Halo Reach details aplenty

US magazine, Game Informer, has the exclusive scoop on a lot of what we can expect from Halo Reach. It appears as though you're going to be dropped back into the world of the original, with a focus on Team Noble. You can view the page-scans here, or hit the jump for a summary...

• Six times as many Spartans on the field
• Set days before the events of Halo 1
• Bungie talks of huge scale combat
• Big battles are the major new push
• A sense of Reach under seige
• Cinematic tone of up close war journalism in camera movements
• Reach is a more serious approach to the Halo franchise
• The Health bar drains after your shield goes like in Halo 1
• Designated Marsman Rifle new weapon (somewhere between sniper rifle and battlerifle)
• Plasma pistol, sword and needler also mentioned
• Only frag and plasma grenades return
• Game tells story of six-man Team Noble
• Focus on making the Covenant dangerous and fighting again
• Mag talks of a generational leap forward on tech over previous Halo games
• Armour abilities replace equipment
• Four-player campaign, two player co-op split-screen, save films, 16 player deatchmatches