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Subject: Halo: Reach = Battlefront or Rainbow 6?

There are two things on this forum that piss me off;
Idiots and group invites.
What's even worse, is that I can never seem to get away from either of them ¬_¬
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"I would have been your daddy, but the dog beat me over the fence."

Well, I've had a couple of ideas about Halo: Reach and what type of game its gonna be.
First, I'm gonna dissmiss the idea that this is yet another FPS. Its unlikle due to the fact that all of the Halo games (except Halo Wars) are shooters and after a while, one genre begins to get a bit boring. If Bungie have any sese, this will not be another FPS.

So I've got two ideas, both based on very popular games, enjoyble mainly because of the type of game it is.

So first, I thought it might be somewhat like Rainbow 6 or any other squad based tactical shooter. Now its, true that would still make it a shooter, however the extra aspect of having a squad to command and perhaps upgrade with better equipment or stats makes the idea a little more appealing.

This seems likley due to what little evidence we have. The picture up top depicts a mall group of Spartens (Except the maybe the left one, but no one can guess who that is). Its likley that instead of you playing as one and the others just appearing in cutscenes, that you control the entire group. If any of you have read the book or checked out Halopedia (Like me) you'll know that a few teams of Spartens where dispatched onto Reach to fight the Covenant and its likley you play as one of these teams.

However, something didn't add up. And that was multi-player. We know that Halo: Reach has multi-player as a BETA will be released with ODST. However, it is difficult if not impossable to intigrate the squad based tactics into multiplayer, without reducing the amount of players to two or three. Either that or all the squad members are replaced with players, wich changes the game into a normal shooter.

Of course, that might be the case, but I'm guessing that Bungie would wanna show off the special feaures of the game with the BETA, so I doubt it will be like this. Either that or they've come up with a very inventive suad multiplayer mode.

So I was left with one other likley option: a war game.
Now we already have an RTS (Halo Wars) so there is really only one type of game left that might have massive battles. God knows what its name is, but if you've ever played Starwars: Battlefront, you'll know what I mean. Massive armys play against other massive armies while you play as a normal soldier, in this case a Marine, alongside huge amounts of AI. As you get more kills and capture more strategic points, you are able to upgrade yourself to higher ranks which sport better, or more specific weapons and equipment. If you're really good, you play as a hero, probably a Sparten.

Its essentially a shooter, only you're weaker and you fight a lot of people, with lots of other people in massive maps and huge vehicles. Of coure, at its very core, its still a shooter and not a very advanced one at that, but its the massive scale of it that makes it so enjoyable to play. And as Halo: Reach is based around the massive wars that took place on Reach, I'm sure this game type won't look at all out of place. Its only problem is story. Creating a decent story mode out of these types of games is difficult.
But hey, Bungie are pretty inventive at times :P

Sorry about the wall, but hey, sometimes I write a lot :P
What do you guys think, then? Likley, unlikley, got any ideas of your own you wanna share? If so, i'll add them to this post.

DISCUSS!

  • 06.03.2009 2:39 PM PDT
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Thnx for the awesome sig Smyf!

and now it is my duty to completely drain you

You are truly not very bright if you think Halo:Reach will not be a first person shooter. Most halo fans are not interested in non-bungie made, non-fps halo spin offs. If Bungie wants to keep its fanbase strong, they need to release a Halo FPS every three or so years.

  • 06.03.2009 2:44 PM PDT

There are two things on this forum that piss me off;
Idiots and group invites.
What's even worse, is that I can never seem to get away from either of them ¬_¬
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"I would have been your daddy, but the dog beat me over the fence."

FPS's are boring! I know its Bungie made, but for the sakes of originality, could they not make it slightly different. I admitt, Halo Wars wasn't awesome, but that wasn't Bungie either.

Anyway, the ideas I've given are both based around the FPS. I expect Bungie will kepp to what they know and love, but chuc something extra in too to keep the franchise new and exciting.

Anyway, if it is just a shooter, wouldn't the mulitplayer be almost exactly the same as Halo 3's?

  • 06.03.2009 2:48 PM PDT

Actually it's been confirmed by Microsoft that it will be an FPS. Sorry.

  • 06.03.2009 2:49 PM PDT

There are two things on this forum that piss me off;
Idiots and group invites.
What's even worse, is that I can never seem to get away from either of them ¬_¬
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"I would have been your daddy, but the dog beat me over the fence."

Well. Thats poor :(

  • 06.03.2009 2:54 PM PDT

Nano535

Well i think its going to be like...umm....idk....HALO!

This is a pointles thread. Bungie isnt going to make a third person shooter. They are known for the best FPS's

Some CoD -blam!-s think that CoD has the best...but they are dumb =P

  • 06.03.2009 5:08 PM PDT

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What?

Hate to burst your bubble, but it's been confirmed as an FPS.

EDIT: Whoops, didn't read three posts above mine...disregard this post.

[Edited on 06.03.2009 5:10 PM PDT]

  • 06.03.2009 5:09 PM PDT

CoD is a good game but you cant compare it to Halo, altough theyre both FPS theyre COMPLETELY different (I like both games).

Back on point, I have been wanting a halo game like battlefront or battlefield. I just love HUGE battles with lots of vehicles of all sorts and a lot of guys everywhere (like BF 2142 that game rocks)

  • 06.03.2009 5:14 PM PDT