Halo 3: Recon announced at Tokyo Games Show

After a last minute decision, no new Halo title was announced at E3 earlier this year. Instead Microsoft saved it for its TGS keynote. It’s not just an ordinary sequel either; it’s a Halo 3 spin-off, and it is expected to land in Fall 2009.

Although it’s a first person shooter, you won’t be donning the Mjolnir armour this time around. Instead you’ll playing from the perspective of an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper and experiencing the events leading up to and during Halo 3 from a whole new perspective.

But Master Chief is a seven foot tall, butt-whooping super soldier, tooled up with the latest biological augmentations and personal shield generator; it wouldn’t make sense to have Johnny Nobody from the ODST dance around the battlefield batting Brutes away with nary a shrug. Therefore, Halo 3: Recon will be introducing new gameplay mechanic that depends more on “stealth and cunning” than blowing the bejesus out of everything in sight.

Halo 3: Recon will also feature new multiplayer content, although it remains to be seen if this will just be more of the same or have its own new types of gameplay. It will feature new maps and more Forge options to tinker around with.

More details will probably be released in digestible chunks in the run up to the game’s launch

In the meantime, here’s the launch trailer:

Out 2009| £TBC | (via Wired)

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