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Love your content man discovered you after your Astartes video. I 100% recommend you do the other star wars old republic cinematics you've seen the first one how about the other 3 😉
@lupusinvictusvictorium8069 you've got it! I thought there was another 5!? I'll be returning to Star Wars after a few more videos releases. I also want to watch the Halo 2 anniversary cutscenes. So much good stuff to come. Thanks for watching my videos, means a lot.
@@kaizammit you're correct I believe there is a total of 5 now including the first one. I'm all about the halo content, one of my favourite game series and halo 2 anniversary is absolutely stunning. Will be watching out for them! Thank you for making such engaging and fun videos truly a shining light in the RUclips carnage haha.
@lupusinvictusvictorium8069 thanks man! It's nice to hear that from you and I hope you enjoy the Filmmaking bits and bobs that I share when looking at some of our favourite game cinematics.
Seeying how much you love these cinematics, i would highly recommend the Halo 2 Remastered cinematics., i believe both these games cinematics were made by studio BLUR.
I've already recorded the next few videos so as soon as they are done and out, I'll dive in to Halo 2 Anniversary. I've heard good things. Going to be a long video that one. Thanks for watching.
Honestly. They make a movie series in this quality following the Halo franchise and they could put $100 a ticket on it per movie. I would be there. Wow. I love the cinematics from Halo Wars and Halo Wars 2. They make you so invested in the universe.
If they did make an animated movie in this quality... perhaps with blurr studios ( I believe that's their name ) Then the whole halo franchise could possibly survive a bit longer. Halo Infinite and the Halo Show has really gutted the life span of the future for Halo at least in terms of games and other video media. The books are still alright though.
@crashspacebrent1626 Did you actually play Halo Wars 2 or just watched the pre-rendered cutscenes? Because if you did the latter you probably have no idea what's going on since you miss out on so much story context
He absolutely needs to watch the Halo 3 "Believe" Ad Campaign, absolute masterclass in cinematography. H3 ODST's "The Life" Ad, as well as Reach's "Remember Reach" campaigns were amazing too.
"God he is badass, isn't he, I didn't get any of that from infinite" exactly my point, it was such a shame. 2 cutscenes and some holograms do not do him justice, I wish there was more to the halo wars story I really do, i love so much about it. I started playing again because of these videos, it's so great to experience again.
Those jumping flood forms are basically disabler units they disable units allowing the smaller flood forms to then infect them It helps show how terrifying the flood are they adapt to any situation if they have trouble infections someone they’ll adapt to make it easier
I don't remember their actual name but those are basically flood assassin forms for picking off or infecting a particular personal of interest for the higher intelligence of the flood. As a quick example. Let's say there's a general who's amazing at holding the flood at bay and the flood infected someone who knew where he would be so the flood uses it's hive mind and sends out those forms to selectively stealth there way in and infect the general and then overrun the problem he caused for the flood spreading.
I believe they are a varent of the abomination form, from what I can tell they come in 3 sizes, the medium sized ones seen in the cinematic, the large ones seen in art work for the flood logs, and the titanic sized ones seen in gameplay...also they are an evolution of the cut flood form in halo 2 the juggernaut, so they can also command flood units in its radius similar to a proto gravemind
I absolutely love the bit at 10:18, incredible voice acting in how he addresses each of the brothers, with Pavium his just giving an order, but with Voridus you can hear venom in each of his words especially with how he is clearly addressing Voridus directly. Atriox knows exactly whose fault it is and I love the attention to detail in it all.
If you want more flood, I 100% recommend watching the motion comic “The Mona Lisa”, its a horror motion comic adapting a short story from the book Halo: Evolutions. It is TERRIFYING and very well made
9:09 Those are Flood Abominations, a war form of a keymind. They are very intelligent, although not yet a full on graveyard. In essence, they would be the officers and leaders of a growing flood swarm.
To be exact 🤓 They are pure forms. The large mass was a Proto-Gravemind that had nearly reached a full-on Gravemind. A Keymind is when a Gravemind reaches multi-planet control.
@hiddendesire3076 he tried to correct you but was wrong with new lore but I'll correct the part where you're actually wrong is those aren't abominations they are the gaunt, the abomination is shown to be a lot bigger than those, and the lore behind how the gaunt works shows in the trailer, why they didn't have it as an actual flood form in gameplay and only the trailer, Idk but it's whatevs
Not sure if it's been covered already but the trailer for the first Halo Wars was stunning. As a kid it gave me goosebumps & got me so excited for the game. Not sure how long it was but even if brief, it's well worth the watch. Cheers!
Thought I'd keep it going as I would have originally put all these in the first video if I'd known about them. Finished the main campaign last night so perfect timing. Thanks for coming back.
Halo Wars was 15 years before Reach and the Halo event, 23 years later the same Ark from Halo 3 is restored and the Covenant holy city "High Charity" is in isolation. Until the Banished breached isolation and released an ancient evil.
Awakening the Nightmare takes place right after the end of Halo Wars 2. Its why Atriox is extremely angry at the two in the end. Not only did they unleash the Flood, it diverted troops away from the fight with Cutter to contain the Flood
6:45 later in the dlc Atriox talks about how much this outbreak as compromised his war against the humans, so this takes place shortly post Halo Wars 2, in unknown, but relatively short time after Anders leaves on the Ring and Cutter stayed behind to try to keep a foothold. Why we never saw Pavium or Voridus as the UNSC or what they were doing during our fight, who knows. The main loss here is Awakening the Nightmare only gets 3 cutscenes, and all other plot is either load screen dialogue or during mission.
