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Halo Reach to abandon multiplayer roots?

October 4th, 2009 at 1:13 am · 50 Comments

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Halo Reach is the next and supposedly last Halo game made by Bungie. Slated for next fall, this Halo tale, if Wikipedia serves me well, should feature or at least end with the Fall of Reach and feature some massive battles filled with more than just one Spartan. This fact alone has the fanboys in a tizzy, even while their blood lust for anything Halo is currently being satiated by Halo 3: ODST.

Not a whole heck of a lot is known about the final Halo game from Bungie, but I’ve got a juicy nugget and I think it’s gold.  Find out everything you need to know about Halo Reach, after the jump.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words and damn if “they” ain’t right about this picture:

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Take a closer look at the silhouette of what appears to be a bunch of super soldiers in MJOLNIR armor. The guy in the middle appears to be Master Chief, I think we can all agree on that one. Okay, so Master Chief will be in Halo Reach. Ok, that’s not a big deal, I’m sure most Halo fans could have guessed that. The rest of the silhouettes appear to be the other Spartans that appear in the Fall of Reach book. Ok, so they’re likely to make an appearance as well.

But.  That is not what this picture says to me.  This picture screams at me and tells me exactly what Bungie is going to do with their multiplayer in Halo Reach.  Take another look at the pic, but with a few notations made by yours truly:

Halo Reach

Is it all coming together in your head yet? Why is Halo Reach having a multiplayer beta?  ODST didn’t have one. Why, because they’re using the same engine and gameplay in ODST. Reach will obviously have a new engine and a whole new style of multiplayer. What “style” do you ask? It’s simple: a class based multiplayer similar to games like the Battlefield series. What else could that picture show.  One guy has a sniper rifle, one has Battle Rifle, one has a knife, one has a pistol and one has a heavy weapon of some kind. If that doesn’t scream out multiplayer classes, they you need to be hit in the head again.

Looks like they’re doing away with the ole “run as fast as you can to the rocket launcher” style of multiplayer and going toward a more cerebral and in my opinion fun game type that has you choose a class, which will likely require more teamwork than what is currently required in the Halo 3 multiplayer.

Book it, count it, bookmark it.  I’m so dead on here, but I guess we won’t know for sure until 2010.  I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait.




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  • stupidpower

    The guy in the center ain’t master chief…
    He was the ship which jumped away (to halo 1)

    But if halo goes battlefield, it will open up alot of possibilities…

    • http://non dorpo

      Ok….Master Chief was on a space station during the invasion of Reach…he and two other Spartans went to destroy data that could lead the Covenant to Earth. Meanwhile, the rest of the Spartans were on the planet fighting while the Pillar of Autumn fought in space against Covenant ships. SO, the Master Chief was at the battle for Reach, just not on the planet. After the battle went downhill, the Pillar of Autumn evacuated with the Master Chief and the rest of the Spartans “died.” That’s where Halo 1 starts. Master Chief could very well be in game…playable or not…but if he’s playable, that means more zero gee fighting which could be nice!

  • http://www.talkingship.com Jitterbug

    I agree with your assumption on the new Multiplayer approach, and I think its a good thing. I’m looking forward to it.

    • http://www.sarcasticgamer.com Lono

      I agree. I may actually play the multiplayer in Halo Reach if it’s more like Battlefield.

      • ice

        dude u could have put in some modifications. Jorge is the heavy yes. Kat’s a technician/computers but also medic. Carter’s the captain all-rounder. Emile’s the melee/ kamikazai/short-range. and June’s yeah the sniper/scout

  • JackBanditt

    I would be all over this on day one. I love the battlefield games, and a more strategic element being introduced to halo would give me more than enough reason to finally enjoy the multiplayer.

  • http://Www.YouTube.com/inf3rnalslave Mattjc

    Im sooo looking forward to this game, but i cant play the beta cos i dont have odst, a game tht apparently i was rite not to buy. Lol

  • TheFreakture

    This was my first thought when I saw the teaser, immediately shot down by all the Halo fanboys in my Live party. I need some new friends.

