Halo: Reach, The Return of Master Chief? Leaked Images and Info.

Mr Logic - 54 days 9 hours ago

People seem to not understand that since this is before Halo it's not a "return".

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Nostradavis - 54 days 9 hours ago

From a gamer standpoint it marks the return of us being able to play him so I think my headline makes sense.

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BadboyCivic360 - 54 days 9 hours ago

i expect alot of reach info in the coming days

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Blaze929 - 54 days 9 hours ago

People seem to not understand Master Chief wasn't the only Spartan...

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StanLee - 54 days 9 hours ago

How is this leaked? Waypoint launched today. I just downloaded it.

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Xbox Avatars Shoe - 54 days 9 hours ago

The fall of Reach takes place right before Mater Chief boards the Pillar of Autumn as the last Spartan alive at the very beginning of Halo: Combat Evolved, so it only makes sense that Master Chief appears sometime in the game. Not to mention, Master Chief is the best Spartan, hence the name "Master Chief" and in the novel "The Fall of Reach" it says he's in the battle for Reach so it's a no brainer.

Edit: LOL at the disagrees! What I said about the beginning of Halo: CE is 100% true and Master Chief HAS to appear at some point, even if it's a very short time, because he's the only Spartan to make it out alive. The end of Reach is the beginning of Halo: CE so they have to include Master Chief in at least the end of the game. They could focus on another squad the for most of the game but they have to at least have Master Chief at the end.

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ThanatosDMC - 54 days 9 hours ago

If they read the novel, then no duh that he's there... ignorant people. Heck, i bet it's on wiki.

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dbf - 54 days 8 hours ago

MC isn't the only spartan left after Reach falls, read "Ghosts of Onyx"

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Munky - 54 days 8 hours ago

Yes all 33 of the Spartans were sent to Reach, but they were split into two groups. One group which consisted of MC, Linda, and James, the other group consisted of the rest of the Spartans which was led my Fred. Many of the Spartans died when their pelican had to crash land onto earth, off the top of my head I believe only 12 survived. As for the group that was still in orbit (to either destroy something or to stop the covenant from getting important info, I don't remember) the only one that survived was MC, James was blasted into space and Linda "died" but was later revived. MC is not the only Spartan still alive, for sure Fred, Kelly, Linda, and 5 Spartan III's are stuck on (in) Onyx. Their is the "grey" team which is made up of three Spartans still alive but were to far away (possibly behind enemy lines) to be sent to help on Reach. So all in all their are enough Spartans alive and well, I just hope this games ends up as good as the novels are.

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Reibooi - 54 days 7 hours ago

Well personally I think most of these screens are so blurry that I don't feel comfortable calling them real or not.

As for the master chief thing. The game takes place on Reach an event in the Halo universe that Master Chief was present for however he was not the character we now know of at that time in the time line. Also ALL the Spartans wear that armor so just because the hand looks the same means nothing. It could just as easily be any of the other Spartans from the books as they will certainly be involved.

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BaseballFan15 - 54 days 6 hours ago

Fred, Kelly, and Linda are still alive if I remember correctly.

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johnscooper - 54 days 3 hours ago

i bet that you get to play as Fred because MC is in Space the whole time reach is being invaded and Fred is 2nd only to MC in combat ability if i remember correctly, now that i think about it we may get to rescue that damn Admiral.
and play with Mini Shiva Warheads hehehe

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Rock Bottom - 54 days ago

Wait! Halo reach is a FPS?

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LastDance - 53 days 23 hours ago

Yeah sik!! epic return..What's it been...few months or something?

Thank God he is back to show no expression or give us any kind of emotion.
What is Halo without that.

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pixelsword - 53 days 23 hours ago

And awaits the day.

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vhero - 53 days 20 hours ago

Another Halo FPS that looks exactly the same as the last one?? Can you say a big expansion pack? Especially if it is MC. Halo needs something new to its universe not another version of Halo 3 with a new story. Yet it will get great reviews even though its exactly the same game with a different story. If any other game series tried it they would be shot down instantly.

