Halo Triple Trailer Reaction: Believe, ODST, and Deliver Hope 

The old halo's did such a fantastic job of storytelling without saying a word. The last one always had such a lasting and powerful effect

That ODST trailer has always stuck with me. Felt very raw and real.

Unfortunately the Spartan at the end of the last trailer doesn't make it out. That's actually part of the game's story. Your character is his replacement.

"Remember Reach." "Cadia still stands." Probably the two best phrases for two fictional worlds that fell in their respective medias.

Halo Reach is liquid nostalgia.

In the last trailer, the one for Halo: REACH, The soldier in blue who gets injured is a female Spartan named Kat. She was supposed to deliver that bomb but obviously didn’t. The one who did was her teammate and he died. In the game Halo:REACH you play the character who is sent to replace the lost team member. Kat has a specific dislike for you initially because of the shoes you’re trying to fill.

Remember Reach, damn those words hit hard. I know it’s a fictional universe but Reach was the jewel in the crown and it fell like any other planet.

So good to see new people enjoying the old Bungie Halo trailers.

I clicked on this just to make sure you watched the right ODST trailer, which you did. Interesting fact, the song playing in the ODST trailer was used in the opening scene of the 2017 movie King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. The Halo fans watching it in the cinemas were yelling out "ODST" and "feet first into hell" to the confusion of the non gamers. That trailer was so popular among gamers that it is regularly listed in the top ten game trailers.

The ODST trailer, Bungie brought in some of the people who did Band of Brothers to help/make the trailer.

You were right, the last trailer was a suicide mission. Worst part is, that soldier was pretty much trained just for those jobs. Spartans are the super soldiers of Halo, but they were created to police a bunch of overtaxed farmers, after being abducted from their homes at the age of 6 before undergoing a high mortality surgery at 14 to become those soldiers. But as the war with the Covenant began, suddenly they needed more mass produceable ones, ones that they could use to "trade lives for time." All of the heavily armored guys in the last trailer are war orphans on perpetual suicide missions.

Fun fact: The Halo Reach trailer is a canonical "prequel" to the game. As the player you are the replacement (sorry Beth) for that Spartan who did in fact die on that ship. You'll even meet the Spartan who was hit by the banshee and now has a prosthetic arm. I'd also recommend reacting to the trailer "Landfall", an 8 min canonical prequel to Halo 3. As far as playing the games, if you want the FULL Halo experience, you can do it in this order if you're that committed. 1. Halo Wars (RTS Game, you can just watch the cutscenes if you only want to stick to the first person shooter games.) 2. Halo: Reach 3. Halo: Combat Evolved 4. Halo 2 (Stopping after Mission "Metropolis") 5. Halo 3: ODST 6. Halo 2 (finish the game) 7. Halo 3 8. Halo 4 9. Halo 4's Spartan Ops mode 10. Halo 5 11. Halo Wars 2 (Cutscenes as well if you like)

Remember Reach. Those words really do hit hard. Reach is described as the crown jewel. Not counting Earth itself, Reach is the most important planet to humanity.

These were made around the time that games were trying really hard to be taken more seriously, and be seen as more than what people the stereotypically viewed them as. (Mid 2000s-early 2010s) Bungie did an incredible job, I think the Believe trailer has an extended version that takes the form of a documentary, and interview soldiers about the battle that we get a get a glimpse of in the diorama. If you guys are interested I’d recommend watching that in your down time. Also don’t worry too much about the order of the games, I’d say Reach and then the main trilogy are a good way to go.

"it´s better being lucky than good", that´s exactly why the main protagonist of the series won, apart from being a total badass.

Something about the old shooters like Halo and Gears of War had a quality about them. They weren't just interested in providing a good multiplayer experience, they also were trying to tell compelling and meaningful stories. Feel like a lot of modern shooters have lost that touch to them

Halo: The Master Chief Collection, includes all of the Halo campaigns and multiplayer's from Halo Combat Evolved (1) to Halo 4 and even has updated graphics for Halo's 1 and 2. You can also get DLC that includes the Halo 3 ODST's campaign and Halo Reach's campaign and multiplayer. If you are looking to get into Halo this is definitely the game I would recommend.

I love the ODST. They're probably the closest a regular human can get to being a Spartan.

Another halo ad you should check out is “Starry Night” no matter how many times I watch it I still get chills.

