Halo 2 Making-Of Movie Illuminates

Thanks to Halo.bungie.org for their story collating download sources for a new Halo 2 movie from Microsoft's X03 exhibition in France, unfortunately filmed shakycam-style, but showing 7 minutes of a previously unseen Halo 2 'making-of' piece, including lots of interviews and new footage. Xboxyde.com has captured some screenshots from the approx. 50mb movie, showing off the due-in-2004 Xbox killer app.

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Hype playing?

[MMaestro]

Considering people either doubt Halo 2 will serve or just plain sucks because its on the XBox (read : grudge holding PC owners who are FINALLY getting Halo 1 on PC) I think Bungie holds a trump card against the hype danger.

Their advantage is that they are a small developer with a producer (Microsoft) who keeps its dirty little hands off. You haven't seenen Bungie start putting up advertising or submitting special presentations to websites/magazines, unlike game companies which release all sorts of fancy information over the months. If you look at EA's C&C Generals : Zero Hour, they're advertising that game like its the Half-Life 2 of strategy games even though hardcore and casual players agree that original was just an average strategy game.