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“It didn’t take long for Reach to fall. Our enemy was ruthless. Efficient. But they weren’t nearly fast enough. For you have already passed the torch. And because of you, we found Halo.” “Unlocked it’s secrets, shattered our enemies resolve. Our victory-your victory-was so close, I wished you could have lived to see it. But you belong to Reach. Your body, your armor. All burned and turned to glass. Everything.” “Except, your courage. That, you have to us. And with it, we can rebuild.”
As much as i love that quote for 6, I think it's important to recognize how much that quote applies to everyone who died on reach. Marine, ODST, Spartan, they all died for humanity
Spartans never die They're just missing in action
Oh nice, It's Sodaz again, easily one of the best fan animators. All his 40k stuff was gold before they got pulled from the net. And he's only getting better since.
Very impressive work 🤩
is his 40k stuff re-uploaded anywhere?
@ceoofperc5353 SmokeTinyTom got most of it reuploaded before the purge. Here on youtube
I do like that even with the Spartians in the animation they still gave the ODST's and Marines some glory to, it really easy to give the super soldiers all the glory and forget about the ordinary guys (Or just make them cannon fodder) who don't get the super armour and enhancments and have to take on same enemies with nothing more then a lot of spine and maybe if they are lucky a simular gun to the elite forces. Its why the Guard are so loved in 40k because they don't get the bolter and power armour the Space Mariens do yet they are still able to pull wins off alone.
I think part of the reason Sodaz does the guard and ODST so much justice is because he did military service himself (South Korea has mandatory 1 year service I believe). He also does a good job of making the enemy of the piece generally competent too (for example, the chaos space marines in his Death Korps video actually win their fights against even numbers of loyalists likely because they have greater experience and chaos empowerment, they ultimately lose due to the combined arms nature of the imperium).
This animation is so badass he used literally every asset from reach in this it’s the best depiction of how reach fell
I've never seen SODAZ's work, but I feel like I had a very good experience here. especially the homage to HALO REACH at the end, which literally made me cry.
Honestly, if you like war games like this, Titanfall or S.t.a.l.k.e.r his animations are some of the best. They just have an excellent flow to them and fit with the lore of their respective settings so well with no faction being relegated to narrative cannon fodder. For example we see in this that the marines are clearly carrying their own weight but are outmatched by the Elites and while the Spartans are brutally effective, there are only so many of them and the Covenant gives a good showing against them.
Glad you got exposed to his work. From what we’ve seen he is very talented 🤩
Yeah every god damn time, especially with the shot of the Autumn coming up to the ring like that.
(Spoilers for Reach Ending) So this was basically Halo Reach in a different area. All those countless dead Spartan's in the last mission as Six. It's morbid and good at showing how screwed you are, but a video like this really goes to show how much they also assisted in completing the mission. You wouldn't of had the gotten that far without all the Spartans dying, and in turn yourself dying to save Cortana and the MC. Reach is still the best Halo game due to this exact tone.
10:26 when you guys play through ODST… you’ll learn to love these little moments 🥰
I wonder if that guy is the Rookie...
Sodaz got screwed hard by Games Workshop, so it';s good that his other work has been being seen on the regular lately. "Those guys" Kig-Yar are usually referred to as Jackals (it's not a complement) "Take the big tank" Touching the enemies stuff without ONI clearance is a strict UNSC nono, despite what Master Chief does on the regular. This Spartan team covered the retreat of the Pillar of Autumn. You know the rest.
It amazes me that one man can have so much talent to do this practically by himself and a professional team of Hollywood can't make a an even mediocre series with actors and a massive budget.
Yeah bummer the series was bad. But it just shows that talent, hard work, and an appreciation of the source material is more important than money 😊
This is one of the best Halo fan Animation I've ever seen. I'm so happy that you guys reacted this. Hope you react to more of Sodaz's works. Also the ending doesn't feel as hopeful when you realize that out of the billions of people on the planet only a few thousand of them survived.
It’s not a happy ending and a victory. But it gives a small glimmer of hope that life can go in and be rebuilt 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames in halo universe, human population has been split by half. They were like 50 billions across their part of the galaxy, and iirc, the population after the war was at 23 billion i think
You see at 10:20 that music is actually diegetic, when an odst's helmet detects rain it starts to play jazz
2:46 she's right they are Avain (birds), nickname Jackals lore name Kig-Yar.
