Thu, Sep 09, 2010 | 13:37 BST
Halo: Reach is “Halo 4 in all but name,” says Microsoft
Microsoft’s said today Halo: Reach is “Halo 4 in all but name.” In other news, the sky is blue, grass is green, roses are red and the earth’s still spinning.
The line came in a press release from the firm’s UK PR arm, announcing details of the main flagship launch for the Bungie shooter on Monday night.
“Halo: Reach, developed exclusively for Xbox 360, is the blockbuster prequel to the franchise – truly Halo 4 in all but name,” said director of Xbox in the UK, Stephen McGill.
“Halo is the biggest video game series in history and as a pop culture icon it’s been called the Star Wars for the joypad generation.”
The main launch will take place at Game at Westfield Shopping Centre in London, while the premiere of the game takes place in London tonight.
Halo: Reach releases this Tuesday for Xbox 360.
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Tags: bungie, halo 4, Halo: Reach, Stephen McGill
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#1
Dralen
09/09/10, 1:40 pm
No Master Chief, No Halo 4.
#2
TerryWogan
09/09/10, 1:46 pm
In all but name… And storyline.
#3
Blerk
09/09/10, 1:48 pm
It’s a prequel, isn’t it? Wouldn’t that make it Halo Zero?
#4
A4-F8
09/09/10, 1:53 pm
killzone: 3 is “killzone 4 in all but name,” says sony
#5
The Hindle
09/09/10, 1:54 pm
Im wondering after Bungie leave Halo, will it suffer the Treyarch affect in the fact people know the best studio isnt working on it? Just a theory.
#6
AHA-Lambda
09/09/10, 1:54 pm
wait why didnt you tell me this before!?
or why not just call it halo 4? O__o
@5 – probly
#7
Happy Hardon Harry
09/09/10, 1:55 pm
Halo is like Big Brother! You fucking hated it ever since it’s conception and you’ll be glad of the day that see’s it’s demise.
#8
Dralen
09/09/10, 2:00 pm
Seriously, Fuck Microsoft! This is all just a big fat hype train to get more people to buy the game. It’s not Halo 4, it’s Halo: Reach! Sorry, Microsoft piss me off sometimes.
#9
_Sikamikanico_
09/09/10, 2:00 pm
Haters gonna hate.
This next week is going to be great. Friends over for a week long LAN, plenty of beer, snacks and Halo.
Good times.
#10
DrDamn
09/09/10, 2:01 pm
“Halo is the biggest video game series in history”
Great game series, and I’m really looking forward to Reach, but that’s a blatant fib isn’t it?
#11
Erthazus
09/09/10, 2:08 pm
@5 It won’t suffer, You can’t make something worse than Halo in my Opinion.
I think when Bungie will be out of this, 343 industries will make a decent game.
“Halo is the biggest video game series in history and as a pop culture icon it’s been called the Star Wars for the joypad generation.”
For USA only maybe.
#12
Kerplunk
09/09/10, 2:10 pm
@10 Maybe they meant it from just a Microsoft perspective?
#13
Freek
09/09/10, 2:11 pm
Outside of MS marketing nobody refers to Halo like that.
#14
Anaron
09/09/10, 2:16 pm
Sure, call it Halo 4 if the 4 signifies that it’s the 4th Halo game to be released by Bungie Studios.
#15
Petulant Radish
09/09/10, 2:18 pm
Halo is brilliant fun. I don’t care if it’s numbered 4 or an arbitrary figure like 9,187,235.78, as long as the gameplay is as fun as it usually is then, for me, it will be one of the games of the year.
#16
Crysis
09/09/10, 2:24 pm
they don’t want to give a prequel a sequels digit, no matter how deserving, just does not make sense
#17
Blerk
09/09/10, 2:27 pm
What was ODST, then? Halo 3.5?
#18
Erthazus
09/09/10, 2:28 pm
@17 It’s just an expansion pack… For the full price.
#19
Gheritt White
09/09/10, 2:28 pm
@ 9: agreed. I’ve already got a co-op rota going with my PS3 owning buddies. Funnily enough, I’ve only ever encountered out-and-out hatred for Halo online – IRL, people just like to play fun games, innit.
#20
Blerk
09/09/10, 2:31 pm
I don’t really understand why anyone has to hate on something that they don’t like. Why does it matter if these games come out if you weren’t going to play them anyway?
Unless it’s Smash Bros, of course. That totally deserves to fucking die.
#21
Johnny Cullen
09/09/10, 2:35 pm
I’m pumped for Reach.
I have faith in Reach being one of my top five best games of 2010.
I want Reach so bad right now.
I should stop saying Reach and should probably write up news about Reach.
Reach, Reach, Reach, Reach, Reach.
#22
Dr.Ghettoblaster
09/09/10, 2:49 pm
Well, unfortunately, Reach is the only 360 exclusive this fall that I must have.
#23
Gekidami
09/09/10, 2:55 pm
Isnt it the only 360 exclusive this fall, full stop?
#24
AHA-Lambda
09/09/10, 2:56 pm
fable 3 and kinect >_>
yuck
#25
Johnny Cullen
09/09/10, 2:56 pm
Gek – Fable III.
#26
Gekidami
09/09/10, 2:57 pm
So the PC version of Fable 3 got canned again?
