EDIT: Damn enter button

Ok so Bungie announced a new Halo game entitled Halo 3 Recon, the trailer is on their site...Thoughts? Opinions? anything all is welcome really,

Discuss

Halo 3 Recon, New Game, Lets Open the Floodgates shall we?

I see what you did there.

Anyway, I thought that Bungie and Microsoft disbanded, and Microsoft kept the rights. Maybe Halo just too popular for Microsoft to let it fade into memory.

It sounds like an expansion pack. Lemme download the movie.

Edit: IIRC, Master Chief was seen at the end of Halo 3 plummeting to a strange world on a small escape pod.

This appears to be what happened to him after he crash lands. It looks like it could be the Covenant home world.

Bungie has several projects underway within the studio, one of which is a brand new campaign experience for Halo 3 that we teased two weeks ago. Now, at long last, we can lift the shroud of secrecy and shed a little more light on what we've been working on.

Brand new campaign experiance, sounds like an expansion pack to me. Otherwise it would be Halo 4, wouldn't it?

... Honestly didn't mean the pun...I tend to hate puns.

Bungie is no longer owned by Microsoft, true, and Microsoft own a majority of the rights to the Halo franchise, true...HOWEVER Microsoft is still Bungie's publisher, and as such, Bungie is free to make Halo themed games for as long as they want with Microsoft.

and no it's a new game, there is an expansion (maps and shit i believe) coming out eventually for Halo3, but i believe H3R is a whole new game

EDIT: New Hero, New Campaign is part of the advert.

Given the little screen references the USMC database when analyzing the shuttle, perhaps it is a Covenant HELD world that used to be human- one of the outlying colonies, like Harvest.

Whatever it is it seems to be Master Chief v The whole damn world.

shrug

I assume it's in some place called lumumba or something, and whether it's new game or an expansion is beyond me...

City like combat in a Haloverse will be interesting

Isaac Dodgson:
and no it's a new game, there is an expansion (maps and shit i believe) coming out eventually for Halo3, but i believe H3R is a whole new game

Look at the name, "Halo 3 Recon" notice something it has in common with Halo 3?

Considering Master Chief has ALWAYS been a one man army, the whole "One man behind enemy lines" thing doesn't really change a whole lot for him. Still... If they play with it right it could be interesting though.

I like the tone they picked for the teaser. Rather then BLAMBLAMBLAM SNARKY COMMENT ROCK MUSIC YEAH BLAMBLAMBLAM it has a nice musical score...

If I may point out, it's has happened where a game retained the same title, and even number while with an added sub title and became a different game not just an expansion... Armored Core 2 Another Age for an example...but yeah it's probably an expansion

For me, the Halo3 campaign was broken, boring, short, shallow, but the music was excellent... So yeah I liked the trailer

"New Hero, New Campaign", the old one needed work! Not that it was bad, it's just there was so much more that could be done.

The H3R will take place on Earth, in between Halo 2 and 3. The city you see in the trailer is New Mombasa in Kenya. The little names in the corner of the screen at some points are street names, I believe.

Personally I am pretty excited about this game. Rumors have been flying around the internet recently that someone (nobody is quite sure who) is making a squad based FPS or TPS with ODSTs as the player characters. Looks like this might be it.

The trailer almost makes is 90% clear that you play as an OSDT, HUZZAAH!. But seriously I don't think that master chief is involved this time around, It's probably a new game but it's set during the halo 3 events, They could just call it "Halo Recon" but they belive "3" has power!

wrightofway:
The H3R will take place on Earth, in between Halo 2 and 3. The city you see in the trailer is New Mombasa in Kenya. The little names in the corner of the screen at some points are street names, I believe.

Personally I am pretty excited about this game. Rumors have been flying around the internet recently that someone (nobody is quite sure who) is making a squad based FPS or TPS with ODSTs as the player characters. Looks like this might be it.

I heard that rumor a couple of months ago, Seems like it was truthfull after all. My dreams came true. And will be destroyed when I play the game, I expect to much of it.

Looks like you get to be an ODST. PERFECT! Those guys rock. Read the books and you will see why.

Someone linked to a very good 'keep it clean' analysis in another thread.

I depart to search for it.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2008/1008-reconpreview.htm Go here for info

The ODST has a silenced SMG indicating that this game will be more tactical. I hope you can take the silencer on and off and go for the quiet approach.

Should be interesting. Also I have a feeling Jackals are going to be your number one enemy here. There supposed to be the most tactical of the Covenant ain't they. The best shooters and scouts etc.

Fire Daemon:
The ODST has a silenced SMG indicating that this game will be more tactical. I hope you can take the silencer on and off and go for the quiet approach.

Should be interesting. Also I have a feeling Jackals are going to be your number one enemy here. There supposed to be the most tactical of the Covenant ain't they. The best shooters and scouts etc.

Possibly, but you cant deny the sight of a brute from the point of view of a non-spartan will be terrifying.

