At Microsoft’s E3 2007 press conference, Director Neil Blomkamp fulfilled every Halo fanboy’s inner dreams by bringing the series out of its polygonal past and into the real world, using fully-functional models. Among them is one of the most iconic vehicles in Halo: the Warthog.
Peter Jackson’s WETA workshop didn’t mess around with computer generated models. Instead they took the hard root and came up with a pretty damn impressive rendition. Bungie’s Frank O’Connor shares a reaction with all of us:
Um. The dudes at WETA made a Warthog. I don’t mean that they made a big plastic thing that looks like a Warthog. I mean they built a fully-functioning, four-wheel steering, powerful, off-road vehicle with a machine gun on the back. At the correct scale. If you live near Wellington, New Zealand, you might even see some crazy machine-shop dude from WETA fishtailing around your base, ahem, I mean neighborhood….Goddamn. It’s a Warthog.
The vehicle was created for a series of short films that will slowly funnel out onto the Xbox Live Marketplace, building up to Halo 3’s eventual release on September 25th.
