Ok, so sometime during the night the Multiplayer Madness video leaked onto Youtube. This morning Bungie “officially” released the video onto their Youtube account. What really happened is that the video was on several press release sites and it just so happens that the way the time zones work, Asia gets it first. The video and my thoughts on it are after the jump.

The first word mentioned is “Loadouts”. Obviously you can see that you can switch your gear around for a preferred combination of armor and perhaps weapons. The most noticeable being the jet pack as gaining height advantage is always key. What you may not noticed until looking closer is that one of the Spartans has active camo on. I also see what looks like a small personal shield.

Assassinations, the second word. We’ve already known from previous statements made about Reach that there will be a stealthy assassination mode. Looks like this IS for multi-player as well!

What is Invasions? Perhaps it is the game type? My thought is that it will be similar to the Firefight game type available currently for ODST. In this case you would be defending reach from, what else but, an invasion.

Headhunter also looks to be another game type coming to Reach. It looks like you’ll be taking skulls that fall from the dead bodies of other players. Perhaps they got those skulls from killing other players themselves? Its pretty much un-known at this point.

The Elites are a playable character again. It seems that maybe there is a “Spartan VS. Elites” mode as the words in the video suggest.

The Arena seems nothing other than that, an arena. Perhaps it will be a massive Spartan training ground? Perhaps something more?

We find out more when the Reach beta beings on May 3rd.

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