Halo 3 Iwo Jima tribute and Assassins' Optimus Prime

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Halo 3 Iwo Jima tribute and Assassins' Optimus Prime

Posted Nov 17th 2007 4:15PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: Halo 3, Fan stuff, Assassin's Creed

We have a case of the lazy Saturdays today, so we figured we'd share two rather fun and delectable pictures with you. The first pic is the one you see above and comes from the crazily creative Halo 3 community who decided to re-create the famous Iwo Jima flag raising (high-res, thanks Halonut1) in Valhalla. It's an effort we feel to be tribute worthy. And if you're not impressed with flag raisings or Halo 3 then you should check out the Optimus Prime cameo in Assassin's Creed. We're proud to say that we had a geeky chuckle when we spotted it.

So ends our lazy Saturday blog post of picture awesomeness, now you can go back to your regularly scheduled lazy Saturday programming. Goodbye.

[Via Digg and Digg]

Tags: assassins-creed, bungie, bungie-studios, halo3, ubisoft

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

11-17-2007 @ 4:22PM

erivera3 said...

The Halo 3 one is pretty awesome, well put together!

11-17-2007 @ 4:40PM

GuessLotto.com said...

That Optimus Prime thing was halarious!

http://www.GuessLotto.com

11-17-2007 @ 5:29PM

Justin said...

theres one too many S' in the title of this article.

asssassin's creed?

11-17-2007 @ 6:50PM

Steven said...

Hey does anyone have the high res version of the halo one? Would make a cool background.

11-18-2007 @ 2:46AM

burgerbat said...

tasteless...

11-18-2007 @ 4:45AM

Scott K said...

It just looks somewhat like a semi truck. What makes that Optimus Prime?

11-18-2007 @ 12:23PM

Halonut1 said...

I too want that iwo jima hi res.

Also if anyone finds it tasteless their a idiot.
its not got a caption going "LOLZ WE HAS FLAG"
now THAT is insulting/tasteless.

11-18-2007 @ 12:34PM

Halonut1 said...

HEY heres the B.net link
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=14423078&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=1

11-18-2007 @ 7:06PM

Steven said...

Thanks!

11-19-2007 @ 6:01AM

Boff said...

Nice Halo pic, although if they've gone to all that trouble to do the pic they could've made the last two guys get a bit closer to the flag.
Really good picture though.

And yeah that Optimus Prime pic made me smile. I was expecting to see a robot head.
Well spotted!!

11-19-2007 @ 5:37PM

Toa "BigToe67" said...

I wish my name couldve been put into the description for some reference and recognition for the Tribute To Iwo Jima Halo 3 picture

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