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Halo: The Fall of Reach video game

One of the great things about the Halo universe is that it's been fleshed out not only with video games, but comic books and novels (and potentially a film). Perhaps the best universe expanding venture is Halo: The Fall of Reach, a 2001 science fiction novel by Eric Nylund that acts as a prequel to Halo: Combat Evolved. The book tells the story of the Spartan II super soldiers project, and how a young boy called John came to be the double-hard super soldier he is in the games. We reckon the book's perfect fodder for a video game, with the player taking the role of a young Master Chief as he learns his trade, embarking on missions as the leader of a squad of fellow Spartans in the war with the Covenant. A squad-based Halo game has been heavily rumoured in the past. Could this be it? Could this be the Halo game where sound battlefield tactics are as important as your ability to run and gun? Wouldn't it be cool to be able to dish out orders to other AI-controlled Spartans, coordinating flank attacks on entrenched Covenant blockades? Or, even better, how about coordinating attacks via the headset through Xbox LIVE with player-controlled Spartans? Oh yes.

Halo 4 (Vague Halo 3-related spoilers follow)

Halo 3 ended with Master Chief deep in cryonic sleep and floating endlessly in space. But if you finished the game on the Legendary difficulty you'll know that doesn't tell the whole story: Master Chief and sexy AI companion Cortana are heading towards a mysterious planet. What it is we don't know: a Forerunner home world perhaps? The origin of the Flood maybe? What's clear is that Master Chief's adventure is not over, and we want it to continue in Halo 4. Not only that but we want it to be an FPS, and a Bungie-developed FPS at that. The studio has said Halo 3: ODST, due for release at the end of the year, will mark the end of the studio's support for Halo 3, but, interestingly, it hasn't said it's done with the franchise as a whole. Halo 3 might have marked the end of the current story arc, but with Microsoft at the helm, all bets are off. And why wouldn't it make the most of its most bankable star? The last thing he tells Cortana before nodding off is: "Wake me when you need me." We need you Chief. And perhaps Microsoft will need you too, starring in the launch game for the next Xbox console.

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