New Halo 3 ARG?

by: Chuck - posted: 6/14/2007 7:38:00 AM

It looks like Bungie has started another Alternative Reality Game (ARG) for Halo 3 as we got a weird e-mail from Microsoft (after the jump) as well as a strange, new visitor to the Bungie forums yesterday (detailed here).  I'm still not sure why you have to further hype a game that's already got 4 million retail pre-orders but that's just me.  It will be interesting to see how this one turns out as the "I Love Bees" campaign for Halo 2 was pretty successful.

HISTORY CIRCLING
BACK UPON US.

The gears of the Universe spin further
and further apart.
Ever greater grows the gulf between souls,
And distance gives false hope of safety
But for the grim tidings this messenger bears:

The enemy is almost upon us

Closing in from all sides,
Moving faster than the light
it snuffs with its passage,
Time echoes with the news of destruction.
History winding back upon itself.

Waves of an army march this way in unison, Suffering and corruption are its battle cries.
For I have known this darkness
and felt its embrace once before-
Horror best laid to rest

Yet a Journey must commence

Look for the signs, the keepers of the flame.
They will lead you to war, and perhaps, to victory