03-16-2007
Lead: The first h2f halo pc community montage is posted. It receives excellent reviews among regulars and mixed reviews among the competitive community.

03-25-2007
Mister Newb had been spreading propaganda of a second community video. Thoughts go around that a second Lead should be made to build from the success of the first. Bridging the gap between pc and xbox as well as other ideas float around.08-17-2007
Honey and Crest make it official. They agree to create a Lead 2 and start accepting clips from the community. Anticipation builds as players from around the globe record themselves.08-23-2007
Lead 2 Music thread is created. Ideas about the songs are introduced and voted on by members that happen to be around.

9-18-2007
The music votes are in! (Can't Get My) Head Aroud You - The Offspring garners fifty percent of the vote.

09-19-2007
Lead 2 Official Thread is created by Honey. As the collection of clips grows the management tries to keep everything running smooth.10-06-2007
Honey and Crest ask for PMs about the credits. Dzasta sums it up nicely with this "We are a very diverse group of indeviduals here in the halo 1 section. we include Serious montage kids, KW montage kids, and people who jsut love to see someone get stuck across map. Halo 1 started it all and we continue to keep the tradition going. Nothing can pull us a part. We are all connected with one each other, through halo, IM, h3f, and cyber sex (Elmo ) and our bond can never be broken. Well thats all i can think of in 2 minutes <3 <3 <3 to all h1ers <3 <3 <3"

11-12-2007
Muffin makes support Lead 2 sigs. They acheive minimal success despite his best marketing efforts. They can be seen here: http://files.filefront.com/lead+2+si.../fileinfo.html12-09-2007
Honey asks the community if this video should be announced. A resounding yes is received as well as questions as to the competition date. January of 2008 seems reasonable.

3-08-2008
Mods close the official Lead 2 thread and a revolution occurs between the halo 1 section peons and the all powerful mobkerators. It is a short lived battle with many people banned and even more people's threads closed. A small outbreak of AIDS is also detected.

Month 3 - Month 6
Months pass with the release date being pushed back every day. Crest seems to have given up on his closest pals and with Elmo's ban the section is overrun by 3 day videos and minitages and h2 kids.

6-04-2008
B SiK closes the Official Lead 2 thread. Is all hope lost for our beloved video?

6-30-08
Crest's status reading 6.30.08 comes with no official news of Lead 2. But before all hope is lost very confidential information streams through xfire and h2f PMs revealing a nearly completed video. Crest seems to be finishing!

7-02-08
Lead 2 is released in this thread! It receives mixed reviews.

Future
Is Lead 3 a possibility? Will Honey and Crest EVER take on another video again? Does Elmo have herpes? These questions may never be answered.


Intro: This was amazing. Someone did manage to find that map flycam footage on Crest's youtube account but what he did with it was impressive. The slow speed up as well as the text was a great intro. The masking of the pistol finished it off greatly.

Song 1: I wouldn't download this song but it had good beats to sync to a halo video and I think it worked well.
Dapp- Great job. Your double tsk on hang em was sick. Good standard of clips that you uploaded.
MisterNewb- The HH turn around shot for a triple was amazing. You needed more shots like that.
Rhe7oric & 3so- Thank you both! You two had the sickest clips of the video and they were spread out nicely. Great gameplay.
MufFin- A few good shots, especially the hang em part. Your other recent videos are great you could have gotten better stuff.
Thiwy- Nice chill out snipe and the editing there was cool. Need more of that. Longest hog no scope ever though o_O
Pancake- HH triple, sweet.
Overall this had about 40% meh clips. More emphasis should have been put on the best clips through syncing or vegas effects.

Song 2: I like the Lead 2 logo in the top left how you opened the video with that "split screen" stick. The song had a good start but was impossible to sync to the clips throughout the middle. Poor choice as well because not a lot of people enjoy that type of song. This is important because it's a community video.
Elmo- Great shots throughout this part and excellent quality but because this took so long you used the best ones in Discharge! If this was the first time watching them I'd be stunned.
Louie- I love watching your pistol plays. I hope you record enough or still play enough to make a montage on your own. =)
Momentum- Average to above average clips. Two shotgun kills on chill out come on.. The hh camo stick was impressive. I'll give you that.
Yetly- Slightly above average shots. Your stick will always be good =]. I wish I got to see your xbc footage! Sadly, the xbc footage I did see was sub-par even with the complete noobs that play now.
xbc kids- not very good i'm sorry. The rat race double tsk was great and that's it.
Wyld3- Insane dammy stick, off the floor?
Slick & Mcem- Nice snipes for the both of you in the middle of this part. Slick I only noticed that 1 derey snipe from you?
Skunk pep- you get yetly sticks... nice. More pistol/snipes would be better though.
Honey- Good clips but compared to what I've seen from you they aren't the best *wink*

Credits: Elmo's dwj and complex footage is so sweet and lucky. Also whoever no scoped that hog gets a cookie. I never see bigBadE on CE, why?

I give this a 6/10. It's a good video. I like the body of Lead better than Lead 2. Lead 2 definately has a great intro; the best I've seen in awhile. Gameplay can be better and there really is no excuse for having such a pushed back release date. At least it's out of the way for you two (crest/honey). Let's figure out what is possible before comitting to such a huge project.