Halo: Reach

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Another article comparing Halo: Reach to Killzone 2.

When the original Killzone was released way back in 2004 it was hyped up as the Halo killer. But things did not go too well and sufficed to say the game flopped. A year later, when the PlayStation 3 was announced at E3 2005, Sony stunned crowds with that famous trailer of Killzone 2. Nobody could have imagined that the PlayStation 3 could turn up such stunning vistas. Four years later in 2009, Sony delivered with one of the best first person shooters this generation. Killzone 2 was just not an improvement in the graphics alone but it had the gameplay to match with it. 2009 also saw the release of Halo 3: ODST on the Xbox 360.

Unfortunately many of the critics were not able to see the potential in the game and hence the game got panned by many reviews. However we gave the game a superb nine out of a possible ten. But having said that, ODST still had a negative image in the media as many claimed it was just an expansion pack to the original Halo 3 released back in 2007. At E3 this year, Microsoft raised people hopes again with the announcement of Halo Reach which will be released in 2010. As this is one of Microsoft’s major game next year, can Halo reach the level of Killzone 2 as the most improved sequel?

Source - Can Halo Reach be a major improvement just like Killzone 2? GamingBolt.com: PS3, PSP, Xbox 360, DS, Wii, Video Games, News , Forums, Community and much more!

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Halo fans should check out the Halo Retrospective

Halo 10 Year Retrospective Videos - G4tv.com

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Last Saturday night, Microsoft and Bungie premiered a purportedly in-engine cinematic for 2010's Halo: Reach (which The Digital Foundry blog at Eurogamer more or less asserted to be true earlier this week). While message boards hummed with speculations about what secrets the trailer might hold, the biggest piece of news may in fact have come from Microsoft PR's press release for the trailer the following morning, when TeamXbox and other sites including IGN made the trailer available to their audiences.

The original text for the press release stated "Step into the boots of a Spartan III and prepare for the first look at “Halo: Reach,” the highly anticipated prequel to the “Halo” trilogy from acclaimed developer Bungie coming fall 2010." However, after posting this article, a number of readers cried foul, asserting that canon made the appearance of a Spartan III at "The Fall of Reach" unlikely (to put it mildly). For those of you who are less familiar with the much-more-complicated-than-you-think Halo lore, Spartan IIIs were a successor to the Spartan IIs (which include the Master Chief, whose official designation is John-117), which had a less stringent screening process, and whose SPI armor lacked the energy shields of their predecessors but featured a rudimentary form of optic camouflage. The Spartan III program was the subject of the novel Halo: The Ghosts of Onyx, which indicated that all but a few of the Spartan IIIs died during their missions, with the last known few stranded in a dimensional pocket known as a "Dyson Sphere." An image of the Spartan III SPI armor can be found below (image courtesy of Halopedia):



It's clear that this armor appears nowhere in the Halo: Reach cinema. Because of this, TeamXbox actually responded to comments on the posting and "fixed" the title and text of the announcement shortly after it was posted. However, we have since received requests from Microsoft PR to correct our adjustments to the original press release. When contacted for confirmation, Microsoft PR responded that the original press release didn't have any "typos," but declined further comment. All other requests for an explanation have been denied.

So, it would appear that Microsoft have confirmed the presence of Spartan IIIs in Halo: Reach.

Source - Microsoft "Confirms" Spartan IIIs in Halo Reach? - Xbox

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Does Xbox 360 really need Halo Reach to survive 2010? GamingBolt.com: PS3, PSP, Xbox 360, DS, Wii, Video Games, News , Forums, Community and much more!

Halo: Reach is just one of many big games on the 360.

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Halo: Reach to be released September 24, 2010?

Halo: Reach Official Launch Date Revealed

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Most likely it will be September. Then Natal coming out around bout November. It should be a pretty solid holiday 2010 for Microsoft.

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A leaked art from the game

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Game Informer has a Halo: Reach special!

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[personalmgt]

I'm really looking forward on this prequel. I have like all of Halo's Novels and most of them are focused on the background story of Halo so this game is a must play for me when its out.

Not to mention of the days where humans still colonized Reach and there were still plenty of Master Chief's friends.