
Marine: "Dude!... I think I leveled up!" (A quote by a random Marine from H3)
PROMOTEDDDDDD
*FUCK 343I*
@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly Yo what
@@CrimesForDimes what do you mean what? He said fuck 343 and I agree with him, they completely ruined this series, the last good Halo game was the last one Bungie made, Halo 4 was a cod knockoff and they've sucked ever since
@@americanusrex5975 Well only half, halo masterchief collection used to be a joke now its one of the best games to get for 40 bucks i do agree 343 sucks but still bungie fans need to chill the fuck down, like the sprint situation, bro theres a fucking cutscene where master chief sprints in halo ce, plus do you even know how hard it is to develop a game which i think you do hell 343 employees are getting underpaid which could explain the effort. halo 2 anniversary was great, halo ce anniversary wasn't. So in a nutshell half of 343 does suck like bro halo 5 is a let down, hell hunt the truth had better story then halo 5 so the company is a 6 out of 10 for me. Anyways the reason why i said "yo what" is because they mans was fucking immature like dude tell me a reason on why it sucks don't say fuck 343 and not giving us on why. And please don't get angry at a stupid comment if you are angry then you're not a clown your an entire circus. Any ways fuck Ea also known as Egay and have a good day sir
This trailer all in all - even if it didn't really represent the feel of what Halo 3 was actually like, was still so cinematic and gritty that it was almost realistic. And that is what makes this trailer better than any promotional material since Reach. The trailers on their own good at building up hype, but they never build on anything, never set the tone in the same way that Landfall or Believe did.
The reach trailer was the best one
What about the halo infinite trailers ? What your opinion on them ? Seriously asking.
I though it caught the feel just right. Your just seeing the perspective of a normal marine instead of an unstoppable war machine like Chief. Normal marines have it rough.
@Flatline I feel ya brother.
Sheeeeeeiiiiiit... Halo 3's 'Starry Night' trailer completely shits on your thesis.
*Has a spike logded in him*
"Can you do your job?"
ODST 1: AHHH IM HIT!
ODST 2: SUCK IT UP
He talked to the medic....
@@FloofehMoofin he wasn't talking to medic, he was talking to the other ODST who's job was to point the laser at chief
@5:25 IRL, removing that spike prior to transfer to a field hospital is just going to make his day worse. As painful as that shit is, a penetrating object is the only thing stopping massive hemorrhaging.
@@ThePyro3825 you forget in the halo universe they have Bio foam that fills up the wound, stops the bleeding numbs the pain and seal it up tight, leaving him with a huge heated spike inside him would be more punishment simply cause the bio foam is like a miracle fix all till they are properly patched up
Mustve been hell for that corpsman. Casualties left and right. Still gives me chills.
Who thought you'd need to pack an angle grinder as a medic too lmfao
That corpsman deserves a commendation or two for her bravery, at minimum.
I swear I can hear the medic say "oh my god" when the 3rd guy got spiked. That's some real healer mood right there
The medic doesnt say anything when the 3rd guy gets hit, but it would have been a nice touch.
@@Imblu95 pretty sure i heard a "OH C'MON!" in there as she tried to pull it out.
@@gabrielsoto8705 I dont hear shai my friend, stamp the minute?
I thought she screamed “He’s Gone.” Because she ran up to the Marine who just seconds earlier was manning the turret on the warthog, and got spike. As he falls, you can see the spike in his chest.
@@Imblu95 5:54
Such a shame this is so much better than the Paramount show...why couldn't we get this instead? This clip is over a decade old and still holds up, imagine what could've been if they had the go-ahead to make a movie. Amazing to see this battle scene line up with the opening of the Halo 3 game too....instead we get this non-canon shit from Paramount
*sigh* it's sad that they stated it's non-canon so they'd be able to use the Halo influence, without making it a show about halo. Just some weird fanfiction sci-fi shit with a Halo skin.
they were made with different purpose, this one is just a short and the paramount one is a full tv show.