UNSC = United Nations Space Command And ONI = Office of Navel Intelligence AKA research, intel gathering and in general mostly black ops stuff
In the comic of the fall of reach for halo i think there this was suppose to be red team which was basically 300 or 400 Spartans were to hold the line for the pillar of autumn to escape. In the end all of them died since it was a final last stand. Also this animation that you watched is depicting the last battle of halo reach
Wait, wasn't there like thirty or forty Spartan IIs? Do you mean ODSTs?
@@Sujad no I mean Spartans. These were spartan 3s baiscally shock troops , spartan 3s were produced in mass and they were mostly adults when they were augmented to become Spartans
@@lostkhan1728 They're were no hundreds of Spartan IIIs on Reach. Both Alpha and Bravo company had been wiped out at this point except for the Category 2 IIIs like Six and the members of Noble. The only company of Spartan IIIs left were Gamma company, many of whom were still training on Onyx and none were reported to be on Reach. I think you're getting confused with the Red Team of ~30 Spartan IIs that were dropped to defend Reach, led by Fred-104. Also the Spartan IIIs were trained from childhood like the IIs, you may be getting them confused with the Spartan IV program.
@@spectre8131 eh cool to know, I'm more of a warhammer 40k guy anyways 🤷♂️
The most incredible thing about this film is that, SODAZ made this with Source Filmmaker. 26:00 If you look at the video, you'll know all of the animation is hand-crafted, without any motion-capture.
Sodaz is one of the best animators out there. If you'd like, there's a bunch of amazing warhammer animations he's done in the past that the internet has been keeping alive, but he's also done a titanfall project, and is working on a Fallout one
Would love seeing more of his work 🙂
its really good to see sodaz get alot of the recognition that he deserves,its really nice seeing all these reactions. 2 things, i reccomend watching sodaz's s.t.a.l.k.e.r fan film and bucky is the cutest thing i have seen all year and he must be protected.
Haha, yes, Bucky must be protected but our hands must also be protected from Bucky for he loves to gnaw on them 😝😇
I’m so glad you guys reacted to this, it is easily one of the best Halo Fan animations out there
Very impressive 🤩
This carries the soul of what Halo is and was back in the day. Today Halo feels like it is a husk of what it used to be and I have practically given up on what is going to come in the future. So I will stay behind hold out the flank and remember Halo for what it were, and what it could be. We Old Spartans Never Died, we are just missing an action.
It seems like your puppy was conducting a little assault of their own simultaneously with the covenant lol
I missed your Halo reactions since its my favorite game. Sodaz is amazing and if I would suggest watching some Hiddenxperia or other channels that do the lore. They explain so much and really can help explain the Halo Universe more. Keep up the good work you guys might be my favorite reaction channel
This is such an amazing animation. The level of detail, the story, the last stand and to buy time for the Pillar of Autumn to escape. This is what the Fall of Reach game so amazing and how we are so tied to these characters. They are to hold out onto hope and what they gave and sacrificed to achieve was able to bring hope to others, and the events that lead into the first Halo games. Amazing stuff! I hope you can get to react to Sodaz other work. A little bit of warhammer with Black Templar and the Death Korp of Krieg are two of his finest works. I hope you can give a reaction to them as well.
Heard a lot of not all of his 40k stuff got pulled. We may be able to find some stuff on other channels of his work reuploaded 🤔
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames That is true. But, if you type the names of the videos that were mentioned along with Sodaz name you should find them with relative ease.
Wow I wish the TV show was at this level of perfection what a exciting a emotional ride back to memory lane from a different perspective of the same story. Amazing
I love everything Reach, because despite all their fighting, you know humanity has to lose. Its no longer a matter of if, but when
you guys should check out some of the halo legends animations, the different art styles are nice
Definitely. The Prototype still hits hard.
100% agreed. Such great stories
Sodaz animations are badass. Hope you watch his other work as well ❤
I loved the final reaction, you can feel the excitement of seeing the master chief
Also, if you are interested in continuing to see more things related to the Halo universe, I definitely recommend you to watch a miniseries, which is made up of different animated stories, called Halo Legends, despite the fact that not all stories are considered canonical, it is a fact that they are quite impressive to watch because of the different types of animations
I second this!
