First Halo 3 Recon Details Emerge
In the latest issue of Game Informer, Bungie creative director Joseph Staten revealed details about Bungie’s upcoming expansion game Halo 3: Recon. Will the new character be able to jump six feet in the air? Will he be 7′2″ tall? How dramatic will changes to HUD, radar, weapons and equipment be? Most importantly, can I finally has recon armor? All of these details, after the jump …
For all of you hoping for a more dynamic interesting character to play as, prepare to be disappointed because the main character in the game is The Rookie, a faceless, voiceless Orbital Drock Shock Trooper. The ODST is part of a five-man team blasted into Ground Zero of Earth, the city New Mombasa.
The Rookie’s initial goal, according to GI, is to locate and investigate the last known locations of your downed ODST squad. The game will play with more of an open world feel, with the player free to pick which order they search down their lost squad mates. Once you manage to track down the last known waypoint of one of the lost ODSTs, you are confronted with a “crime scene”. Context clues surrounding the scene eventually lead the player to a clue that triggers a flashback sequence where they play as the lost squad member.
During the flashback sequence, which will play linearly truer to Halo’s origins, the player will learn the fate of each team mate, and unlock one more clue about what happened in New Mombassa. Sound Crazy? Staten doesn’t agree:
“This isn’t a crazy dream sequence or metaphorical journey that the object allows you to do. It works just like any detective show, Cold Case or Law and Order or whatever, where a detective can arrive at a crime scene, look at the chalk drawings and bullet holes and see what’s going on. He hears some echoey voices and the camera cross fades and now you’re at the scene of the crime two hours ago.”
Your character gains lots of new toys, like new weapons (a silenced SMG), new equipment (a PDA), and Visual Mode (shown in the teaser trailer). These gains don’t come without a large helping of losses, as the character is giving up the shields, radar and super human size and strength afforded to the Master Chief.
ODSTs are also shorter and slower than the chief, which Bungie says leads to scarier and more interesting encounters. For instance, imagine battling a Brute as an ODST. As the chief, you moved faster than Brutes and could jump over their heads. ODSTs move at the same speed as Brutes, so you won’t be running away from them. Also, without radar, if you lose sight of your enemy you will have quite a bit more trouble keeping youself from getting trampled by a berserking Brute.
The game, which takes place during the events of Halo 2, is scheduled to be released Christmas 2009. Is it on your ‘09 must have list yet?
Oh yeah, and over at the best game-related site on the webs Bungie.Net, Bungie has confirmed that if you complete the correct achievements from both Halo 3 and Halo 3: Recon (See: Vidmaster), you can, in fact, have the oft coveted Recon Armor Permutation for use in Halo 3 multiplayer.
Sources: [CVG, Bungie.Net ]
Kevin Engelkamp, my good man. Please be sensible. This is 2008. On behalf of Europe and the rest of the civilized world (and trust me, we are reading what you write), a question like “Will he be 7′2″ tall” is nothing but embarrassing. Please use the metric system and not some out of date, obsolete “imperial” system imposed by a country that infact occupied the US centuries ago. It’s time to stop this nonsense once and for all. It’s time for change - because we can do it. So once again, please get with the program.
in Canada we’re officially on the metric system, and have been my whole life.
However, we do have a rather large segment of the population (see: geezers and old coots) that doesn’t understand the metric system, and its quite common to see $5.99/lb along side $13.21/kg at the grocery store.
If its that big a deal, this should help:
http://www.france-propert...uick_metric_converter.htm
As soon as Bungie themselves starts referring to the MC’s height in centimeters I’ll be glad to do the same … but I’m certainly not going to convert it for your sake, ya kook!
I don’t see why it’s Kevins fault, in my country we measure height in feet and inches all the time. Take it up with our culture minister or something.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Swedish Pete do anything but complain.
I live in the UK, which I am quite sure is in Europe and I have no problem using Feet and Inches as a mesurement of height…..
1. Metric system is awesome and should be used and all, but fuck off. AMERICA. FUCK YA!
2. Halo is like Home for PS3. A complete and utter waste of development resources on a product NO ONE WANTS.
I want it.
Not Home, Halo.
Where are you hiding the real Bot?
What through you off? the PS3 bashing? I duno man. I love my PS3 (and my 360 literally died 15 min ago. 3rrod. ugh).
But I despise the delays and at this point, purpose of Home. It really is a waste. They could have just given it Animal Crossing graphics and it would have been sufficient for it’s near pointless purpose.
*Threw not through.
I think Home looks really good that and little big planet are the reasons why im getting a ps3 to go alongside my 360
Good scoop, but I’m more concerned about how the multiplayer in H3:R will affect H3. Is it possible that the game will maintain parity between the two titles and share the userbase (this would be very cool)? This is what has been hinted, and it is likely, since Bungie does not want to split the userbase up.
Userbase? - um, that must be a posh way of describing the bunch of bum-fluff nurturing early teens that play (and even enjoy) Halo 3 online? Yes?
As Al Murray might say…. “it’s just for kids”.