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ABizzel1 - 53 days 19 hours ago

Isn't Halo: Reach a prequel meaning that the Spartans are still alive. So you may not be playing as Master Chief maybe as another Spartan (hopefully one with a personality).

But on to the game. If these are real (which I must say they look very real) then I guess the rumor I heard of Bungie using a new engine for Reach is true, either that or they worked wonders out of their old engine. The game looks a lot better in those screen, not best of the best in the shooter genre, but certainly a leap up from the previous installments.

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Aquanox - 53 days 17 hours ago

Looking at how detailed the weapons are (even when the screens are blury) it's clear that they belong to a completely new Graphic Engine. I love the way it looks, less cartoony. I really hope these are real. The Halo 3 Engine age was way too obvious in ODST.

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IdleLeeSiuLung - 53 days 16 hours ago

The graphics is significantly improved as well.

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catguykyou - 53 days 15 hours ago

I'm pretty sure, if you look at how ODST was set up, we will get to play as a few different Spartans in REACH. They invested heavily on how to set switching between characters without jarring the Immersion of the gamer to not use it again. I expect we will get to play as a few different characters. Glad to see that they will be using different "perks" as was talked about in the book. IE: one spartan has better shields, one has really good sniper perks, one is really fast.

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NoBias - 54 days 9 hours ago

There's more than one spartan, smarty. That's like looking at someone in full S.W.A.T. gear and saying "Oh, that's GOTTA be 'John Doe'!!!"

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Xdrari - 54 days ago

LOL

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jerethdagryphon - 53 days 19 hours ago

they had a chance tomake reach something truly spectacular but i fear they will end up with another squad based fps with halo skin,

they could have done so much more even if they had to take a bit of license from the books

and switch the squads,

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MrAnonymous - 54 days 7 hours ago

somewhat true...i think as far as armor on the body is concerned they have the same (i think) but they do wear different helmets, you can even check on the actual fall of reach novel cover

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BaseballFan15 - 54 days 6 hours ago

No, everything about the Spartans is the exact same. They just do that so you are able to tell who is who. Outside of the Spartans, only one person in the galaxy can recognize each spartan by appearance, Dr. Halsey, and that's only because she tells them apart by how the way they walk.

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cyberwaffles - 54 days 4 hours ago

thats N4G baby ;)

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predator - 54 days 9 hours ago

it was weird playin a Halo game without being MC but also fresh at the same time but I still want to be MC in REACH

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badz149 - 54 days 5 hours ago

and i think many others out there also do! what's with the disagrees btw?

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Nostradavis - 54 days 9 hours ago

True, but if they put you back under the hood of a Spartan, why not make it him? Wouldn't it be easier to market him over some wanna be? Just a thought.

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xenogamer - 54 days 9 hours ago

master chief never fought on the planet reach when the covies attacked, he was in space with linda and james, and kelly is still alive and all of grey team is still alive.

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cmrbe - 54 days 9 hours ago

I am sure MC fought on reach. Reach is where the spartan program was conducted including the MJOLNIR armour development and augementation of the spartans.

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xenogamer - 54 days 8 hours ago

no sh1t, but at the end, when the covies attacked, MC was headed on a mission to go comandeer a covie ship and kidnap a prophet, when the covenant surprised attaacked reach, then him and linda and james went to go take the NAV data off a space instalation do to the cole protocol, he never actualy sets foot on reach during the attack, after he attains the NAV data, captain keys does a blind slip space jump ( actually not blind) and appears infront of halo. MC never fights on reach.

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cmrbe - 54 days 8 hours ago

i think i remeebr that part. Dont remember what happend to the rest of the blue team and Dr Heasly or whatever her name was i can't remeber. All i remember it was a route. Number 117.

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MrAnonymous - 54 days 7 hours ago

yea i think there were 33 remaining spartans before the battle of reach, but split up into 2 teams (i think it was red and blue) which was 3 and 30, 3 being MC, linda and james, and the 30 being everyone else

the 30 was split into even smaller squads and they battled on reach but many of them died upon landing

but i havent read the book in quite some time, so my info could be a bit wrong in some places

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BaseballFan15 - 54 days 6 hours ago

Xenogamer is right, but Bubbles for both because I wasn't expecting Cmrbe to have that much Halo knowledge.