  • DUFFMcWALIN

    good call lono i agree hopefully they can balance the game and make it different from games like TF2. If not there is no reason for me to play Reach over a game like TF2.

    • Pulviriza

      I think it would be better to model it after TF2, not avoid doing something like it. Serious of course, but TF2 style of choosing or whatever.

  • PayneTrainSG

    They’d be doing a disservice by not changing its style of gameplay. Every Halo multiplayer has undergone some sort of ground-shattering change, big or small, between dev cycles. It might actually return to Halo 1 style compat, considering everyone’s in “dated” Mark V armor, and they wouldn’t, in theory, have power weapons like the BR and Spartan Laser. Not to mention since all the Spartans except two died, I’d say we’d all be rather vulnerable…

  • Maul

    I don’t mean to piss on your bonfire Lord.Lono, but the concept of a class based Halo: Reach was floating around in June soon after it was unveiled.

    • http://www.sarcasticgamer.com Lono

      I said the same thing back in June on Respawn Radio.

  • timewarp

    i’m a bit of a PS3 fanboy but if they do this then Halo: Reach will be the best game of 2010 without doubt. If this is true then i really wanna play this game.

    • Chubbaluphigous

      it will be beyond popular but 2010 has some really heavy contenders.

      • timewarp

        yeah but this is halo. IGN have given every Halo game 8 to 9.5 all the time despite ODST being hardly any good.

  • psyco skull

    but why??? why they need to abandon the old school multiplayer style?? sometimes i dont fell like choosing weapons and i want to kill with everything i find, also i hate a little team work in some games, like killzone2

  • http://www.gamesinanutshell.blogspot.com Corgon67

    Uhh is that a Battle Rifle? it looks like an Assault Rifle.

  • Maulin

    I would disagree that this requires more teamwork. Sure the random, online matches you play in are gonna have he 12 year olds all running to the sniper rifle, but when its an actual team versus another actual team, you can’t survive unless you use teamwork. One guy has to head towards the power weapons while his buddies help cover him and take out anyone in his way. They know that they’re not gonna be the ones to use the rockets, shotty, or sniper, but they gotta protect the guy that has them.

  • Ha Ha Ha! Oh wow.

    Listen to the Giant Bomb Bombcast 09-22-2009, they called Reach as being a classed based shooter 12 days before you.

    • http://www.sarcasticgamer.com Lono

      anybody that listens to Respawn Radio knows that I called it months ago, so nice try.

  • Viking

    I also heard Final Fantasy 1 was going to be Square’s last game before going bankrupt… Back in 1987…

    So, Bungie’s last Halo game? Let’s see…

    • http://www.sarcasticgamer.com Lono

      I wrote that because Microsoft retains the halo rights and Bungie, by all reports, is working on a new property. So, there will be more Halo games, but probably made by an internal team within Microsoft.

      • Viking

        I know, it’s just a joke.
        It was not directed at anyone, so sorry :)
        I would love to see what Bungie would do other than Halo, so let’s hope you’re right.

  • http://forums.sarcasticgamer.com/member.php?u=2154 Raven

    It probably is Master Chief. He was a squad leader.

  • V33G33

    Bleh, I don’t want another battlefield clone. If I want classes, I’ll play TF2. For Halo I want competitive, fast-paced gameplay based on individual and team skill.

    • timewarp

      they’ll proberly still offer that but at the same time class like gameplay so for instance team deathmatch only depending on what class you pick depends on your role,

      i reckon the class system makes it fair, i’ve seen pros pwn basically everyone going on stupid one man army ventures, this only means that now more people have a chance and not just the person that plays halo all the time.

  • http://christians-media.com/ chuckiej

    If you said this in June and we Halo fans said it in June, why are you treating it as NEWS now? Joe Staten gives away as much as we are gonna get in this interview with GTTV: http://bit.ly/1ko5CB

    • http://www.sarcasticgamer.com Lono

      Sorry Chuckie, don’t get your point.

