Several Halo: Reach Weapon Screens Leaked on MLG Forum, Return of Master Chief?

I hope these pics are from an old build, They look like hl/Portal graphics, The environment looks great though and i hope master chief does make a return :D.

Yea, Graphics doesn’t look impressive, I mean take a look at the mountain on the first image:/ Looks like 6th gen game style graphics.

Those Boxs in the first screen arent dev kits, wouldnt it most likely be in one? i know when i tested games for microsoft most of us had dev kits.

colin makes a good point. maybe this whole thing is just a really good fake?

“The biggest question that still remains, in my opinion, is whether or not this game will feature the return of Master Chief.” *sigh* Yet another journalist that doesn’t do his research. The answer is “Yes”. Spartan ‘John’ 117 AKA The Masterchief will be featured in Halo Reach. Why? Because Halo Reach is a prequel to the first Halo game, go and read the book, the Masterchief will be featured as well as other spartans such as the marksman/infiltrator ‘Kelly’

Sorry Reuben. I will clarify. My question was whether or not he will be playable as the main character. In fact, I’m going to go ahead and update my wording so I don’t cause any further heartburn in Halo Nation.

Even if these are real it is NOT John117 aka MasterChief he is NEVER on reach itself if memory serves, the closest he gets is the space above reach and then Reach gets glassed.

Haha, I can’t believe people are eactually judging the “graphics” of the game in these photos. I wasn’t aware that so many gamers know nothing about a game’s development cycle, and rarely do any research on a subject before making a comment towards it. Let’s include these three obvious factors:

1. Halo: Reach is still in development.
2. These photos are incredibly blurry, which leaves little or no room to judge visual aspects.
3. We don’t even know if they’re f*cking real.

It blows me away that so few of you have considered the factors above, as they only require a dose of common sense. I could see some of you not knowing that Halo: Reach will feature a brand new graphics engine. Which means even if these photos are real, they’re either from early devlopment or completely fake. If it’s Reach, it’s still in Alpha, or the part of development where features are still being designed and integrated… which happens to be RIGHT NOW -_-

I guess my real question is… who here isn’t under the age of 15? Remember the importance of logic and reasoning skills. Believe it or not, they help with logic and reasoning-related situations. Like realizing when someone is being sarcastic, and subtley insulting you before the end of this sentence.

I agree with Sanzee. I am so sick of the idiots on N4G, especially the hardened, rabid Sony fanboys running their mouths about the graphics. “Weep xbots, Reach can’t touch KZ2 or UC2″. Good God. The Game has a good 11 months of polish and shine and DEVELOPMENT to go. and If some of the fanboys actually read around before yapping off, you’d know that Bungie just started adding textures and other aesthetic goodies to the Reach levels. (Bungie Update 10/23/2009)

So franky I don’t care what anyone says. I will reserve judgement till I see further evidence instead of jumping like an idiot with the rest of the idiots onto the “Hate” train.

Sanzee you make a good point but your comment makes alot more sense written in this format:

I can’t believe people are actually judging the graphic-appeal of the game in these photos. I wasn’t aware that so many gamers knew nothing about the game-development cycle. In addition, it seems that doing research on a game before making a serious claim towards it is longer important. To measure the validity of these photos, let us consider these three basic factors:

1. Halo: Reach is still in development.
2. Halo: Reach will feature a brand-new graphics engine with cutting edge visual technology.
2. The source photos are incredibly blurry, which leaves little room for sound (fair) judgement.
4 We don’t even know if they’re f*cking real.

These factors should be more than enough to help you reach a sound conclusion. And the answer is… trick question, there are two answers!

(A) Bungie loves to tease fans by slowly revealing more fancy game material. In Bungie’s games, the first non-trailer material are often blurry, but conveniently blurry; in that nothing important (i.e. spoilers) is visible on screen. They’re getting us excited.

Comment by: Sanzee
Edit by: kanenlynch85

I don’t think Master Chief was on Reach…

u have the original pics , without the tom morello paint-esque thing….this only can mean one thi…
wow…ur tom morello….

@revistinha1

Actually another set of identical images were posted to Neogaf. I opted to use to use those instead as they aren’t doodled on with white MS Paint lettering.

