X3F TV: Video analysis of Bungie's Keep It Clean teaser
by Richard Mitchell 
{ Sep 25th 2008 at 12:23PM }
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
kyle @ Sep 25th 2008 12:29PM
1st
david @ Sep 25th 2008 12:32PM
if you're going for 1st douchebag, you win.
JohnWayne506th @ Sep 25th 2008 12:32PM
the last pod isnt a ODST drop pod if you go frame by frame it clearly has a windshield which the drop pods do not. it looks more like the lifeboat from halo 1 that you crash in.
Richard Mitchell @ Sep 25th 2008 12:46PM
Good call. I knew it had a windshield, but I didn't connect that pods don't have those... interesting.
david @ Sep 25th 2008 2:04PM
if you pause it at ~24 seconds you can see another pod and it appears to have the same window as the pod at the end.
Could it be that they just look a bit different?
Ryan @ Sep 25th 2008 2:15PM
I agree with David, while it looks like the last one has a windshield, so do all the rest. So either they're all ODST drop pods, or all something else. . .but the last one is the same as the ones coming in during the blast.
Richard Mitchell @ Sep 25th 2008 3:12PM
Vindicated!
tom @ Sep 25th 2008 3:59PM
ermm wheres maddie is far too controversial
uk people will know what i mean
Highimpact1 @ Sep 25th 2008 12:37PM
Hmmm I'm going with that last drop pod being a spartain, although I would love it to be a ODST. GREAT Video analysis guys, I'm an extreme fanboy and I didn't pick up on being able to see Truth's ship in the first scene & the date in those cyptic messages.
YEEEAAAHH Can't wait!
Jayslacks @ Sep 25th 2008 12:43PM
Nice job, guys. I welcome a new expansion. There are tons of stories worth telling in the Halo universe. But, how much is it going to cost?
Ball3rAvery33 @ Sep 25th 2008 12:44PM
MasterChief-"wake me when you need me".
Cortana- "Um chief uhh you gotta wake up the ODST'S just landed on a city and are taking over they need you!"
MasterChief-"Damn I just went to sleep can these people do anything on there own?!"
lol good news so once we beat this add on there will be an ending that is going to lead on to Halo 4!
david @ Sep 25th 2008 1:01PM
Hate to burst your bubble, but it looks like this game is going to take place between Halo 2 and Halo 3. It might make it through the end of Halo 3.
As for the person who suggested another Spartan...
I say no thanks. MC is THE Spartan. Adding another that you play would diminish his role as the main protagonist in the Halo series.
Playing as a human ODST would be a much better game as it would give a new perspective on fighting the covenant. A much larger sense of struggle.
Lunitsond @ Sep 25th 2008 1:18PM
David, you don't know anything about Halo. If you would have read the books you would know that John is not the only Spartan, he is simply one of many. There are at least five other Spartans still alive inside of the planet Onyx plus four others that were missing on a mission. There is a good possibility that the main character on this is one of those other four Spartans.
david @ Sep 25th 2008 1:35PM
Lunitsond,
Thanks for assuming I know nothing or that I have not read the books.
I was not implying that he is the only Spartan, simply that he is the Spartan that the games surround. Adding another spartan, as an expansion would be incredibly stupid. So much story has to go with the other Spartan that it'd be hard to achieve that with an expansion. Not to mention there was NO talk of another Spartan when MC returned from Delta Halo on the Ark. You would think that when MC landed on earth he would have heard about another Spartan.
I am interjecting my opinion, take it or leave it.
Doug @ Sep 25th 2008 12:44PM
I love games & the gaming community, but for the love of everything that's worthy of our time...
Is this video really worth all this analysis? This is like Shatner at a Star Trek convention here.
Don't get me wrong, yes, mystery, sure... but this is a shred of a mystery yet to be revealed.
All you're doing is telling Bungie, "go ahead, yank the chain, we will post 5 articles about it."
