Game Informer’s December issue reveals a few crucial details about Bungie’s upcoming Halo 3: Recon: It will be an “open world” game, it will cost less than $60, and it will take between three to five hours to finish.
In other words, it’s an expansion pack.
The expansion will feature the highly prized Recon armor (previously reserved for Bungie VIPs and hackers), available to players after completing the “Vidmaster Challenge” gauntlet. By all accounts, Master Chief won’t be making any appearances.
It’s still not entirely clear what “open world” means in the context of a three-to-five hour long experience, or if the open world will fit into Recon’s multiplayer. Maybe it’s a sneaky attempt to make the eight hour long Fable 2 main quest look like Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series.
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First, that is not a Spartan on the cover, nor do you play a Spartan. That is not Recon armor; it's ODST armor. You play an ODST. Finally, they've made it clear from the start that H3:R multiplayer is Halo 3 multiplayer. The game comes with some exclusive maps that you then use in the Halo 3 multiplayer experience (as in, the same pool of people playing with a Halo 3 disc in their drives). And you play a Spartan or Elite there, as normal.
@comment1
How dare this movie site get its video game news wrong! Basterds!! BASTERDS!!!
If CHUD ever uses the wrong name for a sci-fi video game armor, ordnance, or armament, just assume that a wizard did it just to upset you.
To the basement dwelling oxygen thief who wrote the first comment… did your knickers get in a serious twist when you typed that out? I can almost imagine the slamming of the keys… the blinked-back tears in your eyes… "That is NOT a SPARTAN on the COVER!"
Lighten up… they made a mistake. People make those… like your parents did when they decided NOT to get an abortion.
halos 3 was OK at best..HALO:CE is still a favorite of mine…and better question is…who cares…the expansion should be a gift to the fans that made the halo series what it is today…cause lets face it… the ONLY reason why its so successful…is because people play the game…online play i feel has lost its novelty anyway…its full of children these days
nice admittance to edits
i give this article a 1/10
lol comment #5
Yes, I'm guilty of that strange need to correct everything; I do this all the time and it does, in fact, get embarrassing. But #3, come on. The fact that CHUD is a movie site does not mean they get to fuck up all over the place when they decide to cover video games. I am not, despite your amusing imaginations, pissed about this. But the author made some pretty basic errors about what he was covering. Was I polite? No. But you guys wouldn't stand for it if a movie review here made it seem like the reviewer hadn't even seen the film, or had missed something obvious in the plot, and you'd be right to correct him. Hopefully more nicely than I did, but hey. I'm a jerk. Trevor, I'm sorry, and thanks for correcting the article.
I am sure the game is awsome. I have not played it yet though. But it has to be awsome because it is such a big deal. From proffessor poopy peepee pants.
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