I’m also sad the DLC does NOTHING to mention how Cutter is dealing with the Flood Outbreak on his side, because with how big we see it in game, it HAS to reach Arc wide, but there’s no mention about the humans at all during, but the Banished definitely had the worse end of the stick, so I don’t blame them not worrying about the humans.
I'd like to recommend some Witcher 3 cinematics: "Killing Monsters", "The Trail" and "A Night To Remember". Besides that I wanted to say that I really like your videos. They've given me a deeper appreciation for my favorite games and made me interested and exited for a few games I haven't tried yet.
This is indeed set during hw2 campaign, in one of the loadinf screen talking they say that they only have a small part of the army because theyre bussy (with spirit of fire/unsc) at the end you can see a proto gravemind they destroyed, so with a limited force the banished defeated a proto gravemind which is really impressive lore wise, the main benefit of the main characters (pavium and voridus the brutes) is that theyre basicly the top engineer and researcher of the banished infusing fusion gel into the scarab beam, kinda like a plasmaish substance that stays kn the ground and burns to the touch which is ideal in fighting the flood as you can imagine, ingame you can use the fusion gel thats on the floor to allow explosions ti happen dealing more damage and or give it a healing buff towards friendly units
Awakening the nightmare takes months after main halo wars 2 story, and sadly there’s a halo wars 3 project in the making but after halo wars 2 poor selling it got cancelled, maybe given more years 5 minimun we might get a sequel to this story
The E3 trailer reminds me quite a bit of the Halo 3: Believe promo - mostly slow motion or (nearly) still shots with the camera moving through the environment, not much diegetic sound and heavy focused on the music. Makes for such an epic atmosphere.
the moment when you just don't want it to end... I never played Halo.. I've seen all of your Halo videos now and just bought the Master Chief collection.. And I am diving right in
THANK YOU! I am so freaking fed up with the stupid Whilhelm scream. They keep claiming it's "the perfect scream" when it's not. Especially when it's overly used as it is for no reason.
I've been into Halo since I was tiny, when it came out on original xbox and forever since, and it's funny how feelings are very similar as someone getting into the universe down the line, Atriox being badass and not being shown the same in Infinite is a shame for sure, this DLC was good but could/ should have been longer Also the timeline for this is only months after the end of Halo wars 2, Atriox mentions the war with the humans is still going on so this could have reintroduced the flood vs humanity again too I have a feeling that Halo Wars sacrificed a lot that could have benefitted itself for the rest of the franchise to use The Banished as an enemy, halo Infinite snagged that New Spartans/AI, the Flood, even something like Captain Cutter being a new/old/cryofrozen version of Cpt Keyes Lots of stuff to expand on should 343 choose to
Atriox telling those two brothers not to go inside was a serious warning considering Atriox was fighting both the Covenant and Humans. He wouldve been spread thin on all fronts if an outbreak of the parasites/Flood was let loose and his entire army and foundation wouldve been undone.
The Halo Wars 1, 2, and Halo 2 Anniversary Cutscenes have always been my favorite out of the series. Highly Recommend the first Halo wars cinematics and the Halo 2 anniversary ones as well.
They nerfed the appearance of infected Brutes, so the close ups weren't gruesome In Halo 3, their jaws split for a newly formed flood head as they become the vessel for a flood combat form once infected
In à Nutshell there was technically only 2 cutscenes (officially) for Awakening the Nightmare but there was 5 maybe 6 missions in between the two cutscenes to put more context between both cutscenes. Also been a while but I think the same happened for Operation Spearbreaker or Spearhead. For the second dlc for halo wars 2.
I know you're a big halo fan, as such I assume you would have played through it already. But Halo 2 got a remaster with the Master Chief Collection. It's cutscenes are up to par quality wise as Halo Wars 2, being made by the same CGI group. If you haven't seen the new cutscenes, perhaps that would make for a good reaction. Otherwise there's always the cut cinematic from halo 2: "Day at the beach" which you might not have seen yet, it also got remastered.
I never played the Remastered edition of Halo 2. I cut off after Halo 1 remaster. I'm going to make this video in a few weeks time. I'm looking forward to it now I've seen these. As I said in this video, it's re-lit my passion for halo.
TMI: Brutes original name 'Jiralhanae' comes from the Korean bad words 지랄하네(original means with 'in epileptic seizure'). And that is why in Korean version, spelling of their name is bit different😂
There was only 3 pre-rendered cutscenes by Blur. The rest of the story is told via the ingame cutscenes and mission briefings... There was so much context that was missing here... 😓
The reason these flood fight different then other flood is because this one have been festering for almost thirty years and have learned how to deal with both humans and covenant/banished much more effectively
i have the same reaction as you when the cinematic are over they are too short but too good haha i really enjoy when camera move like someone is carrying it, that's why i love so much found footage movie like cloverfield i personally played cyberpunk before and a bit after watching the anime and it gave me some happy and sad feeling listening to music or seing special area etc i understand why people wanted to play the game after watching the anime the brute calling each other brother make them feel like they have a big connection between them + the fact that they were a bit like slave in the covenant army it remind me of the planet of the apes when cesar say "apes together strong" as usual very good breakdown i like hearing you explain all those thing! btw you seem to be feeling better, I hope that when you were sick it wasn't too serious ^^ btw i didnt recieve your invitation to play halo only got dicor d but you are not online haha
I was feeling unwell after filming this. Regarding Discord, I'm never online and normally for Xbox too. I don't get much time to play. I actually finished the main story yesterday for Halo Wars 2. Not paid for the dlc yet. My gamer tag is KAIBATRONIAN
@@kaizammit i hope you will totally feel better soon, take some good rest it's important ^^ idk if nightmare is playable in coop but if you wanna play it when you get it i'm almost always online haha
It's funny you mention Cyberpunk Edgerunners getting people to play the game. Arcane got people to jump into League and boosted the game during a phase when it was starting to lose players.
