Fri, Feb 12, 2010 | 15:27 GMT

Bungie: Halo: Reach multiplayer is taking “big risks”

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Bungie’s Marcus Lehto said at X10 last night that Halo: Reach’s multiplayer is taking “big risks”.

Speaking to Joystiq, the shooter’s creative director said: “While we’ll still have all of the good stuff that players have come to know and love about Halo, we’ve made that better and given them new features on top of that.”

Lehto wouldn’t specifically say what those features were.

Microsoft confirmed at X10 last night the Reach’s multiplayer beta will kick off on May 3, with it promised to be the largest of its type on the consoles.

The game itself will release in the fall.

18 comments

#1

NGCes26294BIV
12/02/10, 9:19 am

So, can someone explain how including ALL the elements people love about Halo multiplayer is taking ‘big risks’?

Surely it’s only a risk of you fundamentally change something, or leave it out entirely?

#2

DrDamn
12/02/10, 9:37 am

Doesn’t make much sense does it? I think there will be a more Modern Warfare ranking system with unlocks this time around. So yes you’ve got all the goodies and the gameplay, but you got to unlock them by ranking up.

#3

DJ Deathstar
12/02/10, 9:39 am

I hope that one day a risk is actually taken with Halo with a Battlefield type multiplayer, at least 24 players, huge levels, lots of vehicles, objectives etc

#4

Gekidami
12/02/10, 9:45 am

Said solely to grab attention no doubt.

#5

Spaced Oddity
12/02/10, 12:05 pm

This game is definitely going to be sweet, especially if it’s going for a more squad-based, sandbox game like they want us to believe. Interested in seeing what they plan to do with multiplayer.

#6

The Hindle
12/02/10, 12:09 pm

I think after Halo Reach, Halo will be rebooted as i think 343 industerys wont want to follow Bungies storys in the Halo universe. It will be thier take on the universe

#7

Gheritt White
12/02/10, 12:16 pm

Not a bad idea, Hindle – maybe after Halo: Reach, there’s another two games of playing as a Spartan-III, rather than a Spartan-II?

I still hope that they will eventually do Halo: Onyx and have Master Cheif and Cortana link up with the remaining Spartans on that Pfhorunner – sorry, Forerunner – homeworld…

…where they find Durandal, Leela and the Security Officer.

S’pht.

#8

The Hindle
12/02/10, 12:33 pm

They should humanise Master Chief as well, play as say a 15 year old kid who somehow goes onto become the Master Chief, maybe he loses his family to the convenant so he volunteers for a super soldier program to get his revenge.

#9

Gheritt White
12/02/10, 12:35 pm

I doubt 343 would reboot the entire Halo mythos – MGS have spent oodles of cash to get the Halo Universe as fully fleshed out as it is today.

#10

mington
12/02/10, 12:37 pm

maybe the entire halo universe should get obliterated by the flood so i’ll never have to play another halo game

instead of humanising Master Chief, you could create a new character whos human to start with

oh if you don’t like them you don’t have to play them blah blah :P

Halo sucks balls, we can all do better

#11

The Hindle
12/02/10, 12:41 pm

I know Gherrit im just thinking of the Halo game id like to play lol as at the moment i find Halo way to convoluted.

#12

mington
12/02/10, 12:51 pm

sorry for halo bashing, i’m just moody, time of the month and all that i suppose

halo is archaic, a relic of the past

rip the engine out and create a better world around it

#13

Gheritt White
12/02/10, 12:57 pm

Archaic? But it’s based on Marathon! It’s not archaic, it’s TIMELESS!

#14

OlderGamer
12/02/10, 12:57 pm

Halo with larger maps, bigger teams, objectives, classes, and skills you can level up, a skill tree maybe? That would work!

Oh wait its Halo, right sorry.

#15

onlineatron
12/02/10, 1:19 pm

Halo sucks because you don’t see their faces and that means you don’t know who you are. You wear a helmet but you can still see which is stupid as it’s a helmet and helmets are on your head. Plus the guns fire but if you miss the person it doesn’t hurt the bad guys Which Is Silly Coz You Should Always Hit Things With Your Gun And Ting.

AMIRITE?!

#16

Psychotext
12/02/10, 1:23 pm

/tranqs onlineatron

#17

mington
12/02/10, 1:27 pm

brap brap brap butt
brap brap brap butt
brap brap brap fizzzzz butt

that pretty much sums it up

#18

NGCes26294BIV
12/02/10, 2:39 pm

@mington

Yup, that’s pretty much it. I love it.

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