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Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?
Posted By: reprobate	Date: 4/11/08 4:29 a.m.
In Response To: Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon? (Stephen L. (SoundEffect)) : The sand being almost white happens in Egypt even given the right conditions : and sunlight, that shouldn't be an issue at all. Sand is like a crystal : and with enough light is very reflective. The obvious points from the : commercial is a Warthog, Wraith-fire, bubble shields, the storm over the : Slipspace portal, and a group of Brutes with a Chieftain nearby. I don't : see that the events has to play itself out exactly as in the game. What's : right anyway? Every one of us has played through campaign many times I'm : sure and no two play-throughs are ever identical. It's the flavor of the : commercial, not the specifics. : Same way I see the Believe ads, including the Diorama. First off, the actor : ads takes place many years, decades even, after the events of Halo 3. It's : a remembered recounting of events. Doesn't need to be too specific. : The diorama has Brutes, the Chief, marines, banshees, Grunts and Jackals, the : basic elements of Tsavo Highway areas. Looking closely at the broken : highway structure, the beams holding up the highway are spot on to the : design of the highway struts from the game. There's an instance where you : could have the Chief close enough to a Brute Chieftain to be in physical : contact if you wanted to risk it. The Chief wasn't dead from what we see : as the end of the ad. Again, it's the flavor not the specifics. I realize : we didn't see Scorpions or Hunters on Tsavo Highway...that's just gameplay : tweaking or any other justifiable discrepancy between a commercial and a : game being developed independently. I'm cool with the flavor of it being : canon. Yeah, I realized that about the sand as I was writing it, but figured what the heck. The main point where I have issues is the actual architecture being different in these ads from the primary source (Bungie). I understand wanting to have the "flavor" be canon though since the ads kicked ass. A smaller issue I have, if I could get past the architecture being different from Bungie stuff, is the Chief even pretending to have been beaten by a Brute. It might go with the desperate tone that they were setting for Halo 3, but that isn't what I see when I play the games.

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Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Onebitrocket	4/8/08 7:37 a.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Cthulhu117	4/8/08 7:41 a.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Onebitrocket	4/8/08 7:44 a.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	DHalo	4/8/08 8:06 a.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	kr-1426	4/8/08 2:00 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	InnerRayg	4/8/08 3:59 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Peptuck	4/8/08 10:50 a.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	4/8/08 9:11 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	reprobate	4/9/08 4:56 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Peptuck	4/9/08 6:23 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	4/9/08 6:37 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Peptuck	4/9/08 9:41 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Cthulhu117	4/10/08 7:46 a.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	4/10/08 6:18 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	reprobate	4/11/08 4:29 a.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	4/11/08 11:20 a.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	free	4/12/08 5:13 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	4/12/08 7:44 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	free	4/12/08 9:20 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	4/12/08 9:27 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	free	4/13/08 2:28 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Document	4/14/08 11:44 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	4/15/08 8:35 p.m.
Re: Halo 3's ad campaign - canon?	elpolloguapo	4/15/08 8:42 p.m.