Did they announce Reach this early?

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Does anyone remember when they announced Reach? I feel like what was expected out of the panel the other day was too much considering the game doesn’t come out for over a year. Asking questions about multiplayer and stuff just seemed like too much to expect at the time. Even tho the game has been in development for “2+ years” I feel like they probably don’t have much done on it yet.

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> Does anyone remember when they announced Reach? I feel like what was expected out of the panel the other day was too much considering the game doesn’t come out for over a year. Asking questions about multiplayer and stuff just seemed like too much to expect at the time. Even tho the game has been in development for “2+ years” I feel like they probably don’t have much done on it yet.

They announced Reach in 2009.

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> Does anyone remember when they announced Reach? I feel like what was expected out of the panel the other day was too much considering the game doesn’t come out for over a year. Asking questions about multiplayer and stuff just seemed like too much to expect at the time. Even tho the game has been in development for “2+ years” I feel like they probably don’t have much done on it yet.

E3 2009, right after they showed some E3 Gameplay for ODST I think.

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> > Does anyone remember when they announced Reach? I feel like what was expected out of the panel the other day was too much considering the game doesn’t come out for over a year. Asking questions about multiplayer and stuff just seemed like too much to expect at the time. Even tho the game has been in development for “2+ years” I feel like they probably don’t have much done on it yet.
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> E3 2009, right after they showed some E3 Gameplay for ODST I think.

Yep.

Joe Staten was all “It’s a secret project! :D!”

And I’m all “Please have something to do with the Fall of Reach.”

“From the beginning…you know the end…” appears on screen.

Me: :'D

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> > > Does anyone remember when they announced Reach? I feel like what was expected out of the panel the other day was too much considering the game doesn’t come out for over a year. Asking questions about multiplayer and stuff just seemed like too much to expect at the time. Even tho the game has been in development for “2+ years” I feel like they probably don’t have much done on it yet.
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> > E3 2009, right after they showed some E3 Gameplay for ODST I think.
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> Yep.
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> Joe Staten was all “It’s a secret project! :D!”
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> And I’m all “Please have something to do with the Fall of Reach.”
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> “From the beginning…you know the end…” appears on screen.
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> Me: :'D

The announcement trailer still gives me chills to this day.

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Also, I believe that the first time we got a full glimpse of in-game views was in this trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E95PeZ0qsLY which was 11 months after the E3 Trailer.

We have a little while before we see anything much.

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A lot of people didn’t like it, but it was my favorite announcement trailer for any game ever.

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> Also, I believe that the first time we got a full glimpse of in-game views was in this trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E95PeZ0qsLY which was 11 months after the E3 Trailer.
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> We have a little while before we see anything much.

Well, it depends what you consider “in-game views”.
They released screenshots back in like september/october, the first in-game cinematic at the VGA 2009, and then the first gameplay footage in the vidoc in february.

I might be wrong, but these are my memories.