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[Max Steele]

*Now* we can start looking for ILoveBees2

[UnJetamo]

Peter Jackson!

[Phaedra]

Re: *Now* we can start looking for ILoveBees2

[Dr3dg]

Jackson is doing the Halo movie... extra content would be sweet.

[krystyn]

There's not terrible much there to get excited about - we could simply end up seeing a Flash-Heavy Website With A Nifty Domain Name That Re-Routes Predictably to HaloMovie.Com, and contains Wonderfully Shiny and Slightly Usable Widgets That Go Ding! and there'll be like, some crazy-ass letter from the Covenant in that really hard to read font, etc.

As for certain ARG concepts never coming to fruition, I think it's a little bit difficult at this point to be absolutely sure, unless you're a Bungie-dude-in-the-know.

Bungie has, however, announced a partnership with Ensemble Studios to create a real-time strategy game (for the 360), and the trailer's pretty freakin' sweet. So I am betting that that's the partnership with Microsoft Games they're alluding to. MS owns Ensemble.

ETA: Hmm, yah, Halo Wars is one thing, but this interactive doohickey is indeed another.

from Bungie.net:

[Max Steele]

Re: *Now* we can start looking for ILoveBees2

[Phaedra]

Well, I'm not saying there won't be viral marketing for it -- I'd be surprised if there weren't. But I don't think that's what Jackson's talking about.

[catherwood]

I'm agreeing with this --

[djsampson]

there is also in the making a game called Halo wars RTS .......... its a pretty cool looking realtime strategie game the screen shots are beautiful it will be cool to play when it comes out ......... just had to drop that info ..... check it out for yourself

http://halowars.com

[krystyn]

djsampson, I give you a small helping of trout:

I mentioned Halo Wars just a few posts above yours. And I agree, the trailer/screenshots are pretty frkn awesome!

[TridenT]

I would be displeased if they attempted an ARG for Halo 3. Two reasons why:

It wouldn't be as good. There's nothing they can do to make a successful sequel to an ARG. I feel it in my blood.

It couldn't be ILB2. Simply couldn't. The curtain has been torn down, thrown aside, walked on and possibly set on fire. And I wouldn't want something else, another piece of unfinishable Halo-related-but-not-in-Halo storyline.

Which brings me to my next point. I want a continuation of the ILB storyline. I don't care if they DC it and do some kind of "One Year Later" where Kamal is dead and Jan and Jersey are on the run for whatever reason and we have to learn it all through flashbacks. I don't care if they even appear in the game. I'll learn to live with novels, graphic novels, or even online media of some sort. I just. Want. To know. What. Happens. NEXT.

As to Peter Jackson's involvement, I thought we knew months upon months ago that he was slated to do the Halo movie. Did nobody else here hear about that?

But, please, no second Halo ARG, pretty please. One is good. One is the loneliest number, but it works best.

And you know what, I have to go back to my rant about continuing ILB. Give me more backstory, give me history. I want to hear all about J^2, and all the things that happened before ILB. Gimme gimme gimme, basically is what I'm saying here. I throw myself at the mercy of Santa, or the Tooth Fairy, or the Easter Bunny, or whomever I gotta kiss up to to get this thing to happen.

[Nola]

[LorD BaZTArD]

I agree with trident. I Love Bee's was a fantastic way to expand the halo universe and will probably stand alone for a long time, but having said this bungie are huge fans of tormenting their fans in bizarre and obscure ways and I do see them making another ARG. Put it this way, while the halo games are the main block of canon. The books, The Graphic Novel and I Love Bee's and even the unlockable spartan in DOA4 tie into the expanded universe well.

So it doesn't have to be and likely won't be I Love Bees 2, but yet another side story into the halo universe to lead into Halo 3. I also want to see more of the characters in ILB, I'm hoping atleast one makes a cameo in the new halo book. While the spartans are awesome, the ILB characters are just as good.

Also, don't dismiss peter jackson as the kind of person who wouldn't do an ARG because Jackson would do something out of left field in his game. The King Kong game is a classic example of this.

[CreativeEmbassy]

[Phaedra]