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Xi - 54 days 2 hours ago

One team went to defend the last remaining orbital defense, which was headed by John the rests stayed on reach while the planet was getting glassed.

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cmrbe - 54 days 2 hours ago

I bought an xbox for halo. Halo story was so good that I bought and read the books. What caught me was the beginning of halo 1. After that opening sequence on the autumn I wanted to kill every convent one by one. Halo 1 to this day is in my top 10 games of all time and I have games for over 25 years now. Then came H2 and H3. The story got impersonal and stupid. Dissapointment is an understatement. I hope they don't mess up the story in reach becuase the book is very very good. Still have it.

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MrAnonymous - 54 days ago

same, i still have the fall of reach and first strike novels...even downloaded audiobooks for the other ones (GoO, CP, etc) just incase i was bored and wanted to listen to them...havent had the time to listen tho

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mastiffchild - 53 days 23 hours ago

Well, IDK, but what I DO think is that the story of Reach is one of the netter of a terrible bunch of stories in the Halo novels. Seriously, i tired and failed to really get inot any of that stuff as, to me(don't kill me!) it was just so badly put together and the writing is pretty pedestrian at best.

Thing is the tales is pretty well known even among Halo heads who, like myself, aren't that fussed about the books and, really, is the story of what happened on Reach that well suited to a game IF they don't change a few bits and risk the wrath of the perfectionists among us?

It's just a thought(so, again, don't kill me over this!)but don't you feel it would make for a pretty bleak game? Of course they could add stuff in as well as leave stuff out and, personally I'm quite happy not to play as MC-would make a cool change without them needing to revolutionise gameplay at all. I mean it though -I don't think , as it stands, that Reach is the perfect "game" story. Very interested to see where they take this.

Just give me the games over those bloody novels every time! Sci Fi isn't even that hard to do well.

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MrAnonymous - 53 days 2 hours ago

imo the story of reach is far more suited for a movie than the game cause i dont think the, hmm...action parts? of the game could do the story justice...but cutscenes could, and if cutscenes could do it justice, then might as well just make it a movie

and that is why i often wondered whether halo reach was about before, during, or after the fall

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Mista T - 54 days 9 hours ago

>_>

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FiftyFourPointTwo - 54 days 9 hours ago

The king of the most generic characters. -__-

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ReviewsArePolitics - 54 days 9 hours ago

Poor X-tards, getting excited about nothing but generic garbage.

LOL, look at the graphics, it looks exactly like Halo 2.1 a.k.a. Halo 3

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chrisulloa - 54 days 8 hours ago

Generic character? LOL good one. Name one space marine main character in an FPS that came before him.

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Gabe EatsWell - 54 days 8 hours ago

Green Ranger > Master Queef

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Barbapapa - 54 days 8 hours ago

halo sux without MC, like MGS without snake :P

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PeptoBismol - 54 days 7 hours ago

the Sony fanboys on here sound a lot like the bots earlier this gen.

it's just getting really annoying.

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LUCKYXS7LEVEN - 54 days 5 hours ago

Didn't know it was Power Ranger Hour over at the M$ Farm.

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2good4u2 - 54 days 2 hours ago

"LOL, look at the graphics, it looks exactly like Halo 2.1 a.k.a. Halo 3."

you do realise this is a very early built, don't you?

how's halo 3 suddenly halo 2.1. it's a worthy next game.
new engine, much better graphics, gameplay renewal, tons of feautures, finish the fight.

halo 1 was the #1 game for it's time, halo 2 was the #1 game for its time, halo 3 was the #1 for its time (and it's still in the top) and halo reach will THE game to play in 2010 and 11.

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4point7BillionLoss - 54 days ago

... excactly $4.7 billion marketing halo reach !!!!

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Upbeat - 50 days 22 hours ago

says at the main menu "start solo game" this must mean there is going to be co op :O

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jhooty14 - 54 days 9 hours ago

Saaking are all ur comments fanboy related? lol mt fave charecter is solid snake kratos and nathan drake

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Sandwich Bender - 54 days 9 hours ago

Don't forget about Gordon Freeman!

