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Canton

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Found this while trawling youtube and thought I would share. . .

It has multiple parts

part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc2rqurMjxk

part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajJbCYIBPok

part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu72qnzyC6g

EDIT: embed doesn't work
 

Satin6T

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very cool, gonna have to get this
although I do like how this reminds me of an old gundam serious
 

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Part 1: I am disappointed already. The voice acting of the soldiers is awful, so is the animation. The ships animation looked good.

The ODST soldier is a prick and reminds me of Nero in DMC4, not the type of guy who'd be a Marine, especially not an elite one. He also looks like a JRPG character as no way would the military allow that kind of hair.

Part 2: Not much to say as practically nothing is seen. The Brute and grunts didn't look very well drawn though. Generally speaking the animation seemed poor.

Part 3: What. The. Fuck. Why is Master Chief fighting like he's in a JRPG?

The teaser trailer made it seem ten times better than this.
 

Sonicron

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Animation seems decent, dialogue (what little there is to be had) could be worse, mood well-captured. I think I'll get this.
 

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I went halfway through part 1 and had to close the window. I couldn't take it anymore. All I can say is the dialogue is average (and by that I mean the average of today's anime (=bad)), and the music SERIOUSLY did not match the mess hall with hordes of marines all smiling as if each of their wives unanimously sent pictures of their kids.
 

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Looking good so far... still, its only one segment, we'll have to wait and see how the other teams handled theirs.

We didn't get any ID on which spartan it was, so its not certain it is Master Cheif... and given its supposed to be a sniping mission, It could well be Linda (yeah, I read some of the tie-ins)
 

Vrex360

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It could be worse I admit, and I am cautiously optimistic but ultimatley I am not expecting too much which is a shame because it could be epic.

VERY LATE EDIT: Having now seen it properly (my internet is terrible right now) I can now say that it is still very clearly anime with the funny hair and occasional animation issues. To be honest the character models remind me of a cross between Miyazaki and Bleach in some sense and yes the ODST is kind of annoying but I still do like anime (not a fanatic but still) and I gotta admit it does capture the mood. Got the theme, the aliens are present... granted not prefect representations of who they are supposed to be (also where the hell are the elites?) but the grunts at least look descent, I just hope they do a fair job and show some of the Covenant's perspective.
I still think it's too early to judge, I mean putting it all together we get roughly four minutes of footage and I think it's still too early to tell. There are notable flaws that as both a Halo fan and a critic I can notice but other than that I think we are looking at a descent series which is really all I can hope for. It may well turn out to be an epic masterpiece of a series and even if it doesn't and turns out to be a massive failure so great is causes my testicles to shrivel up it still won't effect my enjoyment of Halo as a whole.
So I say wait and see, it so far looks good. I was grateful to see it use the music and it captured the feel of the franchise. I don't know about Spartans fighting like Goku or ODST's with Spiky red hair or Brutes with biker beards larger than what they were presented in the games. But I still think this could prove an enjoyable romp. Guess we'll find out, huh?
 

Sixties Spidey

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Then again... I do hope there is a button to assassinate a grunt in Halo Reach to suffocate a grunt, then shove a knife in his neck.
 

Sixties Spidey

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Vrex360 said:
It could be worse I admit, and I am cautiously optimistic but ultimatley I am not expecting too much which is a shame because it could be epic.
I'm willing to bet if there are Elites in Halo Legends, you'd probably watch it in a heart beat, right?
 

Sixties Spidey

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Looks cool, I'd like to see more action with multiple squads of the Covenant. But man. That was one hilarious fight with the Brute. If only I can do THAT in the games rather than just ***** slapping them with the melee attack.
 

iJosh

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Aweeesome. Going to watch it tonight for sure !!
Looks like it'll be pretty interesting.
 
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Wasn't too impressed with the art style used, and the spartan combat scene was very japanese anime infulenced, i think it should be more guns and less hand to hand combat.
 

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Machines Are Us said:
Part 1: I am disappointed already. The voice acting of the soldiers is awful, so is the animation. The ships animation looked good.

The ODST soldier is a prick and reminds me of Nero in DMC4, not the type of guy who'd be a Marine, especially not an elite one. He also looks like a JRPG character as no way would the military allow that kind of hair.

Part 2: Not much to say as practically nothing is seen. The Brute and grunts didn't look very well drawn though. Generally speaking the animation seemed poor.

Part 3: What. The. Fuck. Why is Master Chief fighting like he's in a JRPG?

The teaser trailer made it seem ten times better than this.
said it all, I realy thought that was absolute shite, is this just a pilot or is it actually going to be this japanese?
 

Vrex360

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buy teh haloz said:
Vrex360 said:
It could be worse I admit, and I am cautiously optimistic but ultimatley I am not expecting too much which is a shame because it could be epic.
I'm willing to bet if there are Elites in Halo Legends, you'd probably watch it in a heart beat, right?
Awwwwww the people on the Escapist know me like the back of their hand :)
 

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buy teh haloz said:
Then again... I do hope there is a button to assassinate a grunt in Halo Reach to suffocate a grunt, then shove a knife in his neck.
A bit of Overkill you know?

Its like, you kill him, but then you stab him for no reason.
 

Nieroshai

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I'm pretty sure this was scrapped. I checked Wikipedia and, while they're not the MOST credible source, they do usually have the most recent game news.
 

Stalk3rchief

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Well, as an anime fan this has be appalled. The voice acting is utter shit, the animation is lacking, and it's overall silly.
But
I'm going to pirate it and watch it. If I like it, I'll but it. If not I'll simply wipe it from my drives and add it to the over-rated pile of shit that is the Halo universe.
 

ChromeAlchemist

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Meh, colour me interested.

It's a fucking anime. Granted considering this is a franchise owned by Microsoft, they could have done it a lot better in terms of voice acting and animation, but oh well. Did you honestly think you were going to see nothing but grizzled space marines?