Fun facts of the Halo ODST Trailer: During the funeral and boot camp scenes the commands are given in Hungarian. The song in the background is Welsh. The lyrics to the song are: Gafflwn Dihenydd O’r fuddugol yn wiriol sydd, Ni fydd neb yn ein drechu, Falch ydy ni I drochu, Traed o flaen I’r Annwn, mewn y gwybodaeth fe godwn ni. English translation: “We cheat Death from his rightful victory. No one can defeat us, we are glad to plunge feet first into (Hell) Annwn< in the knowledge that we will rise.” A couple of points on the translation; There are a couple of Welsh words for “Death.” In this song the word used is Dihenydd, literally “The Ancient of Days” This is an old Welsh way of personifying death. Making death a person rather than an occurrence or a concept. Welsh also has two words for “hell” Uffern is the Christian hell, the one of fire and brimstone and eternal torment. The word used here is Annwn, the Celtic otherworld where we go when we leave the mortal world. For warriors who die bravely in battle it is similar to the halls of Odin or Valhalla in Germanic legend. Though Annwn is also a place of rest, joy and delight, for those of a less warlike nature or if you want to take a rest from war. It is a place of punishment for the wicked and in that context can be a grim and forbidding place. Either way, nobody stays there. Eventually we all once again, enter the Cauldron of rebirth. We know we shall rise again. Taken from: discover.hubpages.com/games-hobbies/Halo-3-ODST-Lyrics

The brilliance of Bungie’s Halo games (1-3, ODST and Reach) was the fact that they put you into the shoes of futuristic super soldiers fighting against colorful, funny looking aliens but they still managed to make you feel like you’re on a serious, last ditch effort in a real war to protect humanity from extinction.

The ODST trailer still gives me goosebumps.

That ODST hits, but that Reach trailer... hits right in the soul. That music tho 😥

ODST was definitely a big thing for Halo, since it was the first story where you weren't playing as Master Chief, the big green spartan soldier from the first 3 games. It managed to be a lot more personal, handling a team of very mortal and very expendable shock troopers. Reach, meanwhile, was a lot about sacrifice. Without spoiling much, Reach was a massive loss for Humanity because it was the closest the covenent had come to that point to reaching Earth. The spartans you played as and with in Reach knew they had to put the mission ahead of their lives. I'm sure every military movie and game has a degree of "self sacrifice" for the security of your people...but...Noble Team (the 6 spartans that make up the team in Halo: Reach) were all about ensuring the mission suceeded at any cost. Knowing the story and watching that trailer wells up so many emotions because you know that it's being real with you. It wasn't being teasing or trailer-bait to sell copies...Reach is about loss so that, in the end, Humanity doesn't die.

Having stood in front of Figure Diorama in battle field museums the video brings that unique feeling of hollowness and sadness. Having been the Marines and on deployment, the ODST trailer hits on a level that is difficult to describe.

If you were to play the Halo series, I personally recommend that you don't play it in chronological order. I highly recommend release order. Not only do you see how the series evolves over time, but a game like Halo: Reach has a lot of references and callbacks to previous games, as it was Bungie's last send-off for Halo. It would also be quite jarring to get used to the mechanics of Halo: Reach, then jump into Halo: Combat Evolved with its older style of gameplay. Not to mention various easter eggs and achievement names in Reach only make sense and have more impact if you've finished Halos 1-3 + ODST. For example, there is a an easter egg in Reach where a cameo of a character from Halo 3: ODST makes an appearance. If you play Reach before everything, and you get the easter egg, it's not going to have any significance to you.

_”Jumping feet-first into Hell isn’t your job._ _Making sure it’s crowded when you get there is.”_

Probably 3 of the most impactful Halo trailers they made. 3 of the best video game trailers ever made and certainly 2 of the best live action trailers of all time

We can all agree that Bungie knows how to make a trailer. Even on Destiny. where real men cried.

Watching this again is better then first episode Halo TV series.

The first video is a diorama that was made to represent a major battle on earth against the covenant. There used to be a website where you could move a camera through the diorama and look at notes and brief videos concerning the battle.

5:34 "Better to be lucky than good" That line you said right there was the whole reason how Master Chief Survived the entire Halo Covenant War from start to finish.

Every gears of war trailer it’s kinda similar to how the halo trailer made you feel but in a way a bit different

Bungie, I feel are unmatched in there live action trailers. Wish we saw more well done ones as promotion because every time I watch the Halo live action trailers it makes me want to play every damn time. Also we do know what happened to that character who threw the bomb, this takes place before Halo Reach. The trailer was following a team of Spartans called Noble team and you see each member there. The one that threw the bomb was Noble 6 also know as Thom. Sadly he did die on that ship, you play as his replacement on the team in the game a few months after the events of this trailer. Even the leader of noble team (Noble 1 or Commander Carter) says at the beginning of Halo: Reach "Not gonna lie to you, Lieutenant. You're stepping into some shoes the rest of the squad would rather leave unfilled."

