The entire Halo 5: Guardians Panel at SDCC 2015 is now finally available to watch! The panel provides insight into the Halo 5 Campaign and Hunt the Truth Season 2 Announced.
Recorded Friday, July 10th 2015.
Halo SDCC Videos Mentioned
Halo: The Fall of Reach – The Animated Series Trailer
Halo 5: Guardians ViDoc – “A Hero Reborn”
Halo 5: Guardians “A Hero Reborn” ViDoc Breakdown – Campaign, Weapons, Vehicles
In this video I breakdown all the new footage found in the new “A Hero Reborn” ViDoc by 343 Industries for Halo 5: Guardians (release at SDCC 2015). Story, characters, vehicles, vehicle skins, weapons, weapon variants, locations, secret areas, and more are revealed in this footage.
Experience the debut trailer for Halo: The Fall of Reach – The Animated Series. This three-act series tells the oft-shrouded origin stories of the SPARTAN-II program. Set during events both before and after the terrifying Covenant attack on humanity, the story will introduce viewers to the members of Blue Team and allow them to witness the pivotal moments that forged the legendary squad’s legacy.
Halo: The Fall of Reach Animated Series is included with purchase of the Halo: 5 Guardians Limited and Limited Collector’s Edition. Individual purchase of the series will be available a week after Halo 5 launches.
343 Industries announced yesterday via Twitter that they would release a new 12 minute long ViDoc for Halo 5: Guardians on IGN as part of San Diego Comic Con. This ViDoc, “A Hero Reborn”, gives us a look behind-the-scenes at Halo 5: Guardians and the development process as 343 Industries looks and plans to tell the biggest Master Chief story yet.
Today is the first day of SDCC and with it a new Warzone map was revealed by 343 Industries and Mega Bloks. Yup that’s right, Mega Bloks. The map is called “Raid on Apex 7” and it’s the biggest Warzone map revealed so far… which is interesting… since we’ve only seen one before. Regardless, judging from the size and scale of the mega bloks set, it does look massive.
They spent 16 weeks building the map; it’s made up of roughly more than 89,000 blocks and weighs half a ton.
The map, Raid on Apex 7, is a based off the Halo: Combat Evolve campaign mission “The Silent Cartographer”. This is the second of the six Warzone maps that will be available at launch; the map revealed at E3 was called Escape from ARC. There will be an additional six Warzone maps released for free between launch and June 2016. Here’s the official description for the map.
“Clearing out the initial Covenant threats and controlling the Forerunner Spire in the center of the island is paramount to a team’s success and provides a central base of operations. If your team loses the Spire, don’t despair; players can use a system of caves or take to the beach to flank the base. Beware of the Covenant though, for they will not let you take this island so easily. They will counterattack and fight to retake their territory. Continue the push for control of the island and take out the opposition’s core… before you awaken something much worse.”
Check out the Mega bloks set over on Gamespot
The Halo: The Master Chief Collection Developer Panel from San Diego Comic-Con 2014.
Check out exclusive look at Halo: The Master Chief Collection, with a behind-the-scenes before and after video of the incredible work Blur Studio is doing to bring Halo 2: Anniversary cinematics to new life, and also learn about another map that you’ll see re-mastered and reimagined in Halo 2: Anniversary as part of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Get ready to spend some time this November in sandy, sunny Zanzibar!
Halo: The Master Chief Collection is available only for Xbox One this November!
Panelists:
Andy “Bravo” Dudynsky, Halo Community Manager
Dennis Ries, Senior Producer on Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Frank O’Connor, Halo Franchise Development Director
Max Hoberman, President at Certain Affinity
Franck Balson, Director at Blur Studio
The panel is one hour long but if you want a recap click here!
Also checkout the Halo: Nightfall SDCC panel
343 shared a ton of new info in our Halo: Nightfall panel at San Diego Comic-Con this year. Geoff Knighley welcomed Executive Producer Kiki Wolfkill, Franchise Development Director Frank O’Connor, Scott Free Productions President David Zucker and two of the stars of Halo: Nightfall, Mike Colter and Christina Chong, to talk about the digital series with a packed crowd of fans.
The panel is one hour long but if you want the recap of the new information click here!
Also checkout the Halo: Master Chief Collection Dev Panel here.
343 Industries announced at San Diego Comic Con that Zanzibar will be remastered for Halo 2 Anniversary in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. They also revealed a trailer for Halo 2 Anniversary’s cinematics by Blur Studio!
Zanzibar will be one of the 6 re-imagined Halo 2 maps. Zanzibar joins Ascension and Coagulation as the 3 maps confirmed so far. So to clarify, these 3 maps will have 2 playable versions: original in Halo 2 classic multiplayer and remastered in Halo 2 Anniversary multiplayer.
Take a first look at the overhauled Halo 2: Anniversary cut-scenes in this trailer from Blur Studio. Included in Halo: The Master Chief Collection as part of Halo 2: Anniversary, the cut-scenes immerse fans into the critically acclaimed story and complement fully the re-mastered campaign gameplay.
In addition to Halo 2: Anniversary celebrating its 10th Anniversary, Halo: The Master Chief Collection also features Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 3, Halo 4, Halo: Nightfall, and access to the Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta. This is the definitive Halo experience, coming November 11, 2014.
Nerdist just announced that you can win a Halo: The Master Chief Collection exclusive Xbox One console at SDCC 2014. This is an exclusive to those who attend the convention, hopefully this will generate interest for creating limited edition Halo Xbox One consoles for either Halo: The Master Chief Collection or Halo 5: Guardians.
343 Industries will also reveal details at Comic Con about Halo: Nightfall and Halo: The Master Chief Collection at each of their respective panels.
Halo: Nightfall First-Look
Thursday, July 24, 11:45AM – 12:45PM, Room 6BCF
Prepare for your next step in the Halo Journey with a deep-dive into Halo: Nightfall, the upcoming live-action digital series from 343 Industries and Scott Free Productions. Join 343’sKiki Wolfkill (Executive Producer), Frank O’Connor (Franchise Development Director) along with key Halo: Nightfall cast and crew, and be among the first to get the details of the story and production.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection Developer Panel
Friday, July 25, 10:15AM – 11:15AM, Room 6BCF
Join 343 Industries’ Senior Producer, Dennis Ries, and Franchise Director, Frank O’Connor, Certain Affinity’s President and original Halo 2 multiplayer and online design lead, Max Hoberman, and other guests for an in-depth conversation about Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Fans can hear about what to expect from the highly anticipated compilation and discuss the efforts being made to bring the story of the Master Chief and Halo’s legendary multiplayer to a new generation.
Sources:
Chief Canuck - Video Game News 