The first Halo: Reach images might have been leaked this afternoon via the MLG message board. User “Tom Morello,” recently created a thread showing a blurry, perhaps camera-phone-snatched photograph of the anticipated Halo follow-up’s Battle Rifle. He updated the thread again with more photographs of weapons, each of the same quality and with his username branded over as a watermark.
Some of the weapons shown are familiar (needler plasma pistol, rocket launcher) while others are not so much -- especially this super Needler thing. Of note is the HUD, which Morello says lists teammate names as well as shows what "perks" players are carrying. In another post, Morello said he was carrying three at the time of one of the photos: sprinting, cloaking, and "halogram."
When another user asked Morello where he snapped the images, he replied “at Microsoft HQ, btw, in a office.” Morello explained the motivation behind grabbing the initial image as wanting to show the MLG community the Battle Rifle, which didn’t appear in the latest Halo title, ODST.
The first image is in the header. The rest are available in the MLG thread or collected nicely in this NeoGAF thread.
We stress that we haven’t the slightest if these images or light details are the real stuff or not. Take this with a grain of salt. We've contacted Bungie for confirmation of these images and details.
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2:48 PM on 11.05.2009
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Nice.
...okay, the whole suing thing has been taken too far. Whatever.
Not really interested in this game. Bungie needs to pull their heads out of their asses and invent a new IP. Halo has been burnt out for a long time now. If Reach is anything like ODST, or even Halo 3, in terms of story, then I honestly do not give a shit.
Your deductive powers must be truly godlike, if you can determine how a game will play by looking at extremely blurry cell phone pictures of a game in the pre-alpha phase. Of course it's an FPS; nobody with any sense expected anything else.
Compare the weapon logo in the upper right of this screen to the equipped weapon:
http://i34.tinypic.com/e8k12a.jpg
Both are needlers, right?
Now, let's look at the first screen where a super Battle Rifle is equipped, but it shows a Beam Rifle (with AMMO) in the upper right:
http://i34.tinypic.com/iqv6tg.jpg
Plus the Needler-carbine-laser is too cheap to be true...even if they made such a weapon, they wouldn't do it by mashing the three weapons together. It's an easy photoshop job, that's for sure...and the radar is directly taken from ODST, too.
That GAF thread also has the unmarked ones now too.
Don't tell me things about this game, just let me wait for the Beta.
I find this to be a very telling shot. Bottom center, there appears to be a progress bar of some sort, perhaps experience or something like that. Bottom right, there's the word "Credits" with a number underneath, suggesting in-game currency.
And judging by this shot:
the weapon detail has significantly increased. Not to mention the fact that players apparently fight in space.
Actually, the hell with it, I'll just put up all the NeoGAF pics:
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs008.snc3/11537_324534965726_540780726_9649502_8378400_n.jpg
Whoops, messed up the image tags. Here's the last one.
I'm not looking anymore. Thats it. I'm done.
Seriously.
Thanks for posting all of those images, Arkhon, I was too lazy to go look. I guess it's pointless to speculate now how this will turn out, but I'm kinda interested. I like Halo games, no shame here.
Bungie employees were taking dev units home to test mulitplayer recently, it seems one unit found it's way to somebody who didn't feel the need for secrecy.
That and forum mods on bungie.net are molesting everybody who whispers about these pictures.