The main reason has always been the dynamic AI, the unpredictability of what will happen next. It's been a staple in the series since Halo 1.

While Bungie may be squeezing every resource they can see from the system, there's always someone more talented that finds some newer trick to create something better.įinally Bungie wraps up with the obvious - Halo Reach's replayability. The reality of course, as we know from history, is this is not the case. It'll be interpreted that the Xbox 360 has no more juice left in it, that no game will be able to look, sound and play better. Something like this is, of course, fanboy fodder. With every iteration we understand what more we can exploit with the hardware.” “We are… taking every advantage of everything on the CPU and GPU, and every bit of memory in order to produce the look of Reach beyond anything of Halo 3,” said the game’s creative director, Marcus Lehto. Speaking of technology, Bungie claims in a separate piece that they are utilizing every ounce of power out of the Xbox 360. That’s one of the fictional wrappers we’re using. They were rendered extinct by the end of it. They are coming to Reach with everything they have and the assumption is that some of these things never made it off the planet. One of the justifications is - and this is one of the things we had to play with - during Reach we have both military forces, the Covenant and UNSC - at the height of their powers.

This IS a prequel after all, and there needs to be some reason we don't see them in the later games, right?

If you are invested in the canon of Halo, and if you aren't shame on you, then you might be wondering how Bungie is going to handle things like new weapons and items. It's a hopeless situation where there appears to be very little hope, much like Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Bungie has a unique opportunity to showcase a setting in which things are getting worse and worse. Reach is like Titanic because we know how the story will end already, we know that 'Reach is going to fall and 700 million people are going to perish.'īut it's more than just that. It's going to go on and make billions of dollars and be the biggest selling game of all time? Perhaps, but not likely. It's going to sink to the bottom of the ocean and fail miserably? Not quite. In a recent interview with Edge Magazine, Bungie employee Marcus Lehto said that Halo Reach is a bit like Titanic.

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