Editing Halo: Reach Video Games Awards Trailer

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The '''Halo: Reach Video Games Awards Trailer''' originally aired on Spike TV's Video Game Awards on December 12, [[2009]], and gave the first look at the graphics and characters of ''[[Halo: Reach]]''.

The trailer is a modified version of the opening cinematic of the game's first [[campaign]] level, [[Noble Actual]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfME5KwKLfg '''YouTube''': ''Halo Reach opening cinematic and beginning of first level'']</ref>

==Transcript==
''From first-person view: [[SPARTAN-B312|Noble Six]] stares into the visor of a [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V(B)|Mark V[B]]]helmet, before turning it around and putting it on.''

''Zoom out to the [[M831 Troop Transport|Troop Transport Warthog]] Noble Six is riding in, on the surface of [[Reach]], towards an outpost/camp, and two [[UH-144 Falcon]]s flying in above the Warthog.''

''Both Falcons land in the camp, and the Warthog pulls to a stop. Noble Six gets out of the Warthog, and moves towards a building. [[Jun-A266]] watches while placing rounds into a magazine. Noble Six reaches the door, and stares at [[Emile-A239]] sharpening a [[combat knife]] against his shoulder pauldron, and attempts to enter, before being stopped by [[Catherine-B320]].''

*'''[[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Catherine-B320]]''': (''To Carter'') "[[Commander (UNSC)|Commander]]."

''Carter-A259, without his helmet, looks up, and [[Jorge-052]], in full gear, turns to look at Noble Six, who takes several steps inside the building.''

*'''Radio''': "[[WINTER CONTINGENCY (protocol)|WINTER CONTINGENCY]] has been declared, all units are mobilized and ready."

*'''[[Warrant Officer|Chief Warrant Officer]] [[Jorge-052]]''': "Didn't think [[sPARTAN-III Beta Company|anybody]] [[Operation: TORPEDO|survived]] [[Pegasi Delta|Pegasi]], sir."

*'''Commander [[Carter-A259]]''': "[[ONI Directive 930|Spartans never die]], Jorge. They're just [[Missing in action|Missing in Action]]."

''Carter starts walking towards the door and puts his helmet on, and all the SPARTANs turn to exit the building.''

''Cut to the SPARTANs exiting the building, with Noble Six next to Carter, with Kat, Emile (who sheathes his knife), and Jorge walking side by side in front of them, towards the Falcon.''

*'''Carter-A259''': "I read your file, [[Lieutenant]]. Even the parts [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] didn't want me to."

''The SPARTANs reach the activating Falcon, with the other three moving to one offscreen, and Noble Six and Carter getting into the one guarded by Jun.''

*'''Carter-A259''': "I'm glad to have your skill set, but you can leave that [[FSS-1000 Sabre|lone-wolf]] [[Mamore|stuff]] behind."

*'''Warrant Officer Jun-A266''': "This our new number six?"

*'''Carter-A259''': "Affirmative."

*'''Jun-A266''': "You picked [[Fall of Reach|a hell of a day]] to join up!"

''Carter signals for the Falcon to get airborne and the tiltrotors take off, moving into the horizon.''

*'''Kat-B320 ([[COM]])''': "This is Sierra three-two-zero. [[Noble Team]] is airborne and prepped for combat insertion."

''As the Falcons move into the distance, a colossal [[plasma]] [[Glassing|explosion]] erupts from the sky, revealing the shadow of a {{Pattern|Ket|battlecruiser}} looming in the clouds overhead. A static charge flies across the sky, and the scene whites out, fading in to the ''Halo: Reach'' logo floating above the titular planet's glassed surface.

Cut to a dark room, with [[Human]] blood on the floor, illuminated by an activating [[Type-1 Energy Weapon/Sword|Energy Sword]]. There is a growl, then the camera turns towards a [[Sangheili Minor|blue-armored]] [[Sangheili]] who looks up at the screen and snarls, baring its teeth. The Bungie and Microsoft logos then appear with Reach in the background.''

==Differences from the final game==
*The trailer's graphics are slightly higher rendered on some of the surfaces, including helmets, armors, and vehicles. There is also no blurring present, though these changes may have been to accommodate the final game's entire resources.
*Noble Six is wearing a UA attachment and [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/FJ/PARA variant|FJ/PARA]] knees, both of which are not default in the final game.
*Jun has his helmet on while first seen in the seat of the Falcon in the trailer, and his lines in the trailer have been changed on the final game merely to "Welcome to Reach", though the old ones may occasionally appear randomly during gameplay.
*Emile-A239 does not speak in the trailer.
*Kat has lost her line while aboard the Falcon at the end of the trailer and gained a new one in response to Emile.
*Carter's head is shaven in the trailer, has more visible stubble around the jaw, and is lighter in skin tone versus the final game.
*[[Colonel]] [[Urban Holland]] in the trailer is nowhere to be seen or heard.
*Noble Team's objective in the trailer is implied to be helping out in the main battle, while in the final version, it is to head to the [[Visegrád Relay|Visegrad Relay]] in search of [[Insurrectionist]] activity.
*Jorge-052 has his helmet on, is standing, and in the final game his brief dialogue with Carter over Six's possible survival from Beta Company's annihilation at Operation: TORPEDO has been removed, likely because canonically Kat too was also a survivor of Beta and neither she nor Six ever took part in TORPEDO.
*Noble Six does not speak in the trailer and is set as male gender.
*Carter's dialogue with Six is slightly shorter than in the final game, and discusses nothing about the rest of Noble Team or of Six's predecessor [[Thom-293]].
*The orbital glassing at the end of the trailer does not occur in Noble Actual, and indeed it is over two months before any glassing will occur at all.
*The trailer's chronology along with the [[Halo: Reach Announcement Trailer|Announcement Trailer]] is placed just at the beginning of the Fall of Reach, though in Noble Actual, the Fall of Reach has not yet begun.

==Trivia==
*The number [[Seven|7]] can be seen in the sky near the end of the trailer just as the ''Ket'' Battlecruiser is revealed.<ref>[[:File:HR Video Game Awards Trailer glassing.png]]</ref>
*A [[Halo: Reach Video Games Awards 2010 Trailer|longer version of the trailer]] was released in Bungie.net's ''Halo: Reach'' Multimedia page after the game was released.
*Kat's final line of the trailer mimics a similar line spoken in the [[Halo: Reach announcement trailer]].

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