Halo: Arms Race

Halo: Arms Race is a short video created in collaboration with Bungie Studios, Neill Blomkamp, WETA Workshop and Origami Digital LLC and the first piece of live-action media in the Halo series. Released on July 10, 2007 on 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. It is part one in a trilogy of short films known as Halo: Landfall.

Synopsis

The video contains no dialog, instead narrating with text from a computer. It begins with the request from a UNSC 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 SRS99D-S2 AM Sniper Rifles, Marine and ODST helmets and suits, M12 Chaingun Warthogs, D77-TC Pelicans, BR55HB SR Battle Rifles, and M6G Magnums on the assembly line and ready for action in a Misriah Armory facility on Mars. It also shows several shots of the enlistment 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. Finally, the short cuts to 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."

Transcript

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<\ Initiating scan…
<\ IFF Confirmed : Sol defense group 3\A-5
<\ Current vessels : 02\08
>>*Readiness levels critical*
>>*Request immediate re-armament*
<\ Request granted.
<\ Re-armament initialized.
<\ Finish the fight…

Gallery

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  The weapons featured in the Arms Race in the hands of Bungie employees.

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  The barcode tattooed on the back of a UNSC Marine's neck is scanned in the film.

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  ODST helmets as depicted in Arms Race.

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  Pelican Oscar 6 about to enter service.

See also

• Halo: Landfall
• Halo: Combat
• Halo: Last One Standing