Awakening
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The Halo 4 announcement trailer is a pre-rendered teaser trailer for Halo 4. It was first shown at Microsoft's E3 Media Briefing on June 6th, 2011. It depicts Cortana hastily awakening John-117 from cryo-sleep on the aft half of the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn, followed by John securing Cortana's storage chip and rushing through the wreckage to witness the ship being pulled into a mysterious object.
Transcript
Fades in to many points of reddish light, apparently stars, against a black background. In the foreground, one of these sends small curling sparks throughout columns of smoky material; the lights resolve themselves as neurons in a human body, sending slow pulses to one another.
- Cortana: (muffled) "I need you!"
The neural pulses reach the heart.
- Cortana: (muffled) "Please!"
The heart begins beating, and the neural pulses race up the spine to the brain.
- Cortana: (muffled) "Wake up, John!"
The brain awakens, and the camera rapidly zooms out to show John-117 inside of his cryo-chamber. His helmet's flashlights activate, and he slightly moves his head back and forth."
- Cortana: "Chief!"
John, now wide awake, forcibly throws open the cryotube and rushes to Cortana's holotank.
- Cortana: "John..."
- John-117: "I'm here."
John and Cortana turn to see the Template:UNSCship exploding and collapsing. John stows Cortana's chip in his helmet, and pushes off the holotank to speed down the hallway. Taking advantage of the microgravity, he uses a pair of thrusters on his armor to maneuver through the girders and debris in the imploding hallway. He grabs a floating pistol and blasts a piece of debris out of the way, and stops his movement by grabbing a protruding girder. Now standing on the edge of the Forward Unto Dawn, John reloads his pistol and stares out into space. The camera turns to show the Dawn being pulled into an enormous iris-like opening in what appears to be a Forerunner machine or spacecraft.
Blackout as the Halo Theme plays.
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Video ends as the Xbox 360 logo is being shown.
Trivia
The Template:UNSCship made a completely different external appearance in the trailer compared to Halo 3, with the external bridge structure not present and the hangar bay not as prominent as it was.
Chiefs armor is different then the old Mark VI he used in Halo 3/Halo 2.
