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Halo studio Bungie has been keeping the blog fires stoked lately with the return of its "Superintendent" viral marketing campaign. Over on the official site, a counter has been ticking away to 10am EST today. That was ages ago and I've been sat here looking at a page that says "rebooting" for ages.

However, after wasting more time than I'm at liberty to spend, the veil has finally been lifted and unveiled ... a teaser trailer for some Halo expansion. Watch above for the somewhat unrevealing reveal.

Not really much to report after all the faffing around. Still, Halo fans get more Halo. That's good for them.


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MrSadistic's Avatar
MrSadistic at 09/25/2008 09:44
</facepalm>
BlindsideDork's Avatar
BlindsideDork at 09/25/2008 09:45
So very lame...do something new like you claimed you were going to do!
Toneman's Avatar
Toneman at 09/25/2008 09:51
You gotta do more than just watch the video. This is Bungie, there's more info in that video than one glance can show.
nukka jdav's Avatar
nukka jdav at 09/25/2008 09:55
Hooray?
nukka jdav's Avatar
nukka jdav at 09/25/2008 09:56
Oh yes, I almost forgot. Peeps are saying its a new campaign experience but probably based on something called the New Mombassa battles or some shit I have no idea about.

In the books I hear.
monosylabik's Avatar
monosylabik at 09/25/2008 09:56
sweet, an expansion would be pretty awesome.
SantanaClaus89's Avatar
SantanaClaus89 at 09/25/2008 09:56
ZOMG I LOVE HALOEZ CUZ ITS ON XBOXEZ! SW333T!!!
SephirothX's Avatar
SephirothX at 09/25/2008 09:59
Well its probably a continuation of the Halo 3 storyline. My guess is that the 'prepare to drop' line is a reference to Cortana waking up Master Chief as their ship drops onto that planet in the Legendary Ending. Not to mention the references of this 'superintendand' make me believe its a unearthly planet.
Gameboi's Avatar
Gameboi at 09/25/2008 10:08
What SephirothX said, and I can't wait!
Toneman's Avatar
Toneman at 09/25/2008 10:11
I doubt it's a continuation. The city in the video is New Mombasa, which got blown to shit in Halo 2.
SephirothX's Avatar
SephirothX at 09/25/2008 10:13
I'm suprised nobody's being an idiot and going "ooOOOOOOoooo maybe Halo is Marathon!"
Teta's Avatar
Teta at 09/25/2008 10:28
I still want a 360 just to play Halo 3 and Casttle Crashers.
Now my desire has increased. I´m sad and poor.
NihonTiger90's Avatar
NihonTiger90 at 09/25/2008 10:34
... well, that's a letdown.
Debeo Laurus's Avatar
Debeo Laurus at 09/25/2008 10:41
I'm personally excited, even though the Halo series is getting a little played out. I guess we who still play this series should be a little happy at the fact that Bungie seems to be releasing something every now an then.
klubjunkee's Avatar
klubjunkee at 09/25/2008 10:41


It's obviously a new patch to prevent your typical homophobic, puberty hitting, pimple-face, racial slurring, gang banging wiggers on LIVE from playing using face recognition via the LIVE vision cam.
galagabug 's Avatar
galagabug at 09/25/2008 10:47
i'm intrigued, but too stoopid to read into these videos.
rbrooks's Avatar
rbrooks at 09/25/2008 10:48
I'm confused...this doesn't look like halo 3 engine...but whatever. I'm honestly not that excited for this because Halo 2 and 3 campaigns were mediocre. Although if they put alot of love into the campaign i'm sure it would be really good.
joemoemino's Avatar
joemoemino at 09/25/2008 10:54
Its a CG trailer. That means not in game.

Also, I guess Bungie's idea of a new game are different than mine.
fetusmilk's Avatar
fetusmilk at 09/25/2008 10:54
what the hell is halo 3?
Cacophony's Avatar
Cacophony at 09/25/2008 11:01
I'm more inclined to think its Master Chief dumping himself on some new world. Which would make sense.