The bird like aliens are Jackals, and the one with silvery feathers was a Skirmisher, a sub-species of Jackal. UNSC stands for United Nations Space Command. Could you imagine being chosen for one of these last stand, rear-guard positions on a planet burning around you? The sheer terror... And the sheer balls to stand on your gun anyways.
I always found it inspirational that an entire covenant of united alien races, with all their advanced technology, have such a difficult time dealing with humanity Truly a story about the tenacity, perseverance, and will of the human spirit.
fun fact about hunters, although you say bane juice the real lore is much stranger. They are actually a colony of worms split between the 2 hunters. The same species of worm drive some of the biggest covenant land vehicles like scarabs
The amount of love put into this is very apparent. Best fan animation I’ve seen. This is what it looks like when people who love halo make halo content. The story and end he gave to these Spartans was a billion times better than the big budget series that only kinda looks like halo.
United Nations Space Command of United Earth. Spartans fall under the UNSC naval special warfare command. HellJumpers are under the command of standard naval companies but as volunteers as they jump straight into a planet due to reentry heat the temperature is like jumping into hell. The planetside army falls under USNC command land division. Ships are usually under the command of one of 5 fleet admirals. I would actually read the Halo book series as its a good way to get into the series before playing, The Fall of reach, The Flood, and First Strike, along with Ghosts of Onyx. The forerunner series is ok but its not my thing.
I love this animation. Easily one of the best out there. My favorite part is when the puppy tries to eat that one Spartan's hair. ...Wait...
Before I saw this animation I never really thought about how devastating it would be as a Marine or ODST to see a Spartan die. Like these are the best of the best with top of the line gear who you can see just kick some absolute ass, yet a single blow can still be all it takes to take one out. For every Spartan they have a dozen Elites.
10:13 aaaah so close :) UNSC stands for United Nations Space Command. Almost had it :)
Monty Oum would be proud
The battle at the end is just Damned If you do and damned If you don’t
Remember Reach. That's ODST soundtrack hit like a truck 🚚
Reach is probably the best story Bungie could've done as a send off for Halo.
The Covenant may have won the battle and destroyed reach but they had no idea that allowing that ship to escape just lost them the war.
You'd think the unsc would of developed something to protect against melee attacks. Also sodaz is working on fallout one with few parts already out.
This is arguably Sodaz's masterpiece, the editing, the voice work by everyone involved, the music choices, the animations, the sounds, the level of detail, the amount of perspectives, if there's some kind of award for best fan made animations its gotta go to him, hands down
This is my favorite Halo fan film to date! The callbacks and references made it all the more amazing! It also makes me disappointed that fans of the franchise can make better films, and better stories than the people who own the IP. I also feel this way about Star Wars as well. The fact that the fans can make better stories than the people who own the franchise is really cool and really disappointing. One more thing, holy Halo Rings, the dog looks adorable!!
Hate aliens, hate xenos, love humanity, love me brethren, simple as
VattiVidya Eternal Cities, Age Of Despair and Cosmos soon? I know we love those great long high quality reactions
This is the Pillar of Autumn We’re away The package is with us…
These are literally my favorite brutes their so good looking
UNSC stands for Unites Nation Space Command
Definitely not definte your doing amazing job for real keep it up and take care yourselfs
Halo reach was a good game by itself but it also added context to the games of just how BAD our situation was by the time of halo 1-3. Losing Reach was such a blow to morale (among other things) that the saying ‘Spartans never die, they’re just missing in action’ needs to be made and spread around to give people some semblance of hope and kind of stop thinking about how the genetically engineered super badasses were dying left right and center due to being given such dangerous missions just to make SOME sort of progress in the war.
Remember Reach. Also yay Sodaz animation
Was amazing guys, love to see sodaz again on the channel Would love to see your reaction to "Contract" from sodaz too
That is an amazing animation NGl, i didn't see it before!
