Halo: Reach Leaked Photos and Info?
Up top and after the jump, we have apparent photos taken from a cellphone of what will be Bungie’s last Halo game called, Halo: Reach for the Xbox 360. The photos were first posted on the Major League Gaming forums under the name Tom Morello; hence the Microsoft Paint watermarked quality. The pictures look legit and if they’re not — it’s a pretty damn good fake on his part.
This is the first thing on the Internet since the title was announced back at E3 and yet, not much is known about the new project. The only thing that is clear; it will be in stores in the fall of next year. The blurry pictures are hard to grasp how the game will look, but to me, the guns look even more detailed than before. If that’s the case — maybe Bungie is taking the Killzone 2 theory, which is; the player sees the gun the most while experiencing the game — why not make the weapon the most detailed thing inside the videogame.
In the picture above, the player can see all of his squamates’ health and names. The player can see all the perks each player he/she has, meaning Halo will take the Modern Warfare approach and anyone who is playing can pick and choose what strength or weakness they’ll have in multiplayer.
According to “Morello,” a few perks he saw were sprinting, cloaking and a hologram. To sprint, the player simply presses the LB button to run faster. The cloaking will obviously make you invisible; however, your radar is jammed and no one can hear you speak over on Xbox Live. The Hologram will create a fake you, and enemies won’t know which one is real and which one is the hologram — giving you a huge advantage.
In other pictures, you can kind of see the arm of the main character we’ll play as. It doesn’t look like a Master Chief Officer, but rather a Marine, which is the class we played as in Halo: ODST. Hopefully with the leaked, details will start to emerge soon.
Again, after the jump check out the rest of the pictures.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Wow… really added some things to the Carbine and the way the Battle RIfle looks. And that’s a good thing.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Holy Shit!
This gun look sikk…This game looks sikk already by the looks of it…Can’t wait for this Game to drop!
November 5th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Thats what Im talking about!! Lets finish this where it began.
November 5th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
The graphics looks crazy good. Uncharted and Killzone up yours!
November 5th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
You gotta be sh#tting me. Those graphics are crazy good? Look at the nasty backgrounds. dumb fanboys
November 5th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
The game is obviously still in development Craz, you really think they would release a game with sick looking guns and crap looking backgrounds? I’m getting hyped about this game all ready! Can’t wait!!!
November 5th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
the graphics look no different from halo 3 or odst… go xbox!
November 5th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
LOL same engine that ODST and Halo 3 uses, yeah “fresh new halo game” my butt!
November 5th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
HOLY FRACKING SHIT!! graphics looks awesome and those GUNS!!!???
November 5th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
@JCC: You know, saying that makes you look stupid. We can’t be sure it’s the same since we have no idea if these pictures are even real. I seriously hate how Sony Fanboys always try to start flame wars with the MS Fanboy and vice versa.
November 5th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I was a HALO 2 nut, dropped HALO 3 when COD4 took over my life. Little interest in ODST, but if REACH can pump up the visuals ( thinking KILLZONE-esqe weapon model quality and post processing effects) I’ll lay down my money. I can appreciate the balance the multiplayer aspect has achieved but I’d really like to see REACH lean towards a more tactical (aka sniping) experience. Also the general atmosphere currently never seems realistic, too many ‘plastic’ purple and silver textures, which is understandable being a SCI-FI FPS. I’ll would prefer a minimalistic, eerie world to conquer next time around… any thoughts?
November 5th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
one more thing… could it be possible that BUNGIE held back on a new game engine in order to really make REACH stand out? They sure did put a lot of effort in to ODST’s atmosphere making it a very close quartered intimate experience. I think they knew by using old tech and holding back, there only choice was to change up the story and make it as interesting as possible to hold over fans. Microsoft dearly needs a 9th inning homer to fend off PS3’s resurgence, and they knew ODST would by them time to land a final blow before the next generation.
November 5th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
the guns are more detailed just because of the fact that the game still has a year left and the guns were probably the first thing done. that warthog looks pretty damn detailed.=
November 6th, 2009 at 7:56 am
@ Tampa- What resurrgence? PS3 cant compete with the 360 yet. Maybe in a few years when they’ve built up a comparable number of blockbuster titles/series
@ Others- Its legit, ask any Bungie employee. XDKs/Reach builds were handed out last week for testing at home.
@ PSfanboys- Shut up. We know your butthurt that your console fails in comparison. Get over it and play some Resistance or whatever semi-decent game you may have.
November 6th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Halo games are the top in MLG. There is a reason for that also. Halo games take skill and you shoot where your aimer is pointed non of the call of duty or gears bs where your gun shoots randomly in a general direction.
November 6th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
“The graphics looks crazy good. Uncharted and Killzone up yours!”
LOL, not much more to say than that.