I dunno, I told myself I wouldnt get interested and now I kind of am so we'll see. But since the first thing I thought when I saw "Danger: Flood Zone" was of those god awful flood levels in every game I hope that's not what we end up playing. A Halo game almost exclusively fighting the flood. Eeeewwww.
cbebop007's Avatar
cbebop007 at 09/25/2008 11:02
I'm so sick of Halo...I really wish Bungie would apply their skills to something, you know, different.
DJDuffy 's Avatar
DJDuffy at 09/25/2008 11:05
It would be cool if the game actually LOOKED that amazing, but we all know it won't be :(
Rifter01's Avatar
Rifter01 at 09/25/2008 11:09
If these are the new chapters for H3, I guess I'm excited, but, my HD will 'splode with being too full from all teh DLC.
BlackSheep's Avatar
BlackSheep at 09/25/2008 11:11
prepare to drop bungie.

dropping them indeed
SnakeDude4Life's Avatar
SnakeDude4Life at 09/25/2008 11:27
survival mode/ enemy hunt

I'm calling it.
GuitarAtomik's Avatar
GuitarAtomik at 09/25/2008 11:33
I doubt this has anything to do with Master Chief. My guess from all the clues is that you'll be playing an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper (those bad ass looking marines in all black with the full helmets) thus the DROP pods from space, and the line "Prepare to DROP". And judging from the Xbox LIVE tag as oppose to just the plain Xbox tag, and teh fact that ODSTs don't work alone, and the recent info that this was a new "campaign experience", I'd say it's an online co-op campaign expansion which takes place on Earth and will mostly deal with the Flood (which was probably the first things in the trailer which dropped from the sky and decimated the city).

Sound good?

ok. RESUME HALO HATE MACHINE
bmdubya's Avatar
bmdubya at 09/25/2008 11:36
Yeah, what Guitar Atomik said. This is definitely centered around the ODST.



The ship in the picture is exactly the way they described it in the book. I'm excited. Hell's Jumpers FTW!
Master Leaf's Avatar
Master Leaf at 09/25/2008 12:01
Yeah, looks exactly like the pod in Halo 2.

ODST Tactical Shooter. I'm calling it.
GnappyAssassin's Avatar
GnappyAssassin at 09/25/2008 12:08
It's a campaign expansion taking place near an orbital elevator, probably on Earth. That's because the only orbital elevators that are ever referenced in the Halo Universe are the one over New Mombassa that the Covenant blew to shit, the one over Havana that Blue Team blew to shit, and the one over Harvest that everyone blew to shit. Considering there's water in the video and land on either side, I'm going to take a wild guess and say it's on Earth in New Mombassa. The pods are ODST drop pods, and the fact that the elevator is still up suggests that this is before the covenant blew everything to shit. That leads me to believe that we get to see what went down in Africa before Master Chief showed up in Halo 2.
GnappyAssassin's Avatar
GnappyAssassin at 09/25/2008 12:10
Oh- and I don't think it will have to do with the flood if it's in that time frame.
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GeneralWong at 09/25/2008 12:12
I remember Bungie saying many moons ago, "There will be more HALO games, although they won't feature Master Chief as the main character". ODST is obviously what there going to use, seeing as the usual marines are a bunch of useless wankers. Here's hoping to a Left4Dead kind of experience in the HALO universe. Hopefully not the flood though, there proper fucking annoying. If I have to get a face full of crabs when I shoot them fat fucking ones then Im gonna sticky grenade my hole family.
GuitarAtomik's Avatar
GuitarAtomik at 09/25/2008 12:13
@ GnappyAssassin
It's definitely in New Mombassa. In one of those shots of the decimated city there's a sign near the top left that reads "City of New Mombassa". I'd have to agree with the time-line stuff too.
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GeneralWong at 09/25/2008 12:14
PS - Is GnappyAssassin Master Chief in disguise? I call it! He seems to know a awful lot about HALO leading me to believe that he has experienced the events first hand in one way or another...
GuitarAtomik's Avatar
GuitarAtomik at 09/25/2008 12:20
Also, yeah I hope there aren't ANY Flood missions in this. The Flood are fucking annoying to fight and I always hated those levels the most.
vexed alex's Avatar
vexed alex at 09/25/2008 12:38
*walks through the mud of trendy Halo hate*

Oh, God. I made it through. Hooray!