Yeah the end pulled from halo reach which is noble six made the shot to destroy the carrier allowing the ship take off
Yes I was waiting for the both of you to react to this
I want to help clear any confusion by telling the names of the aliens since I’m a Halo player/fan The scaley ones with the coloured armour and the energy swords are called Elite’s The small ones that look like triangles are called Grunt’s The small skinny ones with shields are called jackal’s The ones similar to jackal’s but have no shields and move more are called Skirmisher’s The giant ones that shoot the green lazars and are REALLY tank’y are called Hunter’s The next one isn’t shown in the video but it has wings and can fly are called Bugger’s The big hairy dudes with the armour are called Brute’s Also UNSC Stands for United Nations Space Command don’t worry I thought the ‘C’ stood for Corps too
Having a dog is like having a child that never grows up :)
A sweet thing that you may have noticed while grabbing this video is the next SODAZ project is Fallout, the literal battle between the Brotherhood of Steel and the NCR over the Helios ONE Relay. Granted it will literally be a year before it's done if it's meant to be on the scale of this but still exciting.
Finally, more people are starting to react to this.
Sodaz is currently working on a Fallout vid too. As for funny military abbreviations, these aren't official but there's of course FUBAR, which pretty much everyone knows. STEAL (Strategic Transfer of Equipment to Alternate Locations), BOHICA (Bend over, here it comes again) FISTers (which are fire support specialists, as in the guys who call in artillery or air support) SNAFU (Status Nominal: All F*cked Up) FIDO (F**K It Drive On) GAFFOARD (Give A Flying F**k On A Rolling Doughnut) FIGMO (F**K It Got My Orders) Just to name a few. They're endless really.
Here's one thing I noticed. The Green Spartan with the heavy gear, his death is unusual. His arms are by his waist as he dies, but when the camera came back to him, his arms are by his neck. It is implied that he somehow lived for a few seconds before he died. As for the sniper, he seem to die quicker than the other four. And another sad part is how the ODST Spartan died. It wasn't instant. The plasma was killing her, not the shock and trauma or the strike. The plasma was slowly killing her. ODST Spartan had the worst death out of all of her teammates. The team leader at least died knowing that his team's sacrifice was not in vain despite the plasma from the sword slowly killing him.
Oh nice, they did my request
Eventually we get to things 😜😊🤗
Your puppy reminds me of Falcor the Luck Dragon!
The only thing wrong that I see in this animation is brutes and elites marching together. In Halo Reach if 1 of them was there, the other was nowhere to be found in the entire level. The covenant civil war hasn't happened yet, but there was still a lot of animocity between the 2 alien lifeforms.
Perfect interquel for the halo reach events just before Noble Six part..... iykyk
10:10 I know I'm a bit late to reply your video but you're almost correct! 😁 UNSC in HALO stand for United Nations Space Command which is the main human military forces in this Universe. ODST stand for Orbital Drop Shock Troops! Which are the boys you saw in the opening. They basically are main Special Forces of the UNSC (Think of it as a Navy SEALs). And the last one with the unique armor are Spartans which are super soldiers with modified genetics. They basically are Captain America but taller. 😂
The entirety of Halo Reach is a prequal to Halo 1... Planet Reach was the UNSC's greatest military base outside of Earth itself and the home of the Spartan program... This is where the Master Chief was brought as a child, it's where he trained and where he gained his enhancements as a Spartan II... By the time of Halo Reach the Spartans had proven themselves to invaluable assets... But they were just that... Invaluable... And thus began the Spartan III program. Due to advances in technology the Spartan III surgeries were far safer and cheaper allowing the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) to recruit from the teenage war orphans rather then a select few genetically near perfect adolescents. This decreased the time it took to train them and due to the SPI rather then Mjolnir armour they were given The cost of Spartan III's was so low that Reach had hundreds of them when compared to the few dozen of Spartan II's... Nearly all of them died on Reach... Some exceptional individuals from the Spartan III's were given Mjolnir armour their Spartan II siblings wore, they were grouped together and sent on some of the hardest missions the UNSC could throw at them... The Spartans in this video was one of these elite Spartan III units serving during the conflict on reach, just like the main Characters of Halo Reach Noble Team... And just like here all of them died one by one... The player character Spartan-B312 or Noble 6 is the one firing the gun that destroyed the covenant carrier at the end so the Pillar of Autumn could escape... The last mission of the game has only one objective... Survive... You cannot complete that objective...
Jackals (shieldy boys) are more of an avian related species.
The red female Spartan got that dawg in her
She nearly nailed it. UNSC stands for United Nation Space Command.
