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Video Games · 2007

A hero need not speak. When he is gone, the world will speak for him.

— Believe campaign advertisement ‧ Halo 3

A plain bronze medal lies beside a small white flower on a rain-wet stone memorial bench.
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The written slogan imagines a hero’s actions surviving through other people’s memories. Its restraint makes public testimony stand in for the hero’s own speech. The retained 2007 print advertisement belongs to Halo 3’s Believe campaign; this is promotional text rather than dialogue attributed to Master Chief.

  • GamesRadar+The written slogan imagines a hero’s actions surviving through other people’s memories. Its restraint makes public testimony stand in for the hero’s own speech. The retained 2007 print advertisement belongs to Halo 3’s Believe campaign; this is promotional text rather than dialogue attributed to Master Chief.Reference checked
  • Revista GeMinisThe written slogan imagines a hero’s actions surviving through other people’s memories. Its restraint makes public testimony stand in for the hero’s own speech. The retained 2007 print advertisement belongs to Halo 3’s Believe campaign; this is promotional text rather than dialogue attributed to Master Chief.Reference checked

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