First Halo 3: Recon details emerge

Hopefully the game won't grind to a halt every 5 minutes for the Superintendent's head to fill the screen and spout nonsense at you.

Ya imagine his emotional head popping up like cortana's did in Halo 3 for the first half. I'm pretty sure it will be more like a voice in his head like Cortana, and giving NAV points while showing directions on signs like in the trailer. Either way, it'll be awesome and can't wait!!

I hope they announce one of the other games next year even if we have to wait another year for it's release.

So, we won't be able to play the Multiplayer maps with our Halo 3 maps?

"takes place directly after the Prophet of Regret jumped into slipspace during Halo 2, causing the destruction of New Mombasa"

Wrong, if that was true, then this game would not have a setting in the inner city. After Regret jumps (In the first part of the trailer) the city remains intact. If they jump truly destroyed the city, it would be gone in the teaser. I say its safe to assume we will see Truth (Or the Elites) begin "Digging" the Ark in this game.

Could somebody please explain to me the difference between recon and mythic? Recon is this. Mythic is what then? Nothing now? A multiplayer map pack? The extra cheevos on Halo 3, do they belong to Recon then and not something known as Mythic? I could see there being skulls in Recon, and I could see it using the extra cheevos on Halo 3. Just curious if we even know. I certainly got lost somewhere back there.

does this mean halo 3 maps will be playable on the recon Disc

or does it mean recon will be a completly different online entity

TELL US WHERE OUR MYTHIC MAP PACK IS, GDMNT!!!!

So, Halo 3 was really just Halo 2.5, and this is Halo 3.5...so is that like Halo 2.75? I think Bungie's just about got their engine and fan base to a point that they can just re-skin stuff and sell people the exact same game with different characters! Nice...

That probably just made me extremely unpopular, but the good thing is I don't care about being popular here. It just bothers me when sequels start to stagnate.

Also, on another note, this COD: World at War or whatever...is going to suck just like COD 3 did...because it is just another reuse of the previous iteration of the series.

I know that Gears 2 will be a better sequel than the first though. So, it is possible to re-use engines (with minor updates) and still make a good game. Anyway, all in all...I guess it's good news that in an economy that's "SO BAD" people still go out and buy junk.

If there's no squad per se, then how does it have 4-plater co-op?

With the multiplayer. Do they mean that Recon has it's own multiplayer (that plays exactly like Halo 3's) with it's own maps, or that you copy the maps from the Recon disk onto the HDD for use in Halo 3?

halo is a dying series and bungie is grasping to it for a few extra bucks because they cant make anything else to impress the masses like halo ! nothing last for ever bungie realize that and give us something unhalo related and prove to us ur not a 1 hit wonder

So if Halo 3 Recon's multiplayer is just Halo 3 multiplayer, does that mean you can play multiplayer with someone playing normal Halo while you are playing Recon or are they still separate multiplayer games?

I hope they improve on the co-op functionality that Halo3 had. We should always be able to search for co-op games in the game. I shouldn't have to hope one of my existing friends are playing a cop-op game so I could join. I want to make new friends by jumping into their co-op games.

No class based Human vs Covenant multiplayer?
PASS

What about co op playing is that gone?

I agree with a few others commenters in here.

I'm kind of sick of the blatant repackaging of what is essentially the same thing.

It's still an FPS, not squad-based.
You're still a silent helmeted character helped by an omnipresent AI
Nearly everything about fighting and multiplayer are the same, save a few things like shields and Super Spartan Jumping™.

I'm aware that it takes many resources and man-hours to create a new campaign and content, but we should all be aware that the time for finishing this game is going to be far quicker for bungie since they are starting nowhere near square 1.

hmm.. what I don't think anyone mentioned.. if Recon is a new game/spin off.. than it'll have it's own set of 1000GS...
there's what looks like 6 new levels for Halo 3, ie the skulls.. or are these skulls in MP maps? personally, I'd prefer 6 new missions.. though being worth 25pts instead on 10pts.. will they be really tricky to get/find?

These.. "Elders", could they be doing Halo 1 & 2 with the Halo 3 engine.. where we could use any of the discs for MP, having access for all the DLC maps, ala Rock Band 1&2.. (I'm sure that makes sense)..

My only question is: will there be a sprint button. That is the reason I started playing COD4, and haven't gone back to Halo since.

Ahhh I hope everything works in the end. Halo has not let me down yet, they better perform.

just to answer some unanswered questions from above and some of my personal thoughts.

"So if Halo 3 Recon's multiplayer is just Halo 3 multiplayer, does that mean you can play multiplayer with someone playing normal Halo while you are playing Recon or are they still separate multiplayer games?" Question by Aero.

The multiplayer is exactly the same the only real difference is that when you buy Halo 3: Recon you also get the map pack other than that its regular Halo.(Besides the new campaign)

Personally i do not like the click R thoumbstick to beatdown i feel it is nicer to be able to crouch or go prone alot quicker rather than lift my finger off the stick and stop aiming just to be able to crouch. so therefore you can do both crouch and aim it is not the hard to press B to melee especially since its like that in almost all fps games. And the thought to be able to sprint yes in a sense it would feel nice to but i feel it would pull of the originality of the series and not work well with gameplay possibly i obviously wouldnt know firsthand but i know that there not going to have it since the multiplayer is exactly the same with a few added quirks to forge and films i believe.

And I think if this game was squad based it would give the game a slow feeling like a feeling of well if i send my men over there and i come from over here instead of just letting the A.I. take the enemies from the front usually and you bein a bad ass ODST marine come in from the side and just slaughter the Covenant. What i mean is this game is supposed to be a fast-paced good looking FPS not a squad-based relying on your A.I. to do half the work when usually they cant even walk without running into a wall! type game. yeah.. ill see you on Halo biznitches :)