Bungie released new details about the much anticipated release of Halo Reach last week, including a new video trailer. As I have stated previously after playing the Halo Reach Multiplayer Beta, this game is high on my list for 2010. The new information announced only confirms my beliefs about how good this game is going to be.
The single player campaign, which is a prequel to the other Halo games, is featured in new trailer below. Bungie has promised that the campaign in Halo Reach will be “the most ambitious campaign in Halo’s history”. This is what I am looking forward to the most out of Reach. You pretty much know what you are getting into with the multiplayer, but the campaign will be the wild card. A good campaign will take this game out of the “just another Halo title” status, and into being a must-own.
As for multiplayer, Bungie has already displayed new elements on the beta bundled with Halo 3: ODST. They have now announced that the Firefight mode, also introduced on ODST, will be making a return to Reach. New updates from the Firefight mode include the ability to have player versus player matches, pitting Spartans against Elites. This should make things much more difficult as the original ODST Firefight only allowed play as a human team fighting against waves of incoming computer controlled Elites. Hopefully Bungie has made the decision to open up Firefight to matchmaking options, as previously it was limited to only being playable with other players in your XBOX Live friends list.
Halo Reach will be available on 9/14/2010.