AoE @ Sep 25th 2008 2:05PM
Dude, please look in the address bar of your web-browser. Notice the part after "xbox360" and before the ".com"? That's the bit that totally justifies this kind of content.
Doug @ Sep 25th 2008 6:22PM
I hear what you're saying. Yes, this is a fanboy site.
I thought I was, but need more data to get excited. Never was a big mystery fan, I guess.
Hawk @ Sep 25th 2008 12:52PM
you missed the "Flood Zone" text when the thing reinitializes though, even if you found the Maddie thing :) I think "flood zone" might be a more important clue.
Richard Mitchell @ Sep 25th 2008 1:01PM
I get the feeling that was just a cheeky joke. I could be wrong though...
david @ Sep 25th 2008 1:05PM
The flood does not reach earth until the events of Halo 3. Not to say you won't see it in the game, but keep in mind that the 'superintendent' is most likely the AI for New Mombasa, and he is throwing up random warnings, etc. Flood zone means flood zone (think water).
It was put in there for a reason, don't get me wrong, but given when this event takes place, I'd be very surprised if this expansion has The Flood (not water) in it.
Kryptinite @ Sep 25th 2008 1:02PM
Great job guys!
I was waiting to see who would put this out first. Thank God for twitter.
Saturn118 @ Sep 25th 2008 1:06PM
Maddie (Madeline McCann) is a 5 year old girl from England who went missing over a year ago during a holiday in Portugal.
Brian @ Sep 25th 2008 1:43PM
shut up
That has nothing to do with halo 3
Saturn118 @ Sep 25th 2008 2:02PM
I'm just letting people know what the "Maddie, where are you?" means.
P.S You shut up
Xav de Matos @ Sep 25th 2008 4:50PM
I doubt there's a relation.
G @ Sep 29th 2008 6:49AM
Im fairly certain that what the maddie refference is. Lets face it the halo 2 trailer had the ilovebees.com address appear in it... Doesnt have to be anything to do with Halo.
kdubbb @ Sep 25th 2008 1:11PM
Great stuff Richard (and the rest of the X3F staff!)!
My question is: what does the presence of the Prophet of Regret signify? Is this before or after he dies? Before or after the Gravemind dies?
Very interesting. Damn it, now I have to play Halo 1/2/3 again and finish reading Contact Harvest.
jport1975 @ Sep 26th 2008 8:11PM
The graphics also do not look like genuine Bungie, is this a colaboration with MGS and someone else along with Bungie?
diamondxp @ Sep 25th 2008 1:42PM
It seems to me the sup (superintendent) is an AI like Cortana that is malfunctioning. That why we get all the messages flashed. It Looks like there is still more to do in good ol New Mombasa. I have a sneaky feeling this is another take on what was going on in new mombasa when all hell broke loose. Could they be reinforcements for Master Chief? If thats is the case I would not hold out hope for another spartan. This may be a squad based game that has been circulating in rumors since Halo:CE. A squad of ODST Hell Jumpers. My Best guess anyway.
david @ Sep 25th 2008 1:48PM
Good post, agree 99%
Except I don't think they are reinforcements for MC as he leaves in that explosion (that was Regret's ship that jumped in the city from the Halo 2 cut scene)
I think they are ODST's that are coming into the city to hold off the Covenant assault.
DarkNoise @ Sep 27th 2008 7:18PM
There are various pieces of text within the trailer of interest.
"DANGER: FLOOD ZONE"
"ACTIVATING SUBREUTINE "VERGIL". WARNING: DATA LEAK ON LEVEL 9"
And in the bottom right corner towards the end of the video:
"ACTION CAPTURE>> ON 01.06.09"
Optimus051 @ Sep 25th 2008 1:53PM
The Maddie, where are you thing is a referance to Madelline Mcann the girl who got lost in portugal. Remebber her? Her parents got paid all that money for no reason? Me niether. Any way thats what i think it is.
jax sedrin @ Sep 25th 2008 2:26PM
I remember reading about a lot of the similarities between the Halo storyline and the original Marathon storyline. Taking a cue from that, maybe Superintendent is achieving rampancy (like Tycho did)?
