Halo Reach beta starts Monday

Time to get your Spartan III on!

Tmuch anticipated Halo Reach multiplayer beta starts on Monday, and if that wasn't a bank holiday we'd imagine that more than a few Xbox 360 owners would be booking the day off.

The Reach beta was a pretty good reason for buying Bungie's last release in the Halo Universe, Halo ODST. ODST was too short for some (though we thought it's story was tight and pretty well-plotted), but it did guarantee owners access to the beta of Reach when it was released. And now, that time has come.

Bungie has been eeking out information about the game for a good few months now, and players are looking forward to new vehicles, new guns, and some old guns, fresh maps, and, and, the ability to jump around on some sort of jetpack.

For once on a Monday, and a bank holiday one at that, we'll be setting our alarms early, as Bungie warns, "The download process may be subject to extended wait times. Server load is expected to be extremely high, especially during the first few hours and days of Beta availability. Please bear with us and stay tuned to Bungie.net for news and information."

The beta ends on the 19th May, so it might be worth booking the whole two weeks off in advance. Maybe we'll see how Monday goes first though.

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8 Comments

Krispy89 Apr 30, 2010 10:08 AM	Can't wait, I'll be certainly joining in :)
nesquick Apr 30, 2010 10:31 AM	I didn't like ODST, it was good until you meet that engineer thing then I was like the fuck? this seems stupid compared to the epic storyline of HALO 1-3.... that and I thought the humans were still to strong in fact often I felt stronger than I did in Halo 3 cause once your shield goes down in H3 your pretty much screwed but in this once your pain threshold or whatever exceeds a value you then go into a replaceable health bar which is kind of weird since I didn't have health bars since Halo combat evolved.
tunksy Apr 30, 2010 10:46 AM	actually really liking these halo games, only just satrted playin them on xobx, sadly its taking time away from PC until i find an intresting game that wow's me again. :(
Krispy89 Apr 30, 2010 11:23 AM	I actually enjoyed ODST, mainly because you were playing someone that was different to The Chief, and The Arbiter. It broke the mould that Halo = Master Chief. It had a more human side to tell, rather than the chief who didn't really give a flying toss about his commerades. It was daring for Bungie, while it didn't pay off for some, it did for others. Myself included.
Hawkeye Apr 30, 2010 11:27 AM	And come on... ODST had the crew of Serenity AND Number Six!
Krispy89 Apr 30, 2010 11:36 AM	What's not to like about Serenity + Number Six?
iruss71 Apr 30, 2010 10:03 PM	I wish I could play Halo on my PS3! Can't afford to buy xbox360 number 4.....
tunksy May 2, 2010 5:45 PM	serenity = UBER AWESOME

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