I had the idea of a playable first cutscene/ prologue level. Check it out…
Also, the playable cutscenes won’t last more then five minutes. E.g. with Reach, either you last five minutes and Emile’s cutscene begins or you die before that.
And when the dialogue starts, the game sounds fade slightly and are muffled.
First, somebody is talking in the background on the deck of a UNSC ship looking over Earth. I’ll post the dialogue on the right and the cutscene/ playable prologue stuff on the right, as they would play simultaneously.
HARVEST 2525
Squad of marines walking around a For years we fought amongst
destroyed building, checking for ourselves. We killed millions of
rebel activity. Fades out, fades our own kind. We were pushing
back in with marines fighting in ourselves towards extinction.
a dust storm, with elites surrounding Then the Covenant appeared on
them. They fight for a while (Playable) Harvest. Killing all they could.
until whoever you are playing as turns and They were relentless and brutal.
gets hit by an elite charging with a sword. That day the war ended. Funny…
He gets lifted off the floor and thrown back it took our all-but-certain
down. Both in first and other camera view. annihilation to bring us together
Comms crackle, and say: “There’s no rebels… as one. We fought hard, we were
This is something else…” then look up and a brave and our will strong… but
cruiser glows and a beam of glass strikes, and we never stood a chance. We knew
the screen fades out. that from day one…
REACH 2552
Playing as Noble six, fighting with Noble Team. The war left humanity battered
Surrounded by Covenant. Fighting for a while and beaten. But that only made us
(Playable) before a plasma bolt hits Emile. more persistent. When they found
Carter: “Emile’-Yoink!-, get a medkit here, now!” Reach… all but nothing stood
Carter is then shot by a needle in the chest between the Covenant and Earth.
and drops. Fades to black, and you here Kat: The Spartans fought bravely,
Position lost, proceed with destruction of becoming feared and respected by
sword base!" us and the Covenant. If only we
had them here now…
Halo CE 2552
Shows the Halo. Chief fights some flood, And then we found Halo, an alien
some covvies before meeting Sparky. Then ring-world with the power to kill
Halo is fired and fades out with Chief all sentient life in the galaxy.
flying away. We also found the flood, a deadly
parasite locked away on Halo. We
awakened it, and had to destroy
Halo to contain the outbreak…
There’s still six ring-worlds out
there. We MUST find them before
the Covenant…
HALO 2 2552
Master Chief and Bucks ODST squad are The Covenant found Earth! Every
fighting off several Covenant dropping asset has gone to fighting them
in from a carrier. (Playable) After a back. They found something in the
while, the cruiser jumps into slipspace sands… God knows WE didn’t
and the blast knocks out electronics and leave that there…
your visor crackles and turns dark.
Halo 3 2552
(Playable) The end of the war… at long
Chief is on the Ark, running through last… We found The Ark, and
the Ark’s control room, fighting flood and eradicated the Halo threat and
Covenant with Arbiter at his side. the Covenant. The flood is out
He activates the ring, destroying the Ark. of the picture too. We won…
Shows cutscene where Chief looks at Cortana barely… At the cost of our
with the halo blowing up behind them. The heroes… Now we must rebuild…
screen then lights up and turns white, and and reclaim what is rightfully
says HALO 4 on the screen, then the tune ours…
plays.
What do you think?