Halo names Small guys: grunts “Lizard dudes” : jackals Tankybois: hunters Taller aliens with the Laser swords: elites Gorilla guys: brutes Feather lizard guys: sniper jackals
😢 made me cry again for Reach. Lol
This is 100% better if you are familiar with the game Reach.
I thought this was great and a good tie in between the events of Halo Reach and Halo Combat Evolved. Located in the Epsilon Eridani system, Reach was among the first planets to fall. Along with Harvest being lost fairly early on in the conflict. Love this animation. When the spartans and ODSTs breached the structure in the first 7 minutes of the film, I was hoping a brute chieften was going to charge at them and it was going to be an epic fight. I was hoping that the blue visor spartan was going to get back up and have a 1v1 with that Brute Chieften before falling but it was still good what happened in the end.
For us, the storm has passed. The war is over. And let us never forget those who journeyed into the howling dark, and did not return. For their decision required courage beyond measure.-lord hood-halo 3 Also unsc stands for United nations space command
10:12 Close. UNSC stands for United Nations Space Command. It is the military of the United Earth Government.
uniquely... neutered... space cats? 10:48
Randomly browsing my feed after lunch. *Sees this video* Fastest click in the west!
Sodaz animations are always peak. Imagine if he use Fireteam Team Osiris or Majestic. But this is nothing compared to what a working Halo ring can do.
Hi definitely not definte Idea how reaction to twisted metal game series and storys and characters in the near future
Bucky is a good boy. Feed him a treat for us.
I wonder if it was intentional that every squad member that confirmed got killed got killed by an energy sword
Better animated than Halo V haha, just kidding, just kidding......kind of. Also United Nations Space Command.
If you guys really want to dive into the prequel of the halo series I would highly recommend watching all the cutscenes from halo reach and or do a play through of it because halo reach story wise is the start of master chief’s journey.
United Nation Space Command
Hey guys! It might be too late to ask this but have you tried reacting to ‘Mortal Kombat ai intros’? I think they would make for a great video and they have some great comedy! Hope you’re both keeping well!
10:11 you were super close. It’s United Nations Space Command. Not Corps.
10:31 UNSC means "United Nations Space Cammand". Entirely militaristic and in charge of all human military until the end of the covenant war, which political power was handed back to the UEG "United Earth Government" to start rebuilding the ruined colonies. UNSC was founded after the defeat of Neo-political facisits based on MARS.
U.N.S.C is for United Nation Space Command if i recale correctly
9:16 U better learn to do that in the game as its pretty mutch the only way to effectivly take a Hunter down. They are almost invulnerable anywhere else.
dumb suggestion. Would it be possible you two react to the memory corridors of assassins creed? They’re basically just very important sections of a kill, maybe like 10-20 seconds long. 9/10 per game. SHOULDNT be that hard of a video. I think so Atleast…
This animation shows the reality of the human-covenant war. It is very difficult to fight the covenant and within the 25+ years of fighting, over 27 billion humans died fighting to survive and protect their homes. Humanity wasn't prepared for this genocide, not even the spartans. While spartans are very effective in what they do, they were made to counter the ongoing human insurrection, not aliens with superiority over us humans in firepower, technology, and numbers. Despite all of that though, humanity still won in the end.
Sodaz is currently doing a fallout series , hope we get a another reaction
6:09 Those are Skirmishers. They are Jackals (the lizard ones) but racist.
I wonder how much time it took him to edit all of this
It's sad but this is basically what happened during Halo: Reach, Noble Team wasn't the only team of 3's that were fighting the Covenant. In fact, most of the 2's were redeployed back onto Reach to put up a final stand to buy the Master Chief and Linda some time. A lot of soldiers were lost in the Battle of Reach, and a fair number of 3's that were part of the later deployment didn't make it out alive, but 3's are designed to literally be a suicide unit. Doesn't make it hurt any less because they were just as badass and deserving as 2's. Also, the Jackals (Kig-Yar) are both avian as well as reptilian, the silver haired ones with plumage are Skirmishers and they are the females of the species. Also, you were close, UNSC stands for United Nations Space Command.
Small correction tge skirmishers are a sub species of the Kig Yar
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U.N.S.C United. Nation. Space. command. i full heartly believe they are a force for good. :)