This was honestly really refreshing to watch. A lot of other people just pick it apart emotionlessly and dissecting the music with a flat face. But Seeing you two watching these trailers in silence, and (Forgive me if im wrong) not knowing the real lore of the series while still giving an emotional response to them is nice. Seeing the small microreactions you guys made with your faces, the small choking down of emotion that she does during the "Believe" trailer to keep her composure. You can see that the trailer (although its only for a game) evokes a certain emotion of pain and sadness followed up by hope. Even in the begining of "Believe", you can see how her face goes from "This music is beautiful" almost immediately to "This looks dreadfully horrifying" (In the way one would view a WWII battlefield) the moment the Set of combat and wartorn soldiers appears on screen. The way the Husband seems to almost do the instinctual male facial movement of rolling your lips back into your mouth slightly with puffed cheeks and jaw, shows the impact of the realization that the male spartan is giving himself up for the greater good. Its gives off almost that "I accept this outcome even if it hurts" feeling. You guys actually reacted more without words than most others could ever with words. And it speaks volumes not only to how well-made these trailers are, but how genuine you guys are with recieving and reacting to content. Props and Cheers.

To this day that ODST and Deliver Hope trailers are my favorite Halo game trailers, hell, maybe even my favorite video game trailers in general

the second i hear that BELIEVE Trailer.. just chills and watery eyes. still gets me every time

A lot of care went into all these trailers but in particular For the Halo 3: We are ODST. The funeral scene was done inside a cooling tower of an active nuclear power plant. The uniforms are from the costume designer that did Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers. Legacy, a studio that did movie villians like Alien and Terminator used 3d models to recreate the weapons and armor. My favorite part is that the drill instructors are real Hungarian special forces and they used guns with blanks while the actors crawled under the razorwire. Also, the music is The Politics & The Life - Daniel Pemberton What's really interesting is the emotion these trailers can evoke from people despite them obviously being entirely fictional, based on a fictional universe.

the ODST trailer always gets a tear going for me. I teared up during that part of the video

If you were going to play Halo together... Play Halo: Reach. You guys like stories. And strong female characters... You'll enjoy Reach.

Halo makes me love humanity.. it shows that we have courage as the human race. Master chief embodies that courage, he represents us. Who we are as a people. And our ability to overcome.

Put it this way for you guys the first trailer has master chief a Spartan 2s the best of the best. If you had to go to war you’d want to be one of these guys. they were kidnapped as kids to fight rebels but were instead used to fight the covenant when they made contact with them. the second trailer has ODST (orbital drop shock trooper) the next best thing second only to Spartans, there regular ppl no augmentations just balls of steel. Now the last trailer has Spartan 3’s there war orphans who are so hell bent of getting revenge that there willing to die, there armor/ augmentations are nothing compared to the Spartan 2’s but nothing to laugh at either. The Spartan 3’s were basically used to buy humanity more time and were sent on suicidal missions, trading lives for time I highly recommend watching head hunters it’s good video putting in perspective how scared the covenant were of Spartans matter in fact I might go watch it rn 😂

That second trailer still gives me the chills watching it and the third one too, the good old days!

Watching this trailers always bring me tears, Halo is just a very interesting and emotional story!

Believe. It is a great trailer where we were left in suspense because it seemed that the hero would fall.

I love the Halo ODST trailer in particular because I come from Wales (one of the nations of the UK) and the song in the trailer is in the Welsh language. I'm pretty sure it is still the only video game that I'm aware of that has used my native language and I love it for that (plus it's just an incredible game with an incredible atmosphere). The pronunciation isn't perfect but it's close enough. I think I remember someone saying the language the ODST's were using at the funeral and in training was Hungarian, though I may be incorrect about that, I'm not sure. The Welsh lyrics are below: "Gafflwn Dihenydd, o'r fuddugol yn wiriol sydd. Ni fydd neb yn ein Drechu, Falch ydy ni i drochu, Traed o flaen i'r Annwn, mewn y gwybodaeth fe godwn ni.'' Which translate into English as: "We cheat Death from his rightful victory. No one can defeat us, we are glad to plunge feet first into hell in the knowledge that we will rise."

Why do these bring tears to my eyes?

