Halo 3 in-game screens

In their first Halo 3 video documentary before Christmas, our friends at Bungie gave us a tantalizing glimpse into the world of Halo 3: how it will play out, what it will look like and what the spine of the game will be. The results were, not unexpectedly, incredibly exciting... and rather surprising too. Because the central premise for the third game looks to be very, very simple indeed: Brutes.

And lots of them.

It's typical Bungie, really. Tight-fisted with the goods for what seems like years, leaving Halo fanatics like us to pore over the minutest detail in the smallest section of a shot... and then unleashing a tidal wave of info, shots, video and speech-impairing art.