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Halo players are familiar with the Warthog, the mil-buggy you (and often a friend) use in some scenarios to help the Master Chief dish out death with extreme prejudice to the Covenant's alien baddies. Well, the truck has made the jump from your DLP screen to the real world thanks to the guys at WETA, who have produced a running full-size replica complete with gun (natch) and four-wheel-steering. The full-scale Warthog's being used in a series of live-action shorts designed to ramp up gamers' excitement levels in the runup to Halo 3's release. You can get an idea of what to expect in the teaser trailer, which we've included after the jump. So that's what the Warthog assembly line looks like...
Thanks for the tip, Travis!
[Bungie, WETA via Joystiq]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
travis @ Jul 25th 2007 9:58AM
Jeep shmeep, If GM built that as Hummer4 (even without the cannon) I would stand in line to buy one.
Yin @ Jul 25th 2007 10:02AM
That is just too cool, anyone have an idea of what they used as a base?
Feline_Jay @ Jul 25th 2007 10:20AM
HEY! A Warthog I can actually *DRIVE*?!?
bleh @ Jul 25th 2007 10:24AM
Nice. In the first game I was obsessed with taking buggy with me everywhere it could possibly go, even if that meant throwing a plasma nade underneath it to get it to through.
RITmusic2k @ Jul 25th 2007 10:49AM
Heh, this was probably a byproduct of the fact that Peter Jackson was well into planning (and evidently beginning development) a live-action HALO movie...
Very cool! I'm glad they're still involved in the franchise even if the movie's been back-shelved.
tokastyle @ Jul 25th 2007 11:14AM
I wish a kit car manufacturer would buld one of these on a GM platform that would allow you to use the recently discontinued all wheel stearing feature.
Blake @ Jul 25th 2007 11:37AM
Looks more like some sort of big cat to me... like a puma.
(Thank you RvB)
jeff @ Jul 25th 2007 1:14PM
Blake, are you making up animals again?
Moltenauto @ Jul 25th 2007 11:38AM
I wonder if they actually built it using the Warthog individual swing arm suspension design, or cheated and used axles.
Guenther @ Jul 25th 2007 4:27PM
Picture looks like it could be a swing-arm, although it's difficult to tell from just one angle. If I had to fab up something like this, I would probably go with 2 sets of front axle bits from an HD GM truck, simply because of the good availability.
William @ Jul 25th 2007 12:50PM
I want one!, lol
Jon @ Jul 25th 2007 1:21PM
I'll go for a test drive in Blood Gulch with that!
Nellydesign @ Jul 25th 2007 3:22PM
I think it looks more like a... what are they called... chupa-thingee?
Khanh @ Jul 25th 2007 4:04PM
Much better video quality on IGN.com!