Bungie released the original Halo in 2001 for Microsoft's original Xbox, and the hits haven't stopped coming: first Halo 2, then Halo 3, then Halo Wars (developed not by Bungie, but by Ensemble Studios), Halo 3: ODST and now, finally, Halo: Reach. Though there's no way to know if Halo: Reach will break any sales records, it's a sure bet to be one of the biggest sellers of 2010 and will give Microsoft yet another exclusive title to tout when it promotes the Xbox 360-none of the Halo games is available on Sony's PlayStation or Nintendo's Wii consoles.īut Halo: Reach didn't come out of nowhere.
Around the country, thousands of people have lined up to be among the first to buy a copy, and you can bet that there will be no small number of people calling in "sick" to work or school on Tuesday after having spent the night in front of their Xboxes. Sorry, I’m still not over it yet.If you're reading this, that means that Halo: Reach, the fifth iteration in Bungie's multibillion-dollar video game franchise is finally for sale. It’s some seriously cool stuff.Įven if “Cortana” was a horrible level. If you’re a fan of the Halo series, like videogame concept art, or just enjoy looking at pretty pictures, you can check out all of Isaac Hannaford’s Halo 3 concept art via the “Halo 3” tag on his blog. That’s what happens when you stick a seven-foot super soldier into power armor, I guess. As he says, the sketch does an excellent job at putting the Master Chief’s superhuman size into context – just look at how he’s towering over all of those regular UNSC marines.
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I’m a pretty big fan of the picture you see here to the right, which was one of the early concepts for the Halo 3 manual cover, says Hannaford. Video Games / and Mobile Background, Awesome Halo 3 HD wallpaper 1920x1080px - Halo-3-CORTANA-chapter-16-MASTER-CHIEF. Some of them were intended for use on the game’s manual or tie-in novels and comic books, but for some reason or another never made the cut. (previous page) ( next page) Concept-H3-Sierra-Kilimanjaro.jpg 1,350 × 2,400 1.43 MB Early Falcon Concept.jpg 2,048 × 1,029 429 KB Enc22 T36Scarab. There is some exploratory concept work regarding the game’s environments (and now I’m having flashbacks to “Cortana,” a strong contender for the worst level in the entire Halo series), but for the most part it’s just cool sketches and action shots of the game’s cast. Media in category 'Halo 3 concept art' The following 200 files are in this category, out of 266 total. Now, many of these pieces aren’t “concept art” as we think of it: By the time Halo 3 rolled around, everybody already knew what the Master Chief, Cortana and the Covenant looked like. So I think it’s completely understandable that I find the Halo 3 pieces being posted on the blog of artist Isaac Hannaford pretty darn sweet.
I also have made no secret of the fact that I’m a pretty big fan of Bungie’s Halo franchise. I love seeing how the cool worlds of gaming and the characters that inhabit them came into being. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m a huge sucker for concept art as a general rule of thumb. Halo Franchise - Master Chief Essentially A Starship. Before there was Halo 3, there was the Halo 3 concept art. And Im not even gonna talk about Capri shorts and flame hat Mario.
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