Hey man, love your videos. They’re very insightful for me, (especially since I want to get into doing these types of animations for a career). Me and my brother want to get into making games and my long term plan is to work at 343, so if I ever make it, I be sure to put in a good word for Halo Wars 3!
Yeah it’s a bit unfortunate that 343 wasn’t able to implement the banished and Atriox to their fullest. Atriox VA change always bothered me as the original was so good.
loving the content! saw you went into a warhammer mode for a little bit, but i don't see your reaction to the armouring of a space marine, would love to see your take on it!
@@kaizammit I've got the Japanese version of the set. It's basically the same, but includes the individual cons' guns, has better joints, more G1 accurate colors and gives Devastator a flip-up visor since he sometimes had regular eyes. Anyway, you'll have to give us a tour of the studio sometime 😁 Loving the channel so far, keep up the good work my man!
That's actually a really good idea! I should do something like that for you guys. This office and my work one. Both are cool for different reasons. Thank you for watching my videos, it means a lot fella. Your Devestator sounds banging!
The unfortunate thing about HW2:AtN is that it only has the two cinematics, one at the start of the campaign and one at the end. All of the rest of the information is either in the missions or the pre-mission briefings. The unfortunate thing about Atriox is that he's the antagonist of HW2 and not Infinite.
I need halo wars 3 with a playable flood and forerunners faction. Forerunner leaders could be: 343 guilty spark Librarian Diadact Whatever that thing from halo infinite was (I forget what it was called) Rampancy Cortana Flood leaders could be: Gravemind Infected prophet Infected captain keys Infected monitor
You should give "Fortress" and "Last Day of War" a try. Two older but good short films about a world war where all humans are whiped out, and the battle goes on between two computer systems
Halo 2 Remastered cinematics are probably what you are looking for. Entirely unrelated but still very much worth checking out, the Internecion Cube series by Liam Vickers is a short series of animatics for a TV show that never made it off the ground (he went on to do other things however in indie animations). Despite being unfinished and animated entirely by one person, it is extremely good creepy-cute sci fi horror which features a number of interesting little tricks and details. The person who made it has been on youtube writing short stories, making music, and animations for a long time but just recently managed to get a full show on Glitch Productions, an indie studio which has produced a few things you might have seen floating around, all of which are top tier as well and extremely high effort and creative with their animation and storytelling.
@@kaizammit Actually, if you would rather check out more Halo stuff first, beyond the Halo 2 anniversary cinematics, Halo just got its own equivalent to the Astartes project in Sodaz's "Remember", a full 22 minute short film done in SFM (the most cursed of all video making software). It is very much so a tribute to the franchise, and while not as high fidelity as some of the official stuff, it is still top tier, especially as it was made by one person in Source Filmmaker.
@@kaizammit I just remembered, if you do decide to check out Internecion Cube, make sure to pause when things flash on screen and keep track of minor details even in the background. Despite being unfinished animation wise, there is still a lot going on and much of the story can be at least partially deciphered even if it isn't blatantly stated. Some of the animations and cinematic choices are also extremely smooth and deceptively complex.
When it comes to these fancy cinematics that is all they have but if you watch the cutscenes that use the in game graphics and all the mission briefings then you get a better idea of the story of this. Personally though I would recommend that you play this without seeing all that first. It really hammers in the terror of the Flood. As for your question about when this takes place. It’s after Halo Wars 2.
I can't remember every Halo cinematic but I believe these gave more life to Brutes than any cinematic before it. I know Halo 2 has some Brute stuff but these were fantastic.
Thank you so much for watching them fella! I'm glad you're enjoying them. Unfortunately, I've seen all Witcher 3 cinematics and that's why I've not covered any. I've got a Witcher Tattoo on my arm. I could break them down of course but I couldn't give you my reaction so to speak. I've not seen any of the other witchers.
If its possible i would recommend the old halo legends series but since there actually mini movies idk if thats something you be interested in covering but you can at least watch it if your free time.
It's something I'd be interested in doing but unsure on how to edit it as they're a movie like you said. I'll figure it out but sounds great. Thanks for the recommendation.
There's a halo reach fan film called remember which is absolutely beautiful I highly recommend checking it out if you enjoy halo would make a great reaction video too
I've done the three main cinematics already and they are on the channel. I'm going to cover the in-game ones very soon just like this video. I hope you like them.
Honestly as a human, I can appreciate Brute weapon design. Everything doubles as an inaccurate ranged weapon AND a melee weapon. Based IMO (fun fact, Brutes rly like some of the shotguns UNSC has, as they feel like something Brutes could have come up with potentially depending on RNG of invention)
If you’re enjoying the halo stuff I highly recommend a halo (fan animation) remember reach by SODAZ, one person making these amazing films but it is a long film about 30 minutes
hopefully you react to halo 3 i know it doesn't have a Movie grade cutscenes but you'll learn by watching youll understand more of the cutscenes from halo wars 2 and what leads from halo 2s story
Even though Atriox kicks Master Chiefs ass in Infinite it doesn’t do him justice like these cutscenes do, like even his talking make him him seem awesome.