Ultrajoe:

Fire Daemon:
The ODST has a silenced SMG indicating that this game will be more tactical. I hope you can take the silencer on and off and go for the quiet approach.

Should be interesting. Also I have a feeling Jackals are going to be your number one enemy here. There supposed to be the most tactical of the Covenant ain't they. The best shooters and scouts etc.

Possibly, but you cant deny the sight of a brute from the point of view of a non-spartan will be terrifying.

Yes they will be but I think the inelligence and weapon abilities Jackals are supposed to have will make them very deadly in this game. Elites would be an interesting enemy as well.

you recon it'll tie in with those video's they made about registering where cheif was going to land with the laser? mayeb tie it all so you're with cheif in the last level?
fighting the flood etc etc? as ODST are present in all those levels/vid etc etc

asamoah19:
you recon it'll tie in with those video's they made about registering where cheif was going to land with the laser? mayeb tie it all so you're with cheif in the last level?
fighting the flood etc etc? as ODST are present in all those levels/vid etc etc

Haha supporting the chief, That's a pretty nice idea. Ughhhh that must mean we have to watch our allies turn flood.

You guys are totally off ^^, The number one enemys will be the INFECTION FORMS, With no shield to hold em of your screwed if one gets on you.

Hopefully, it's a bit less run'an'gun, and a bit more... tactical. It would be a very interesting take on the series, and frankly, the trailer looks excellent. Props to the people behind the trailer.

stompy:
Hopefully, it's a bit less run'an'gun, and a bit more... tactical. It would be a very interesting take on the series, and frankly, the trailer looks excellent. Props to the people behind the trailer.

To my eyes, his gun was silenced and based at night (tatical shooters cliches e.g rainbow 6) so I'ld say yes.

But to me it seems your going to be led by some plantery A.I (the turn right sign and the lights going on and off)

This new game does interest me, disliked his fuck off fingers. Looked like hotdogs

nikomas1:

asamoah19:
you recon it'll tie in with those video's they made about registering where cheif was going to land with the laser? mayeb tie it all so you're with cheif in the last level?
fighting the flood etc etc? as ODST are present in all those levels/vid etc etc

Haha supporting the chief, That's a pretty nice idea. Ughhhh that must mean we have to watch our allies turn flood.

You guys are totally off ^^, The number one enemys will be the INFECTION FORMS, With no shield to hold em of your screwed if one gets on you.

The trailer is based in New Mombasa, near the Space Elevator. The character is an ODST. The Chief is long gone by then, along with the Prophet of Regret.

The trailer looked excellent, and answered plenty of questions, but one question remains:

Will the game be good, or even great? Seems like a tactical shooter will help change the mix a little bit, for the better.

Ultrajoe:
Someone linked to a very good 'keep it clean' analysis in another thread.

I depart to search for it.

'Twas I!

Here it is again: Into the Ashen Wake

So anyway, that was definitely an ODST. And it looks like the Superintendent will be an AI companion of sorts. Like Cortana but less talkative (which might be a good thing).

I am just waiting for Halo 3 to come to the PC market or should I just give up hope now?

I actually think it looks kind of neat. Halo 3 died for me a couple of months ago (mainly the latest AU), but everything about that trailer got a rise out of the DO WANT gamer inside me.

Dommyboy:
I am just waiting for Halo 3 to come to the PC market or should I just give up hope now?

I'm sure it'll happen eventually. Might be like Halo 2 Vista where MS used it to help launch a new OS.

However, I don't think waiting on "eventually" is very wise and the port might very well suck.

Eldritch Warlord:

Ultrajoe:
Someone linked to a very good 'keep it clean' analysis in another thread.

I depart to search for it.

'Twas I!

Here it is again: Into the Ashen Wake

So anyway, that was definitely an ODST. And it looks like the Superintendent will be an AI companion of sorts. Like Cortana but less talkative (which might be a good thing).

You need to learn how to get a link seen.

Sweet Lord Almighty What The Hell Is That Link You Just Showed Us All? Man, I Can Feel My Wallet Filling Up Just From Clicking It!!!

I guarantee it'll generate some discussion now.

Yeah, this trailer really relit my burning love for the halo series.
The ODSTs are freaking awesome, I cannot wait for this.

It was always on the cards as a tactical/squad game when bungie hired that ghost recon guy as lead designer.

Dommyboy:
I am just waiting for Halo 3 to come to the PC market or should I just give up hope now?

Not likely after what a failure it was, trying to force people to use DX10 on a game that doesn't need DX10 is taking the piss.

I wonder if by a new campaign they really mean 'one worth playing'

corroded:
I wonder if by a new campaign they really mean 'one worth playing'

Given Halo's sales and overall popularity, its hard to see the others as anything but.

corroded:
I wonder if by a new campaign they really mean 'one worth playing'

Perhaps not, if you're an 1337 playa with mad skillz. For the rest of us, though, I think we'll find our satisfaction.

-- Steve

Fall 2009?

Wake me up... I'm going off to hibernate.