Uh, but yes. I'm personally excited, especially if what GuitarAtomik said comes true.

I hate teaser trailers though. We waited a long time to be teased again. This thing (like everything Bungie does) raised more questions than it did answers. At least it shed some light and it's not just a few new maps.

There's this "expansion," new maps, and a rumored level editor. This fall should be rad for Halo fans, and I'm glad they haven't abandoned it. We just had a title update and a matchmaking overhaul as well.
covah's Avatar
covah at 09/25/2008 12:39
Yeah no Flood, NO FLOOD.
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LsTr Of SmG at 09/25/2008 12:59
Anyone else notice the 'Maddie, where are you?' bit? Don't know if it's just because I'm British but I found that hilarious in an extremely dark way.
KyleGamgee's Avatar
KyleGamgee at 09/25/2008 13:00
This is good for me.

I think Halo is fun.
GuitarAtomik's Avatar
GuitarAtomik at 09/25/2008 13:15
One of the screens suggest January 6th 2009. Also 01 + 06 = 07.
Wack's Avatar
Wack at 09/25/2008 13:42
Bungie sure loves 07.
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Sharpless at 09/25/2008 13:58
In one of their weird viral thingies on their site, there's the line, “Didn’t think you S1 types ever left your cave.” S1? Spartan 1? I don't know.

I bet it's either a Helljumper expansion or an expansion playing as another Spartan. Either way, that sounds reminiscent of the Half-Life expansions, and I like that.
GuitarAtomik's Avatar
GuitarAtomik at 09/25/2008 14:06
@Sharpless

S1 = Section 1 of the ONI

[i]Section One

The main intelligence-gathering section, and the foremost provider of electronic intelligence for the UNSC. Covenant ship movements and force deployment, evacuation notices for colonies, deletion of data for secrecy purposes, and much more are all done by Section 1.[/i]

Considering the city is being evacuated and they would most likely be in charge of putting together and deploying something like the ODSTs, I'm pretty sure that was in reference to that.

...I am really in to this stuff.
Linkoman's Avatar
Linkoman at 09/25/2008 14:26
I know it said Halo 3 but it would be nice if it was independant instead of an expansion.
GnappyAssassin's Avatar
GnappyAssassin at 09/25/2008 15:45
@GuitarAtomik
Nice to see another Halo fan. I realize the series has had shortcomings, but I'll be damned if the universe isn't awesome.


@ GeneralWong
I'm the MC only if you're Aku.
Sharpless's Avatar
Sharpless at 09/25/2008 15:46
@GuitarAtomik
Damn, you're an even bigger nerd than I am. I did notice the ONI reference in there. Forgot about Section 1, though.
GuitarAtomik's Avatar
GuitarAtomik at 09/25/2008 16:19
@Sharpless

Yeah...It's true ;__;
kawitchate's Avatar
kawitchate at 09/25/2008 16:26
well count me in
hood_954's Avatar
hood_954 at 09/25/2008 16:40
Yeah this will probably end up being that "tactical shooter" we heard rumours of a couple of weeks/months back. i'm glad. it'll be G.R.A.W. meets halo.
MechaMonkey's Avatar
MechaMonkey at 09/25/2008 17:13
ODSTs?

I'm in. Bring you Halo hate. I can take it.
Roryzilla's Avatar
Roryzilla at 09/25/2008 22:22
Either this or they are just releasing Halo 3 for PC and are acting like nobody knows already.
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