Ads as in commercials? I'd love too! I love ads and that's the space I'm in as in my career. How many are there? I don't think a lot of people on the channel will like the video though. Thank you for watching this video.
@@kaizammit Yup! It's two short comedic commercials of Atriox and Cutter battling it out in a game of outsmarting each other. They're just fun and goofy. I honestly wish they made more of them.
Kai I'd love if you did "STAR WARS: The Old Republic - Knights of the Fallen Empire - “Sacrifice” Trailer" thats such a great trailer, I bet you will adore it
So the timeline is Halo wars, halo 1, halo 2, halo 3, halo 3: ODST, halo 4, Halo 5, Halo wars 2 and its DLCs are straight after, then it's Halo Infinite.
Yeah, was a bit disappointed in how short that dlc was. Especially since you got to be the Banished. But it was still pretty good for being short. And I agree with you on Infinite, they sort of fumbled Atriox in it a bit. Still love the big guy though. One of their most cunning and brutal villains in the Halo games.
@kaizammit oh I am down bad for those cutscenes! My favourite halo game is 2... played the frap out of it when I was younger on the original xbox! And God I loooove the remaster! Blur did it justice! Hope you like them as much as I did when I first saw them haha
I know the story, I grew up on the original Xbox hence my jumper love but I didn't touch the remastered edition. Guess I get to go down memory lane soon. Whoop. Thanks for being here.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The cutscenes for this game we’re on another level. Also Voridus should NOT have survived the opening imo, he was too surrounded and brutes aren’t exactly known for their ability to safely retreat
Tbf if you know the flood at that point they aren’t very organised they don’t have a gravemind or proto gravemind telling them what’s to do so as soon as the got out of the ship majority of the flood just ran into the wilderness trying to get away some stayed to try and infect the nearby things others ran away Early tier flood aren’t very organised If they where organised he’d of definitely died
@@ghostlyswat12 I mean like he was covered in goo when he took it off and the air was still yellow tinted too or maybe im just overestimating the Flood at that level
@@CommissarChaotic tbf halo has always had this problem the arbiter in halo 2 also goes through a tone of areas covered in spores in the air and doesn’t get infected
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Love your content man discovered you after your Astartes video.
I 100% recommend you do the other star wars old republic cinematics you've seen the first one how about the other 3 😉
@lupusinvictusvictorium8069 you've got it! I thought there was another 5!? I'll be returning to Star Wars after a few more videos releases. I also want to watch the Halo 2 anniversary cutscenes. So much good stuff to come.
Thanks for watching my videos, means a lot.
@@kaizammit you're correct I believe there is a total of 5 now including the first one.
I'm all about the halo content, one of my favourite game series and halo 2 anniversary is absolutely stunning.
Will be watching out for them!
Thank you for making such engaging and fun videos truly a shining light in the RUclips carnage haha.
@lupusinvictusvictorium8069 thanks man! It's nice to hear that from you and I hope you enjoy the Filmmaking bits and bobs that I share when looking at some of our favourite game cinematics.
@@kaizammit absolutely you've taught me a lot about film making and how to frame shots and subjects I'm wanting to embark upon my own project.
Seeying how much you love these cinematics, i would highly recommend the Halo 2 Remastered cinematics., i believe both these games cinematics were made by studio BLUR.
I've already recorded the next few videos so as soon as they are done and out, I'll dive in to Halo 2 Anniversary. I've heard good things. Going to be a long video that one. Thanks for watching.
YESSSSS! PLSPLSPLS
@@kaizammitYeh, the Halo 2 anniversary cutscenes are also done by Blur, the company who made Halo Wars 2's cutscenes as well. They are beautiful
Yessss I second this!!
You've got it!
“I told u, NOT to go inside….”
That line gave me shivers
It's nasty that line, I absolutely love it! KZ
For good REASON!
Honestly. They make a movie series in this quality following the Halo franchise and they could put $100 a ticket on it per movie. I would be there. Wow. I love the cinematics from Halo Wars and Halo Wars 2. They make you so invested in the universe.
If they did make an animated movie in this quality... perhaps with blurr studios ( I believe that's their name ) Then the whole halo franchise could possibly survive a bit longer. Halo Infinite and the Halo Show has really gutted the life span of the future for Halo at least in terms of games and other video media. The books are still alright though.
@crashspacebrent1626 Did you actually play Halo Wars 2 or just watched the pre-rendered cutscenes? Because if you did the latter you probably have no idea what's going on since you miss out on so much story context
He absolutely needs to watch the Halo 3 "Believe" Ad Campaign, absolute masterclass in cinematography. H3 ODST's "The Life" Ad, as well as Reach's "Remember Reach" campaigns were amazing too.
They sound good, I might have too.
"God he is badass, isn't he, I didn't get any of that from infinite" exactly my point, it was such a shame. 2 cutscenes and some holograms do not do him justice, I wish there was more to the halo wars story I really do, i love so much about it. I started playing again because of these videos, it's so great to experience again.
Those jumping flood forms are basically disabler units they disable units allowing the smaller flood forms to then infect them
It helps show how terrifying the flood are they adapt to any situation if they have trouble infections someone they’ll adapt to make it easier
I don't remember their actual name but those are basically flood assassin forms for picking off or infecting a particular personal of interest for the higher intelligence of the flood. As a quick example. Let's say there's a general who's amazing at holding the flood at bay and the flood infected someone who knew where he would be so the flood uses it's hive mind and sends out those forms to selectively stealth there way in and infect the general and then overrun the problem he caused for the flood spreading.
