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| [[File:Theater Droid.jpg|thumb|260px|The menu background image for Theater in ''Halo: Reach''.]]
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| '''Theater''' was a feature first introduced in ''[[Halo 3]]'' that allowed players to review their gameplay footage in [[wikipedia:Real-time computing|real-time]]. Due to the usefulness and popularity of this feature, it has been a staple in ''Halo'' [[first-person shooter]] titles ever since its first inclusion. After ''Halo 3'', it has appeared in ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'', ''[[Halo: Reach]]'', ''[[Halo 4]]'', ''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]'', ''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', and ''[[Halo Infinite]]''. | | {{stub}} |
| | '''Theater''' is a new feature for users in ''[[Halo 3]]''. It allows them to access [[Saved film|saved films]] of all [[Campaign]], [[Matchmaking]], [[Custom Game]]s and [[Forge]] games that they have played. The 25 most recent games are featured under "Recent Films". Users are in control of the gameplay footage they played; fast forward, slow down, pause and taking screenshots from every film. The films that users are fond of can even be saved into a library of films. |
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| ==Description==
| | Film clips are recorded sections of a film. Pressing "Y" during a replay enables you to move around as in a regular film. However, these are only collections of game information readable only through the Xbox360 and cannot be used on a PC using just an xbox 360 and a copy of Halo 3. Screenshots, however, can be saved to a computer as an actual image if posted from a file share on [[Bungie.net]]. Popular or highly rated films will be shown in the [[Bungie Favorites]] list. |
| Every time a player plays a game of [[campaign]] or [[multiplayer]], the game will automatically be saved into a list of up to twenty-five recent films, which players can watch at their leisure. Players have a number of abilities while in-film; play, pause, fast-forward, take screenshot, rewind and record film clip, however the latter two are only available in multiplayer clips in ''Halo 3'' and ''Halo 3: ODST'', due to loading issues in campaign. Players can save up to one-hundred saved films in ''Halo 3''. Film clips are shorter, recorded sections of a film, only usable in ''Halo 3 ''and ''Halo: Reach'', not in ''Halo 3: ODST''.
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| Theater is also featured in ''Halo: Reach'' and is improved as "Theater 2.0", with the ability to rewind films in campaign and [[Firefight]]. In ''Halo: Reach'', a player can save one thousand items of each file type, including clips, films, maps, and gametypes.
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| In ''Halo 4'', the feature has been limited to multiplayer only. It was stated that there was a possibility that theater would be added to Campaign and Spartan Ops in a future title update.<ref>[http://blogs.halowaypoint.com/Headlines/post/2012/11/01/The-Halo-Bulletin-11112-.aspx '''The Halo Bulletin:''' ''11.1.12'']</ref> However, due to technical issues with the game engine, there have been no current plans to add campaign and [[Spartan Ops]] support.<ref>[https://twitter.com/bsangel/status/294291861135306752 '''Twitter''' - ''Jessica Shea'']</ref>{{Ref/Note|Through modifications, it is possible to access Theater mode on campaign gameplay. However, as this requires tampering with the game itself, users will be banned automatically when caught.}} On [[2022|October 6, 2022]], in ''Halo 4''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s 10th Anniversary, it was confirmed that Theater would be added to Campaign and Spartan Ops as part of November's Update in ''The Master Chief Collection'', but this was delayed until the July 2023 update.
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| In ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection'', the feature is available for ''Halo 3'' and ''Halo 4''.<ref>[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=116092208&postcount=1010 '''NeoGaf''': ''Frank O'Connor on Theater'']</ref> It is also available for ''Halo 2 Anniversary'' but is only limited to multiplayer.<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/bulletins/the-halo-bulletin-assault-on-controller-settings '''The Halo Bulletin:''' ''Assault on the Controller Settings'']</ref>. With ''Halo: Reach'' being added to the ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection'', Theater also saves multiplayer and campaign plays for ''Halo: Reach''.
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| In both ''Halo 5: Guardians'' and ''Halo Infinite'', Theatre is limited to multiplayer.
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| Pressing "Y" while watching a film will enable players to roam around the space in real-time. Despite popular belief, saved films are only collections of game information readable only through the Xbox 360, thus cannot record onto a PC without the use of [[Bungie Pro]] film rendering, or a video capture card. Screenshots can be saved to a computer as an actual image if posted from a file share on <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.halowaypoint.com/ Halowaypoint.com]</span>. This is only relevant to ''Halo: Reach'' and ''Halo 4'', as ''Halo 3'' file support was terminated during the move to 343 Industries.
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| *''[[Halo Wars]]'' has a feature of the same name, though it is just a library of the [[List of Halo Wars cinematic cutscenes|pre-rendered cutscenes]] throughout the campaign. | | *Many people have saved their films onto a computer. This, however requires the use of a capture card which records TV onto a computer. |
| *Theater can be used to make certain [[Theater tricks|tricks]].
| | *Even though you can save clips and rewind in the Theater on the [[Multiplayer]] games played, it is not possible to do either in the [[Halo 3#Campaign|Halo 3 Campaign]] games. This is because the loading sequence in Campaign is linear, and rewinding will make the film have to load the process again. For Film Clips, Bungie explains that it just don't work well in Campaign. |
| *If one pauses a Theater film while a character is speaking, they will continue to speak until the end of that sentence, and if that character is present at the scene, their mouths will still move, but nothing else will. This can cause a glitch where [[Prophet of Truth|Truth]]'s hologram will appear, and he will make his speech while one has the game paused, and then when one presses play, he will make gestures that originally sync with the speech, but without saying anything. | | *If you pause a Theater film while a character is speaking, he/she will still continue to speak until the end of that sentence, and if that character is present at the scene, their jaws(or mandibles for [[Elites]]) will still move, but nothing else will. This can cause a glitch where Truth's hologram will appear, and he will make his speech while you have the game paused, and then when you press play, he will make gestures that originally sync with the speech, but without saying anything. |
| **This is also true for running the video faster or slower than normal speed. Rather than slowing down or speeding up the sound, which would change the pitch, it simply plays the sound whenever it starts. So if the footage is slowed, sounds are spread apart, where if it is sped up the sounds are compressed, with more sounds playing at the same time. | | *A similar glitch happens when you fast forward through a section with much dialog. Some lines will play before they are supposed to, resulting in overlapping sentences. |
| **This also occurs during gameplay sequences if a character is in mid-vocalization when pausing. This can easily been seen when pausing during an assassination involving Sangheili, as their mandibles will move while the rest of their body is still. | | *Halo 3 is said to be mostly made for movies and [[machinima]] because of the theater option. |
| *Theater has made [[machinima]] much easier to produce, as ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' and ''Halo 2'' required people to film scenes using the first-person perspective of another player in-game.
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| *The gametype "[[Slayer]]" is replaced with the name "[[Blam!]]" in Theater, even though it is the name of a regular gametype. The same goes for "Assault".
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| ==Notes==
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| [[Category:Halo 3]]
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| [[Category:Halo 3: ODST]]
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| [[Category:Halo: Reach]]
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| [[Category:Halo 4]]
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| [[Category:Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]
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| [[Category:Halo 5: Guardians]]
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