And maybe the ODST troops are dropping in to shut it down...
Bluemanrule @ Sep 25th 2008 2:27PM
I played about 15 minutes of Halo 1 and watched a great Youtube of the series summary through Halo 3 but this is kind of exciting. It makes me want to pick up Halo 3 now.
typeusername @ Sep 25th 2008 3:54PM
Agreed, definitively makes Halo more interesting/in depth. I love all the science fiction in Halo and its comparisons to real-life. Anyway, Can't wait for "it" to be done. Thanks X3F
BFBeast666 @ Sep 25th 2008 3:22PM
So, how many Bungie-related news post today?
Come on, open up "www.bungiefetishfanboy.com" or condense that all into ONE newspost.
As if Bungie made the holy grail of gaming or something. OVERRATED.
david @ Sep 25th 2008 4:30PM
Please keep in mind that the world does not revolve around you. I'm hoping that you are a fairly young person who doesn't understand yet that people are allowed to have differing views and like different things.
Halo is a pretty popular game (outside you're perfect world) and people tend to like it quite a bit. So, when there is a new announcement, it will get a lot of attention.
typeusername @ Sep 25th 2008 4:57PM
Stay out of post you don't like to see..
"If your scared of heights and decide to drive over a bridge, don't blame the bridge"
GeoNeo @ Sep 25th 2008 3:55PM
Could the halo 3 expansion be halo blue?
Play as blue team Spartans 104, 058 and 043 dropped in after the master chief jumped away and half of New Mombasa was destroyed?.
IV DemonJ @ Sep 25th 2008 3:50PM
With regards to this Maddie thing, remember Mombasa is a spralling city how do you know that this load up screen isnt a objective screen for a trooper looking for someone or a relative perhaps, daughter/ambassador/wife?
And mombasa cant be a warzone because Regrets ship left with the baddies, so there must something else lurking the streets surely?
Cr4sh Dummy @ Sep 25th 2008 3:52PM
That's a good theory diamondxp, perhaps the ODSTs are sent there to shut down the Superintendent, an AI with rampancy and neutralize an Covenant forces.
Great video X3F.
john paul @ Sep 25th 2008 4:44PM
Hope they make an Orange Box-ish expansion, with a portal kind of game with the superintendent ;)
Jacob @ Sep 25th 2008 5:07PM
What if this is New Mombassa after Halo 3, and it has been rebuilt. And, on the planet Onyx Covenant forces have been slowly rebuilding. We never knew this because weve been looking for Chief and Cortanna.
Now, the Covenant is once again attacking Earth..but, one they see what a massive force we have they jump to slipspace again.
And the one in the final dropship is actually the Chief...Cortanna recieved through radio that Earth is under attack and led them back home.
T-man @ Sep 26th 2008 12:21AM
looks Exciting Can't wait.. but is their anything else on this Badass Expansion?
Bryce @ Sep 25th 2008 7:57PM
Cortana could not possibly bring MC back to earth because they're on half of a ship that is stranded "2^18 light-yrs from galactic center".
Rick @ Sep 25th 2008 10:31PM
Great Analysis, but lets go further. First though, lets assume Bungie spent more than a couple hours slapping some clips together. I bet anything they carefully edited EVERYTHING.
Oh, and these arent in any specific order. Hopefully that will get you to look at everything a second time.
1. The clip showing the dropping pods shows a very wide spread. Not normal for regular drops. Could indicate an original launch from much further. Also, how the pods were burning was not consistent with low orbit drops. (Maybe the windows and physical appearance could indicate a craft more worthy of space travel)
2. Google Traxus. Seriously, Google it. Then find it on one of the foreground buildings 7 seconds in.
3. The lines from our sup (AI) can be seen along the side of the display before the explosion. It has obviously been working alot lately.