@@mrstabtoxic they aren’t called that no just quick name I came up with
I believe they are a varent of the abomination form, from what I can tell they come in 3 sizes, the medium sized ones seen in the cinematic, the large ones seen in art work for the flood logs, and the titanic sized ones seen in gameplay...also they are an evolution of the cut flood form in halo 2 the juggernaut, so they can also command flood units in its radius similar to a proto gravemind
@@mrstabtoxicthe gaunt
@goingstorm5491 they are the gaunt and as far as lore is concerned no they arent like abomination
I absolutely love the bit at 10:18, incredible voice acting in how he addresses each of the brothers, with Pavium his just giving an order, but with Voridus you can hear venom in each of his words especially with how he is clearly addressing Voridus directly. Atriox knows exactly whose fault it is and I love the attention to detail in it all.
If you want more flood, I 100% recommend watching the motion comic “The Mona Lisa”, its a horror motion comic adapting a short story from the book Halo: Evolutions. It is TERRIFYING and very well made
9:09 Those are Flood Abominations, a war form of a keymind. They are very intelligent, although not yet a full on graveyard. In essence, they would be the officers and leaders of a growing flood swarm.
To be exact 🤓 They are pure forms. The large mass was a Proto-Gravemind that had nearly reached a full-on Gravemind. A Keymind is when a Gravemind reaches multi-planet control.
@@kis4659 Except that was the old canon, since then, the KeyMind term no longer refers to a planet scale or multi-planet scale Gravemind.
@@hiddendesire3076 You are right my bad
@hiddendesire3076 he tried to correct you but was wrong with new lore but I'll correct the part where you're actually wrong is those aren't abominations they are the gaunt, the abomination is shown to be a lot bigger than those, and the lore behind how the gaunt works shows in the trailer, why they didn't have it as an actual flood form in gameplay and only the trailer, Idk but it's whatevs
Not sure if it's been covered already but the trailer for the first Halo Wars was stunning. As a kid it gave me goosebumps & got me so excited for the game. Not sure how long it was but even if brief, it's well worth the watch. Cheers!
"If they want war, we'll give them war."
You'd probably get a chuckle out of the Halo Wars 2 commercials between Cutter and Atriox.
So cool to see my recommendation get noticed and actually done, the E3 trailer gives me chills every time.
It took them like six years to finally officially release the song that plays in the trailer, but good that it's finally out properly.
I was wondering when you were going to react to the other Halo wars cinematics after you did the last video, nice job!
Thought I'd keep it going as I would have originally put all these in the first video if I'd known about them. Finished the main campaign last night so perfect timing. Thanks for coming back.
Halo Wars was 15 years before Reach and the Halo event, 23 years later the same Ark from Halo 3 is restored and the Covenant holy city "High Charity" is in isolation. Until the Banished breached isolation and released an ancient evil.
Been hoping for this since the Halo Wars 2 reaction woohoo!
I hope you enjoy the video my friend.
Awakening the Nightmare takes place right after the end of Halo Wars 2. Its why Atriox is extremely angry at the two in the end. Not only did they unleash the Flood, it diverted troops away from the fight with Cutter to contain the Flood
I finished the main game the other night so now I definitely know. Thank you for commenting anyways fella.
6:45 later in the dlc Atriox talks about how much this outbreak as compromised his war against the humans, so this takes place shortly post Halo Wars 2, in unknown, but relatively short time after Anders leaves on the Ring and Cutter stayed behind to try to keep a foothold. Why we never saw Pavium or Voridus as the UNSC or what they were doing during our fight, who knows.
The main loss here is Awakening the Nightmare only gets 3 cutscenes, and all other plot is either load screen dialogue or during mission.
I’m also sad the DLC does NOTHING to mention how Cutter is dealing with the Flood Outbreak on his side, because with how big we see it in game, it HAS to reach Arc wide, but there’s no mention about the humans at all during, but the Banished definitely had the worse end of the stick, so I don’t blame them not worrying about the humans.
I'd like to recommend some Witcher 3 cinematics: "Killing Monsters", "The Trail" and "A Night To Remember". Besides that I wanted to say that I really like your videos. They've given me a deeper appreciation for my favorite games and made me interested and exited for a few games I haven't tried yet.
This is indeed set during hw2 campaign, in one of the loadinf screen talking they say that they only have a small part of the army because theyre bussy (with spirit of fire/unsc) at the end you can see a proto gravemind they destroyed, so with a limited force the banished defeated a proto gravemind which is really impressive lore wise, the main benefit of the main characters (pavium and voridus the brutes) is that theyre basicly the top engineer and researcher of the banished infusing fusion gel into the scarab beam, kinda like a plasmaish substance that stays kn the ground and burns to the touch which is ideal in fighting the flood as you can imagine, ingame you can use the fusion gel thats on the floor to allow explosions ti happen dealing more damage and or give it a healing buff towards friendly units
A small detail I loved was the way cutter looked up to the sky before the drop pods came crashing down.
Thats the problem with just watching the cutscenes. You miss out on all of the additional story tidbits that happen throughout the actual game.
