"Halo: Reach for us is not Halo 4," says Executive Producer Joseph Tung, who was originally Halo 3's Multiplayer Producer. "It's not a continuation of the Master Chief story, nor is it the start of a new trilogy. For us, it's a completely standalone game."
Gone are the bright greens, luminescent blues, neon purples and glow-in-the-dark pinks. The little Grunt aliens don't squeal jokes or make pratfalls. Don't expect that Gregorian choir Bungie has on retainer to chant the all-too-familiar theme during the title sequence. It's grittier, moodier and far more alien than any preceding title in the franchise. Master Chief is busy kicking Covenant ass elsewhere in the galaxy, and has no time for you.
REACH ORIGINS
With Halo 3 complete, Bungie - a company that started with just 3 programmers, an artist and a level designer - split it's now 130-person strong development team into two groups. One group worked on Halo 3: ODST, while the other started work on a project that would eventually become Reach. Headed by creative director Marcus Lehto, originally the art director on Halo 1 through 3, the team brainstormed ideas until they hit upon doing a prequel that takes place before the first game, Halo: Combat Evolved. According to Lehto, "Reach, as a fictional planet, was just a great candidate to play around with. It's such a rich world, with such a great fiction surrounding it."
The planet of Reach, before it's destruction, saw the massacre of over 700 million people by the invading zealot alien force known as the Covenant, as detailed in the prequel novel The Fall Of Reach. With Master Chief off-planet by the time the game starts, the stpry introduces a new team of Spartan super-soldiers. The six-man Nobel Team is a group of Sp...
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... cover the same area of lore, Reach is not the game version of the book The Fall Of Reach. Instead, it compliments it by taking place during and after the events in the book, from a different perspective (since you're not playing as Master Chief). Written by science-fiction author Eric Nylund, The Fall Of Reach is the official prequel to Halo: Combat Evolved, narrating the events which lead up to Evolved, explaining the origins of Master Chief.
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While Bungie continues to make Halo games, the franchise itself is now overseen and published by a Microsoft-created subdivision called 343 Industries. This sub-division is also in charge of the recently released Halo: Legends anime/CG short-movie compilation, the comic books and all tertiary products, like the upcoming animated television series based on the machinima comedy shorts, Red vs. Blue.
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Friday night lights shined on the Vandeblit Catholic High School’s stadium field as hundreds of students and fans gathered to support their fighting terriers at the 2002 homecoming game. After two quarters of some great football action, it was finally time to announce the 2002 homecoming king and queen. As football player Andre Melancon stood on the sideline he anxiously awaited the results. Surprisingly his name was announced as homecoming king. Leaving the sideline he maneuvered to center field to except his crown, queen, and title with pride. Little did the fans know this would not be the greatest accomplishment of Andre’s life. Andre stood there with pride and excitement, but also a desire to be a part of the priesthood.
Title: "Halo: The Fall of Reach" Genre: Science Fiction / Science Fiction. State major events - Major events are those revolving around, leading up to, and resulting from the conflict or major problems in the work. 1. What is the difference between a. and a. Spartans (super soldiers, highly advanced warriors, specially bioengineered and technologically augmented, the best in the universe - quiet, professional, and deadly) completed training camp on the planet REACH (human's last station of defense to stop the covenant from finding the location of earth).
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After development of Half-Life, Valve further developed the GoldSrc game engine, and later went on to produce a sequel video game to Half-Life. During the development of Half-Life 2, Newell dedicated several months into developing the Steam project which was later released in 2003, just a year before the launch of the anticipated Half Life sequel. Since that time, Newell and the rest of the Valve Corporation expanded the Steam platform to a wider audience across the globe as it transitioned from a Windows only platform to include Linux, Mac, and video game consoles. Valve also ventured into different video game genres after their popular release of Half-Life 2. Now associated with a critically acclaimed and award winning video game company, Newell and Valve began their Portal project – a drastic change from the previous video games. After their Team Fortress 2 release, which was bundled with Portal and known as The Orange Box on release, Valve and Newell continued to garner recognition and awards due to the popularity of the Orange Box compilation video game. The Valve Corporation, now a seasoned video game attention with
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