cannot fully download the game of halo reach.

Try downloading Reach onto your Xbox console or hard-drive. That solved the map loading errors on Reach for me a while back. However, the disc needs to be in full working order to fully install the game.

As for the Halo 4 issues, I suggest trying HaloWaypoint.

[quote user="Shalsalsa"]technically you should start Reach first then Halo CE, Halo 2, Halo 3 seeing how Reach is first in chronological order, but you can go at it like everyone else had to and start in this order : Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo ODST, Halo
reach. Either way you can get the story line but to follow it in true order you must start with Reach. ( my opinion)[/quote]

Reach is not the first game, it's the prequel to the first game, and there's a reason it came after the trilogy. One would not fully appreciate Reach's story without first playing the other games in the series. It's the knowledge of Reach's fate, and that
of the spartans that makes the game what it is. Better to save it till last.

Reach received a title update that rendered the the test disc useless.

All testers were issued a code to download the Games on Demand version of the game.



“Earlier this year, you participated in the Xbox LIVE Public Preview program and were provided a copy of Halo: Reach as part of your participation. Unfortunately, this Halo: Reach “preview disc” cannot be updated with a conventional Title Update, causing
the game to be unplayable after the recent Halo: Reach Title Update on September 21, 2011. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

To get you back online with Halo: Reach, below is a code for the Games on Demand version of the game. Once the code is redeemed and your copy of Halo: Reach is downloaded, the game will work as usual, including the features added by the title update.
All of your Halo Reach game saves will work normally as well. You may then discard the disc from the Public Preview program.

Please note that this Games on Demand version of Halo: Reach will require you to have some storage on your Xbox 360 – a hard drive or USB of at least 6.6 gigabytes.”

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That would make it a step down from Reach/Halo 3, no?

[/quote]Yes. My favorite part of Halo games is the fully cooperative campaign. Apparently this is what we can expect with Bungie no longer at the reigns of Halo.

@Zehq, in fact the OP makes more sense than you.

@Dr Arnold, The code included inside of the case is to download the maps that are on the disk to be playable on Halo Reach. The maps that you can play on Halo Anniversary are the maps that are downloaded when you use the code. You do not need to buy Halo
Reach. This is only a free token if you already have reach so you don't have to pay for the mappack.

It really sucks but if you want to play hemorrhage or any of the other maps you need Halo Reach. In reality, even if they had remade it, it cannot compare to playing it on pc or LAN.