Awakening the nightmare takes months after main halo wars 2 story, and sadly there’s a halo wars 3 project in the making but after halo wars 2 poor selling it got cancelled, maybe given more years 5 minimun we might get a sequel to this story
The E3 trailer reminds me quite a bit of the Halo 3: Believe promo - mostly slow motion or (nearly) still shots with the camera moving through the environment, not much diegetic sound and heavy focused on the music. Makes for such an epic atmosphere.
the moment when you just don't want it to end... I never played Halo.. I've seen all of your Halo videos now and just bought the Master Chief collection.. And I am diving right in
Makes me happy to see Halo content still being appreciated
Seeing the flood this well animated is absolutely amazing.
10:01 in this scene it kinda makes no sense lore wise because they’re all standing around without masks while there are flood spores floating around 😂
Fun fact for halo wars 1 cutscenes it was made by blur who did halo 2 anniversary and halo wars 2 cutscenes
love that you’re playing the game!
Actually finished the main game last night. I haven't touched the dlc yet. Thank you for watching.
THANK YOU!
I am so freaking fed up with the stupid Whilhelm scream.
They keep claiming it's "the perfect scream" when it's not. Especially when it's overly used as it is for no reason.
Absolutely love those videos. This breakdown, that makes you think about things you never noticed before.
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching fella.
I've been into Halo since I was tiny, when it came out on original xbox and forever since, and it's funny how feelings are very similar as someone getting into the universe down the line,
Atriox being badass and not being shown the same in Infinite is a shame for sure, this DLC was good but could/ should have been longer
Also the timeline for this is only months after the end of Halo wars 2, Atriox mentions the war with the humans is still going on so this could have reintroduced the flood vs humanity again too
I have a feeling that Halo Wars sacrificed a lot that could have benefitted itself for the rest of the franchise to use
The Banished as an enemy, halo Infinite snagged that
New Spartans/AI, the Flood, even something like Captain Cutter being a new/old/cryofrozen version of Cpt Keyes
Lots of stuff to expand on should 343 choose to
Atriox telling those two brothers not to go inside was a serious warning considering Atriox was fighting both the Covenant and Humans.
He wouldve been spread thin on all fronts if an outbreak of the parasites/Flood was let loose and his entire army and foundation wouldve been undone.
ODST arriving was amazing at the beginning
The Halo Wars 1, 2, and Halo 2 Anniversary Cutscenes have always been my favorite out of the series.
Highly Recommend the first Halo wars cinematics and the Halo 2 anniversary ones as well.
You'll be pleased to hear that both of those videos are coming soon! Thank you for watching. KZ
They nerfed the appearance of infected Brutes, so the close ups weren't gruesome
In Halo 3, their jaws split for a newly formed flood head as they become the vessel for a flood combat form once infected
In à Nutshell there was technically only 2 cutscenes (officially) for Awakening the Nightmare but there was 5 maybe 6 missions in between the two cutscenes to put more context between both cutscenes.
Also been a while but I think the same happened for Operation Spearbreaker or Spearhead. For the second dlc for halo wars 2.
I know you're a big halo fan, as such I assume you would have played through it already. But Halo 2 got a remaster with the Master Chief Collection. It's cutscenes are up to par quality wise as Halo Wars 2, being made by the same CGI group. If you haven't seen the new cutscenes, perhaps that would make for a good reaction. Otherwise there's always the cut cinematic from halo 2: "Day at the beach" which you might not have seen yet, it also got remastered.
I never played the Remastered edition of Halo 2. I cut off after Halo 1 remaster. I'm going to make this video in a few weeks time. I'm looking forward to it now I've seen these. As I said in this video, it's re-lit my passion for halo.
You would LOVE the Atriox 5-part comic. It tells a good bit of his known story.
React to starwars knights of the old republic trailers and game cinematics
I covered one cinematic, what's the game cinematics?
The e3 trailer shouldn't have any problems with copyright
It got flagged on my first upload so I had to re-edit it. 😑
Good bye captain cutter.. you were a true leader! Loved the video :)
I take it back. He hasn't forgotten anything...
I’ve been waiting for this 🎉
Could you imagine how elite the marines would be from the spirit of fire at this point?
I wish I could watch this for the first time again
TMI: Brutes original name 'Jiralhanae' comes from the Korean bad words 지랄하네(original means with 'in epileptic seizure').
And that is why in Korean version, spelling of their name is bit different😂
How interesting! Thank you fella.
HALO 2 Anniversary cinimatics. Also Halo odst cinimatics are short and sweet, have some nice angles and are also really good
There was only 3 pre-rendered cutscenes by Blur. The rest of the story is told via the ingame cutscenes and mission briefings... There was so much context that was missing here... 😓
You should see the live action ads they did, there on the funny side rather then serious but still a good watch for a chuckle.
Isn't one about a funeral?
The reason these flood fight different then other flood is because this one have been festering for almost thirty years and have learned how to deal with both humans and covenant/banished much more effectively
i have the same reaction as you when the cinematic are over they are too short but too good haha
i really enjoy when camera move like someone is carrying it, that's why i love so much found footage movie like cloverfield
i personally played cyberpunk before and a bit after watching the anime and it gave me some happy and sad feeling listening to music or seing special area etc i understand why people wanted to play the game after watching the anime
the brute calling each other brother make them feel like they have a big connection between them + the fact that they were a bit like slave in the covenant army it remind me of the planet of the apes when cesar say "apes together strong"
as usual very good breakdown i like hearing you explain all those thing! btw you seem to be feeling better, I hope that when you were sick it wasn't too serious ^^
btw i didnt recieve your invitation to play halo only got dicor d but you are not online haha
I was feeling unwell after filming this. Regarding Discord, I'm never online and normally for Xbox too. I don't get much time to play. I actually finished the main story yesterday for Halo Wars 2. Not paid for the dlc yet.
