Halo: Reach arrives 2010

E3 2009: Bungie continues work on iconic sci-fi shooter series next year; gamers who buy ODST get access to multiplayer beta.

LOS ANGELES--When Bungie left Microsoft, the developer expressed an interest in expanding its horizons beyond the Halo universe. Despite that, the developer will be returning to its signature series at least once more, as Microsoft today revealed the Bungie-developed Halo: Reach during its 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo media briefing.

The game was announced with a teaser trailer at the end of a segment dedicated to this year's Halo: ODST, which will arrive with an all-new co-op mode on September 22. The trailer showed a planet--ostensibly Reach, the fortress planet where Spartans are trained--with a variety of radio chatter in the background. The radio chatter grows appropriately panicked as the planet is apparently "glassed"--or bombarded with plasma weapons--by the Covenant.

The trailer concluded with a notice that Reach falls in 2010. After the trailer, a Bungie representative announced that gamers who purchase Halo: ODST will be able to access the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta on Xbox Live Arcade.

For more from the Microsoft conference and the rest of the show, check out GameSpot's complete coverage of E3 2009.

192 Comments

  • SQUALL20XX

    Posted Jun 9, 2009 12:57 pm PT

    Superb my dear

  • SSBFan12

    Posted Jun 6, 2009 7:41 pm PT

    Halo Reach is going to be awesome.

  • msudude211

    Posted Jun 5, 2009 2:22 pm PT

    That's a long time for Halo fanatics to wait.

  • asian_pride69

    Posted Jun 3, 2009 9:56 pm PT

    Eh, not really looking forward to the game, but the backstory on Halo is pretty interesting to me. Can't wait to read on how the story goes for both games.

  • alyxvance2731

    Posted Jun 3, 2009 6:53 pm PT

    I liked Halo... it was the game that made me an Xbox gamer. But, I think they've milked the franchise dry. It's time for them to move on to something new, like a new, non-spartan and non-covenant storyline. Something NEW

  • PSFreak1

    Posted Jun 3, 2009 6:53 am PT

    i love halo

  • Hedfix

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 10:49 pm PT

    Hopefully it's more "Reach" than "Miss"

  • PhantomPlayers

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 8:18 pm PT

    Call it what you want, everyone is still going to buy this game. Its Halo. Everyone wants a peice of the action, whether its good or its bad. Im not a Halo fanboy, but from what i can tell, you can count me in to purchase this game. Mostly because it is 3 things. Bungie, Microsoft, and Halo. Enough said.

  • aura_enchanted

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 11:57 am PT

    ensemble has had a fair track record give them a chance. but seriously they should make another myth or oni game and stop milking the flavor of the month that is masterchef and halo.

  • McGregor

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 10:41 am PT

    This game looks like it can create a whole new understanding of why master chief is, well, master chief. [/br] *spoiler*
    I wonder if "reach" is the planet at the end of halo 3...just a thought. I know reach is where spartans are trained, but who is to say it's not the planet MC is drifting toward at the end.

  • gmax Site moderator

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 10:08 am PT

    More for the Halo fans...

  • Sendmn23

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 8:50 am PT

    Wow! I played Halo 1 and thought meh... it wasn't until Halo 2 that I caught the Halo bug. When Halo 3 came out I was one of those fanatics standing in line at 12 in the morning after working a 14 hour shift I went to stand in line. SO I love all things Halo.... odst I can't wait for and Reach baby.... isn't this where most of the Spartans are killed off? Master chief is like the only one who escapes? Oh man I can't wait to play this.

  • facistinabag

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 8:39 am PT

    I've long since given up on thinking that I'm going to enjoy one of the new Halo games. Halo 2 absolutely turned me off to the series, despite the fact that I own it and halo 3. I loved Halo 1, but I've long since given up on a new halo as good as the first one. So, I was never really fired up about ODST, but reach, christ. I loved the book, hopefully the game can capture that essence.

  • blink-jfg

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 6:37 am PT

    Love Halo can't wait. How come they left the 4th open ended though?

  • TTDog

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 5:50 am PT

    So much for Bungie breaking away from Microsoft... the first two titles they've worked on after they break away both set in the Halo universe.

  • JonCha91

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 5:13 am PT

    One more reason for me to pre-order ODST!

  • StarlightHunter

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 4:55 am PT

    Good new something to look forward too. Egnore or the PS3 fanboys or the idiots moaning about it. I will be getting Reach, "Spartans on the ground, we're not going anyware" that made my entire body spazz out.

  • DaveA6489

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 4:19 am PT

    @GeigerdolylWodd

    Dude, Halo: Combat Evolved takes place immediately after the Battle of Reach. The Pillar of Autumn initiates a Slipspace (hyperspace/warp/etc) jump to a set of coordinates found in one of the books. There they discover the first Halo.

    The sequel to ODST is Halo 3.

  • DaveA6489

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 3:21 am PT

    @gameking5000

    The only Halo game that Ensemble had anything to do at all was Halo Wars, and that's because MS approached them to make a Halo based RTS, due to their success with Age of Empires etc.

    Bungie have developed every other Halo game bar Halo Zero, which is a side scrolling game that was made by a group of Halo fans (strangely, this is based on the fall of Reach, as is this game).

    I'll be interested to see how this turns out.

  • xdancexyayxnayx

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 3:09 am PT

    omg moan moan moan another halo are you sony fanboys (and yes i do own a ps3 but i own a 360 aswell) forgetting about some of ps3's biggest names well let me remind you final fantasy/metal gear solid/gran turismo/ratchet and clank etc etc yeah none of them have had more then 1 game in the series hmmm actually wait :S

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