4. Furthermore, look at the symbol in the upper right. It changes from open eyes, to squinty/questioning, to sad. Our AI is sad for the blast (obviously a slip jump, notice the EMP Trip on the bottom during the explosion), but probably not rampant.
5. When the AI is panning up to the pods, along the bottom the AI flashes "Threshold Triggered" "Auth. Inq." and "Auth. Neg." Those pods arent supposed to be there. At least according to our AI, who, in previous Bungie posts, seemed to be requesting help.
6. Whats with the quick clip of pod w/ the deploying chute? Thats not on a building, but its up in the air. Also, whats with the writing in the corner, only time we see "Maradara"
7. Most importantly, when the pods are falling, in the lower left, there is a statement: "Data leak on level 9!" It is right under "Activating subroutine: Vergil". Time to reply all Level 9's? I doubt it, although TU2 might have added something. The way I see it, this is a very important clue. Its flashed everywhere many times, most importantly right at the end under "Microsoft Studios." Its subtle, but important subtle.
Anyways, thats my 2 (thousand) cents. Any thoughts?
Rick @ Sep 25th 2008 10:36PM
Great Analysis, but lets go further. First though, lets assume Bungie spent more than a couple hours slapping some clips together. I bet anything they carefully edited EVERYTHING.
Oh, and these arent in any specific order. Hopefully that will get you to look at everything a second time.
1. The clip showing the dropping pods shows a very wide spread. Not normal for regular drops. Could indicate an original launch from much further. Also, how the pods were burning was not consistent with low orbit drops. (Maybe the windows and physical appearance could indicate a craft more worthy of space travel)
2. Google Traxus. Seriously, Google it. Then find it on one of the foreground buildings 7 seconds in.
3. The lines from our sup (AI) can be seen along the side of the display before the explosion. It has obviously been working alot lately.
4. Furthermore, look at the symbol in the upper right. It changes from open eyes, to squinty/questioning, to sad. Our AI is sad for the blast (obviously a slip jump, notice the EMP Trip on the bottom during the explosion), but probably not rampant.
5. When the AI is panning up to the pods, along the bottom the AI flashes "Threshold Triggered" "Auth. Inq." and "Auth. Neg." Those pods arent supposed to be there. At least according to our AI, who, in previous Bungie posts, seemed to be requesting help.
6. Whats with the quick clip of pod w/ the deploying chute? Thats not on a building, but its up in the air. Also, whats with the writing in the corner, only time we see "Maradara"
7. Most importantly, when the pods are falling, in the lower left, there is a statement: "Data leak on level 9!" It is right under "Activating subroutine: Vergil". Time to reply all Level 9's? I doubt it, although TU2 might have added something. The way I see it, this is a very important clue. Its flashed everywhere many times, most importantly right at the end under "Microsoft Studios." Its subtle, but important subtle.
Anyways, thats my 2 (thousand) cents. Any thoughts?
Dean @ Oct 1st 2008 2:42PM
If you guys remember there was a video put out in halo 2 limited edition where it was taken place in New Mombasa with the osdt's and the marines. I think this might be the short video made into a game.
Eric @ Sep 25th 2008 11:33PM
If you notice when the drop pods are coming into the city right before the explosion you see a zoomed in view of them. There just happens to be 16 flying off in a different direction from the rest. Maybe 16 member squad or maybe but very unlikely 16 player co-op which would be gods gift to man if it was lag free.
caltex @ Sep 26th 2008 8:10AM
hey sweat analysis. u might hav already seen it but it just wasn't in the vid. at about 13 seconds into the halo 3- keep it clean trailer, bottom right hand corner, under the 16:11:13:06 or what ever it is, it says "SIERRA117 LOK LINK" obviously "SIERRA117" is the chief but i don't know wat 2 make of it? just throwing it out there.