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Hey, Here Are Some Halo: Reach Screenshots

27 new shots that weren't sneakily snapped off of a TV screen.

While I'm normally not the type to devote an entire story to DUDE NEW SCREENSHOTS, the nature of Halo: Reach's previous shots--most of which were crappy cell phone snaps taken of some sort of beta by some guy who felt the need to Photoshop his favorite guitar player's name on them--makes these at least a little bit more interesting. 
 
For the record, I briefly thought about pasting a picture of Tom Morello onto all of these shots, just to be a dick. 
 

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@big_jon:
big_jon, no one cares of your opinion, especially if your complaining that Halo 1 is better because trust me we hear it all the time and its just getting really old. Thank you
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@Meowayne:  You were expecting no explosions in a miltary focused game and breast physics? Where did you pull that out of?
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Hey, shouldn't Tom Morello have a page on Giant Bomb??

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looks pretty interesting

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Wait.... WHAT?! 
 
IT LOOKS LIKE EVERY HALO GAME EVER FUCKING MADE!!!! 
You mean to tell me... 
 
If I like Halo, I'll like this game? 
 
 
Crazy.

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Looks better than ODST graphically. But still not enough to judge by. i still hope for those large scale battles

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@CornontheCobbe said:
" Guess this is going to be the last Halo game? "
This is the last Bungie made Halo game.
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Guess this is going to be the last Halo game?

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"One look at these screenshots vs. the screenshots for Halo 1 explains exactly why Halo plummeted out of favor with me. And I LOVED Halo 1.  Halo 1 was about easily accessible fun. The plot was silly, saturday morning adventure fun.  This is like some kind of immature 90's comic book about a bunch of "badasses" who go around being "badasses".  The industry needs to move on. "

@JazGalaxy:
 
 
Not sure how the plot was silly or immature. This game was made in 2001 and it had a great story. You make no sense, what other shooters in around 2001 had what you would call a serious edge or story line? Half life? How is that any less "silly" than Halo? Making the spartan look more hard edge and lethal is what Halo could really use. IMO
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Hey your Halo game looks a lot like Halo.

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@themangalist:
These screens clearly all take place in ONE environment. So I have no Idea why you`re complaining dude.
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@Maniac said:
" @themangalist said:
" the art direction could've been so much better. I thought reach was an enormous industrial complex planet with fallen frigates and acid rain....  and now it's just some mountains and pine trees and... sigh. "
 
You haven't seen the entire planet, they want you to see the planet slowly falling apart as the conflict progresses. Jump to conclusions sooner, it'll serve you much better then being a rational person who waits to draw conclusions after they have tried the game.
"
err...how can you tell if i'm rational or not? 
and you seem fairly intolerant for anyone talking anything about your halo.
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@themangalist said:
" the art direction could've been so much better. I thought reach was an enormous industrial complex planet with fallen frigates and acid rain....  and now it's just some mountains and pine trees and... sigh. "
 
You haven't seen the entire planet, they want you to see the planet slowly falling apart as the conflict progresses. Jump to conclusions sooner, it'll serve you much better then being a rational person who waits to draw conclusions after they have tried the game.
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Mmmmmmmmeh.

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Please add an effing sprint button.
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Halo looks like halo? Wow who would have thought... 

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One look at these screenshots vs. the screenshots for Halo 1 explains exactly why Halo plummeted out of favor with me. And I LOVED Halo 1. 
 
Halo 1 was about easily accessible fun. The plot was silly, saturday morning adventure fun. 
 
This is like some kind of immature 90's comic book about a bunch of "badasses" who go around being "badasses". 
 
The industry needs to move on.
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@xyzygy said:
" @darkjester74 said:
" @Agent47CSim2 said:
" @tak said:
"The Halo 3 engine is showing its age. "
It's a brand new engine. "
Then the brand new engine is showing its age.  Nothing visually spectacular or compelling here, IMO.  Looks just like the last couple Halo games. "
The game isn't finished. Wait until the final product is here then see what it looks like. "

It's also pre-alpha and for a game to look like a retail game in its pre alpha form is damm good in my opinion.
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@Seraphim2150 said:
" Are they angry Jackals? without shields? "
They're actually a new enemy based off the Jackals... I forget their name. They look pretty cool especially in that close up of one.
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@xyzygy said:
" @darkjester74 said:
" @Agent47CSim2 said:
" @tak said:
"The Halo 3 engine is showing its age. "
It's a brand new engine. "
Then the brand new engine is showing its age.  Nothing visually spectacular or compelling here, IMO.  Looks just like the last couple Halo games. "
The game isn't finished. Wait until the final product is here then see what it looks like. "
Fair enough.  Just to be clear, I'm not saying the visuals look bad.  I would say they look "fine" or "ok".  Nothing special, at least for the moment.
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Are they angry Jackals? without shields?