Holy shit, imagine if the TV series opened up like this and then cutted to the intro titles. I'd be instantly hooked, sadly that wasn't the case
$90 million down the drain to make someone's halo not-a-fan fiction
I wanna hit the like button but it’s currently at 117.
I got chills thinking about this
I guess as the famous saying goes “it’s too good to be true”
@@pittraider1221 so many people would be in love
I'm both happy and sad that this lighting in a bottle will never be captured ever again. This was truly the golden age of Halo lore in gaming culture. Thank you to all how come here watching this video both young and old. As an og Halo Combat Evolved gamer, it warms my gamer spirit reading all the love in the comments this video gets more than a decade later. All us fans at the time knew this was something special, knew this video would extent beyond our generation, and inspire those who haven't yet played this game.
If you’re here in 2021 you’re not only a legend but remember how good games used to be!
Edit: well we made it to 2022 and y’all still legends
I remember seeing this as a kid and thinking cool!!! Now its just sad to know we never got the full movie or a halo game that comes close to this.
I would rewatch this over and over again as a kid I was obsessed. Nothing will ever be as hype as halo 3 ever again
earth haven't seen it in years just like this video
yea used to be died at reach. 4 5 and what ever there is can suck it. 2 . 3 where the games
Amen
They're the reason they found Master Chief in Halo 3, I love stuff like this!
These guys are heros, but at the same time the chief had a neural implant, the most expensive implant actually, and his implant has a tracker that he can activate, so I don't know why these men had to die when he could have just turned on his tracker. I love this trailer, but the chief got at least 2 people killed.
+goldenhedgehog9 No one really gives a shit. As far as I'm concerned, they didn't even have names. They are in no way important to the series. They serve as meat shields for the Chief most of the time.
Dragon Knight 56 No, they serve as meat shields for YOU when you play the games. In the lore, the chief tries his best to keep the men he fights with alive, and doesn't hide behind them while they get torn to pieces.
Wasn't he Armor Locked or something he couldn't have activated it himself right? Excuse me if I'm wrong I haven't played halo 3 in years.
Actually its pretty much only you that does not give a shit. I try my hardest to keep those AI soldiers alive.
this and the "believe" ad campaign make me so nostalgic. Honestly, the feel and atmosphere of the Halo universe was so good in the Halo 3 days, and now everything's just so shiny and futuristic and generic that it's just uninteresting. I fell in love with what Bungie had made like with no other game before or since, and to have lost that is really upsetting. Just waiting on Halo 3 anniversary
New Halo just lacks the same stakes as original trilogy. Instead of a genocidal conglomeration of (mostly) mislead aliens trying to eradicate humanity in a one-sided war, it's giant robots lead by evil Cortana who want to enslave organic life.
Cristopher Burch, it's more like dedicated fans doing Halo better than 343i doing Halo; go figure.
Foehammer not gonna be a halo 3 anniversary lol
You're not alone on that one. Its sad to think I cared about NO OTHER game when Halo 3 was in its prime and I had gotten on Xbox live for the first time to play this with old friends. Now its even easy to forget the good old days if it wasn't for me stumbling on a video like this.. Nothing stays the same in anything in life I suppose, for better or worse. The utterly badass memories still remain though haha
Ya!! I got on live only for halo 3 too. It was pure magic experiencing all the live content after playing the campaign obsessively, and that atmosphere took over my whole life for awhile. I had a pretty interesting/active life growing up, but to say halo 2 and 3 are actually by far the happiest and most magical memories of my childhood.... It really says something
The Remember Reach trailer is a tear jerker too
Fucking hell I get chills everytime I watch this. Id give anything for a halo show or movie made like this. Gritty and true to the lore. And it doesn't focus on chief. It shows the struggles of regular soldiers and how much they rely on chief for their hope.