"Our duty, as soldiers, is to protect humanity. Whatever the cost." -Spartan 117

Yessss do more halo pls I feel like everyday i am getting a present

"Better to be Lucky than Good." Unironically the Master Chief in a nutshell lol

the ODST one is always the one I remembered it was my favourite

In the second one, the actors are speaking Hungarian, and many are Hungarian Special Forces, but the song is Welsh, called "The Song of Aiden". The words are: Gafflwn Dihenydd O'r Fuddugol wiriol sydd Ni fydd neb yn ein drechu Falch ydy ni i drochu Draed o'r flaen i'r Annwn Mewn y gwybodaeth fe godwn ni. We cheat death From his rightful victory No one can overcome us We are glad to plunge Feet first into Annwn In the knowledge we will rise.

I remember when this ODST trailer came out. I was in middle School and me and my friends were huge Halo fans. Once we watched this, we didn’t care about being a Spartan anymore…we wanted to be Orbital Drop Shock Troopers.

One of the best game franchises ever created, story is impeccable

ODST's are my favorite part of the Halo universe. They weren't genetically enhanced super soldiers trained from childhood, they were just extraordinary men.

Ahhh Reach...... when I designed my awesome looking character when playing with my friends and we played the campaign together then seeing my character last stand it was outstanding

You should also have a look at the entire Halo Believe Ad Campaign. Best piece of advertisment ever!

Great reaction ! Halo is a game that still has a big impact for me. Sometimes I go back and play it all over again. The main focus of the games and the story is about sacrifice, the last stand of humanity - be those few who will shield the others who cannot fight. The Spartans represent these very well. The first Spartans where children that were experimented on for augmentation... most of them died in the process. Master Chief represents the best in the Spartans. If you plan to play it, considering story, I would recommend: - Halo Reach - Halo Combat Evolved - Halo 2 till the city level (pause at that point) - Halo 3 ODST (happens right after the city level in Halo 2 in the timeline) - Go back to Halo 2 till the end - Halo 3 This is all the Human - Convenant war story arc. Halo 4, Halo 5 e Infinity is a new story arc. Also there are in the same universe these other games: Halo wars, Halo wars 2 and the 2 Spartans top down shooters. Halo Reach is not a a Master Chief game, but it is the direct prequel to Combat Evolved. Have Fun ! See you in the Halo Multiplayer :)

I remember playing halo reach with my sister, such good times wish I could go back. Great video btw

Remember Reach. Halo Reach will always be one of my personal favorites.

Halo will always have a place in my heart. I'll still be old and wrinkled and play games

The model in the first trailer also has a few other videos attached to it. Covering some of the weapons and war stories that are extremely good. There are also a few other trailers in the halo 3 and ODST that aernt covered here.

Best trailers ever. They really make you feel something.

Mind Boggling brain wave! That was the OG Noble Six that got blown up in the covenant ship at the end.

These trailers really did an excellent job of showing that these games weren’t just Call of Duty in space. The franchise has a maturity and a darkness to it that made it feel very gritty and somber, even in the midst of epic sci-fi action.

Very cool review, and whether someone played Halo or not, I still think the trailers can still deliver the message. Great video!

Your job isn't to jump feet first into hell, you just make sure its crowded down there when we do. "TROOPERS, WE ARE GREEN AND VERY VERY MEAN!"

God how much i loved these trailers Took me years later to finally be able to play odst and i absolutely loved it even though in the beginning i was disappointed master chief wasn't gonna be in it

Honestly personally I think ODST has like some of my favourite tracks out of the games

ODST trailer just hits different goosebumps

The first trailer believe. Was a mini series it’s supposed to be a creation of the biggest battle on earth. The complete video shows them make the characters and why. And interviews soldiers from the battle and they talk about the battle and how their belief in the master chief kept them alive.

Planet Reach was the largest UNSC military stronghold, and it was right on Earth’s doorstep. When Reach fell it was devastating and only a few held on to hope, that hope was the Master Chief. When you hear a marine on the battlefield radio say “ALL EYES ON THE CHEIF...” there’s a feeling there not many games have created for me.

Fun fact. IN that opening believe trailer, that is a 1:20th (?) scale diorama that is about the size of a basketball court. It was 6 different large pieces that you could walk around and look at. It was, at the time, the largest diorama ever constructed (its since been beat.) it toured around the country before the release of the game and i had the privilege of seeing it. The detail painted onto some of the marines and covenant in the diorama was simply breathtaking. I personally think Halo 3's add campaign, "believe" is the best video game marketing that has ever been dreamed up. They made a collection of documentary style shorts that were telling the tale of the war against the covenant through the voices of the veterans of the war some 50-60 years later, and everyone in those trailers is an actual military veteran. Bungie and Microsoft managed to create a world that felt real and lived in and non fiction, before the game ever even came out.

