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Subject: do we play as spartans?
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iv been looking at an enhanced picture of the halo reach cover, and i was just wondering if we do play as spartans.. or if we play as marines or odsts or something... just looking at their armour would say that they arent spartans.. especially the sniper.. though i could be very mistaken... they all appear to have the same armour on the lower half of there bodies, their helmets look similar but have minor differences,and their upper body has quite a few differences. if you do play as these individuals then its a five man squad, so perhaps specialist armour? dare i say it... class based? or just what you choose to wear? perhaps you play along side spartans as you progress through the game... i personnaly hope we do get to play as spartans but thats just my wants.. any other thoughts on this?

  • 07.26.2009 2:46 AM PDT
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duh

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duh? thats constructive lol.. and your honorable? mmm

  • 07.26.2009 2:52 AM PDT

Ninjabag the tea-pirates!

I don't want to join your group.

Probably a spartan or a few spartans. I want there to be a covenant storyline as well though, like in halo 2.

  • 07.26.2009 3:04 AM PDT

There are theories that the Soldiers on the Reach banner are actually Sam, Kelly, John, Fred, and Linda of Blue Team.
These are all Spartans from the Halo novel The Fall of Reach.

I hope this helps.


  • 07.26.2009 3:06 AM PDT

-blam!- GTFO OF MY SIGNATURE

The only way to get Bungie to openly answer that question is to make a massive rumor that we can't play as spartans.

  • 07.26.2009 3:45 AM PDT
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Lets do it.

  • 07.26.2009 7:23 AM PDT
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no we play as mice.

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well in the books only dr. halsey was able to tell the spartans apart just by looking at them, which would say to me that they were ALMOST identical. the people on the banner are anything but identical..

  • 07.27.2009 12:10 AM PDT

*facepalm*

  • 07.27.2009 12:16 AM PDT

Im sure we play as spartans. There could be more to it than that though

  • 07.27.2009 1:04 AM PDT

I'm an Anarchist. I don't need a government to be a good person, but I'm glad it's here because some of you clearly do.

Posted by: emporer mojo
just looking at their armour would say that they arent spartans.


The Spartan IIs were not meant to fight the Covenant. Project MJOLNIR was created as a counter-threat to the rebels.

Spartan IIs didn't actually receive any armor until they were something like 25 years into the program, and even then, the first stuff they got was trash when compared to M-VI armor. Notice that in Halo 2, we receive Mark-6 armor. That means there are five standard-issue armor variants that came before that. The first two or three were basically ridiculous and/or totally impractical. The fourth was awesome against bullets, but had no shields, the fifth was good against bullets (not as good as the fourth) but had shields to protect from plasma, and the sixth is basically just an upgraded version of the fifth.

[Edited on 07.27.2009 2:24 AM PDT]

  • 07.27.2009 2:22 AM PDT