Since Marty O’Donnell just posted a version of the Halo MWNY trailer from 1999, (view it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL0hrSSUpHw ) I thought I’d splice together a side-by-side comparison of that version and the one from Bungie’s own YouTube channel, which I remember as being the version actually shown to the MWNY audience and captured in multiple shakycam videos.

Bungie’s version is on the left; Marty O’Donnell’s version is on the right.

These appears to be slightly different performances of basically the same demo, but when you sync the two copies to the music, some of the edits aren’t in the exact same place, and there are a few segments that are slightly different.

There’s a graphical glitch in Marty’s version when the Spartan first emerges into the outdoors– some of the polygons that make up the tunnel walls become transparent briefly. There’s also a different camera angle that shows multiple flying objects over the water. These appeared briefly in the official version and were never positively identified; perhaps they were an element removed from the game before release?

Finally, the Bungie flag at the end of Marty’s version has a glowing Apple logo on top of it.

You can see one of the actual shakycam videos of the trailer as shown to the MacWorld crowd here:

http://rampancy.net/video/media/26/05/2009/Halo_Sneak_Peek_MacObservers_Idiots

We’ve finished with the canonical Marathon Trilogy and are moving on to third party scenarios, starting with EVIL. In this scenario, a UESC ship from Tau Ceti runs into a spatial anomaly that sends them far away where we encounter something dark and evil.

In this episode, we try (and fail) to capture the ultra powerful Mystics.

There’s also a few other things that go on. About halfway through, we find a switch we know we’re supposed to push, but that it seems like we can’t push. What happened was (and not for the first time) it was activated by weapons fire, but we failed to notice and didn’t go looking for the door it opened. Instead we quit out and Narcogen finished the level solo.

EVIL can be played, like the other Marathon games, using the open source Aleph One engine which you can get here for Windows, Mac and Linux:

http://source.bungie.org

EVIL and other third party scenarios for the Aleph One engine can be downloaded here:

http://source.bungie.org/scenarios.php#more

We use irons’ Co-Op script, which gives weapons and ammo to both players if either picks any up, and prevents weapon loss on death (so items can’t be destroyed in lava or slime). The script also allows one player to teleport to a destination set by themselves or their partner, in case co-op players run into a problem a solo player would have to restart for.

http://simplici7y.com/items/co-op

EVIL has its own spoiler guide:

http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/evil/

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Music used in this episode:

“What About Bob?” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)
“New Pacific (Reprise)” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (outro music)

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