Halo: Reach

[Flawless]

Re: Halo: Reach

Will u be able to do like a 4 player online story mode. I also hope u will be able to fly a pelican, that would be fun. Did they say anything about any new vehicle?

Yes, there will be at least 4 player co-op through the campaign, it may even be expanded for more players. It's been announced that Reach will at the very least have feature parity with Halo 3, so that means 4 player co-op campaign, 2 player split-screen, 4 player split-screen multiplayer, meta-game, forge, saved-films/screenshots, and how everything ties into Bungie.net, along with some new features that will be revealed.

I don't think you will get to fly the Pelican, but you will get to fly this vehicle called the Falcon in both the campaign and multiplayer.

[XxUnrea1xX]

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The new sniper looks awsome, but alot bigger and probley way more powerful. I wonder how many rounds it will hold, and if it will slow u down when u run.

[Miles_Yuhas]

Re: Halo: Reach

The new sniper looks awsome, but alot bigger and probley way more powerful. I wonder how many rounds it will hold, and if it will slow u down when u run.

There has been a lot of talk about this picture, and I think that the sniper will be bigger and take up more of the screen, but I think this shot is still with the sniper being pulled out, cause that is truly one massive gun

[Miles_Yuhas]

Re: Halo: Reach

Yes, there will be at least 4 player co-op through the campaign, it may even be expanded for more players. It's been announced that Reach will at the very least have feature parity with Halo 3, so that means 4 player co-op campaign, 2 player split-screen, 4 player split-screen multiplayer, meta-game, forge, saved-films/screenshots, and how everything ties into Bungie.net, along with some new features that will be revealed.

This feature set plus in all likelihood firefight, plus they have said there is new games modes they haven't announced. This probably going to be the deepest, most feature filled, most life consuming FPS ever.

[z Revis]

Re: Halo: Reach

The new sniper looks awsome, but alot bigger and probley way more powerful. I wonder how many rounds it will hold, and if it will slow u down when u run.

Looks cool, but I can't see that being what it actually looks like in the game. As far as how big it is at least. I mean it'll take up the entire right side of the screen. lol.

[sportsdude]

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Looks cool, but I can't see that being what it actually looks like in the game. As far as how big it is at least. I mean it'll take up the entire right side of the screen. lol.

I hope it's that big in multiplayer just so it can nerf the sniper a little bit.

[XxUnrea1xX]

Re: Halo: Reach

If the gun is that big then its goin to have some down falls to it. Like less rounds, or it takes longer to get out. Also im loving how it looks like ever one of the guns you can zoom in on as in the pistol.

[a1mostt]

Re: Halo: Reach

I see what your saying about that, but if they do that the game is gonna suck and be cheap from the range aspect. I highly doubt every weapon will have a zoom to it.

[Candyman5]

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I see what your saying about that, but if they do that the game is gonna suck and be cheap from the range aspect. I highly doubt every weapon will have a zoom to it.

Its called the DMR, the range on that is med to long. Same with the needler carbine.

They have already confirmed that they have in fact nerfed the sniper rifle. They made it take more time in between shot and supposably made it where you have to lead your target like in Halo 1.

[XxUnrea1xX]

Re: Halo: Reach

They have already confirmed that they have in fact nerfed the sniper rifle. They made it take more time in between shot and supposably made it where you have to lead your target like in Halo 1.

Thats wat I thought there was going to have to be a down fall to that huge sniper.

[Flawless]

Re: Halo: Reach

Great interview:

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[Flawless]

Re: Halo: Reach

Article about animation:


All the Right Moves

“The Cinecam lets you do some mocap, clean your scene up, and put it all back into Motion Builder. From your monitor you can see the scene playing back, it can be looping if you need it to, and you can move the camera and get the perfect view using handheld or steady cam. However you wanna do it in the volume, it works.

It’s the same process that was used in the making of Avatar, except ours uses a cheaper monitor and a couple of pieces of wood leftover from one Kurt’s (Nellis) home projects. Less money, same results.”

This might be a good place to make mention that the recent ruckus in the press over accusations that Cameron had infused Avatar with some Halo-esque attributes have given us a good chuckle. We’ve always been quite clear – and it should be quite apparent to anyone paying any modicum of attention – that Halo was influenced, in part, by Cameron’s “Aliens.”

Either way, we figure if James Cameron is talking about you and your work, you must be doing something right.
McFarland isn’t interested in talking about the press, though. He’s still giving props to the groundwork laid before his arrival.

“It’s something that I’ve seen at other companies, but I’ve never seen it done in a two pass like that – just like Cameron is doing it. I saw it here first and then later on in the making of Avatar. A lot of these things spring up simultaneously.”

Clarification: We’re not saying Cameron swiped tech out from under us, right?

“Totally in parallel. I don’t know where CJ (Cowan) and Javi got the idea. It seems to me like a natural thing that sort of sprung up for cinematics support.”

“When I interviewed, I respectfully but honestly mentioned some of the things that I was disappointed with in Halo 3. After I got the job, they coincidentally talked about animation in the State of the Studio Address. They showed where we were at with Reach and almost all of those things I had brought up in the interview had already been addressed. I was like this is so -blam!- cool.”

And the overall game itself?

“We have this team of characters and they all have their own personality, so it’s not just a generic motion for every Spartan anymore. This guy is very specifically Jorge. This is Kat. They have their own attitude and it’s great. It just sells the performance a little bit more. That’s what I’m looking forward to in Reach.

I’m just really looking forward to seeing how it all comes out.”

[Flawless]

Re: Halo: Reach

Alpha footage multiplayer trailer.

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[ExtremeGamer]

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Um..WOW!

[frostbyte06]

Re: Halo: Reach

I definitely need a "rewind theater" for that trailer, I watched it a ton but I felt like I was missing so many features.....all in all crazy and love that they've realized that people like variety in their guys (classes).