Halo Gamestock 2001 Demo

The Halo Gamestock 2001 Demo was a real-time demonstration of Halo: Combat Evolved on the Xbox, shown at Microsoft Gamestock 2001. The demo showcases gameplay on what would later become the campaign level The Silent Cartographer.

Transcript

 * Jason Jones: "Hey, everybody. So I'm Jason Jones, one of the co-founders at Bungie and the Lead on Halo. I've got Joe Staten with me here. He's our Director of Cinematics. Joe has done some pretty cool Halo movies of the PC version of the game over the last two years for you guys. We are gonna put him on the spot this time; do something a little bit different: we'll get him to actually play Halo on the Xbox. We'll pretty much let it speak for itself."


 * Joseph Staten: "Great! Thanks, Jason. It's really nice not to be showing you movies today, although it really makes me really nervous to actually play this for you. I am going to be playing Halo in the flesh on the Xbox. On behalf of the whole Halo team, thanks a lot for coming, and welcome to Halo on the Xbox."


 * Staten: "Hundreds of years from now, mankind is locked in a life-or-death struggle with a group of aliens known as the Covenant. The Covenant have destroyed our colony worlds; their forces are unstoppable. To lead the Covenant away from the Earth, a ship of human soldiers makes a blind jump to a forgotten corner of the galaxy, where they crashed on Halo, an ancient ring artifact ten thousands kilometers in diameter, locked in orbit between an obscure planet and its moon. And this, this is Halo, and this — this is you, an elite military unit, you are the last of your kind. Trained to fight with any weapon, attack in any vehicle, you are mankind's most sophisticated piece of military hardware. Linking together with other survivors from the crash, you begin a guerilla war against the Covenant army that followed you to Halo. Whichever side, human or alien, first uncovers the secrets of Halo will find something that will alter the course of the war. Humanity's fate is in your big, green, armored hands."