Halo Reach-tråden

-Reach is 70 percent complete.

-They gutted the old engine and left "no component untouched" when improving it.

-Now players will look the same throughout multiplayer, coop and singleplayer (and the way they look will be customizable)

-Hints there will be power drain and grav lift armour abilities..

-There is a 3d radar and the HUD can now highlight various environmental features and overlay information about them.

-Night vision returns to Reach (as seen in ODST).

-On the pause screen it mentions "grades and credits" but Bungie wont discuss them yet. Probably to do with the character customization system.

-The AR leaves smoke and sparks when it fires. Explosions have been completely redone for Reach. They are apparently, huge, dirty and lingering.

-Green marine monocle returns. WIN.

-Bungie were disappointed with the reaction of people to the halo 3 marine, so theyve brought back the flavour of the halo 1 marine.

-Mongoose return confirmed.

-Assassinations (by holding down melee) will feature in multiplayer and the instant assassination of past halos may not be featured at all. Bungie is using the Beta to decide how it will feature.

-Huge landscapes - but you can visit each area. In coop you may see your buddy fighting a long way off in the distance.
Teleportation is far less strict.

-Bungie is bending the Xbox as far as it will bend and really pushing the hardware.

-Tung says there will be some big surprises in campaign.

-The game features rain which will leave covered areas dry and vice versa.

-Elite AI has been improved a lot. They might be doing something like fixing a door and then something may attack them, but once they have dealt with the threat they'll go back to what they were doing before.

-"Bungie's not fixed on leaving the trusty BR out". The DMR has 3X zoom.

-Shield recharge not as fast as Halo 3's.

-Halo Reach's current build has a lot of computer generated audio used a place holders, meaning that the leaked beta menu footage may well be genuine.

-A few new screenshots in the article, the best being a double page spread epic view of the spartans in a cockpit. There is an artwork of Emile with a grenade launcher.

-Lehto admits that there was no generational leap on the animation side between combat evolved and ODST, but in Reach they will make them like all look like the trailer (including facial animations).

-Grunts won't do squealing jokes or make pratfalls.

U-dropships fra Halo:CE vender tilbage.

If there's any game in Bungie's back catalogue which keeps comming up during our day seeing reach, it's Combat Evolved. From the resurrection of the Spirit dropship to the return of the Elite as principal antagonist, the team seems anxious to affirm that it's going back to base principles. In particular, this means that Reach's levels aim to feature the spatial breadth seen in some of the game's best – from Silent Cartographer to Flawless Cowboy. ”We're intentionally bringing the game back to Combat Evolved's degree of choice,” says Nules Sankey, mission design lead. ”We've set out sights on making enviroments that are bigger than we've ever put into a Halo game,” continues Tung, ”harkening back to combat Evolved – the wide open vistas, the big pipe where the player can choose to go any number of directions, and really rewarding players of exploration.

I forhold til eksempelvis Gears of War 2, Killzone 2 og Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (som jeg ved Bungie-drengene spiller) er Reach ikke helt på samme højde. Halo: Reach er som sagt flot, men det er ikke lige så markant som ovennævnte spil.

Marcus Lehto forstår godt, hvad jeg mener, men synes ikke, at sammenligningen err helt retfærdig. Ganske vist er det actionspil alle sammen, men de er langt mere begrænsede i deres muligheder. Du kan ikke når som helst snuppe en Banshee og flyve op i luften, for derefter at se enhver lille detalje. Halo: Reach-banerne er i øvrigt så meget større, og tillader co-op. Dertil kommer det faktum, at banernes optages, så man hele tiden kan se, hvordan man har spillet, klippe små film sammen og tage billeder direkte fra eventyret.

Ganske fornuftig forklaring. Et Halo, hvor man ikke kan spille sammen fire spillere, hvor man ikke kan være i hver sin ende af banen, hvor der ikke findes fly og rumskibe, hvor det hele ikke optages som film, hvor der ikke er inkluderet en fysikmotor, der giver dig muligheden for at springe en Warthog flere hundrede meter væk, der så igen knuser en grunt, du aldrig har set og som ikke har samme store, åbne verden, ville sikkert kunne indeholde en mere imponerende grafik. Men spørgsmålet er så, om det stadig havde føltes som Halo?

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Kæææft, den er sweet lavet! (Uanset om boxen virker eller ej)