Halo 3 Recon only 3-5 hours long News

I hope every level has The Flood in it.

Damn right the price will reflect this!

Bungie defining video-game history, once again.

Bow before mighty Halo.

Bow's

Bow's what? I want to know what Bow has or what Bow is!

Bow's wob backwards.

I'm in. Shorter game at a cheaper price sounds good to me.

If that truly is the length then that is awful, i don't care what the price is! I bet that length includes cut scene videos as well. I think even games that just give 10 hours of game play are a rip off too.

If only Quantum of Solace (4-5 hours) was budget priced, it might have scored higher.

Uh oh Krudster, you're opening a can of worms there I don't think you want to. Delete post. DELETE.

I really don't care much (nowdays) with the size (hours-wise) of games. Rather prefer an extraordinary experience (Halo 3, f.e.) rather than a draging one, just for the sake of it.


edit: and I really don't think a quality of a product depends on that. I mean, it can make sense to be short, or not.

"I hope every level has The Flood in it. "

Considering the time and location: This will have no flood in it.

Cut down for Europeans or Americans?

/recalls Banjo announcement

COD 4 was 4-5 hours long and that was full price

3-5 hours? fuck that! dont know why bungie are bothering with this tbh.
i wantz da proper halo 4 wiv teh flying /|\070RB1K35!

"If that truly is the length then that is awful, i don't care what the price is! I bet that length includes cut scene videos as well. I think even games that just give 10 hours of game play are a rip off too."

What a stupid comment. If a film gives me about 90 minutes of entertainment for 11 euro, why can't a game that gives me about 300 minutes of entertainment (ex MP and stuff like that) be sold around 30 euro?

"Considering the time and location: This will have no flood in it. "

Thank you! If anyone wants to have a really in depth chat about Halo time lines please send me a message!

The price surely will "reflect this", as in £35 instead of £43 or what.

Gears 1 = 6 hours, Gears 2 = 8 hours, Halo 3 = 6 hours, Fable II = 6 hours... more and more games are high quality, less length, high price. Nothing unusual here no need to get on a high horse about it. Unless the price is gorged.

NB. The times are what it took me to complete them, am not suggesting I know anything factually correct.

COD 4 was 4-5 hours long and that was full price

4-5 hours? I guess you didn't play it on veteran, then.
Sure, every game is short if you run right through it on easy.

But then again, I don't mind a short game really.
You know what they say, "it's not the length that matters, it's the girth." :D

10/10 score then?

3 hours,why bother,they can keep it.

I presume Valve shouldn't have bothered with Portal then either, canoot/

"Gears 1 = 6 hours, Gears 2 = 8 hours, Halo 3 = 6 hours, Fable II = 6 hours... more and more games are high quality, less length, high price. Nothing unusual here no need to get on a high horse about it. Unless the price is gorged."

Those numbers are surprising to me. I think my times for these were Gears 1 = 10 hours, Gears = 15 hours, and Fable II = 35 hours. And that's not including multiplayer for Gears 1/2. If I added up all the time I have spent playing Halo 3 including multiplayer, it would be several hundred hours, and probably more than everything else this generation added together.

Surely if its only 4-5 hours long, then it may as well be a download from the marketplace as an update for Halo 3?

As long as the price is good enough I'll bite, H3 is an awesome game and this expansion will do until H4...

@optimusprym8

Fable 2 in six hours? lol wut?

Was Halo 3 much longer?

As everyone else has said, try and get a challenge out of games. I played through COD4 on veteran first time through, because I'm an achievement whore. Took me 15-20 hours and I bet I had a lot more fun playing through it than everyone who ran through it on easy in 6 hours, said they'd finished it and whined at how short it was. Same with Halo 3. 6 hours on easy, yes, on Legendary the Covenant level alone takes around 3 hours.

@Xerx3s

"What a stupid comment. If a film gives me about 90 minutes of entertainment for 11 euro, why can't a game that gives me about 300 minutes of entertainment (ex MP and stuff like that) be sold around 30 euro?"

Well, ignoring the idea that i think movies are over-priced anyway, you're not really making a fair comparison. If an average film is 90mins for 11 euro, this new halo game would be like a film giving you 5 mins for 11 euro. do you think that is worth it? and lets face it i bet it will just be halo 2 or 3 with just new characters/storyline.

My point is a lot of games out there offer more length for your money. take some of the later zelda games on the wii or cube for example which can last 40+ hours. Even if bungie do lower the price of the game a bit I don't think it will really be worth the money.

By the way, I tried CoD 4 on veteran and thought it was probably about as much fun as having my own balls fed to me. Hardened FTW!

If it's 19.99, with a brief campaign, coop options, new maps and online multiplayer options what exactly is the problem?

Yeah COD4 on Veteran was really not much run, I finished it, but it basically meant that I played most parts of the game over and over again until I got lucky enough to progress

finished the epilogue was so satisfying though :)

Hmmm. When any developer says "this game is between x and y hours long" you can bet it'll always be more x than y.

Bungie put the effort and cost into a new IP or new Halo game, not a sub middle cash in!!!!.

Fable story is about 8 to 9 hrs...But if you play the way it's meant, it can last over 15hrs+, all depending on your own decisions and style of play.

Do a library level and some more backtracking. I'm sure you could get it to about 8 hrs.

TBH when people say a game takes x amount of hours you can normally x2 for how long it takes me. But maybe I just potter about during intergalactic wars.

Does that time include having to fight your way back through each level like in every other Halo game?

/awaits arrival of the HDF

Erm, every fps in the known world has backtracking :P

Fable can easily be finished in around 8 hours if you're playing through very quickly..

But both my play throughs (with a good and an evil character) each lasted well over 30 hours. If you played through the game in less than 10, then you missed the entire point of it.

5-6 hours for this does sound short, but this is only an expansion, after all. I can't think of many expansions that are any longer.

DUFFKING, Portals price is probably a fraction of Halo Recons price.

So no, Portals release was great, but it had a price that really reflected what you got.

Well at least they're dropping the price don't see EA doing the same with Mirrors Edge which is about the same length.

"Gears 1 = 6 hours, Gears 2 = 8 hours, Halo 3 = 6 hours, Fable II = 6 hours... "

Sorry but that made me laugh. If you just play games on the easiest difficulty so you can rush through them, why bother at all?

"you're not really making a fair comparison. If an average film is 90mins for 11 euro, this new halo game would be like a film giving you 5 mins for 11 euro. do you think that is worth it?"

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"DUFFKING, Portals price is probably a fraction of Halo Recons price.

So no, Portals release was great, but it had a price that really reflected what you got. "

Where does this assumption come from that this won't be the case with HR?

Excellent news. Shorter, cheaper (boxed) games are the way forward.

"3-5hrs", myself and 2 of my friends finished Halo 3 in under 6hrs on co-op when it launched and we certainly weren't rushing. I think 5hrs based on the length of Halo 3 is optomistic, 3hrs sounds more likely.

3-5 hours is longer than Halo 3.

If they think its only a short game (and halo 3 is a 'full' game) then I expect Recon to be over in 45 minutes.

I completed Halo 1.

@Yossarian

Good point. I have never played a so called 8-10 hour game only 8-10 hours. I usually complete the camapaigns on both normal and the hardest difficulty and spend a lot of time in mp aswell. Except for a few games ive borrowed from the store i usually spend atleast 20 hours on most games. 3-5 hours sounds good to me.