#27
The Hindle
09/09/10, 2:59 pm
After Fable 3 we have 6 months to Gears 3 the next proper exclusive.
#28
G1GAHURTZ
09/09/10, 3:03 pm
“Light of a particular color is characterized by its frequency and wavelenth. The higher the frequency, the more blue it appears.
Sunlight is made up of all colors that, when mixed together, produce white light. You may have seen a rainbow or the prism experiment where the white light is split up into several colors.
The earth’s atmosphere is filled with minute dust and water particles that act like a filter, scattering the light rays. The rays of light with the longer wavelengths, such as reds and yellows, tend to pass more easily through the atmosphere, while the rays with the shorter wavelengths, like blues and indigos, tend to be randomly scattered more easily. These more easily dispersed shorter light rays are what give the sky its blue color.
Red skies at sunrise and sunset are caused by the same phenomenon. When the light hits the Earth at an angle it has more of the atmosphere to go through; this increases the filtering effect and that is why you see a red sky.“
#29
AHA-Lambda
09/09/10, 3:03 pm
and after gears 3 all is a mystery =/
#30
reask
09/09/10, 3:16 pm
What amuses me the most is seeing the same guys post in every single halo thread on how bad it is.
Not looking at anyone in particular.
I mean there is plenty of games I and others don’t like but seldom if ever feel the need to keep going in to every thread on them just to blast them.
I think its called insecurity, or puberty.
#31
reask
09/09/10, 3:18 pm
@ Giga.
What…..?
#32
G1GAHURTZ
09/09/10, 3:21 pm
Sorry, I was just being silly after reading the first paragraph of the story…
#33
Gheritt White
09/09/10, 3:23 pm
@ 30: Agreed. I mean, you don’t see TEA banging on-and-on about how shit he thinks Halo is, do you? I really respect that. I think some people are just feeling a little left out… or haven’t played Halo:CE all the way through.
#34
theevilaires
09/09/10, 3:26 pm
M$ is dumb, shut up and just release the game. You’ll make billions again.
#35
Petulant Radish
09/09/10, 3:27 pm
@18 it was £26 at launch for me, that isn’t full price.
#36
Callum
09/09/10, 3:59 pm
what the fuck was wrong with smash brothers Blerk?! Your a nut case if you can’t enjoy a bit’o brawlin’ !!!
Also, SO PUMPED FOR THIS! Seen the extended live trailer yet?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKRlWLDWhGI
go looky! AMAZING
#37
DaMan
09/09/10, 4:10 pm
that’s right, those games are awesome.
DIE, Blerk!111!! GET OFF THE INTERNET!!11 NOW!
#38
Blerk
09/09/10, 4:13 pm
Ha ha!
We used to go round to a mate’s house for drinks and games and he always used to make us play the Gamecube version of it and I fucking hated it. I still get Vietnam-style flashbacks. Luckily the bastard moved away.
#39
RETARDED VIKING
09/09/10, 4:20 pm
@20 that’s it man you and me 1v1 in Smash Bros. now.
#40
spiderLAW
09/09/10, 4:23 pm
@38!!!!!
Blasphemy!!!! All the Smash Bros games are glorious!!!
You probably just got your ass handed to you so it made you drustrated enough to declare hatred for such a great game!
Cant wait for Reach. Im going to cancel my preorder at gamestop and go to best buy because Best Buy is giving away $20 gift card with the pre-order….gamestop is giving this ugly armor piece, big fucking deal.
#41
Kerplunk
09/09/10, 4:29 pm
@30 I see that happen in any discussion of an established franchise. On any platform. It’s interesting how this common behaviour is witnessed in a selective manner though.
#42
Callum
09/09/10, 4:33 pm
zomg im playing Smash bros on my N64 now. I love Link! And Fox! I fucking hate captin falcon tho…
FALCON…..PPUUUNNCCHHHHH….
#43
DrDamn
09/09/10, 4:43 pm
+1 for not getting Smash Bros. Never clicked with me at all – it’s one of those games where I can’t even really see what others see in it too. There must be something, it’s highly regarded and sells well – just not for me.
#44
Dr.Ghettoblaster
09/09/10, 4:45 pm
Halo 4
#45
AHA-Lambda
09/09/10, 4:48 pm
@43 + 1 can never see whats happening on the screen =/
#46
reask
09/09/10, 4:50 pm
Xtra vision in Ireland is giving 800 MS points for pre ordering.
Not bad.
#47
The Hindle
09/09/10, 5:23 pm
Where is the cheapest place to buy this? Im talking street retailers as ill be trading games in.
#48
G1GAHURTZ
09/09/10, 5:26 pm
I was shocked to learn that this is supposed to be coming out in a few days.
The hype is pretty lukewarm compared to how I expected it to be.
#49
reask
09/09/10, 5:27 pm
Hey TH if you pick it up we will have to do a bit of co-op or firefight.
Couple of other guys on site are getting it as well so we should be able to get a team together.
Is fire fight freinds only again does anyone know?
Also when are the reviews out?
#50
The Hindle
09/09/10, 5:32 pm
Sure Reask and there is something on IGN that allows us to get the hardest achievements for this in an easy way, its a video hold on ill link you.
http://uk.ign.com/videos/2010/09/08/ign-strategize-90810
I may be doing this after ive played it properly
Also Sept 11th for the reviews.
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