Halo: The Machinima Picture (7)

Spartan-117, without Cortana.1.0, attempts a confusing mission to locate the Captain’s squad – who were last known to be seizing a weapons cache. Master Chief will discover a hidden secret locked inside Halo, one nobody could have prepared for. HALO: The Machinima Picture (created 11-2006) Since I discovered the Xbox game ‘HALO’ back in 2002, I have wanted to put this fabulous first-person sci-fi action romp on video for my friends and family to watch and enjoy as a two-hour cinematic experience. Back then I would have plugged the Xbox into my VCR’s and tossed in a blank tape and used the pause button to edit in real time, taping the cinema scenes back to back. Analog hell. Crude as it would have been, I did this very thing for a few old games… like “Sword of the Berserk: Guts’ Rage” on SEGA Dreamcast, and Rebel Assault II for the Playstation. Flash forward to 2006. I have a computer, a movie maker program, and the DVD burner to make it all contemporary. Not to mention the ‘like-original’ copies I can make for friends and family, unlike the degrade of vhs tapes. As for what I actually did… I plugged my Xbox console into the Dazzle USB converter and used my PC like a 30 GB recorder. I played through the game Halo (BUNGIE/Microsoft,2001) recording the cinema scenes that periodically would show the story… the one of humanity’s fight against an alien threat. Then I recorded key transitions, audio cuts and first-person action sequences within the game, editing them on …