My gamer tag is KAIBATRONIAN
@@kaizammit i hope you will totally feel better soon, take some good rest it's important ^^
idk if nightmare is playable in coop but if you wanna play it when you get it i'm almost always online haha
It's funny you mention Cyberpunk Edgerunners getting people to play the game. Arcane got people to jump into League and boosted the game during a phase when it was starting to lose players.
Hey man, love your videos. They’re very insightful for me, (especially since I want to get into doing these types of animations for a career).
Me and my brother want to get into making games and my long term plan is to work at 343, so if I ever make it, I be sure to put in a good word for Halo Wars 3!
I love Halo wars 2 so much
Yeah it’s a bit unfortunate that 343 wasn’t able to implement the banished and Atriox to their fullest. Atriox VA change always bothered me as the original was so good.
loving the content! saw you went into a warhammer mode for a little bit, but i don't see your reaction to the armouring of a space marine, would
love to see your take on it!
Hang on, are those Combiner Wars Constructicons on the shelf behind you, the one just under what looks like a Star Fox Arwing? Nice!
Yes they are. I've got quite a few Transformers in the cases behind me. Thanks for watching and great eye spying.
@@kaizammit I've got the Japanese version of the set. It's basically the same, but includes the individual cons' guns, has better joints, more G1 accurate colors and gives Devastator a flip-up visor since he sometimes had regular eyes.
Anyway, you'll have to give us a tour of the studio sometime 😁
Loving the channel so far, keep up the good work my man!
That's actually a really good idea! I should do something like that for you guys. This office and my work one. Both are cool for different reasons.
Thank you for watching my videos, it means a lot fella.
Your Devestator sounds banging!
The dlc campaign is also short. But it does peice it together a bit more
The unfortunate thing about HW2:AtN is that it only has the two cinematics, one at the start of the campaign and one at the end. All of the rest of the information is either in the missions or the pre-mission briefings.
The unfortunate thing about Atriox is that he's the antagonist of HW2 and not Infinite.
I need halo wars 3 with a playable flood and forerunners faction.
Forerunner leaders could be:
343 guilty spark
Librarian
Diadact
Whatever that thing from halo infinite was (I forget what it was called)
Rampancy Cortana
Flood leaders could be:
Gravemind
Infected prophet
Infected captain keys
Infected monitor
I feel ya. I could of watched an entire movies or TV series if it was done like this.
You should give "Fortress" and "Last Day of War" a try. Two older but good short films about a world war where all humans are whiped out, and the battle goes on between two computer systems
They sound epic! Can you link them here?
Halo 2 Remastered cinematics are probably what you are looking for.
Entirely unrelated but still very much worth checking out, the Internecion Cube series by Liam Vickers is a short series of animatics for a TV show that never made it off the ground (he went on to do other things however in indie animations). Despite being unfinished and animated entirely by one person, it is extremely good creepy-cute sci fi horror which features a number of interesting little tricks and details.
The person who made it has been on youtube writing short stories, making music, and animations for a long time but just recently managed to get a full show on Glitch Productions, an indie studio which has produced a few things you might have seen floating around, all of which are top tier as well and extremely high effort and creative with their animation and storytelling.
I'll add them to my list, thanks man.
@@kaizammit Actually, if you would rather check out more Halo stuff first, beyond the Halo 2 anniversary cinematics, Halo just got its own equivalent to the Astartes project in Sodaz's "Remember", a full 22 minute short film done in SFM (the most cursed of all video making software). It is very much so a tribute to the franchise, and while not as high fidelity as some of the official stuff, it is still top tier, especially as it was made by one person in Source Filmmaker.
I'll check it out, it certainly sounds interesting!
@@kaizammit I just remembered, if you do decide to check out Internecion Cube, make sure to pause when things flash on screen and keep track of minor details even in the background. Despite being unfinished animation wise, there is still a lot going on and much of the story can be at least partially deciphered even if it isn't blatantly stated. Some of the animations and cinematic choices are also extremely smooth and deceptively complex.
When it comes to these fancy cinematics that is all they have but if you watch the cutscenes that use the in game graphics and all the mission briefings then you get a better idea of the story of this. Personally though I would recommend that you play this without seeing all that first. It really hammers in the terror of the Flood. As for your question about when this takes place. It’s after Halo Wars 2.
I finished the main story last night and so I'm looking forward to jumping in against the flood. Thanks for watching. KZ
Kai, you need to view the star wars old republic cinematics, there are many and they are beautiful
Makes you want to see more huh ?
We NEED Another game like this
That trailer though .... I'm ready for that studio to make a movie anytime they want
Yeah XD I did laugh a little about the small fact of how little cinematics there was for Nightmare there was but they were still good to be fair.
I can't remember every Halo cinematic but I believe these gave more life to Brutes than any cinematic before it. I know Halo 2 has some Brute stuff but these were fantastic.
Hi Kai! Absolutely love your videos. Id love to see you cover all the Witcher games cinematics soon!
Thank you so much for watching them fella! I'm glad you're enjoying them. Unfortunately, I've seen all Witcher 3 cinematics and that's why I've not covered any. I've got a Witcher Tattoo on my arm. I could break them down of course but I couldn't give you my reaction so to speak.
I've not seen any of the other witchers.
