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Subject: So Halo: Reach is entirely a new game?

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No add on onto Halo 3? right? just a new complete game....

  • 06.02.2009 12:06 AM PDT

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Yep, that's why it's not called Halo 3: Reach, and that's why it also is called a prequel to the entire Halo trilogy.

  • 06.02.2009 12:07 AM PDT

Yes, Reach is a new game set in the Halo universe. Reach occurs before the events of Halo:CE. This game is based on the Fall of Reach. A novel that details the Spartan program and their first conflicts with the covenant. The same, familiar characters exist with some new ones that you will encounter. Master Chief is still the primary protagonist, with the exception that he is no longer the only Spartan fighting the covenant. You will fight alongside other Spartans and see the woman who created the bio-augmentation process. Read the Fall of Reach in order to understand the back story.

  • 06.02.2009 12:11 AM PDT
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Another multiplayer?

  • 06.02.2009 1:40 AM PDT

Posted by: V de vagau
Another multiplayer?


Yup, Reach will have a new multiplayer.

  • 06.02.2009 2:05 AM PDT

Posted by: Glue Sniffer
Yes, Reach is a new game set in the Halo universe. Reach occurs before the events of Halo:CE. This game is based on the Fall of Reach. A novel that details the Spartan program and their first conflicts with the covenant. The same, familiar characters exist with some new ones that you will encounter. Master Chief is still the primary protagonist, with the exception that he is no longer the only Spartan fighting the covenant. You will fight alongside other Spartans and see the woman who created the bio-augmentation process. Read the Fall of Reach in order to understand the back story.
The only problem here is that we heard the voices of two Spartans identifying themselves with as having call numbers of 259 and 320. None of the Spartans in Fall of Reach had numbers above 117.

Anyone half-familiar with the Halo fiction should have been able to tell that the trailer occurs during the opening moments of the Covenant assault on Reach (the first one, it seems), that much is obvious. But if these high-numbered Spartans are in the game, then it can't quite follow the same story as the book.

  • 06.02.2009 2:11 AM PDT
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man i don't think its based on the book. don't assume till you hear it from bungie. the books are a part of the halo universe, but they are not completely cannon. just like how flood is in halo wars, even though we first met the flood in halo 1.
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Posted by: Glue Sniffer
Yes, Reach is a new game set in the Halo universe. Reach occurs before the events of Halo:CE. This game is based on the Fall of Reach. A novel that details the Spartan program and their first conflicts with the covenant. The same, familiar characters exist with some new ones that you will encounter. Master Chief is still the primary protagonist, with the exception that he is no longer the only Spartan fighting the covenant. You will fight alongside other Spartans and see the woman who created the bio-augmentation process. Read the Fall of Reach in order to understand the back story.
The only problem here is that we heard the voices of two Spartans identifying themselves with as having call numbers of 259 and 320. None of the Spartans in Fall of Reach had numbers above 117.

Anyone half-familiar with the Halo fiction should have been able to tell that the trailer occurs during the opening moments of the Covenant assault on Reach (the first one, it seems), that much is obvious. But if these high-numbered Spartans are in the game, then it can't quite follow the same story as the book.

  • 06.02.2009 2:40 AM PDT

Posted by: Mc1nfernoSc2
man i don't think its based on the book. don't assume till you hear it from bungie. the books are a part of the halo universe, but they are not completely cannon. just like how flood is in halo wars, even though we first met the flood in halo 1.


The books ARE cannon to the Halo universe. And the story of the UNSC finding the Flood in Halo Wars, yet them being new in Halo:CE is correct because the Spirit of Fire never made it home before the Halo event.

  • 06.02.2009 2:53 AM PDT
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Has it been confirmed Halo: Reach is a prequel? Or are people just assuming it is?

Ach, never mind, I checked one of the other threads. According to this it's a prequel.

[Edited on 06.02.2009 3:59 AM PDT]

  • 06.02.2009 3:58 AM PDT

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I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.

So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.

Posted by: Glue Sniffer
Yes, Reach is a new game set in the Halo universe. Reach occurs before the events of Halo:CE. This game is based on the Fall of Reach. A novel that details the Spartan program and their first conflicts with the covenant. The same, familiar characters exist with some new ones that you will encounter. Master Chief is still the primary protagonist, with the exception that he is no longer the only Spartan fighting the covenant. You will fight alongside other Spartans and see the woman who created the bio-augmentation process. Read the Fall of Reach in order to understand the back story.


right time period. i highly doubt that you can play as the chief though. as for the way that catherine hasely looks.... look at cortana. that's how she looks. cortana was made by hasley and took her voice and image as her form

  • 06.02.2009 4:03 AM PDT

Duracell.
I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.

So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.

Posted by: Mc1nfernoSc2
man i don't think its based on the book. don't assume till you hear it from bungie. the books are a part of the halo universe, but they are not completely cannon. just like how flood is in halo wars, even though we first met the flood in halo 1.
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Posted by: Glue Sniffer
Yes, Reach is a new game set in the Halo universe. Reach occurs before the events of Halo:CE. This game is based on the Fall of Reach. A novel that details the Spartan program and their first conflicts with the covenant. The same, familiar characters exist with some new ones that you will encounter. Master Chief is still the primary protagonist, with the exception that he is no longer the only Spartan fighting the covenant. You will fight alongside other Spartans and see the woman who created the bio-augmentation process. Read the Fall of Reach in order to understand the back story.
The only problem here is that we heard the voices of two Spartans identifying themselves with as having call numbers of 259 and 320. None of the Spartans in Fall of Reach had numbers above 117.

Anyone half-familiar with the Halo fiction should have been able to tell that the trailer occurs during the opening moments of the Covenant assault on Reach (the first one, it seems), that much is obvious. But if these high-numbered Spartans are in the game, then it can't quite follow the same story as the book.
halo wars still fits with the cannon established by the books as no one in halo wars was able to tell others about the flood as they either died or were lost in space. plain and simple, it will follow a story similar to that of fall of reach but i highly doubt that this will work in the way that you play as the chief. the higher numbered spartans tell me that this has something to do with a part of the halo universe that was otherwise not yet explored. but takes place durng a familiar timeframe

  • 06.02.2009 4:07 AM PDT

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Maybe they're Spartan III's?
Maybe Sierra 259 might have just been part of the Spartan taskforce like a Pelican pilot? <although the pelicans carrying the spartans down did get shot down>.
Maybe whoever made the trailer stuffed up?
Maybe it's got to do with something we don't know about?
Maybe I like wafflez?

  • 06.02.2009 4:13 AM PDT