Developer Bungie and the Halo franchise are set to go their separate ways once Halo Reach is released later this year. It's inevitable, therefore, that it's about the biggest title on Microsoft's release roster for 2010, and that the firm will be looking for the kind of numbers that Halo 3 attained on its release.

The game's not due out until the autumn, so we won't be finding that out for sure just yet. But the teasing has well and truly begun, with this new collection of screenshots just release to whet your appetite. Click on any of them to make them bigger...