This is as opposed to the bum-fluff nurturing live players that make fun of others for liking a certain game, yes?
I was thinking along the same lines.
Throw in a separate playlist for Recon type MP.
Basically, I’d like to see this as a similar game experience as, say CoD or even closer to Rainbow 6 type gameply.
This way, with one disc you could play sci-fi type Halo shit with MC or switch it up for a more tactical gametype with the Recon soldiers.
Run n Gun mixed with tactical shooter FTW? we’ll see…..
I am aware that this is a game meant to last 3 - 5hours in gameplay only and will ship at a Budget Price because it is so short…
anyone else here not care about halo???
Me, I played a couple of SP levels in Halo2. It was graphically way below the standards of PC shooters at the time and linear as hell so I dropped it and never looked at Halo3.
I’m surprised nothing has been brought up about the Dashboard Update.
It’s eh…
No update about NXE? This site is odd sometimes.
Whats to write about?
THIS JUST IN: The NXE everyone already knew everything about is LIVE! Go download it! It’s SUPER COOL!
Better?
Well I was looking forward to an article so I could comment on it. The IC forum is too cluttered for me.
^No one wants Halo? -I do.
^Isn’t Bungie IN America? -We don’t use the metric system here.
Think.
Yeah, Americans don’t use the Metric system.
They think that if they “conform” they will look weak LOL.
Hmm so we’re not weak but whatever country you’re from probably is compared to ours.
I never said you were. Read and comprehend please.
I just find it sad that “you people” tend to think that that’s all there is to it.
You’re right, you never actually said that we were, you said we think that if we conform we will look weak.. That’s right, we aren’t gonna conform to be like any other country. That’s what makes America what it is; we left (insert ancestral country here) to form our own in which we could be free and think for ourselves instead of conforming. So next time you want to bash America, think about who is really the conformist.
The only reason we haven’t converted to the metric system (and we have tried, mind) is because too many people can’t be bothered to learn it. Because half of the country is filled with idiots like this that get offended when ever anyone pokes fun at the country for being backwards (which it often-times is).
No you left to be able to escape forced religion and have independence and freedom from the ruling of state, and now ironically you are the most religious and unfree country in the western world.
Sigh, sad but true.
I feel like a pedo using the NXE
You’re not gonna conform to using our system, yet you’ll use our language, mess up the spellings, get fatter and fatter while you tell us to ’speak English’ because your too stupid to understand that there really should be a ‘u’ in Colour + your towers ate shit from a cloth head in one of your own planes.
i like the way you think son.
back in my day if any of them cloth headed preachers even considered stepping onto a plane itd be pearl harbour all over again….wait what was that?
the gooks ended americas shit in pearl harbour?!
GO GOOKS GO!
“your too stupid”
- The irony is overwhelming.
“your towers ate shit from a cloth head in one of your own planes”
- Go to hell.
You’re still just cranky that you lost (the war).
No, we tell you “to speak English” because it’s impossible to understand a fucking word most of you say.
We speak your own language better than you do, most of the time.
Its impossible for you to understand what we say because your a god damned retard. How was that for being clear?
I’m sorry, I couldn’t read that because of your failure to comprehend the grammar of your own language.
Why do Americans argue with the English? you are English well most of you came from here anyway, and then you know got fat and turned into pricks. I respect a small handful of Americans but most of you are very annoying, self centred egotistical lazy overweight annoyances.
Bit off centre with that remark.
Nowhere near as many of the Americans came from England like you seem to think (but then again the English suffer from a similar kind of egocentric behaviour to the average sub intelligent American).
They are descended from a swathe of different European countries (my fiance for instance has a mixture of Italian, Welsh and Irish but no English) Sweden, Scotland, France, Holland to name but a few.
However (and now I am talking to Veritas) part of my problem when speaking to the average American over Live is the egotistical attitude that they have when they seem to think that shouting as load as they can with a repeated (usually grossly unfunny) sentence over and over again somehow makes them right. Ontop of that when they prove themselves to be so fucking ignorant that they term anyone with an English speaking language to actually be English. If you are so stupid that you can’t understand the differences in accent between English and Scottish etc don’t try and act smart over Live as you have already failed massively.
I usually get round this by pissing them off by calling them a thick Canadian cunt.
nyuk-nyuk-nyuk
sheep loving scot bastard!
Oh don’t take that to mean I have anything agains’t Canadians (I am assuming you didn’t and that was just a little sarcasm from you), but calling a Canadian an American or visa versa is akin to calling me English.
It isn’t correct and smacks of ignorance.
ignorance is not limited to a single continent. I’m sure that there are just as many idiots on both sides of the ocean. Unfortunately, it seems that the stupider the person, the louder they get on the intertubes.
and yeah, no offense taken dude.
Like Glov said, I myself am a mixture of Austrian, Irish, French (by virtue of French Canada), Dutch, and Scandinavian.
As for the loud, unfunny, egotistical guys… yeah, I can see where you’re coming from. Problem is that most logical people in the US hate those guys, too.