The trailer for Halo Reach will never not bring me to tears It is literally my favourite Halo game within the franchise, ever since it first came out, and the game itself is just amazing and tells you a story that really brings to light many different aspects of the Halo universe, like ODST Seriously, love that you guys saw this and was such a pleasant surprise

These are some of the best trailers in videogame history. They impact you so much

Bungie was the king of trailers man. Their trailers are just so powerful and gets you hyped for the game.

Somthing about BELIEVE just always hits the write notes

You guys rock! Loving your vidz

The nostalgia seeing these again hits hard.

Every Halo Trailer is fucking, Legendary and.... iconic.

I always, always cry a little bit whenever I see the deliver hope trailer

They are all amazing trailers. But for me, the Halo 3 Believe trailer is the best. The way it slowly fills you with an overwhelming sense of despair and doom, until finally a simple shot of Master Chief moving his head and one word. Believe. Just incredible.

The first time I saw the halo reach trailer deliver hope the song made me cry

Reach is and always will be uplifting and heartwarming yet hopelessly depressing.

I feel the tone of the main games is a lot more uplifting than the actual reality. ODST and reach truly show how hopeless the war was for the humans, people forget roughly 25 billion humans died in this war. That’s why the acts of heroism from the Spartans, and the many sacrifices of the odst ranks truly hits so much harder.

ODST and the stuff that neill blomkamp did for Halo are absolutely breath taking.

There is a game called Halo Master Chief collection that came out a few years back. It includes most of the games that have been released and includes remasters of the first two halo titles. You can also get all the halo games free with a Xbox gamepass subscription. At face value the games don’t look anything crazy but the atmosphere they build is something special and worth diving into

Well, in the Halo games the aliens have been fighting and winning a genocidal war against humanity going on decades. We had colonies through a wide swath of space, but the aliens will show up and annihilate any humans they find. By Halo 2 we've lost everything and the aliens are invading Earth. So yeah, I'd say that we play the good guys and unfortunately suicide missions like that last trailer become necessary when you're fighting for the very existence of your people.

You could not have picked a better 1-2-3 for Halo trailers to watch. All three of these capture what I think makes the games so good: a mix of desperation, courage, and sacrifice. There was always an elegant sadness that hovered over the games. You always know what was lost, and what you are fighting for.

hey guys, good to see more that are watching or understanding halo, when you have time, play all the halo games, this will help you understand why there is a constant battle with the covenant and the spartan program.

Can’t wait for your metal gear reactions really excited

You guys always have the best reaction, so deep full of emotion like you guys feeling and jumping what inside the stuff you guys watching... I just keep wishin' and hope you guys made a playlist full of video of you guys react for the first time watching either Game of Throne, Lord of The Ring, The Walking Dead, Band of Brothers or Vikings :D

Halo Infinite is launching later this year and will be a soft Reboot of the series, it will be the perfect time to jump into the halo universe. It will also feature a dedicated training section for newer players to learn the controls, movements, equipment and vehicles. It will also feature Split Screen Co-op so you can both play together. I would love to see you guys react to the other halo trailers though in the meantime, there's a bunch of Halo Reach and Halo 3 trailers in sets that are very worth watching. For some context, the halo 3 believe trailer had 3-4 more counter parts where it showed off a museum in the future celebrating the survival of humanity and some other interesting things like interviews with survivors from the war, there was also a full on 8 minute movie dedicated to the atmospheric re-entry of the Master chief as he fell from the orbit of earth into Africa. (Master chief is the big green guy) If you really want to play a halo game though, I would HIGHLY suggest playing the original game in Co-op, the story will feel dated and it wont be the best in terms of pacing but what lacks in story is heavily made up in atmosphere, adventure, ingenuity and mystery. This week Season 7 of the Halo Masterchief Collection releases, they will be updating the classic graphics of the original game to be more in line with how it was during its 2001 launch and it looks very nice. Never too late to become a halo fan, many people report getting nostalgia for it even though they weren't there for its initial release :)

I love you guys and I'm so happy you reacted to Halo🥺🥺🥺

The Halo 3 advertising was on point.

Believe...I was like 10 or 11 when I saw that trailer and it left a deep imprint on me. Shit was legendary in those days.

These trailers were the baseline expectation I had to the series, something that moved you with just a couple of minutes, even without the Master Chief. Because the story is about the human race not just one action guy

O.D.S.T. is an acronym for Orbital Drop Shock Troopers

The halo reach trailer is a masterpiece.

"Better to be lucky than be good." Fortunately for the Master Chief he's a little (a lot) of both.