{"id":24014,"date":"2015-10-26T03:04:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T08:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=24014"},"modified":"2015-10-26T03:04:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T08:04:58","slug":"your-sneak-peek-at-the-halo-5-live-launch-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=24014","title":{"rendered":"Your Sneak Peek at the Halo 5: Live Launch Broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>A reblog from XBOX.com:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Halo 5: LIVE - Phaeton VTOL\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8fWB5967xKo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>It\u2019s almost time: At long last,\u00a0<em>Halo 5: Guardians<\/em>\u00a0is almost here. And as its October 27 launch date barrels toward us like an oncoming Spartan Charge, we\u2019ve prepped one of the biggest, baddest launch celebrations ever. At 6:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, October 26, we\u2019ll be running our six-hour\u00a0<em>Halo 5: Live<\/em>\u00a0broadcast, culminating with\u00a0<em>Halo 5: Guardians<\/em>\u2019 North American launch at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Monday, we wanted to preview details about two of our favorite segments.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We recently got a peek at the\u00a0<strong><em>Halo 5: Guardians\u00a0<\/em>Writers\u2019 Roundtable<\/strong>, an exclusive behind-the-scenes chat between the game\u2019s creative team and Nathan Fillion, who voices Spartan Buck in\u00a0<em>Halo 5: Guardians<\/em>\u00a0(to say nothing of \u201cFirefly,\u201d \u201cCastle,\u201d and all of his other amazing credentials over the years).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fillion recalls the first time he played\u00a0<em>Halo<\/em>\u00a0(and what his character, Buck, is like), the team gives players an idea of what to expect in the opening hours of\u00a0<em>Halo 5: Guardians<\/em>, and the writers discuss some important differences between writing video games and TV shows. Fillion also talks about the motion capture process, and how different it is than acting in a typical TV or film role. You\u2019ll get a good idea of the back-and-forth that happened during the\u00a0<em>Halo 5: Guardians<\/em>\u00a0creative process. Finally, the team talks about the levels that they\u2019re most proud of designing \u2013 and discusses the best way for series newcomers to approach\u00a0<em>the game<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Second, we\u2019ll be debuting a special\u00a0<strong>behind-the-scenes video on \u201cHalo: The Fall of Reach<\/strong>,\u201d the upcoming animated series based on Erik Nylund\u2019s 2001 novel. \u201cHalo: The Fall of Reach\u201d unveils the origin of the Spartan-II program, Blue Team, and the soldier who would eventually become the Master Chief. In this making-of video, the\u00a0<em>Halo\u00a0<\/em>team discusses the making of this unique animated series, and its importance to the\u00a0<em>Halo\u00a0<\/em>saga.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You\u2019ll learn more about animation firm The Sequence Group\u2019s unique visual style, how composer Tom Salta made the series\u2019 beautiful music, and how top-tier voice actors can make all the difference. With the major role that Blue Team plays in\u00a0<em>Halo 5: Guardians<\/em>, this the perfect time to find out more about their history. It\u2019s a fascinating look at what\u2019s shaping up to be awesome animated experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Halo 5: Live<\/em>\u00a0will unite millions of\u00a0<em>Halo\u00a0<\/em>fans worldwide \u2013 allowing them to watch, comment, and virtually participate in a multitude of launch celebrations held in key international cities. No matter who you are or where you\u2019re located, you can join in on the fun leading up to 2015\u2019s biggest video game launch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can find an exhaustive list of what we\u2019ve got planned in our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.xbox.com\/2015\/10\/games-halo-5-live-launch-event\" target=\"_blank\">initial\u00a0<em>Halo 5: Live\u00a0<\/em>announcement post<\/a>. It\u2019s almost here \u2013 and we\u2019re just as excited as you are to finally dive into\u00a0<em>Halo 5: Guardians\u00a0<\/em>on Xbox One!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reblog from XBOX.com: It\u2019s almost time: At long last,\u00a0Halo 5: Guardians\u00a0is almost here. And as its October 27 launch date barrels toward us like an oncoming Spartan Charge, we\u2019ve prepped one of the biggest, baddest launch celebrations ever. At &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=24014\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24016,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24014\/revisions\/24016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}