To this day I still think this the best piece of live action halo media we've had. Nothing else really sells the weight and power of these characters and weapons. And the way it ties into the start of Halo 3's campaign is just great.
have you seen the odst live action commercial? it's pretty close for me but i totally agree with ya
Halo landfall and We are ODST are masterpieces
Also, Foward Unto Dawn.
@@jackdark1377 forward unto dawn was a BEAST
You clearly haven’t seen Forward Unto Dawn
I remember the day I saw this for the first time like it was yesterday. Realizing that we could have an entire movie or show like that to enjoy and cherish. Constantly checking back in on TH-cam to see if there was any more made. Years went by and then we finally got word of a halo series, one with a huge budget, one with endless possibility. Our dreams were finally gonna come true, and the writers didn’t even bother playing the games. Have finally accepted that this 7 minutes is as good as it was ever gonna get and I will forever appreciate the people who poured themselves into making this masterpiece.
Nah writers just think they can make a better story so they make it up using halo set pieces.
There is literally endless material between the games and books (which are canon as well).
Imagine what could've been
Untrue man. We still got the ODST trailer; and the believe series for Halo 3. Plus Sodaz's Halo series more recently.
yeah i did the exact same thing. i remember after first seeing it thinking it was for a halo movie
Are we not going to talk about the one marine that got shot by a SPIKER and got stuck to a wall just to lift his battle rifle and kill the brute that shot him into the wall AND continued to shoot even as the medic is cutting him out? Give that guy a purple heart man!
Not just a PH, give that man a damn Silver Star.
not to mention the guy who got hit with a fuel rod cannon, survived and fired a rocket into the fucking chieftan like holy shit
Sometimes I come back to this clip and just watch it a couple of times while thinking back on my Halo 2/3/Reach days, the old group chats and custom games, and what we could've had if this Halo movie had come to be or at least if Bungie had kept control.
Let's stop lying, Bungie had neither the balls nor the intention to make that movie and other Halo things, Microsoft is not the only villain.
@@gatoazul6918 They obviously did, this was made with set pieces and the intention of a movie. Money was spent making this and it took at least a few months. Bungie had a lot more done than Microsoft ever has with several comics, waypoint was very active with new content every week for years, new community content was added like Grifball, there was over a dozen books with Ghosts of Onyx being my favorite, and the advertisments often had live action stuff like the Believe campaign for Halo 3, ODST, and Reach's ads on TV. You can't look at all that and say they had zero desire to make a movie.
This short film, less than 10 minutes long, has MUCH better graphics than many Hollywood action and sci-fi films in the last 10 years. You are drawn into this because it feels so vivid like you're watching found footage, that you could've been there in person. I can't remember ever being this impressed by an action or sci-fi movie. Every single person who worked on the film needs to create their own company because if they make movies like this, you know I'll be watching every one of them.
Exactly. This puts you in their shoes, you feel what they feel. It's not just a movie, it's an emotional experience.
The CGI work is abysmal but that isn't rhe point. Everything else: the tone, sounds, the acting, the intensity, the gritty realism, is by far and away generationally superior to every moment in the Halo show.
We desperately need Neil Blomkamp back! Why didn't he get the Halo show?! He's been open to it for years now!
Not just Blomkamp. The original writer who wrote the script was Alex Garland, or also wrote 28 Days Later. He is also a hardcore Halo fan so it is even better
@@PolymurExcel but I heard the last one working on it was DB Weiss, Alex was first but they changed writter a couple of times after him.
Bungie is gone brother, were the only ones left.
Blomkampf is perpetually getting snubbed from great potential projects despite being a god tier sci fi director.
@@Scorch052 Oats Studios shorts were fantastic
3:16 after all this time i only realised that the ODST Hartley got shot when the spiker round went THROUGH his Battle Rifle! Damn that is some detail and make's even more scared of Spikers.
How can such a tiny thing fit foot long spikes lol
@@deltadude7417 only looked tiny in Spartan hands. Look at when Marines held spikers in the game. They were a huge gun.