      • http://christians-media.com/ chuckiej

        You’re treating it like no one believes you. The people who are paying attention agree with you. But Staten says it won’t “have the baggage of class-based”. I’m not sure what that means but I don’t think it means Halo Battlefield or Halo Modern Warfare.

  • pancake130

    Because not everyone here listens to Halo fanboys and Respawn Radio?

  • ShortDude

    Not sure whether to believe this or not…i mean reach has lots of different spartans so why not give them different styles but i would hate to see different classes. I just want to see young, fit spartans wielding weapons unimaginable to wield for a normal marine…I’m hoping for the hunter’s weapon *fingers crossed*

    • timewarp

      edited for content.

      and even if lono did annoce this i’m sure a lot of people proberly didn’t know about this, this articule is the first i’ve heard about halo reach possibly having a class system.

  • Geostar

    Pfft… Halo…

  • deserthawk

    if you take a clo0ser look at the pic and examin it the gold is not the sky or anything like that it is a close up of a face plate and the other images in the pic are reflections of what hes looking at

  • The bigsdady1962awsome

    um Ya i used to be a halo fanboy so i did read all the books and i figured out the plot for halo 4. and now theres goin to be reach and i wont be able to laugh at peaples faces when i learned i was right! DX

  • http://www.dsicompatable.qqqq.com matt

    you guys know halo reach has nothing to do with the book right?

  • Andrew

    It’s funny to look back on this and lawl at how off you were.

    • http://www.sarcasticgamer.com Lono

      i may have gotten the names wrong, but I was right about the class based multiplayer.

      I think it’s hilarious that people doubted me. I was spot on.

  • Otaka

    Noo that pic is a fail…the middle one aint “soldier” hes the “Team Leader”. :P more appropriate title…
    because their all soldiers :S but their specific professions are those.

  • http://forums.sarcasticgamer.com/member.php?u=9240 seaninskibb

    Wow, you actually weren’t all that far off. I would have never been able to spot that stuff. You have quite the keen eye Lono.

  • http://sarcasticgamer.com fluffylupigus

    have any of you seen the trailers for this game??? its kind of obvious that chief has no action in this one. And I was wondering if there was the flood would be in the game.. and im only 11 believe it or not…

  • Erik

    you guys are all wrong lol sorry to rain on the parade, but i know for a fact that thats not chief, its jorge on the left ,the girl soldier on the right, the leader of noble team in the middle, emile next to him and the scout guy all the way on the right. Thats noble team there and the one missing is noble 6 which is you in the game.

    • http://forums.sarcasticgamer.com/member.php?u=9240 seaninskibb

      Really? I didn’t realise. How did you find out? Oh wait, all these comments were left months ago! And your comment was on Sept 14th. Which was the release date for halo reach. Hmm, I call shenanigans.

  • Chris

    Lol this entire article is all wrong lol epic fail

  • Jarek

    the one in the middle is carter the one to the left of him is kat the mechenic. the one on his right is emile. the one on far right russien and the one to the far left is john.

  • Jarek

    no fllod at all.

  • http://www.quotesfrompatrick.com Fail.

    Asking why ODST didn’t have a multiplayer beta is the equivalent of wondering where to access the Oblivion: Elder Scrolls multiplayer beta.

  • Roach

    It’s Jorge on the far left, Carter next to him, Emile next to Carter, Kat next to Emile, and Jun next to Kat.

  • banana

    okay look that picture of the spartan labels are wrong soldier is actually commander carter leader of noble team,the medic is actually the technision and 2nd in command of noble team (kat),the stealth is emile noble 4 the up close and in your face other words close quarters heavy weapons is jorge and hes not heavy weapons hes just the heavy gunner, the only one you got right was the sniper jun you play as noble 6 the spartan 3 version of master cheif and at the beggining of halo 3 when cortana said they let me pick she picked noble 6 not master cheif the only reason she is with john 117 is because he is last the spartan alive