Comments on: Trying to Keep It Clean

By: thel33tmaster

thel33tmaster — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:33:42 +0000

and further on that note about this spherical world, as i was getting my annual vidmaster achievement my eyes once again took to the amazing sky in the end of the level halo at the end of halo 3 and in the middle of all this destruction is an unknown to me cracked open sphere thats in the middle of whatever that thing is the covenant dug up. this could be that sphere world from the book? and could be how the spartan III’s kurt and the good dr. halsley escaped that place. possibly the odst drops could some how be tied to there possible return. wouldnt it be great to play as one of these spartans and even get to have there armor in MP? :)

By: thel33tmaster

thel33tmaster — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:23:42 +0000

well if it is the spartan III’s and kurt this presents a problem from the end of the book ghost of onyx, they entered some sort of forrunner structure and used its teleport system to get inside some sealed part of it that sealed them and dr halsley inside what the book described as a planet type structure that was like a world built inside a sphere they refer to it as a sphere world. so how did they get out of that and back to earth unless that sphere world which in the end of the book explains they were just beggining to explore had some sort of safe transport back to earth and was sealed b/c it was the only safe place to be when the rings ignite destroying evrything but maybe this place is an interstellar bomb shelter from halo if u will. and was the fail safe to keep the forrunner and now our spartans safe and return them to earth? just speculation on how the books could be tied to this teaser, most likely its odst and maybe the MC jumping onto the planet that was seen in the legendary ending of halo3, maybe some how he was found and brought back or something idk lol. it would be really cool though if it did explain what happened after the books while simultaniously explaining the halo 3 ending could that be asking too much of bungie?

By: Preacher1311

Preacher1311 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:33:47 +0000

I’ll try to keep this short and sweet, my theory has two possibilities.
the first one involvolves this post at bungie:
http://www.bungie.net/news/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=15547
in that transmission, the admiral is talking to someone that he refers to as both an S1 (spartan 1) and captain. if you’ve read “ghosts of onyx” you know at the end that Kurt (the spartan 1 of the story) was promoted to captain. So, kurt is possibly the one the Admiral is talking to, and is headed to earth. He could be making the drop with a new platoon of spartan 2s or even 3s.

Second, the events of halo 2 take place over the course of a few days, maybe a week. When chief boarded the pillar of autumn and they followed truth’s ship, only the space elevator was destroyed. With halo2 being on xbox, and this video with 360 CGI i don’t believe that’s the space elevator in the teaser, there are too many differences, and not a clear enough shot. Again, this theory comes from book references, if you read one of the books it shows a lot of different things that happened between halo 1 & 2. At the beginning of halo 3 sgt. johnson says “Why do you always have to jump? One day you’re gonna land on something more stubborn than you.” implying that chief has jumped from space before. The “believe” advertising campaign featured a massive battle in new mombossa that was never in the game… the battle however is in bungie’s “halo bible” which features every story that is canon.
At the end of halo 2 MC was on the covenant ship that brought the covenant to earth, the ship was filled with the drop pods that the covenant used to get to earth, why would chief jump without one?

i think this expansion will take place BETWEEN halo 2 & 3 and show how chief got off the covenant ship, the battle from the “believe” advertising memorial, and how he got back into space for his landing in halo 3

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:41:03 +0000

When you look at some of the new achievements, you see them mention something about “Mythic” Maps, which include an achievement for Assembly. Bungie (contrary to them saying they aren’t going to) is going to release a new map pack or another update (like TU2) with these new maps and campaign levels.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:07:00 +0000

Some of the words say: “Danger Flood Zone,” could this be another outbreak of flood, it could well be as bungie have told us that it is to be a ‘new campaign experience’