While having an interview with Eurogamer, Bungie’s Brian Jarrard confirmed you are not required to own Halo 3 to play ‘Halo Recon‘. During the same interview he stressed the game will not be a download and will be sold in a Box. Although, the one thing that does concern us was when he was asked how long the campaign would be, when compared to Halo 3:

“It’s hard to put a number on it. It’s going to represent hours of new campaign gameplay, but it’s not a full, entire game like Halo 3. I think we have a lot of value on the disc.”

If anyone played through Halo 3, than you would know the game was short. In fact, I beat the single-player all the way through on normal the first time and it took me a little under 8 hours to do so. While doing quick research, most people looked like they beat the game in the same amount of time. I’ve even heard some people finishing it in 6 hours.

I want to stress that I love Halo franchise, and I even loved Halo 3. But the biggest complaint I had with the game was how damn short it was. I bet if you asked people what they hated about the game — most would agree with me. And while I completely understand ‘Recon‘ isn’t the forth installment in the series — but more of a side story, I just wish it would be longer…or at least as long as Halo 3.

I just hope Bungie and Microsoft doesn’t rip us off and make it a $60 game. Hell, It better not be more than $30!