Editing Halo: Arms Race

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|studio = [[Bungie|Bungie Studios]]<br>[[WETA Digital]]<br>[[Origami Digital LLC]]

|release date = July 10, 2007

'''Halo: Arms Race''' is a short video created in collaboration with [[Bungie|Bungie Studios]], [[Neill Blomkamp]], [[WETA Workshop]] and [[Origami Digital LLC]] depicting the first real time images and video of the Halo series. Released on July 10, 2007 at [[Bungie.net]] only hours after the [[Halo 3 E3 2007 Trailer]], the video is intended primarily as an experiment to test Halo's real-world media potential as well as advertisement for [[Halo 3]]. It runs for 1 minute 52 seconds.<ref>[http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=ethreeblowout Bungie.net E3 post]</ref> It has been confirmed as part one in a trilogy of short films, as said in the third Bungie podcast. It can be found in the Xbox Live Marketplace to download for free and also in [[Halo: Landfall]].  

The video contains no dialog, instead narrating with text from a computer. It begins with the request from a [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] [[Battle group|Battle Group]], [[Sol Defense Group 3/A-5]] requesting repair and resupply. Once the request has been granted the video then goes on to show production of [[Sniper Rifle System 99D-S2 Anti-Matériel|SRS99D-S2 AM Sniper Rifles]], [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine]] and [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|ODST]] helmets and suits, [[M12 Light Reconnaissance Vehicle|M12 Warthog LRVs]], [[D77-TC Pelican|Dropship 77-Troop Carrier Pelicans]], [[BR55HB SR Battle Rifle]]s, and [[M6G Personal Defense Weapon System|M6G Magnums]] on the assembly line and ready for action in a UNSC factory. It also shows several shots of what is assumed to be the conscription of UNSC Marines into a unit called [[S4/BAG/2/5]] (including the addition of a barcode to the back of a marine's neck, as well as being injected with an augmentation drug or electronic ID such as an IFF transponder), and then the arming of the marines. A marine holding a BR55HB SR Battle Rifle stands on war stricken ground when an explosive detonates next to him, before ending with "Halo 3, Finish the Fight."

==Trivia==

*The Arms Race trailer received an honorable mention on Gametrailers list of the [http://www.gametrailers.com/top-100-trailers/ Top 100 Trailers of All Time] in 2011.<ref>[http://www.gametrailers.com/top-100-trailers/countdown/trailers-40-top-100/718574 Gametrailers Top 100 Trailers of All Time: 40-21]</ref>

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File:Update cougarhuting.jpg|The weapons featured in the live Halo shorts in the hands of Bungie employees.

File:UNSC Bar Coded Marine.png|The bar code tattooed on the back of a UNSC Marine's neck is scanned in the Video.

File:Halo 3 ODST.png|ODST Helmets as depicted in the Halo 3 "Arms Race" trailer.

== Links ==

===Internal===

*[[Halo: Landfall]]

*[[Halo: Combat]]

*[[Halo: Last One Standing]]

 

 

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