The supposed Halo trilogy has broken ground on expanding their terrain. For all the fans of Halo you know that Halo Wars was released in March. It royally blew. If you are a big fan of Warcraft type of games it blew a little less. For the rest of us it is just awful. Now we have the upcoming release of Halo ODST. This is the next in line of the series except it stars a soldier other than Master Chief. Players now take control of less confrontational characters and more emphasis towards stealthy actions. Many weapons get silencers and low vision goggles are available. It goes back in time to a period during the Flood and has many of the same features that is loved by Halo fans everywhere. If ODST’s release was just not enough, Bungie has announced that in 2010 a new Halo will be unveiled. This is called Halo Reach. It will be released in Beta format. This is exactly the same way that the current Halo 3 was unveiled. Very few details have been confirmed, next to none actually, but the planet Reach is vital in the Halo books and the books are starring a character named John-117 (aka Master Chief). All of the events portrayed in this literature are preceding Halo: Combat Evolved, the first Halo game. Thus it may be assumed that this places and characters along with the timeline will be predominate in the new release. A full story is here at T3.com. Bungie did release a small film clip to whet our appetites which is on the Bungie.net website or on the above Youtube video box.
So how will this affect current Matchmaking scenarios? Will Bungie start to ignore the current record setting Halo 3? Will anyone even care about Halo 3 after these two games are released? (ahem…Halo 2 anyone?….didn’t think so) All we know is it is coming, Bungie is still working the full potential of the Halo Universe and that people will buy it. Let’s hope it is not the same disappointment that Halo Wars is.
