The Graphyte

Want more halo for your soul, well get ready for the next two installments of the Halo franchise. Halo 3 Recon will be the next installment of the Halo storyline, but not before Bungi release its first RTS (real time strategy) game "Halo Wars" based loosely before the first Halo story, the game will be set in the time of when Spartan soldiers were among many and thriving, putting you up against the covenant.

Though the title looks promising it will only be a matter of time before we know for sure if Bungie can pull off its first RTS game, but since the creation of Halo which came off the shelf with great potential and success, Bungi has now gained the chops and money to work dilengently to bring us a solid new title. Further down the timeline Halo 3 Recon will be launched offering a brand new hero and a brand new style of game play. Recon being part of the new title one can only assume that the game will have more stealth involved and possibly requiring you to be more tactical in the game world. Very little information has been released but there is plenty of talk and a new juicy trailer to sink your teeth into.

Recon takes place in the Halo universe in the year 2552, during the events of Halo 2. While the characters of Halo 2 are on the alien ringworld known as Delta Halo, Recon follows what happens at the city of New Mombasa on Earth, in the midst of an invasion by the hostile Covenant.

Bungie community director Brian Jarrard stated in an interview that Recon "was a labor of love to [Bungie's] fans" who wanted more Halo-related content. Because Bungie did not want to do "more of the same", the main character as an ODST was chosen. "The ODSTs have always been fan favorites and the events that unfolded on Earth is something fans still clamor for after being "short changed" in Halo 2", Jarrard said, in reference to complaints that Halo 2 ended too abruptly.

In an interview on MTV on July 16, 2008, Microsoft’s head of Xbox business, Don Mattrick, stated that Bungie was working on a new Halo game for Microsoft, independent of the franchise spinoffs Halo Wars and Halo Chronicles. An announcement of the new Halo project was expected at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2008 game exposition, with Bungie unveiling a teaser on their web site, but the announcement was shelved by Microsoft. Microsoft stated that it wanted the game to have its own event.

In post-trailer interviews, Bungie staff members told gaming press that Recon is to be the last installment in the Halo trilogy. Though Bungie does not consider the Recon a full game (staff member Luke Smith compared it to The Frozen Throne, an expansion to Warcraft III), the game will ship with Halo 3 map packs, and Recon will not require Halo 3 to play. If that isn't enough of a Halo fix, talks of a movie have been confirmed but shooting has still not been scheduled so expect that it will most likely be on the radar for 2010, which seems adequate since this is a Sci-fi movie. Seems only right to enter a new decade with one of the greatest game titles to hit shelves, perhaps all the blunders of games turned into movie titles in the past will be a lesson to the director for this project. Recently movies have started to pop up on youtube of a halo teaser, which can be only be compared to a slightly low budget sci-fi channel version of a halo series. No one can say for sure but I doubt that a multi-million million dollar franchise like this would allow its movie transformation to look this poor, but only time will tell if this is a unpolished version of whats to come.