BlackStar Productions has mirrored the large QuickTime version of the Halo 2 Trailer.
You're undoubtedly downloading the Halo 2 trailer by this time, but while you're waiting head over to bungie.net and read the spiffy new Making The Halo 2 Trailer (Part 1) article.
The Halo 2 Trailer is finally out, and we've got it right here at Rampancy. It's available in two QuickTime 6 versions: a large, 27 Mb file and a smaller 17 Mb version.
They are optimized for playback under QT6 on OS X. They should play under other software versions (OS 9, QT 5) but in this environment there may be problems with full screen playback (so-called present mode).
The small version is 320x192 (doubled), 15 fps, with 16 bit, 96kbps MP3 audio.
The large version is 480x288, 29.97 fps with 16 bit, 128kbps MP3 audio.
Both trailers are also available at RHL.
Thanks to Louis Wu who provided the upload.
The announcement trailer for Halo 2, first shown at the X02 event. This video shows graphic quality higher than that of the shipping Halo 2 game or cutscenes.
Well, now that the fateful day has come, there are a scant handful hours before the release of the Halo 2 Trailer. Exactly when and where? No one has yet said. Xbox.com seems a good bet, as they were the first site to put up a countdown. Bungie.net also seems like a likely candidate.
As for exactly when, Matt Soell dropped a trail of breadcrumbs for the faithful over in the HBO forum:
No, it doesn't come out at midnight. Get some sleep.Sleep in, read the paper over a leisurely brunch, run some errands. You'll have time.
Depending on your time zone, you might even be able to squeeze dinner in.
Assume I'm indulging the Ugly American tendency to ignore the rest of the world.
Excluding the parts harboring terrorists, that is. We assume that last remark is in regard to what time zone Matt was expecting people to have dinner in.And before anyone asks, no, getting on an eastbound jet liner to try and speed up time won't work. We've tried it. Here at rampancy, we're already eleven hours in the future and the trailer's still not out.
With three days left until the Halo 2 Trailer, Matt Soell dropped into the HBO forum to add his sheckel and a half to a thread about it. He proffered:
Every so often we do something that makes me really, really proud to work at Bungie, and the Halo 2 trailer is one of those things.
Three more days... three more days...
Newly recruited Bungie.net reporter Mnemesis has written up a report in the HBO forum from the HNC Finals... where the Halo 2 Trailer was shown.
While the trailer itself has been written about numerous times already, he does add a few impressions of his own:
The Earth is shown both directly and in the background, and I can say for sure that Earth is definitely being glassed. Huge shockwaves repeatedly burst on the surface. Aside from the lighting, which has been drooled over already, there is a depth-of-field focus element to the game that looks absolutely awesome.
Alas, there's no shaky, low-quality handycam footage; his camera's batteries were charging while the trailer was playing. So, back to your regularly scheduled hurry up and wait for four more days...
