Rumor: First screens, details for Halo Reach leaked

by Xav de Matos { Nov 5th 2009 at 6:48PM }

MLG forum user (and MS Paint fanatic) ToM MoReLLo claims to have played Halo: Reach, and was somehow able to nab multiple blurry screenshots of the game as evidence. Now, when we say blurry we mean blurry. In fact, the classic images of Bigfoot were of higher quality than some of these screens. Perhaps our natural skepticism is taking over, but we're taking these images with a rather large grain of salt.

As for details, the forum post claims Reach will feature squad-based combat and perks, similar to that of Modern Warfare. Squad-based mechanics certainly make sense, considering former Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter creative director Christian Allen joined Bungie in 2007. But again, grain of salt.

Halo: Reach -- Bungie's final title in the Halo universe -- is expected to ship in 2010. Microsoft has yet to reply to our request for a comment on the images.

[Via Shacknews & NeoGAF]

Tags: 343-industries, bungie, grain-of-salt, halo, halo-reach, leak, microsoft-game-studios, rumor

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

Ahmedz @ Nov 5th 2009 6:50PM

Old.

ifalldownstairs @ Nov 5th 2009 6:56PM

Looks fake

SpyderTaco (PSN: Ar4chNova89) @ Nov 5th 2009 6:57PM

Looks photoshopped.
I can tell by the pixels.

Jono @ Nov 5th 2009 6:58PM

Oh boy! Another Halo game *yawn*

Peter Moore [Planeteer | Power of Fucking Your Mother] @ Nov 5th 2009 7:05PM

Tom Morello

SpyderTaco (PSN: Ar4chNova89) @ Nov 5th 2009 7:11PM

Rage Against The Machine need to make a new studio album.

kevinpeang @ Nov 5th 2009 7:43PM

ex-rage against the machine guitar man has fallen on hard times

Anti-Villian @ Nov 5th 2009 8:50PM

I just cooked a pancake

XGM @ Nov 5th 2009 9:02PM

Dammit why are these comments so hard to read ?

Cypher @ Nov 5th 2009 6:50PM

This is just as believable as 2010 apocalypse theories.

Cypher @ Nov 5th 2009 6:51PM

2012. Damn it.

Das Boot @ Nov 5th 2009 6:51PM

2012?

DangerMouse @ Nov 5th 2009 7:03PM

Halo Reach Leaked Screenshot - The Movie.

Ashkental @ Nov 5th 2009 6:51PM

Bleh...

Aurailious @ Nov 5th 2009 6:52PM

Legit.

Aurailious @ Nov 5th 2009 6:56PM

BTW, the originals are on NeoGaf. This Tom stole them to try to gain epeen and posted them on MLG forums.

Whocares @ Nov 5th 2009 9:11PM

le shit

Cyro @ Nov 6th 2009 1:06PM

They look real. But what worries me the most is the fact that it looks like they used the same old halo 3 engine. Which would suck because, it's age is showing already.

I thought they would come out with a new engine with better graphics. :S

WINterfang ( Now with the power to piss you off ) @ Nov 5th 2009 6:52PM

And the best watermark award goes to...

LegendaryRedass @ Nov 5th 2009 7:14PM

I know, if I made a watermark it would be just like that.

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith @ Nov 5th 2009 6:53PM

It KINDA makes sense. Not entirely. If Reach will involve multiple Spartans, then squad based combat would be necessary. And Bungie has stated that Reach would use an all new engine.

But if they're Spartans, where is the shield bar?

seriousam7 @ Nov 5th 2009 6:56PM

according to the books, the spartans on reach didnt have shields. they did have mjolner armor, though.

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith @ Nov 5th 2009 6:58PM

The Spartans did have shields at the time the Battle of Reach happened. They'd just received the upgrade to MK V armor.

Of course, the rumors that Buck will be in the game would explain the lack of a shield bar...

seriousam7 @ Nov 5th 2009 8:33PM

I really hate getting this technical, but I believe Master Chief was the only spartan who got a shield at that time. Remember he first got it on the ship at the start of the first game after he had already been separated from the other spartans? Unless I'm forgetting something...

