I love Firefly. Today I learned that Bungie does too. I was playing some Halo this evening and heard a yell that sounded so familiar. One of the marines fighting along side me screamed “Here’s Vera!” as he went into gun down some Covenant Brutes. This was just excellent in my mind. Bungie included a Firefly reference. It really showed their attention to detail on the marines AI this time around. The marines in Halo 3 are actually useful and for once their voice acting mid-battle is well done. Extremely well done actually. I didn’t know what it was at the time, but something about the voice acting for the marines in Halo 3 always felt so right for the game. It just fit the whole fighting to the end mentality of Halo 3 and its storyline that revolves around finishing the fight and protecting what’s left of earth. But there wasn’t any reason I could point to in order to explain why I felt it fit so well. Then the flood gates opened… (pun intended. lol)

After I was done playing, I decided to do a Google search and see if anyone noticed the Vera comment. Apparently someone had. Then I found a second. But this second one mentions more. What? That UNSC Sergeant Reynolds is… Nathan Fillion?! Brilliant! I don’t remember noticing his voice, but there was a Sergeant Reynolds mentioned several times during the “Tsavo Highway” and “The Storm” missions, specifically in the Battle of Voi section. I had to investigate more. It turns out that not only did that “Here’s Vera!” sound like Jayne, it was actually Adam Baldwin. Alan Tudyk (Wash) is somewhere in the game too, but I’ve yet to recognize him. Someone on livejournal actually took a screenshot of the voice acting screen in the credits that shows the former Serenity crew members.

As if I needed more reasons to love Halo 3!