Halo 3 Recon Box Art...Not DLC!!! w00t

Looks awesome imo and hopefully it will have a relatively long sp mode

This game is still a FPS and doesn't play like Rainbow Six, GRAW or anything like that.

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Then Jarrard and Smith shifted into rumor-debunking mode, declaring that Halo 3: Recon is not third-person nor is it squad-based. It will not be a Splinter Cell-like stealth game, but players will have to take a different approach to combat as their character will be not be a Spartan super-soldier like the Master Chief. This new ****of gameplay, however, will not apply to Recon's multiplayer maps, which will support "traditional, ****c" Halo 3 modes.

ah, ok. still sounds interesting though; "players will have to take a different approach to combat as their character will be not be a Spartan super-soldier like the Master Chief"

i look forward to it.

Looks great, ive always thought they could take the singleplayer experience in the halo games one step further.

ill definatly pick this up.

Just because it has box art doesn't disqualify it from being an add-on DLC, look at Oblivion's Shivering Isles.

If it's going to be a full $60 game, I'll pass.

A thing that for me say it's a stand-alone title is the fact how it is listed on the Markeplace.
Usually all game have their own title where all their content is in.
Halo: Recon has it's own title. So following that logic it is it's own game.

Also "a slightly improved engine" and a new story + setting are probably too massive for DLC.

May be too big for a dlc but certainly doesn't seem worth its own game, basically a short campaign mode and halo 3 multiplayer with halo 3 maps honestly whats the point just add it on like dlc or at least give an option to download it for a cheaper price if you already have H3.

My question is since it uses H3 multiplayer does that mean the 2 games can cross over play with eachother, otherwise that could vastly destroy the halo multiplayer community.

Again I am all for H3, love the online multiplayer, but with this being a stand alone I have lost almost all interest in it.