Admiral Trackbar @ Nov 5th 2009 9:21PM

It would only make sense for them to take a game, based on the novel (which is highly squad-based,) in this direction. The fact, well - "imaginary fact" is that Spartans on Reach and the outlying colonies were much less powerful than later iterations due to lack of shield technology and fine-tuning. Due to limitations, squad-based tactics were encouraged, if not mandatory. Most, if not all (to my aged knowledge) of the encounters in the novel are actually squads of Spartans.

In context, sure, seems like a good idea. But when you look at it through a finer scope you're left with them (Bungie) simply emphasizing what was already presented in other (newer, speaking of course of Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST) permutations of the franchise. They both had four-player cooperative play, it's just a matter of if you chose to take advantage of it or not. They're doing the same thing they did with ODST, they took Halo 3, and pushed it back a couple of steps in an effort to "humanize" the experience. Now what they're doing is simply re-skinning Halo 3: ODST, and adding an extra layer - so what, it's like Halo 3 again, minus some things? So it's like Halo 3: ODST - with benefits? I really don't like the attitude nor direction they're choosing to take these games. Of course we don't have the full story, and it's all merely speculation, there's honestly not many more places you can take this franchise and stay true to the First-Person perspective. I respected Ensemble's take on the franchise, though it was simply 'above average,' at least they had the balls to push in a direction with which they could spread their wings, not limit them.

The Dark Wayne [Planeteer: Power of the Batusi] @ Nov 5th 2009 9:30PM

nope, all the surviving Spartans, except i think for Gray Team, went to the Damascus Testing Facility on Chi Ceti IV to receive their armor

seriousam7 @ Nov 5th 2009 11:46PM

That's it, we're just gonna have to read them books again.

eNrique @ Nov 6th 2009 1:47AM

oh boy, halo nerds.

:s

Cyro @ Nov 6th 2009 1:10PM

When did they say they were using an all new engine ?

maveric101 @ Nov 6th 2009 8:45PM

no, it think they did have shields. if i remember correctly, some of the spartans were dropping down in a Pelican before it got shot up, and they had to jump out without parachutes. some didn't survive the landing, but i remember a line that said one of the spartans was falling into trees and saw their shields flickering from the branches until they smacked right into a trunk and the whole shield went out.

...

yeah, i'm a halo fan.

Ulquiorra Cifer @ Nov 5th 2009 6:54PM

This is the game to kill all games
Halo: Reach, Game of the Decade

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith @ Nov 5th 2009 6:55PM

I'm a Halo fan...but I think you mean Uncharted 3, right?

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith @ Nov 5th 2009 6:59PM

Right...

Troll! Troll in the dungeon! Bring your pitchforks!

Sly @ Nov 5th 2009 7:01PM

go back to your bridge asshole.

Ex14 @ Nov 5th 2009 7:05PM

agreed. uncarted 3 is one heck of a game. Reach has to be like God-like to beat it. I'll be content if it reaches Uncharted's standard

Ulquiorra Cifer @ Nov 5th 2009 7:06PM

you ladies are the one's trolling this is not an Uncharted thread
damn SDF needs a break

DangerMouse @ Nov 5th 2009 7:07PM

super mario galaxies 3

johnnynumber5 @ Nov 5th 2009 7:07PM

Uncharted 2 is one helluva game. Some of the best gameplay this generation. The improvements to an already awesome franchise were mind boggling.

CheeziePotato @ Nov 5th 2009 7:07PM

I thought you ran away to N4G.

Anti-Villian @ Nov 5th 2009 7:08PM

Halo? lmao, all that series has is purty graphics, nothing else.

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith @ Nov 5th 2009 7:09PM

Would it shock you to know I bought a 360 well before I bought a PS3, troll? Just because I defend a perfectly-good console in the PS3 doesn't make me part of the "Sony Defense Force". It makes me part of the "Defeating Idiots with Commonly Known Sense" force.