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Hit The Campaign Trail With Halo: Reach
Earlier this week, Stephen Totilo spent a day with Halo: Reach‘s singleplayer and brought back loads of impressions and details. But no video. That was for Gametrailers, which made the game’s campaign the centerpiece of its latest episode. We’ve embedded the entire episode because the Halo-specific chapters haven’t been broken out. There’s a bunch of…
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Halo: Reach To Support Campaign Matchmaking
Buried in Bungie’s weekly update is a terse confirmation of an unprecedented feature for the series: Campaign matchmaking. Players now will be able to find friends or link up with strangers and fight cooperatively through the game’s campaign mode. “Totally Unrelated Question 4: Can I haz Campaign Matchmaking?” writes Bungie. “Totally Related Answer: Yes.” No…
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Three Minutes of Zealotry in Halo: Reach
Three maps, not part of the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta, were recently confirmed. We saw Reflection on Friday. Here’s Zealot, which has low-gravity features that seem very useful for … jumping right into a melee to the face. There’s a gravity lift at the center of the map (should be a popular camping spot, hm?)…
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Reflecting On Multiplayer In Halo: Reach
Ah, Team Slayer. Halo: Reach packs new multiplayer modes like Stockpile and Invasion, but in the beta, even those typically devolved into Slayer-esque battles of headshot-and-revenge. Here’s five minutes of Slayer on “Reflection,” inspired by “Ivory Tower” from Halo 2. At 2:43, watch him wait for Jimmy to come out of Armor Lock before patiently…
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More Goodies Revealed For Halo: Reach Multiplayer
The three new multiplayer maps for Halo: Reach, which leaked previously, were confirmed by Bungie yesterday along with new vehicles and new Elite armor configurations. Everything’s inside in one huge gallery. First up, the maps: Zealot, Spire and Reflection are all out and proud now. Spire is an Invasion map that reverses the roles of…
By Owen Good
