Halo Reach details

So the first details have been released about the anticipated new Halo game. The details come from the American magazine, Game Informer.

All the interesting stuff is here:

- Six times as many Spartans on the field

- Set days before the events of Halo 1

- Bungie talks of huge scale combat

- Big battles are the major new push

- A sense of Reach under seige

- Cinematic tone of up close war journalism in camera movements

- Reach is a more serious approach to the Halo franchise

- The Health bar drains after your shield goes like in Halo 1

- Designated Marsman Rifle new weapon (somewhere between sniper rifle and battle rifle)

- Plasma pistol, sword and needler also mentioned

- Only frag and plasma grenades return

- Game tells story of six-man Team Noble

- Focus on making the Covenant dangerous and fighting again

- Mag talks of a generational leap forward on tech over previous Halo games

- Armour abilities replace equipment

- Four-player campaign, two player co-op split-screen, save films, 16 player deathmatches

All sounds good so far. Expect more details being slowly released over the coming months, so keep checking back here.