Posts Tagged ‘Bungie’

Get a good glimpse of Halo Reach Multiplayer in the new video!  Check it!  Flying Spartans!

Enjoy the journey as Halo lives on for the past 10 years or so.  This video evokes some memories!

The designers at Bungie show you how Halo Reach is shaping up and how fantasic the new game is going to be!

The Halo Reach multiplayer Beta will be released on May 3rd and can only be accessed by those who own the Halo 3 ODST disc.  The disc is your Halo Reach Beta access key so you may participate in the new multiplayer beta.  The new Halo multiplayer will be available in less than 3 months.  I cannot wait.

No details about Halo Reach’s multiplayer is available at this time.  I’m sure that will change soon in coming months.

The February issue of Game Informer magazine will feature new Halo Reach artwork direct from Bungie.  New articles reveal significant gameplay and technical information about the next Halo game.  The series will be seriously updated in the next iteration while returning to its original Halo roots.

Here are some details in a nutshell:

1.  New graphics engine made specifically for Reach.

2.  More frightening and realistic enemies.

3.  The Covenant speak their own language.

4.  Shield and Health pack system from the original Halo will return.

5.  No Spike or Incineration grenades.

6.  Stealth and Assassination techniques.

7.  Combat knife can be used.

8.  Older Spartan Armor used.  Type II and III.

9.  As gameplay progresses so will the destruction of the active game environment.

10.  Spartan “Noble” team name revealed.

11.  Higher level of gameplay and action happening on the screen at once maximizing

        Xbox 360 power cores.

12.  Magnum pistol from original Halo returns, and new Covenant weapons.

Reports on the internet are letting slip that the next Halo game Reach is already complete to the point that it is fully playable.  Reach is not  just functioning as a basic game, but a fully realized first person shooter.  The game will probably be released in September of 2010.

David Ellis 1up.com’s podcast host let it slip, “Reach is playable, from beginning to end.”  Many reporters from game websites are reporting this as fact.  I ask, ‘How in the hell would David know?’  Does David have a friend from Bungie who lets him sneak in the back door at night to play new levels, or did he just think this up himself based on rumor and speculation?  We all know that Bungie and Microsoft are well ahead in development of the game.  The largest Halo game ever to be released by Bungie and probably the last.  Halo 3 ODST was complete months before release and was even complete at the showing of last years E3 09 which shocked people.  In my opinion this is what is fueling speculation that the game is already done.

Video game slueths digging around for new information about Halo Reach and its release found a tidbit on splitscreen.com video game blog. Hong-Wei David Liu a sound designer for Halo Reach at Bungie has been overheard as saying this on his own blog!

“Work here is supposed to last eight to nine months here, as I’m under a contract to last until the end of the project which may or may not be at the end of July. Knowing the company I’d be working for, however, I don’t expect them to miss their mark.”

July?  This is great stuff and all, but why would Bungie not release the game now if it is already complete?  Who says they wouldn’t!  It is very possible they may strategically release the game ahead of the purposed autumn release schedule and surprise us all.  Bungie would exit the Halo universe with a loud thunder clap handing the reigns over to MS.  They had already done this of course, but the symbolism couldn’t be refuted.  This would allow them to shift gears and focus their complete attention on Bungie super secret game projects already in the works.

Sounds good to me!