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You should have been a dick. Except each inserted picture should be unique.
 
 
edit: I always thought it was more of a Metroid Samus look than anything else.

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Why are people saying it looks bad? I don't have a 360, and I am sure that, whilst the graphics aren't ground-breaking, it still looks very good.

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@darkjester74 said:
" @Agent47CSim2 said:
" @tak said:
"The Halo 3 engine is showing its age. "
It's a brand new engine. "
Then the brand new engine is showing its age.  Nothing visually spectacular or compelling here, IMO.  Looks just like the last couple Halo games. "
The game isn't finished. Wait until the final product is here then see what it looks like.
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@Agent47CSim2 said:
" @tak said:
"The Halo 3 engine is showing its age. "
It's a brand new engine. "
Then the brand new engine is showing its age.  Nothing visually spectacular or compelling here, IMO.  Looks just like the last couple Halo games.
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People still get excited about halo screenshots/trailers/game itself? I mean it's the exact same thing with 2% innovation, 97% brand name, 1% playability.

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who squished the hud radar!
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@tak said:
"The Halo 3 engine is showing its age. "

It's a brand new engine.
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Looks good, however in motion I'm sure it will be even better.
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Ooh, hello old-style Covenant carrier.

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Can anyone just be happy that it looks good AND doesn't use the Unreal 3 Engine?

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@big_jon said:
" How can you people not be happy with the visuals? They look great to me. "
Halo Hate Squad perhaps? GB is rampant with them.
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Hey, It's Halo.

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Awesome.

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I havent played too much of Halo over the years. But I think the visual style of Reach looks a lot different than the previous Halo games.

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@Jimbo said:

" Halo:  Republic Commando. 
 

ALL SPARTANS.  Srsly, if it plays anything like Republic Commando then I am already infinitely more interested in this than I have been any previous Halo game. "
dude. when are they going to make a RC sequel. that game was cool.  
 
anyways, the game looks washed out and too bloomy. are they using the Unreal engine? seriously man, blurrrrryyy and bloooomy looking.  
shit looks like power rangers btw. 
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Cool, desaturated Halo with more bloom. Can we expect 20 hours of adolescent one-liners, explosions and breast physics? I think so.

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How can you people not be happy with the visuals? They look great to me. They Do look quite abit better than Halo 3 which in many ways looked very nice, so I am happy. 
 
Also this is 4 year old tech on the 360, they are pushing it pretty far and it is impressive, I just hope this game feels fresh. I hope it is more brutal and I hope that the story hits you hard. This is Reach we do not win, alot of people die and I want to see some sacrifice.

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I could think of about 20 games I'm more excited to play than this but that armor texturing is pretty snazy,

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Adding Tom Morello to the shots would absolutely not be a dick move. The man rocks.

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I'm not really excited for this one for some reason.
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Played and finished Halo 3 and didn't really understand a thing. It'll be nice to get a Halo at launch though. What's with modern times and how we love a story we know isn't going to end well?.. These screens have a slightly tragic tone to them, I look forward to it!

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Aw, I thought it was going to be a new engine :(

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Take Halo, add grime, stir.

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is that a Murloc in there?

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The game looks slightly better than ODST, which, in turn, looked slightly better than H3. I have the feeling that the 360 has already peaked in the graphics department. I'm eager to see how Gears 3 will look.

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@Jimbo said:
"Halo:  Republic Commando. 
 
ALL SPARTANS.  Srsly, if it plays anything like Republic Commando then I am already infinitely more interested in this than I have been any previous Halo game. "

Republic Commando was the best star wars game I've played cept for Knights of the old republic. It had one of the best and sad stories.
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@Aas said:

" Fill me in here, what does Tom Morello have to do with Halo: Reach? "

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/11/05/rumored-halo-reach-screenshots-leak-from-microsoft-hq/