E3: Halo: Reach for autumn 2010

By Robert Purchese Published 4 June, 2009

Bungie's secret game is an FPS.

Bungie has revealed that Halo: Reach will be a first-person shooter and launch in autumn 2010.

Neither scrap is particularly surprising, but the information gleaned by GameSpot and Joystiq is nearly all we know about the project so far.

Halo: Reach was unveiled after much speculation by a moody teaser at the Microsoft E3 conference.

Reach likely refers to Halo novel The Fall of Reach, which acts as a prequel to the famous trilogy. The story tracks the brutal Covenant attack on the last of Earth's defence outposts, planet Reach.

And the war goes badly for us humans until the aliens stumble on a top-secret training facility for bio-engineered and technically augmented super-soldiers codenamed Spartans. A handful of them will be the last hope of humanity, and at least one - Master Chief - will survive and go on to make history.

Incidentally, those who pre-order Halo 3: ODST - due 22nd September - will get access to the Halo: Reach beta, whenever that starts.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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  • AphoticCosmos #1 3 years ago

    An FPS.

    I am surprised [/sarcasm]

    But I'm still excited ;)

  • Widge #2 3 years ago

    In other news: new Mario game to feature block smashing and coins!

  • S.J.Rogers #3 3 years ago

    Good, Good, Good...

  • peteb #4 3 years ago

    I'd wager its an FPS with tactical elements ala Rainbow Six Vegas

  • Inquisitor #5 3 years ago

    I love Halo so I'm obviously excited but this new found independence doesn't seem to have done Bungie a great deal of good. Two Halo games in as many years and the loss of control over anything they release (they no longer have the power to perusade MS to reduce the price of map packs now, nor the release date or announcement of games).

    I'm a little disappointed in them so far, hopefully they're just initially intimidated by independence and they'll start announcing and creating their own projects soon.

  • Dizzy #6 3 years ago

    Squad based probably with a new/upgraded engine.

  • monkeylite #7 3 years ago

    What independence?

  • muscleblade #8 3 years ago

    Halo Reach release date: Tuesday 21. september 2010.

  • Widge #9 3 years ago

    Copy and paste:

    On October 1, 2007, a mere six days after the release of Halo 3, Microsoft and Bungie announced that Bungie was splitting off from its parent and becoming a privately-held Limited Liability Company named Bungie LLC.[23] As outlined in a deal between the two, Microsoft would retain a minority stake and continue to partner with Bungie on publishing and marketing both Halo and future projects, with the Halo intellectual property belonging to Microsoft.[24] Although non-Halo projects in the future are unknown, Bungie has stated that Microsoft is still working with Peter Jackson of Wingnut Interactive on Halo: Chronicles.[25] While Bungie planned on an announcement at E3 2008, Bungie studio head Harold Ryan announced that the unveiling was canceled.[26] On October 10, Bungie announced the project originally meant for E3, a prequel to Halo 3 entitled Halo 3: ODST. On June 1, 2009, Bungie and Microsoft revealed the company was developing another Halo-related game, Halo: Reach, for release in 2010.[27]

  • stevetuck #10 3 years ago

    Halo zzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • Physically_Insane #11 3 years ago

    stevetuck zzzzzzzzzzzz

  • Triggerhappytel #12 3 years ago

    Surely the grammatically correct pronounciation is 'a FPS'? You wouldn't say it's an first-person shooter.

    I also agree with Inquisitor; would be nice to see Bungie doing a little more than yet more Halo FPSs - particularly since they must have some degree of independance in their projects.

  • Xerx3s #13 3 years ago

    Inquisitor: I reckon that bungie made a deal to make an X amount of halo titles and continue to help making halo titles. Bungie has become quite large so I doubt that this is the only thing up their sleve.

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #14 3 years ago

    @Triggerhappytel: but you pronounce it "an eff-pee-ess", don't you? It's all about pronunciation. I think.

    Looking forward to Reach; hope they do something to shake up the gameplay a little, rather than it just being another Spartan shooter. It'd be great to play a non-Spartan, and having the Spartans crop up like super ninja Jedi from the future.

  • MrE26 #15 3 years ago

    No huge surprise, but i can't say i'm disappointed. Halo 3 co-op was probably the most fun i've had this gen. More of the same & i'll be happy.

  • Dizzy #16 3 years ago

    >would be nice to see Bungie doing a little more than yet more Halo FPSs

    They have one more, almost certainly non Halo, project that they have not talked about. probably for next E3.

  • killuminati2911 #17 3 years ago

    R they still able to make a game without "halo" in the name or anything from that series inside??

  • belziah #18 3 years ago

    Get the fuck out................had my money on MasterCheifAmari

  • bodypopper #19 3 years ago

    So this is different from the Halo Peter Jackson-endorsed game? Sheesh. At least iD know it's a good idea to wait a few years before continuing to milk a franchise.
    Presumably a continuation from Halo 3 (which I'd rather see to be honest) willl make up yet another game to come.

  • AphoticCosmos #20 3 years ago

    Jackson's game(s) is/are on hold at the moment.

  • Darren #21 3 years ago

    So Bungie broke away from Microsoft so they would have more creative freedom and since then they've come up with another two Halo sequels, both of them first person shooters too?!? Wow. :?

  • dirk_aircool #22 3 years ago

    who cares about a game that is at least 18 months away . even if it was GTA or a kite simulator I still wouldnt be intrested . so there .

  • shotgun44 #23 3 years ago

    shocker. wasn't feeling the ODST demo too much. Saying that I was against Halo 3 until I actually played it! Haaaaaahmahzing game!

    Looking forward to seeing how this pans out

  • hiddenranbir #24 3 years ago

    Have Bungie actually done anything else yet? And I mean after the first Halo.

    Btw: Was Oni before Halo or after?

  • The-Bodybuilder #25 3 years ago

    Before.

  • louyfitz #26 3 years ago

    Reach could mean some sort of tie in with the Fall of Reach book, or it could mean reach in the literal sense A.K.A. Natal.
    I'm hoping reach will use Natal, because there doesn't seem to be any word of a natal FPS yet.

    I'm slightly concerned that Natal will phase out the pad all together and we'll left with a bloody Wii clone rather than a console for online FPS and Racing games, which is what I bought mine for.