Bungie: Special Halo 3 surprise before launch

by Dustin Burg { Sep 19th 2007 at 2:45PM }

Over on the NeoGAF forums, Bungie's own new kid on the block Luke Smith commented about the company's plans leading up to the release of Halo 3. Smith mentioned that Bungie will be releasing information on matchmaking, a few how to guides, some Forge talk, a tour of Bungie.net and a special two hour podcast will be released too. But then Luke messes with our heads mentioning that Bungie will reveal a "long awaited pre-launch surprise" sometime before September 25th. How dare he dangle such a large carrot in front of us.

So guys, what could the long awaited surprise be? We don't want to get our hopes up too much seeing that we pretty much know all there is about Halo 3, but we're thinking it may something to do with the community, the website or a future project. We give you permission to put on your speculation caps and share your thoughts. What could Bungie's surprise be? Speculate ... NOW!

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Tags: bungie, bungie-studios, halo3

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

dan @ Sep 19th 2007 2:48PM

Um, Dash update for clan support?

Tr3y MoNey @ Sep 19th 2007 2:50PM

Maybe it's Halo 3 Shaped Candy Corn from Brachs, the worldwide leader in candy corn Flava! It's that time of the year!!! So Bungie/Microsoft have found YET ANOTHER way of marketing. Trick or treat biatches!

phantomgrave @ Sep 19th 2007 2:50PM

Ahhhhhhh! The suspense! D:

Landon @ Sep 19th 2007 2:53PM

I think it's clearly clan support. But it will come in the form of the Fall update.

BrianM @ Sep 19th 2007 2:51PM

Halo 3 for the Wii

Tr3y MoNey @ Sep 19th 2007 2:51PM

......Or it could be what Dan said. But hopefully it's the Candy Corn. God I LOVE IT!

David Lee @ Sep 19th 2007 2:52PM

Halo 3 for the Ps3! *yeah right*

maskofskin @ Sep 19th 2007 2:53PM

Halo 3 Theme DLC for Guitar Hero II!

Tony Bowman @ Sep 19th 2007 2:54PM

Demo/beta for Halo Wars, and possibly a release date?

Dashboard clan support is also on the table, I think.

Rodney @ Sep 19th 2007 2:53PM

Master Chief under-roo's!

herfy @ Sep 19th 2007 2:54PM

Could it be free xbox live gold for everybody? That would be awesome

x silence x @ Sep 19th 2007 2:56PM

I'm going with the clan support as well.

Jim Halpert DM @ Sep 19th 2007 2:56PM

Yeah, I'm with you guys. Wouldn't it be great if the fall update with clan support was released the day before Halo 3's release. That would be Monday. The perfect pre-launch surprise.

Hidesquadron1 @ Sep 19th 2007 2:58PM

I'm going to take a creative stab and suggest that the game somehow can allow you to play on former multiplayer maps by way of disc swap. go to options menu -> input old halo game, -> save maps to HD -> play with halo 3 engine. (don't forget those halo 2 ass-on maps are already on the HD)

I guess it's possible.
But don't sign your first born away for it.

hiiro @ Sep 19th 2007 2:58PM

Your choice of a free real life Ghost or Brute Chopper. Complete with Spartan helmet to ride around legally.

Jonah Falcon @ Sep 19th 2007 2:59PM

The big surprise:

MASTER CHIEF IS REAL! :o

TJ @ Sep 19th 2007 3:02PM

I couldnt care less about clan support. I dispise clans in any game! Ive been wondering if they would surprise everyone and make Halo 3 on Vista with cross-platform play......?

Mark @ Sep 19th 2007 3:02PM

I hope it's info on peter jackson's new Halo game. (Crosses fingers for MMO)

hotdogsplinter @ Sep 19th 2007 3:01PM

actually, for the first 3 days of halo3's release, EVERYONE will have xbox live gold. one of their little marketing plans to get people to say, "hey, this is pretty cool. i'll shell out $50 bucks a year for this."

wasn't there an article saying that clan support was coming anyway?

TORO @ Sep 19th 2007 3:05PM

Clan support FTW! Hmm we gotta start thinkin of a clan name...

Kizzle @ Sep 19th 2007 3:06PM

Is the surprise that people are already getting the game?

Casey @ Sep 19th 2007 4:10PM

I'm suprised no one has mentioned this yet but we might see more footage of the live action Halo videos. Possibly one where Master Chief is introduced. A Halo Wars demo also sounds possible as well as a Halo MMO. I am very hopeful about a project like that as I believe there is a ton of story they could provide.

However, I'll bet it's going to be clan support. Not really much of a huge announcement but oh well.

un1qu3 n3wy0rk @ Sep 19th 2007 3:10PM

The Halo 3 movie is back on track.

I hope.

Myles @ Sep 19th 2007 3:10PM

I think it will be clan support.

Anticrawl @ Sep 19th 2007 3:12PM

With the "long awaited" part in their comment it can't be anything but a dashboard update to add a clan blade for clan support organized in one place.

Loaded Gun @ Sep 19th 2007 3:14PM

Clan support is already available. There is an article about it already.

Pencil Shavings @ Sep 19th 2007 3:15PM

Halo 4 coming to Playstation 3?

Kamal @ Sep 19th 2007 3:15PM

The Peter Jackson Halo Project.

Chris @ Sep 19th 2007 3:17PM

saved films viewable on Bungie.net!

Porkfist @ Sep 19th 2007 6:40PM

I think Bungie accidentally found the cure for male pattern baldness when coding Halo 3

Hans Rojas @ Sep 19th 2007 8:46PM

Halo: Wii port confirmed
But Clan support is probably it

Alex B @ Sep 19th 2007 3:19PM

No on clan support (that would be Microsoft's big announcement, NOT Bungie's)

No on Halo 4

No on Cross platform (WAAAAAY too big to announce that so close to release, also it would have been leaked. Unless they release it like 6 months from now, then it may be possible)

Could be HD versions of maps (highly unlikely, but would be AWESOME)

Who knows what it could be, but it aint any of these!