First up is the redesigned Forge system in Halo Reach called Forge2.0. It's a significantly inproved version of the Halo 3 Forge. They took most of the 'tricks' (glitches) that players were using to accomplish they're goals (such as getting objects to float in the air) and made them tools for the community.
They also announced Forge World, an absolutely giant, blank multiplayer map designed specifically for building custom maps in Forge2.0. The game will also ship with remakes of Blood Gulch, and Accession that were built in Forge World.
Here is the Video:
I've already got a few crazy ideas for new maps churning in my mind. Also, this seems to have excited several of my friends who are not actually Halo fans, but just want to have the chance to build their own maps. This is going to be a vital mutliplayer feature in the game.
Next up is a new campaign trailer. It doesn't reveal too much new info, but does help make the campaign look epic!
The most recent trailer, just out this week, gives us a bit more spoilers however. The bulk of it echos info previously revealed about Noble Team, narrated by a new, yet familiar voice:
Spoiler Alert! Don't read more until you've watched the video above (unless you're not a Halo fan and don't care):
The woman narrating this trailer is none other than Dr. Catherine Halsey, the women responsible for creating the Spartan-II Soldiers. It was also her brain that was scanned to create Cortana, which is why Cortana looks and sounds like a younger version of her. She is talking to someone off camera, whom we can infer is the new AI Auntie Dot. We can tell Auntie Dot is involved as her only known avatar is seen frequently throughout the trailer, and prominently at the very end, right after Halsey shuts down the control panel for the last time. Halsey seems to be giving her a choice as to which member of Noble Team will carry her on their next mission, just as she let Cortana choose which of the Spartan-IIs would carry her (she choose the Master Chief, if you couldn't guess.)
However, the inclusion of Halsey raises some crazy questions about the games capmpaign plot. Specifically, every member of Noble Team (except Jorge) is a Spartan-III, but in the novel Ghosts of Onyx, it is stated that Halsey didn't find out about he Spartan-III program until after Reach falls.
This may be Bungie's most obvious action yet to imply that the novels, while awesome, are not hard 'cannon' material. That would suit me just fine. I've enjoyed the books, but have been annoyed with the many conflicts they seem to introduce into the storyline. However, I shouldn't be surprised by that. The novels were managed by Microsoft's 343 Industries, not Bungie.
Oh well. This just increases my excitement to play the campaign and find out what the heck is going on.
/Spoilers
In other non-Halo news, H.A.W.X. 2 is coming out a week before Reach. HAWX was a fun game. There wasn't any strong storyline, and the multiplayer suffered a lot due to the lack of a matchmaking system (Those of us with small friends lists can't live without matchmaking!), but it was just really fun. Pretty much like an arcade game.
Hopefully, this one will be as fun. All my gaming money is tied up in Reach, but hopefully I can find one used at Gamestop and trade in my copy of HAWX towards it to bring to price down a bit more.
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