From neoGaf:

Listened to the 1up interview:
-Effort in "putting the civilians culture to life", Will see civilians, fight alongside civilians. Seem like they really want you to care about Reach and the civilians will play a part in it.
-Absolutely no dual wielding in Reach
- To stay fresh they'll be throwing a lot of scenarios at the player that're really new and fresh
-on the topic of the height of the different models. The spartans are shorter than spartan IIs and the elites are taller. "That definitely plays into the mechanics of each of those characters. And we're playing with that, we're actually have a good time making sure that actually balances well together in multiplayer." So yeah, elites in MP, and not even midget elites to match the spartan models but models that are significantly larger. It'll be interesting to see steps they take to make elites something other than bigger targets with huge heads. Hopefully they'll put code in to make certain models restricted for whatever reason may arise.
They confirm elites in MP in this interview at 1:40 too. Also from this interview they say "no spartan classes" which I take to mean no class based system if that was even still being speculated.

@ Mendicate Bias and benVTrigger

Tx for clarifying. I dont know much about the story of the Halo universe.

Awesome thread going guys I updated the OP a bit, i'll get some screens up, and all that good stuff later, keep the news flowing, Halo: Reach will be awesome!

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Destruction of environment ?

halo reach looking awesome i must buy legenry edition

Awesome boxart. Great attention to detail.

I really hope they stick to Halo's rock solid frame rate at least in MP. Too many games these days sacrifice frame rate for visual fidelity.

Nice if you want any details on the novels Fall of Reach or First Strike ask me cause I have both and I can get some quotes for you if you want. I also have Ghosts of Onyx and Halo Evolutions so plenty of info on Spartan III's if you want that too.

Hey guys i've made some banners for us to use in our signatures, etc. I won't be taking any request at this time, sorry, but i'll try to add more periodically. 4 new ones are in the OP. ENJOY!

Represent Halo: Reach with style.