I would say, its a new spartan, not Master Chief. In the end spartan takes of his battlehelmet and revelation! It is a she! Metroid anyone?

1.jhon was on reach 2 times
2.jhon will be the main character
3.dose’nt matter anyway the point is spartans are going to be everywhere!!!!
4.the new graphics engine will blow ur fuggin mind away!!!

Well if any of u read the halo books, its quite clear that master chief is in the game..and if i remember right reach is where the Spartans were trained and its one of man kind’s last strongholds before earth..

and as for master chief being playable, i dont think the chief makes an appearance on the planet, since he has a major role to play in the defence n destruction of the Orbital MAC Gun Platform..

@ Sanzee

Bhahahaha… GOLD mate… GOLD!

These shots look like test levels for sure. Most of the elements in these picutres look like a prototype, just past the ‘white box’ phase. ‘White boxing’ is esentially there to test a levels layout for gameplay reasons. Once the level gets the OK the art team will perform a beauty pass over the level.

Infact some of those shots show noticable stretched textures on some of the ‘rock’ landscaping. One of the characters on screen does not have a shadow also. So, the lighting solution is not complete in these shots.

So, from these pictures, it’s sound to deduce that not all the tech is present and that most of the scenary is placeholder.

Personally, I can’t wait for Halo: Reach. There’s some serious talent behind this project and I’m sure Bungie is going to go out on a Swan Song with this product.

Good Luck Bungie :)

From someone who actually IS old enough to drink, good job on the research. Every SPARTAN (from the same period) wears the same armor. You found evidence of MJOLNIR armor. Hence, OMG IT MUST BE MASTER CHEF OMG!!!!

Sigh.

ok first off masster chief was at reach just not dirt side he was in orbit taking care of bussiness of nav data in oni stealth ship along with 2 other spartans dirt side of reach 25 spartans

Ummm… Ok, so you’re saying it might be MC because of the armored glove… Yet he was part of the Spartan program, which turned out many super-soldiers, who would have worn standard issue armor, which would have looked the same… Especially parts like the gloves… Why do people always read too much into stuff?

I have to say that I like the feel of the pictures. Everything seems large. Which as a Halo1 lover is what I like in my Halo universe, massive massive levels.

Wheres the lefty gunner?

As long as the worlds are Huge and gameplay tight I could care less of how Halo’s graphics stack up…

Looks like it could be real. the br looks similar to Halo CE. What is the Needler crossed with a Carbine rifle. I really hope that isn’t in the game. But looks like it could be real. John 117 was at Reach, along with many other Spartan IIs.

Hmm if you ask me the graphics look much better than that of Halo 3 from what I can tell. Just look at the models they appear to have much more detail in them althoug the textures do looka little flat. But then again the pics are off-screen and this is still in early development so who knows.

Q: Ummm no Chief was on a pelican with Linda in the sky of Reach. Reach was all but done with when Chief was awoken in his cyro pod, so you sir are a moron. And I like the pics, it’s a feel of old and new.

Its pretty fake if you ask me.
I recognised some assets from the great game call CRYSIS. Must be a mod or something.

Why are you comparing the glove with a mk6 armor, wouldn’t the cheif still be in mk5 during the course of this game?

Sanzee:I hope you understood my comment, I love Halo :D Its my “guilty pleasure” as a ps3 owner :), i Have the origional xbox and still play 1 and 2, Im not judgeing these graphics, Meerly hoping that these are from an old build, as they dont seem up to scratch with the latest jazz, e.g, Modern warfare 2, mass effect 2 or uncharted 2. I know 360 can do better, which is why i hope these are “old” screens and that the actuall game will feature a revampped, technologically advanced engine. By the way, Im 17,

The master chief was with Linda and James(he got owned instantly) above Reach trying to destroy the circumference, so I’m thinking he might be playable for a level or two..
As for the armor, it kinda sucked in halo 1 so hopefully it will look like MK6 in halo 2-3

Waaaay early build, just look at panel six.
“Objective number 1 goes in this space here”

The game is a work in progress as all of you can see from the objectives and the surroundings in these pictures taken by a spoiler… but these images are legit.

