looks like a spartan II helmet. I hope that the blue team apears in Halo: Reach! It shouldn't be MC cause he's fighting in space during the battle

In Halo 1 and 2 if you jump melee'd you did more damage than if you ran and melee'd someone which subsequently did more damage than meleeing someone standing still. This mechanic though is completely absent in Halo 3. A lot of good player for example would go around corners if they were being chased and time their jumps so that they would be landing right as their opponent rounded the corner doing massive damage to them and getting the upper hand cause the enemy was too hasty. Thats just one small example too, putting the mechanic in allows for so much more depth in close range fighting than the current hand to hand combat system Halo 3 has now.

@Jagged

Nice pics but you missed one or two spartan ones from the french article. Like the one where the spartan in kneeling down and his shield is exploding.

The Game Informer Interview is up and there's some substantial meat on this one. I would post the whole article but its pretty long so if someone else would like to do it be my guest. Here's the link for the article, the new pics jagged posted are included too, enjoy.

http://gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2010/03/31/exclusive-interview-on-the-halo-reach-sandbox.aspx 

The more I hear about this the more excited I get, I can't wait until May 3rd

I like limiting the amount of grenades on maps. One of my few complaints with Halo 3 is, when everyone starts off with two grenades, it's ridiculous how many get thrown/picked up etc. before the match is over, and a lot of battles become grenade spamming back and forth.

New background by the devs

The mystery pic was from some stupid Bollywood crap from IGN.

damn that was a really good read!