If its possible i would recommend the old halo legends series but since there actually mini movies idk if thats something you be interested in covering but you can at least watch it if your free time.
It's something I'd be interested in doing but unsure on how to edit it as they're a movie like you said. I'll figure it out but sounds great. Thanks for the recommendation.
@@kaizammit They aren't movies as Halo Legends is a episodic anime series about 24mins each.
You should look at the Destiny 1 & 2 Trailers especially the live action ones like Taken King, E3, The Last Call, The Final Shape (Destiny DLC)
There's a halo reach fan film called remember which is absolutely beautiful I highly recommend checking it out if you enjoy halo would make a great reaction video too
You look into Starcraft 2 trailers and cinematics. They are amazing
I've done the three main cinematics already and they are on the channel. I'm going to cover the in-game ones very soon just like this video. I hope you like them.
Honestly as a human, I can appreciate Brute weapon design. Everything doubles as an inaccurate ranged weapon AND a melee weapon. Based IMO (fun fact, Brutes rly like some of the shotguns UNSC has, as they feel like something Brutes could have come up with potentially depending on RNG of invention)
The flood acted so dumb in these cutscenes
If you’re enjoying the halo stuff I highly recommend a halo (fan animation) remember reach by SODAZ, one person making these amazing films but it is a long film about 30 minutes
We need Halo Wars 3!
hopefully you react to halo 3 i know it doesn't have a Movie grade cutscenes but you'll learn by watching youll understand more of the cutscenes from halo wars 2 and what leads from halo 2s story
should react to all the halo live action trailers. especially HALO 3, ODST and REACH by far the best of its class
I think I might! I can relate to them more as I work in the live action space. KZ
@@kaizammit love it 🫡
Planetside 2 cinematic
Warframe 1st cinematic and New War cinematic.
Warframe is up near the top of my list. Coming soon with some more Star Wars.
Even though Atriox kicks Master Chiefs ass in Infinite it doesn’t do him justice like these cutscenes do, like even his talking make him him seem awesome.
Can you please do a small video on the Halo Wars 2 War of Wits ads? They're short and comedic and it'd be interesting to see your opinions on them.
Ads as in commercials? I'd love too! I love ads and that's the space I'm in as in my career. How many are there? I don't think a lot of people on the channel will like the video though. Thank you for watching this video.
@@kaizammit Yup! It's two short comedic commercials of Atriox and Cutter battling it out in a game of outsmarting each other. They're just fun and goofy. I honestly wish they made more of them.
You should check out the Gears of War Ultimate Edition cutscenes!
Can you do the halo anniversary terminals please.
Are they cinematics?
@@kaizammit Yes, CEA's, 2A's, and 4's are all cinematics, with the exception being 3's. They're very good for experiencing the deeper lore.
Watch the halo infinite opening custscene its sick and it has atriox
Kai I'd love if you did "STAR WARS: The Old Republic - Knights of the Fallen Empire - “Sacrifice” Trailer" thats such a great trailer, I bet you will adore it
You should do a video on total war warhammer 1-3 any of the games they all have good cinematics
Please react to the trailers to the first halo wars! They’re really good
Try Love Death and Robots if you want some excellent short films.
you absolutely should watch the original halo wars trailer and cinematics
They are coming!
So the timeline is Halo wars, halo 1, halo 2, halo 3, halo 3: ODST, halo 4, Halo 5, Halo wars 2 and its DLCs are straight after, then it's Halo Infinite.
If you loved the halo wars 2 cinematics you'll absolutely adore the halo 2 Anniversary cinematics.
You should definitely react to Halo Reach cinematics they're just as good just not pre rendered, they're in game.
Filmed it today ✌🏻
Yeah I wish there was a lot more cinematics :(
The music wasn’t copyrighted…
The first time I uploaded it, it flagged up hence I re-uploaded it.
Yeah, was a bit disappointed in how short that dlc was. Especially since you got to be the Banished. But it was still pretty good for being short. And I agree with you on Infinite, they sort of fumbled Atriox in it a bit. Still love the big guy though. One of their most cunning and brutal villains in the Halo games.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do the Halo 2 anniversary cutscenes! They were also made by Blur!
I've got it already planned. Should be recording it in a few weeks time. I hope you come back and watch.
@kaizammit oh I am down bad for those cutscenes! My favourite halo game is 2... played the frap out of it when I was younger on the original xbox! And God I loooove the remaster! Blur did it justice! Hope you like them as much as I did when I first saw them haha
I know the story, I grew up on the original Xbox hence my jumper love but I didn't touch the remastered edition. Guess I get to go down memory lane soon. Whoop. Thanks for being here.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The cutscenes for this game we’re on another level. Also Voridus should NOT have survived the opening imo, he was too surrounded and brutes aren’t exactly known for their ability to safely retreat
im just surprised he wasnt compromised by some flood spore or something
Tbf if you know the flood at that point they aren’t very organised they don’t have a gravemind or proto gravemind telling them what’s to do so as soon as the got out of the ship majority of the flood just ran into the wilderness trying to get away some stayed to try and infect the nearby things others ran away
Early tier flood aren’t very organised
If they where organised he’d of definitely died
@@CommissarChaotiche has a breathing mask probably what kept him alive
@@ghostlyswat12 I mean like he was covered in goo when he took it off and the air was still yellow tinted too or maybe im just overestimating the Flood at that level
@@CommissarChaotic tbf halo has always had this problem the arbiter in halo 2 also goes through a tone of areas covered in spores in the air and doesn’t get infected