Halo: ODST has "connections" to next year's series instalment, Halo: Reach, Bungie has revealed.
Speaking in OXM's latest issue (the one with a moody Trooper on the cover), writer and creative director Joe Staten said "it made a lot of sense to us" to link to the two Halo games together.
"The Halo Universe has always had these interconnections but when we made ODST we had the luxury of knowing the Halo game we were going to make next," he told the mag. "So it made a lot of sense to us to put those kind of connections in."
As anyone who's destroyed the shooter will already know, references to the famous event in Halo lore range from graffiti scribbled around the New Mombasa streets, to lines from Reach veteran squad mate, Buck.
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"We certainly put Buck in as a representative of Reach," Statten told OXM. "Buck has very specific lines about what he witnessed on planet Reach and we absolutely wanted to telegraph some of that stuff. Whether or not he's going to show up in Halo Reach we're not talking about / have no idea."
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