Reblwitoutacause still they can hold a whole clip of them in such a small gun
Delta Dude I believe in the description of the gun it says it turns molten metal into the spikes and launches them. So they form while leaving the barrel.
JFlintstone1 if that’s true then that’s actually pretty cool
Man I bet you the story of that female medic is pretty insane, she’s deep in the fight making sure her team is 100%
Has to be a tough job considering plasma can inflict some serious burns, needles also leave tons of shrapnel after they explode, and spikers are a nightmare. Covenant weaponry overall is terrifying, I'd hate to be a med in that situation.
Poor medic can barely keep up. Everyone getting hit faster than she can get to them
If you’re here in 2022, & still think this should be the style which they make a movie of halo then you’re what’s right with the world
It blows my mind that halo landfall has aged special effects and probably a lower budget and still does way better than the halo tv show.
This perfectly adresses what the UNSC Marines had to go through every single fucking battle.
watching this after so many years brought tears to my eyes. wish we could have had what should have been.
Still remember how fucking cool this was as a kid. Still cool at 24
Why after directing this and district 9 hasn't Microsoft realized that Neil Blomkamp is the man for the job.
Because they know that Hollywood would butcher it with their stupid identity politics BS.
@@marlonquintana3466 You even know what you're saying?
@@marlonquintana3466 being as halo is literally the entire species of humanity fighting for survival they could cast whoever they dam well pleased and it would have 0 bearing on the story. This isn't a white person playing a japanese man in japan story so it literally wouldn't even get touched by that issue
@@jessblues848 He's right Hollywood would race and gender swap all the characters but that's obviously not why the movie hasn't been made
@@marlonquintana3466 dumbest reply possible
This is epic, I don’t know what that other thing paramount plus is doing but this is all I ever wanted as a fan of the series for 20 years .
Right?! Instead we get another mainstream fake crap, not even the soundtrack they could get right and settled for that remixed garbage in the trailer.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but
Go woke go broke
Spoiler alert🚨:
It’s total dogshit. 🤦♂️
then we must share this video in Paramount page
6:37 when he rocketed that brute my jaw literally dropped. I wish the games were this gory
that fucker got put into the ground, and I enjoyed every second of it
@@bruh-fw7op what do you mean put in the ground? he got put everywhere!
Into the ground? He's all over the top of it lmao
Really tho sucks to see less and less realism, infinite looks great but no blood 😪
@@elrojo307 yeah I agree. It needs to be rated M with blood, and also the flood need to come back. We need horror back in Halo
This is peak halo filmaking. The paramount show doesn’t even come close to this.
so true!
Comparing the Paramount show to this short but super meaningful piece would be a huge disgrace.
This is a badass short film. This just showed Halo could be an amazing feature film
There was a real movie.. Nightfall, where they fight the worms hunters are made out of..
@@michaellandstrom1233 there was alsp that miniseries, forward unto dawn i think it was called.
Michael Landstrom You think we care about that irrelevant movie? We wanted action with marines, not ONI
The movie we want: Halo Landfall
The movies we get: Marines training in the woods, ONI fighting worms
I'm still waiting for this movie for 6 years... I'm about to give up and work to become a director and make it myself
I meant 4 years
no your not! thats what im doing, im going to be the director
I they tried to make one but it turned into District 9 :C
Its not a movie its a live action promotion for halo 3
We are counting on you buddy
I love how bungee still has this up
Edit: What the Halo show could've been like.
