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The gameplay from what i've seen looks pretty awesome

****The gameplay footage with staten playing ODST****


Halo3:ODST comes out on
09/22/09



Gameplay
*ODST has the main protagonist, The Rookie, searching for beacons across the city of New Mombasa. It is up to the player how they get to the specific location, and in what order, giving a very open-world feeling to the game; something for which the main trilogy has been criticized for, due to it's linear gameplay style. It's likely that these "beacons" are drop pods with a locating device on them. Finding one of these objects sends the player back in the game to find out what happened to one of his four squadmates (Mickey, Dutch, Romeo, and Buck). Once you go back in time for a short period, you will take control of the player for around thirty minutes, and play the situations that the particular character went through. Unlike the overall game, these flashback scenes go along the path of the linear gameplay that has been common throughout the original trilogy of Halo.

Due to the fact that you are playing as an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, you will not be using the shielding or the motion tracker featured on the MJOLNIR Battle Armor suits. The Rookie and his squadmates will also lose the ability to dual-wield weapons, such as the M7/Caseless Submachine Gun or the Type-25 Directed Energy Rifle.

On the other hand, you will receive a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), which will likely give waypoints, mission objectives, and information which will help the player. In addition to the PDA, the Rookie will also have a new "visual mode", which identifies allies and enemies through the HUD on his helmet's visor; as well as a new weapon, the M7S Submachine Gun, which the protagonist lands in Mombasa with during the initial drop.

As stated by Bungie in the January 23rd Weekly Update, the Sangheili will not be appearing at all in ODST. By December 2008, the game was "representational", meaning that players could experience the game from start to finish, albeit in an unfinished state. The entire Bungie staff was pulled from other duties to play through the game and offer feedback. Among the unfinished elements was the lack of finished dialogue delivered by voice actors; story writer Joseph Staten filled in placeholder audio. Bungie's audio director Martin O'Donnell will contribute music for ODST, as he has done for the previous Halo games. Due to ODST's shift to a new protagonist, O'Donnell created new music that was a homage to Halo, though was taken in a new direction*.


Facts
The Rookie in ODST is a Lance Corporal, a junior enlisted rank in the UNSC Marine Corps. Therefore it's apparent that the player will not be filling the role of the speculated Marine Captain, though this officer will be playing the Rookie's squad leader.

The tagline for the game is Prepare to Drop referencing the way ODST's enter into the combat zone.

A teaser trailer for Halo 3: ODST was Keep It Clean released on September 25th, 2008 at 07:07:07 am PST, which coincided with the one year anniversary of Halo 3. The trailer was viewed through the many security cameras around New Mombasa. The time is an obvious reference to seven.

After the lone HEV pod drops and the Superintendent is scanning it the screen goes black and the words *SEARCH TERMINATED! ONI.SEC.PCTL.1A appears. This indicates that the organization ONI who have done a lot of behind the scenes work in the Halo series terminated the Superintendent search.

Martin O'Donnell has been confirmed to be composing the score for this game. Bungie also released the track played in the trailer named "Prepare to Drop" its track length is 1:17, a reference to John-117. The track is available here.

It has been stated by Bungie that there will be a way to unlock the Recon Armor Permutation in Halo 3: ODST. This method will require you to unlock the current Vidmaster Challenges., and three more Vidmaster Challenges only available through purchasing ODST.

On November 25th, 2008, Bungie LLC. renamed the in-development Halo 3: Recon to Halo 3: ODST. The reasons to why the upcoming expansion was renamed is due to the player playing the character of an ODST in the game.

Though the game takes place during the events of Halo 2 (First Battle of Earth and Battle of Installation 05); all of the character, weapon, and vehicle models were taken from Halo 3, creating an inconsistency within the canon, unless regarded as a Retroactive Continuity.

During an interview at Gencon 2008 in Brisbane, Australia; Alan Tudyk commented on a so called Halo 3 Supplemental, in which himself and fellow Firefly actors Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin would lend their voices to the game. All three of the actors played the role of Marines in Halo 3.Out of the three, only Nathan Fillion has been confirmed as a cast member for Halo 3: ODST. Assuming that this supplemental is Halo 3: ODST, Tudyk and Baldwin will likely voice members of the squad in the game.

Copies of Halo 3: ODST will include an invitation to an exclusive Xbox Live multiplayer beta of Halo: Reach.


Firefight
Drop feet first into a new way to play Halo with the cooperative campaign mode, Firefight. Form a squad with up to four of your friends over System Link or Xbox LIVE and put your skills to the ultimate test against the invading Covenant war machine for glory, high scores, and achievements. Do battle in multiple environments, on foot or in vehicles, and against increasingly difficult waves of Covenant attackers while Halo 3's skull modifiers progressively activate to up the ante.

After the Firefight, relive and review every last kill you earned and see how your high scores and stats stack up against your friends' and the community overall using Bungie.net's persistent online stats and Firefight leaderboards.


Reach multiplayer beta
Buy Halo 3: ODST and receive an invitation to participate in the Halo: Reach Xbox LIVE multiplayer beta. If you want in, hold onto your copy of Halo 3: ODST and stay tuned to Bungie.net and Xbox.com for more details.


Bag some Recon
For the first time, Recon Armor for use in Halo 3 multiplayer will be made available to players who complete the "Road to Recon" challenge. Earn all seven of the Vidmasters, a series of Xbox LIVE achievements that span Halo 3's Campaign and Multiplayer and Halo 3: ODST, and then visit your Bungie.net Service Record with a linked gamertag to enable your sweet new set of digital duds.

So the only way to gain Recon throught the vidmasters is if you have a LINKED Gamertag to bungie.net



what do you guys think?

The idea of flashing back in time seems cool, and gives a new twist on the halo gameplay but i think i might get a bit confused if it gets complicated

[Edited on 06.01.2009 1:08 PM PDT]

  • 06.01.2009 12:29 PM PDT
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Wow. Im so going to buy this. Im so glad that they got the Halo 1 pistol back, thank you so much for showing me this.

[Edited on 06.01.2009 12:34 PM PDT]

  • 06.01.2009 12:31 PM PDT

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looks pretty sweet, seems like a free roam around mombassa with flashbacks as the actual missions. cant wait.

  • 06.01.2009 12:32 PM PDT

Dutch sounds badass!

  • 06.01.2009 12:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: penguin
Dutch sounds badass!

yeah, to me he sounds a bit like Steve downes (spartan 117)

  • 06.01.2009 12:42 PM PDT

I'm a dude playing a dude desguised as another dude. I hate heritics, non-logical thoughts and people who are better than I am. People tell me that they like a lot of games, but I hate them all. Whenever I play a video game, I always go crawling back to Halo 3. Never go full retard!

Hasn't everybody seen this by now?

  • 06.15.2009 11:06 AM PDT

Posted by: HaloKing343
Hasn't everybody seen this by now?

Not People that look HARD for info.

  • 06.15.2009 11:12 AM PDT