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Microsoft’s really turned up the heat in the marketing department for Halo 4. It got David Fincher — he of Fight Club – to produce this truly terrifying, yet awesome launch trailer. The results are epic, I just wish they’d make a whole damn Halo film just like it.
It’s the first time we’ve really had a glimpse into the Master Chief’s backstory, and it looks pretty horrifying to be honest. I guess you have to know that he’s a cyborg of some type, and that at one stage he would have been purely human. But having all that stuff inserted into you, well, it makes me shudder just thinking about it.
Not long to wait until you can get your mitts on Halo 4 for yourself, if you haven’t already. Roll on November 6th. [YouTube]
Awesome but premature.
Premature? With less than a month to go?
Think he was talking about his personal life maybe?
I was referring to the hype. I think will not live up to expectations. The gameplay footage is all we really can base it on. And even then it seemed a bit dull. But that’s me.
Yes, because marketing something like this is best left to the week before release.
That’s not what I was implying. Halo adds are usually always over the top. It was premature to expect greatness when a cool slick and shiny trailer arrives directed by an accomplished director.
I don’t understand you.
If you’re suggesting that it’s premature to infer the quality of the game from the trailer then I’d agree, but I don’t see where anyone said anything to that effect.
Slight correction there Sam as David Fincher produced it, but the trailer was directed by Tim Miller.
Halo is still an awesome property, not the deepest in terms of story or even game mechanics, but years of lore definitely improved it.
And also, it’s what made Red vs Blue series possible.
http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=5845
Next thing I know, Master Chief blows up the whole Covenant Armada, and I’m stuck in the middle of nowhere, fighting a bunch of blue guys!
Not this ~ancient evil awakens~ shite which occurs in every other videogame, cmon guys.
Master Chief is not a Cyborg
Born in about 2511, John lived with his mother and father in Elysium city, on the colony world of Eridanus II. He attended the Elysium City Primary Education Facility Number 119. As a child, John had brown hair, freckles, and a small gap between his front teeth. In a dream during cryo-sleep aboard the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, John recalled that his mother was “kind and smelled of soap”, and that she had “large eyes, a straight nose and full lips.” The would-be UNSC Marine Lieutenant Parisa was a childhood friend of John’s. John once saved her from drowning at Lake Gusev, after which John promised to marry her and keep her safe. A photo of the two was also taken by Parisa’s father soon after, and would be kept as a memory by Parisa long after she thought John had passed away.
At the age of six, he was identified by Dr. Catherine Halsey as one of 150 preliminary candidates for the SPARTAN-II Program. John was an ideal physical and mental candidate, standing a head taller than the majority of his schoolmates, having greater physical proportions, possessing greater strength, exhibiting superior reflexes, and having an aggressive drive for success. When Dr. Halsey and Lieutenant Jacob Keyes visited Eridanus II in 2517 to study him, they were impressed with his intellect and luck. In a final test of his viability as a candidate, he was asked to determine which side an old coin would land on. He watched the coin as it flew in the air and caught it before it could land, correctly stating which side was face-up, which was the side of the eagle. John was the first candidate Dr. Halsey and Lieutenant Keyes studied. Later that same year, John and 74 other six-year-old children were “conscripted”: they were covertly kidnapped from their homes and replaced with flash clones, all of which would later die of natural causes to cover up the kidnappings. John, along with the other candidates, was taken to the planet of Reach. Dr. Halsey informed them of the SPARTAN-II Program and how they would be “the protectors of Earth and all her colonies.” The next morning John discovered his service tag, stitched into his training uniform, and his new name: John-117.
John began a new life, training with other Spartans under Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez. For eight years he learned history, military strategy, weapons, and was given physical fitness training. Early on, he bonded with Kelly and Sam, who would become two of the few close friends he would ever have.
John undergoing Spartan-II Augmentation.
“He is neither the smartest nor the fastest nor the strongest of the Spartans. But he is the bravest – and quite possibly the luckiest. And in my opinion, he is the best.”
— Dr. Catherine Halsey to Cortana
During his training, John quickly proved himself to be one of the program’s top candidates. Both Dr. Halsey and Chief Mendez identified him as one of four emerging leaders within the Spartan-II group, along with Kurt-051, Jerome-092, and Frederic-104.[citation needed] Dr. Halsey expressed her belief most strongly in John as having the skills and natural ability to lead the entire Spartan-II group. However, Mendez disagreed, instead believing Kurt would fulfill that role.[citation needed]
When the Spartans were eight years old, they were sent on a training mission in which they were dropped over a forest located deep in one of Reach’s snow-filled mountain ranges and expected to get safely to their extraction Pelican dropship. The children also had instructions to leave the last child arriving behind, or the punishment would be painful; John-117 knew, however, that he could not do that. After telling the Spartans where to meet, the Spartans looked to him as their leader, a role he was initially surprised to be given, but eventually accepted. When the group came upon the Pelican, it was guarded by armed men. Those men were actually UNSC Marines, but were not in uniform, thus leading the Spartans to mistake for a hostile threat. John showed early acumen in critical thinking and tactics, not wishing to take for granted that guards would be friendly toward them. He came up with a plan to take the men down, capture the dropship, and ensure the safe extraction of every team member, as he made sure he was the last person aboard. To do this he ended up hijacking the dropship with the help of Déjà, and beat down the men with stones, causing severe injuries among the Marines. Chief Mendez was not visibly pleased, as John had attacked his Marines and no one had been left behind. But both Mendez and Halsey recognized John’s initiative, and promoted him to squad leader. After this, despite other Spartans rising in rank and at least a couple rising to lead their own teams, he remained the de facto leader of the Spartans as a whole.
John’s leadership skills were correctly observed, as the result from their mission clearly solidified his role as the overall leader of the Spartan-IIs. He also became the established leader of the Spartan-II’s Blue Team.
John-117 fighting a group of ODSTs on the UNSC Atlas.
At the age of fourteen, John underwent the dangerous SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures. These procedures caused 30 of the Spartan trainees to die, and 12 to become physically disabled. John was one of 33 Spartans who made it through the process unscathed, while the rest who could still operate were moved to positions in the Office of Naval Intelligence. At only fourteen years old, it is said that John had a body of an eighteen-year old Olympic athlete; the augmentation process gave the Spartans faster reflexes, greater strength, enhanced eyesight, and made their bones nearly unbreakable. Following their augmentation procedures, John and the other Spartans were transferred to the Atlas in order to recover in a microgravity environment. During his first visit to the Atlas’ gym, John was confronted by four ODSTs, whose sergeant then ordered the five of them into the boxing ring. In the ensuing fight, John killed two of the ODSTs, and left the others severely injured, an incident which quickly blossomed into major resentment for the whole SPARTAN program throughout the Marine Corps. According to Major Antonio Silva, this incident was orchestrated by the “people who invented the Chief” in order to test the Spartans’ augmentations.
at most hes a geniticly enhanced super soldier in a litteral ton of powerized armor