Bungie: Space is just a slice of ‘epic’ Reach campaign

Halo: Reach space combat – as seen in the E3 2010 trailer – will form only a small part of the entire campaign, Bungie has told VideoGamer.com.

“The Saber [the space ship seen in the trailer] is limited to campaign, so you can play campaign co-op four players, and you’ll all have your own Saber,” explained Bungie writer Eric Osborne. “You can go in and take the mission on. The full mission isn’t Saber start to finish. As you saw you start on the beach a little bit, you work your way up, there’s also some combat afterwards that we’re not revealing at this time.”

The Saber is the work of Bungie sandbox designer Sage Merril, who had previously worked on Crimson Skies.

“He absolutely looked at lots of other flight games that were out there,” said executive producer Joe Tung. “But you know we didn’t want to make a flight simulator for Reach. We wanted to make a very accessible, easy to use and fun to play space mission. So there’s a little bit of a difference in trying to make a fully-featured flight sim and the mission we made, I think. Sage did an amazing job of nailing the Saber.”

And while the Saber will be playable in only a small part of the Halo: Reach campaign, there’s much more cool stuff yet to be revealed.

“There’s plenty of stuff in the campaign that’s going to be sweet,” said Osborne. “This is just a taste of what’s going to be in Reach. It’s one small facet of the overall campaign that we’re putting together. We’re super excited and unfortunately we can’t talk about all of the stuff we’re really excited about.”

Tung added: “I can’t say enough how much this is just a tiny slice of the entire game. The game is pretty epic in scope.”

Check out our full interview with Bungie right here.

Halo: Reach is scheduled for release on September 14, only for Xbox 360.