November 6th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Look at the picture that has the rocket launcher. if you look at the hand you can tell that its master chiefs hand because of the indents of his armor for his hand. compare master chief pictures with his hand and take a good look. its the same.
November 7th, 2009 at 12:52 am
Look at the picture with the carbine-needler. That’s an Elite’s hand.
November 7th, 2009 at 11:39 am
OK for those of you claiming to be the same engine as Halo 3, are clearly blind. And for those of you calling it the BR and Carbine, are wrong in a way, the Carbine -esque rifle shoots needles like the needler, apparent of the needles sticking up of the front, and the BR-esque got to be an old variant of our beloved rifle. And the article claims that we might play as marines, but one of the pics show a part of the glove similar to that seen on every other Spartan to date, and the trailer make a big deal out there being previously unheard of Spartans, so yeah. Super hyped though, and to all sonyf4nboys, quit you bitc*hing, PS3 will never be as good as 360.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:37 am
i love how the “perks” and your teammates’ health are only shown by the radar in one of the pictures
November 13th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
It is a spartan holding the weapons, look at the pic with the rocket launcher.
And in ‘First Strike’ which has a part of reach in it, the battle rifles still shoots 3 round bursts.
November 13th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Could the person in the 5th pic down be holding a Jackhammer launcher?
November 21st, 2009 at 9:54 am
these pics are real there the old builds of reach of course the final version will have better graphics and no we are not using the halo 3 engine this engine is waaay better
November 21st, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Wow! even if tose pics arent real, if the game looks anything like that, Im buyin!!!!!
November 21st, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Wow! even if those pics arent real, if the game looks anything like that, Im buyin!!!!!
November 24th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Damn, these graphics are amazing, this beats out all CODS ever made
December 6th, 2009 at 3:28 am
FAKE FAKE PLZ BE FAKE.
Worst pics ever, just look at the fat “spartan” Jesus christ ..
December 6th, 2009 at 7:10 am
@samuelJ
thats not a spartan it’s an elite.
December 12th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
one pic looked like halo custom edition. But it still looks ligit.
December 13th, 2009 at 5:49 am
Pics are real, look at new trailer for proof
December 29th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Oke for all the ps fanboys out there, 360 is sure as hell not bad. And I know the PS3 isn’t either, but the 360 is still better. If you think me wrong, haven’t you noticed all the “great” games on the PS3 have also come out on the 360? Plus the 360 has some amazing games the PS3 doesn’t, like the halo series. And now you’re gonna say that the halo series suck, but that’s just your opinion. If you don’t know yet, halo 3 was the most sold game even before it was in stores!!! So stop yelling PS3 is better, because it isn’t.
And about the game…DAMN IT LOOKS AWESOME!!!
December 31st, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Well, now we know this info is legit.
In the 3rd and 4th picture you see the same gun Lone Wolf is carrying on his back in the Premiere trailer, proving it’s real, which would explain why Bungie didn’t want people talking about this. If it were fake, why would they worry so much?
The Cloaking and Hologram abilities sound awesome. Hopefully they give us an overshield ability too. Also nice to see sprinting made it in.
This game is going to wipe the floor with MW2
January 6th, 2010 at 8:44 am
NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO IT LOOKS TO MUCH LIKE COD:MODERN WARFARE 1 & 2…..NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it looks kool and all but i want the original halo watever im still getting it……but the new stuff does look kool….but becuz of it being like Modern warfare itll DESTROY IT WWOOOOOOOHHHH WOOP WOOP….>=)
January 15th, 2010 at 8:36 am
Ps3 fans are just pissed because sony will never create a game as epic as halo
January 19th, 2010 at 11:41 am
The guy in the orcket photo is Jorge from the VGA trailer. That’s what makes me believe these pictures are real. Also, in the meet the staff of reach vid, the menu of reach is shown and it looks just like the pic.
February 23rd, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Nice photos. That needler rifle looks cool.
March 11th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
That isn’t a “fat spartan”. It’s jorge. He’s the only spartan two in noble team. Spartan 2s are master chief’s generation of spartans. they had better and longer training and were given better armor. that’s why he’s looks so big. the rest of noble team is made up of spartan threes. theses spartans were trained faster and sent out earlier than the twos, intended to be “disposable heros” they were given SPI armor which was lighter and cheaper and could go camo instead of have shields. eventualy they were given the old spartan 2’s MOJLNIR armor.
March 11th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Also I’d like to ad none of noble team other than jorge should be alive. it was said in the books all of alpha company was wiped out, yet halopedia claims noble is made from alpha. the short story headhunters says compadable pairs of spartan twos were discreatly removed from their company for special operations, but never a whole team, let alone reinforcements to fill in the ranks. Does anyone have any theories how this happened?
any way i PWN at halo knowledge, just thing i deserve some props for my mad skillz, lol jk.