PsychoMoFoGaming it was made today
Ollie Faithful what
Ollie Faithful uhhhhhhhhhhhh no..... not even close, it was made around 2006 it was supposed to be part of the deliver hope trailer series for halo 3
Ollie Faithful well aren't you special
wait really? i thought this was a short thing neil blomkamp made to convince people to give him money for a halo movie
I was 11 when this dropped, it used to give goosebumps every time I watched it. Those were the best days for Halo
I've figured out why this short is so good. It's believable. All the body cam footage makes you feel like you're right there with them. That on top of very good acting and radio chatter just really makes it feel technically correct.
reminds me of Reach and the satellite footage from Jorge's mission
Man, watching the UNSC War Machine go to work on production of gear and weapons is some of my favorite imagery in Sci-Fi
Coming back to this video after watching the pilot of the Halo TV show has put the final nail in the coffin for modern Halo for me. The budget for Landfall must have been a fraction of the TV show, yet you can tell it was made by people who actually cared for the franchise and wanted it to be as authentic as possible. After the immense disappointment of Infinite and now one of the worst TV shows I have ever seen in my life I am left with no doubt that 343 must be replaced, and the franchise must be placed in competent, caring hands.
Agreed bro
I feel you bro
Totally agree
Indeed
It died w bungie leaving
12 years later and into season 2 of a Halo-called tv-show which is vaguely based on bungies game, this is still the best depiction of a live action version of the Halo franchise except the "Believe" campaign.
I am thankful for bearing witness to what was your story, bungie, but i am sad for what it has become.
I am waching that tv-show the same way one might stare at an vaguely blocked off accident on an autobahn.
As i said, thank you for Halo, the experience, the stories, the thousands of fun battles, the friends i met and kept till today, thank you, you are legend for this. ❤❤❤️
Why is it so hard to make a Halo series that follows this kind of visual aesthetic? It's dark, mysterious, and understated.
Why is it so hard to do justice to the Halo universe?
This doesn't resonate with modern female stream service viewers. Not sure why you're surprised.
@@flippedoutcookie Yeah “girls” are the problem. Moron
@@fatit5217 Demographics are important.
They make these shows to appeal to demographics that watch Netflix.
Because its sabotaged from the inside. Today's generation is entirely made up of very very different and lost people than they were just 10 years ago (normal people)
Too much testosterone for the modern day soy boys and feminist viewers
Dude. They had such an easy job with the new Halo show - just do this, but... longer.
They fucked it up so bad.
EXACTLY!!!!!
The next person who tells me "but they had to show his face to make it more personal!" I'll slap. I just watched 6 minutes of action for the 100th time in a decade wishing for nothing but more of it
@@mpclepto182 they had to show his face so it would be more personal
as a longtime halo fan since ce, i realize that the series is not what we expected. but if you ignore small beauty mistakes (why does he have brown eyes, wtf) and recognize that paramount has turned specifically against a book / game adaptation and makes its own story in the halo universe with game / book references, it is really successful. and even if i said in the beginning that the removal of the helmet is an absolute myth break, i like the actor very much. he plays the chief as if he had years of military training. sits up straight, stands at attention, moves appropriately. well, that keyes is black now, you have to disregard that. but they changed the skin color of characters back in halo 2 annyversairy xD but i love these little details, the shield sound, the plasma burns, the coin of halsey, the lesson about the wolf pack... all in all very well done, if you ignore the story.
@@KamikazeReilly Why are people constantly apologizing for these bad shows? It's like you want to like it so bad you forgive all the terrible decisions they've made.... the Halo TV show is a bad show, made badly. End of story. They could have made a faithful adaptation with that budget, they could have made it good, but they did not. And now I will stop watching it and pretend it doesn't exist. Halo will no longer live rent-free in my head. If I want to remember Halo fondly, I will re-play Halo 1 2 and 3. And Reach. And maybe ODST.
This is what the fans wanted. Grounded stories that tie into the main series.
This one mini movie is legendary, and all it does is provide a backstory to how the UNSC found chief after he jumped from orbit
It gives off a real sense of... I dunno, righteous determination?
Like, "This is what they did for you. These soldiers fought and died to save you, so you could save us all."
I remember what it felt like to be excited for the next halo... The old school fans miss you bungie.
tesla truck looks sick in this
Bruh 💀💀💀
The Noob Pro117 what’s up with the 3 skulls
@@sqeagy3190 skulls enabled.
Is it electric? It totally sounds like it, I bet Tesla makes spartan lasers too.
BRO 😂😂😂