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Trailer Analysis: Halo: Reach

Halo: Reach Trailer

I love the game Halo: Reach, with its overpowering sense of unconquerable evil mixed with an equal feeling of undying fortitude and hope. These two powerful feelings are conveyed in this trailer due to its heavy focus on large silhouettes and areas of high contrasting colors. Alien ships and designs are large, rounded shapes composed with purples and lighter blues while human armor and vehicles have earth tones of browns, greens, and some examples of brighter oranges and yellows to truly stand apart from the aliens they are fighting. They obvious differences between ships and technology isn't the only thing showing these factions at war though, the game trailer starting out with relatively calm establishing scenes showing transportation of troops and armor turns into destructive battle quickly. Even the landscape reflects the harsh effects of these battles, as the trailer plays out, the environment goes from wide open spaces showcasing calm nature, (like the mountains scene involving the helicopters at the beginning) to burning, crowded cities and crashed star ships at the end. This trailer captures the entire campaign in a minute, and showcases all of the centeral emotional feelings that the player should go through by watching the world around them slowly descend into chaos. All the while without saying a word, giving names of anything, (other than the planet: Reach) or giving any major spoilers or deaths.

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