But yeah, I agree with Master Chief not being that great.

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4point7BillionLoss - 54 days ago

it's all about CORTANA !!!!

They could render halo reach on the halo two engine it'll still be better than flozone and unfarted !!!

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BaseballFan15 - 54 days 4 hours ago

http://www.freakware.de/new...

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buying1999 - 53 days 12 hours ago

Look at the circle on the picture. It's highlighting the 540p jaggies on the lamebox halo engine!!

LAME. I mean come on. Graduate to a real gamers' console...PS3.
Don't pay for online, don't settle for DVD9, don't pay full price for expansions, don't have recycled and mediocre games pushed on you.

Get a PS3 and have free online, Blu-Ray, Web Browser, Netflix, Best exclusives, and original games from the most powerful consumer electronics device ever devised ... PS3

PS3...Get aboard or get left behind!!

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MariusElijah - 54 days 9 hours ago

the king of graphics? since when

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turnerdc - 54 days 9 hours ago

Halo and Halo 2 were some of the best graphics seen on consoles for their time.

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ReviewsArePolitics - 54 days 9 hours ago

There were many games better than Halo 2, including Doom 3 (on PC). Halo 1, maybe... for its time. Halo 2 better than Halo 1, but by then consoles had been left behind by PC.

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NecrumSlavery - 54 days 9 hours ago

Halo 2 had bad graphics. Yeah they were nicer than H:CE over all, but everything was shiny and purple, WTF?

How can the green ranger return if Reach is based 5 years or so pre Combat Evolved?

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turnerdc - 54 days 8 hours ago

I said on consoles! Of course PC graphics were better around that time, PC graphics have and always will catch up to and surpass console graphics.

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LUCKYXS7LEVEN - 54 days 5 hours ago

i don't know wat drug ur putting to your eyes but seriously proof facts about Halo Reach Graphics are better then KZ 2 (or ProShooters 2 as i like to call it)No Cut-scene Bull just Gameplay n i'll give ya a bubble

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Upbeat - 50 days 22 hours ago

lmmao, did i miss read that or did that say it looks better than killzone 2 ?

the king of grapics has returned ?

do u realise that halo3 and halo3(2) odst where rendered from an xbox1 engine? and u think that they are better than killzone ?! LMFAO!

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foreverflame - 54 days 9 hours ago

Halo reach=The ps3 killer for 2010.Fear it droids

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Saaking - 54 days 8 hours ago

Master chief was around during the fall of reach.

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Deadman64 - 54 days 6 hours ago

lmao saaking. Studying halo a little too much for a PS3 Fanboy aren't ya?

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silverchode - 54 days 6 hours ago

you need to know your enemy :)

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LUCKYXS7LEVEN - 54 days 5 hours ago

ain't that the truth

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squadass99 - 54 days 9 hours ago

ive seen better ships on PS3, and if thats meant to impress your seriously out of your mind

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Saaking - 54 days 8 hours ago

I don't get it.

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Zechs34 - 54 days 8 hours ago

Ive seen that but where... OH! I KNOW! Mass Effect 1, in 2007! I win! You, in your garbage attempt at flaming w/ generic graphics, fail.

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Obama - 54 days ago

It's a dildo?

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The Iron Sheik - 53 days 10 hours ago

This is from Resistance 2 that came out in 08.

Get it through your head kid, 360 will never match the PS3 in graphics.

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PeptoBismol - 54 days 7 hours ago

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LUCKYXS7LEVEN - 54 days 5 hours ago

the dude is giving his opinion on the game, so if u plz........(Read 10.1 ) Thanks pal 8D

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The Iron Sheik - 53 days 21 hours ago

Jealous? Of Halo? You must be kidding. Have you ever seen a PS3 fan say they want Halo? I never have. We don't want it, let the overrated hyped crap stay on the failbox where it belongs

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chrisulloa - 53 days 18 hours ago

Just proves his point ^

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The Iron Sheik - 53 days 11 hours ago

You are dumber than I thought. Does the RROD hypnoitize weak minded individuals like yourself? Because that would explain a lot.

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