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Started up the game, but didn't have much time to play. Apart from a little stuttering in the cutscenes in runs just fine so far.

The main character in this game is the newly appointed Noble 6, part of a squad of Spartans (which is what Master Chief is) called the Noble Team. The first scene of the game is just him coming into camp and meeting the other five, some of whom have their helmets off, but then they remember that they're in a Halo game and put them back on so they can investigate some kind of disturbance. One guy's helmet has a skull painted on the visor. The captain pulls the rookie aside and tells him that the lone wolf schenanigans that are apparently on his record will not be tolerated on this squad. They walk around the surface of the titular planet Reach (I mostly just followed my NPC buddies to figure out where to go) and then the covenant show up and get into a few firefights with the Nobles. I stopped after the first few enemy squads were dealt with, inside of a building after we split up and I had the captain and the minigun guy with me.

So far it all feels kind of standard, both to shooters and to military stories in general. The biggest difference between this game and the first Halo is that while Master Chief was on his own right at the beginning, Noble 6 has friends to work with. I guess it's slightly closer to real world military tactics in that it usually makes sense to stick with your squad instead of charging ahead into enemy groups. I think the game is slightly easier so far as a result - I'm inept enough that playing Heroic on the first mission caused a ton of deaths in Halo 1, but I've only had one so far playing Reach on the same difficulty.

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