The story line I think will be the whole book of Halo: Fall of reach… and the game will pick up from when master chief was cyro chambered at the end of Halo 3 Legendary. I think the pod will make its way towards reach where he will learn the story of what happened to his fellow Spartans.

That armor seen could be anybody wearing Mark 6 MJOLNIR armor

Omfg please stop analyzing the f*ck out of the graphics.

Halo: Reach is still in it's early stages, these pictures (if they are real) are probably just tests of the missions… Also when i was looking at the pictures I noticed that the bar at the top looks like the health from Halo 3: ODST.

We will just have to see what the game is like when the beta comes out (for those people who pre-orded Halo 3: ODST)

~CorpseGrinder117

Linda was the marksman.

no way mc is returning as a playable character, btw who du fink looks best? i fink emile

Its because someone took a picture of them, and of coarse the camera is shity. The camera just blurred the picture of the T.V screen. so calm the fuck down, you little whinning bitches.

Master Chief is probably going to be in the game, but he is going to be in a space mission with the two other spartans.

Emile FTW

Master Chief is a Spartan II. He wears Spartan armor. You play as a Spartan in Reach. You also wear spartan armor. Your hand is going to look a bit like Master Chief's.

Wow, figured that out by yourself?

does it matter? its gonna be even better than the pics show. still, i doubt theyll show Masrechiefs face. Now THAT would be awesome!!

Emile looks like a beast but i like the classic look of jun. remove the little camo thing on his neck and it's just like chief in halo one. Why does Jorge look like he has armor from four different people? he's a spartan two and they never mess with armor customization. That's a spartan three trait. they're the scavengers of the two. Master chief didnt set foot on reach (other than his training) until well after the bulk of the fighting was over. he stopped back by there on his way back from the first halo. AND THE CHIEF ISN'T THE ONLY SPARTAN. PEOPLE NEED TO STOP ASSUMING EVERY SPARTAN IS THE CHIEF.

reach is set before halo 1.

the beta is over :( but it was fun

dude, that picture at the end, your comparing his right hand with his left. So even though they have a similarity, it can also be disproved since they are on different hands.

I THINK JHON-117 IS NOBLE 6

what 3th antiairgun on the 8th mission

As we all know now, Chief and Kelly among the rest of the squad are stationed on the other side of Reach, Master Chief is then hastilly taken to the Pillar of Autumn while Six,Emile,Jun, and Carter get the newly formed Smart A.I known as Cortana. Chief is then put into cryo sleep until they get out of slipstream space and slow down from FTL speeds. Now as for the glove or hand armor for chief,well all of the MJOLNIR variants resemble each other in some way. And if someone here thinks that Noble 6 is John 117/Master Chief, Noble Six dies at the end of reach,and 343 studios was supposed to make the next Halo game,called Onyx,like the book,it starts off from the ending of Halo 3,and you don’t have to play the game on ledgendary to see the end,its the same for every difficulty.

Hi,I’m Pack Hunter 117,thats my Xbox live name.Anyway the Needler crossed with the Carbine is called a Needle Rifle and I like it better than the Carbine and well I’m not sure if the other Spartans,Jun,Kat,Noble 6,Emile,Carter,and George ever met the Master Cheif face to face but it would be awsome to think that what if Bungie put that in the game Halo:Reach. And yes the graphics;maps;campain; firefight; custom games; theater; forge;and spartan armor do look very real and are way better than Halo 3′s graphics;maps;and etc.Too bad Bungie never put the Master Cheif fighting along side Noble 6 and the other Spartans. :( And yes the Master Cheif is in Reach at the last part of the last level called,”The Pillar of Autum” he is in that roundish ship where the Pelican is flying up to. Remember if you whant to see him again or have not seen the Master Cheif in Reach before go to theater and when you are inside the ship turn to the right and you will see him sleeping for a split second.(You will se him longer if you really slow the film down.) Oh and one more thing Halo:Reach does not have the Battle Rifle its actually called the DMR and its a single shot not a triple shot like the Battle Rife or the modern day M16A4.

But sadly other than seeing him in the last part of the level “The Pillar of Autum” you will never see the Master Cheif in Halo:Reach :(

fake.

Nope, this is defiantly fake, that is not Jorge in the mission sword base. And the main character is not Noble 6 but actually Masterchief. (sarcasm)