It sounds like you had a particularly bad experience, somewhere, though.
Also, I find that tiny dick jokes work particularly well on those types.
Oh I agree about the people that are alright hating those guys.
Shit my girl was embarresed to be American the other night when she had to sit and listen to the usual American fuckwits on GoW2.
engelkamp?!
you jewish or german?!
sure as shit not a patriot american eh mate!?
Patriot american? What’s that? Oh wait, I know.. must be them types who even now still believe the american way of life is actually working, while their economy goes to hell, taking that of the world with it. America can’t even sort out health insurance for it’s citizens.
Also please, no more “tea and crumpet” comments, I’ll be sat drinking tea with the queen, being a “Douchebag”, trying to sort out my funny teeth (hmm, free dental care ftw?) watching the flaming bundles of debris that you once’s called towers crush thousands of your people, maybe playing some football with my hands just to get me in the mood.
You’ll be sat? Are you in a restaurant?
Dick move. For sure.
queen lizzi FTW
you american neanderthalls dont even have a royal family,
blasphemous pig dogs!
What is the point of a royal family? Oh right, they were chosen by god, and you’re a mere peasant.
lol
“I feel like a pedo using NXE”
Pure crap!
Oh and mass9 is Canadian, well that finally explains it. No one cares about Canada in fact your pretty much the but of every joke, so no matter what you say your a looser and your opinion dosent matter, now go watch some hockey, aey.
1. ‘you’re’ not your
2. ‘butt’ not but
3. ‘loser’ not looser
4. period not comma after “matter”
5. ‘eh’ not aey
Thanks, but the sheer stupidity of your post (this one and MANY others) renders your attempt at insults null and/or void. But keep trying, you may ‘get it’ one day.
champ.
Ya know mass, there’s two kinds of people in the world. There’s those who care about freedom, stand up for there country, fight for justice and equality, and show an incredible amount of bravery in the face of overwhelming odds.
And then there’s Canadians.
If the opinion of a hockey lovin, snow angel making, beer drinking canuck, mattered at all, then your reply would have affected me, but sense your words, much like your balls, carry no weight, I’m sorry to say they don’t. But you keep trying champ.
Oh and I don’t know what you do for a living, probably watch hockey and drink beer and pick your ass all day, but if your not already, you should think about being a proof reader, your really good at it. I mean granted you never make an actual witty comeback, but you do help me spell check my work, so thanks for wasting your time doing that for me.
Bravo Smitty, that was pretty funny.
If that IS what ass does for a living, I want your job RIGHT NOW! Except substitute NFL Football for hockey …
@ Kevin, NFL Sunday Ticket my good man. No agonizing choices over who to watch. Life changing, but expensive and your wife/gf will hate it.
@ Takumi/Smitty, if you two could take each others tongues out of each others asses it would be great. Unfortunately, each of you has proven in the past to be nothing more than a walking/talking human rash.
And in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past 8 or so years, on a global level, Canadians are far more liked than our southern neighbors.
In all honesty, I think someone should commission a study. Apparently, the further south of the 49th parallel you go, the dumber people become. Go figure?
I have to admit that last comment also made me chuckle, what can i say i just appreciate a good burn even if its aimed at me lol. And you are correct id guess most people like Canadians more than Americans
“No, we tell you “to speak English” because it’s impossible to understand a fucking word most of you say.
We speak your own language better than you do, most of the time.”
No, you fucked with our language, screw spellings and pronunciation up, then accuse us of not being able to speak English when you can’t understand the correct way of saying things.
Unless is comes to slang, when slang comes into things its different, every country has slang terms, without fail, and seeing as slang is specific to each country people from other parts of the world wont have a clue, yet it being “our language” you have no right to tell us we are getting it wrong when we make up slang terms, you’ve fucked with out language enough over the years, we have more of a right to do so than you, yet you do it as much as we do, so don’t bitch about it.
(That wasn’t directed at anyone specific, just Americans in general)
I’m not talking about slang, I’m talking about enunciation. Verbal communication is the most important kind.
Lots of Americans are guilty of poor enunciation, too, but there are far more areas in the US where the local accent still allows for proper comprehension of the language because it is so slight than there are ones where it’s impossible to understand what anyone’s saying. Compare that to the UK where playing with anyone too far from a university makes communication a chore.
Note: this has very little to do with understanding an accent because you grew up with it - this is a point of no accent vs. heavy accent.
Why do these always turn into a pissing contest over whose country is better? How about admitting we all live on the same planet and should do all we can to help each other instead of always quibbling over every little thing?
How is this related to the new Halo game?
Why does everyone turn into a dick when they are anonymously posting with no real consequences?
Grow up people.
Because we enjoy it!
Whats the fun in being nice on the internet? its the only place where people can insult each other all day with no real consequence, im the nicest guy you could ever meet in real life but on the internet if your opinion differs from mine il insult you for hours before getting bored.
Suck a dick cunt lips.
Subtle Glov.. Subtle..
Yes, yes we do.