The first thing you will do when you turn on Reach will be...

Mutliplayer beta =p

Then Campaign, character customization, Forge, them MM.

 

first thing im doing is checking the achievements then going straight into the campaign

 

1. Figure out the best way to take out a Falcon easily.
2. MATCHMAKINGOMNOMONOMOPNOMONOMMONONMONONOMONOMOMNOM

When I get the actual game:
1. Notifications: off
2. Appear offline
3. The beautiful and alien and huge campaign.

 

2nd that my friend

 

100% positive I'll start by playing the campaign on Heroic or Legendary, just to continue my years-old tradition going back to the release of Halo: Combat Evolved in November 2001.

Then I'll play through the campaign and glitch out of as many maps as I can.

 

I would go straight to Forge, to get familiar with the controls, new weapons, vehicles, and maps. Then, I'd get a guest in, to check out the new physics of shields and deaths. Then, I'd probably fix my armor and go for Campaign.

 

Forge Preview
Look Offline
Few levels of Campaign
Matchmaking
Forge
Theater
Forge
Campaign
Forge

 

7 Steps to Dominating Halo: Reach

1. Look at achievements
2. Run through legendary co-op campaign with my buddies. (probaly beat it that night)
3. Go back in on normal and get any hidden "collectibles" skulls, audio logs, etc.
4. Check appearances and see what I can do.
5. Go to custom games and run around all the maps to get used to them, ya know learn some jumps and weapon spawns.
6. Go tear up some multiplayer.
7. Forge

 

I'd follow the tradition I do with all games, play the entire campaign before anything else.
After that I'd probably fire up forge to see what I can do and to test if interlocking/geomerging/ghostmerging still work.

 

Campaign on heroic, solo play. Multiplayer for ever. Legendary run with a couple mates.

Play Call of Duty. Get camped by M16's + 87's or Ranger Akimbos. Witness infinite care packages raining from the sky, negative exp, and children running a 3x speed.

Eject game and swap for Reach.

Return to campaign on normal for remaining collectibles.

 

Well all of that except the camping, m16, and rangers have been patched so...

 

Matchmaking, as said before, because of the beta

Campaign!!!!!

 

As I always do, I'll start up with some campaign to get the controls down and have a look at the environments. Depending on how long the campaign is I'll either finish it then or go into to matchmaking or have a look at forge.

 

Play the campaign, durrrrrr idiotic questions.

 

I always play through the campaign before I touch the multiplayer. Can't risk having someone spoil it for me.

 

Even tough I'm not much of a Forger, the first thing I will do is start up Forge to see what new and at which case I'll probably be so happy that I'll go into a coma/happy seizure for a bit. After I recovered from the ordeal I'll instantly pick up a few friends online and play the Campaign until I finish or it gets so epic that I have another happy seizure from the awesomeness that will most likely happen when playing Reach.

 

Go on matchmaking and get a tactical nuke or just play the campaign

 

I'll probably check out the customization, then start up Campaign (on Normal or Heroic) for the first two or three levels, check out Forge and then play some MP.

 

First thing I'll do is see the appearances, then play campaign, then check out forge after beating campaign, then once I'm done with forge I'll play multiplayer.

 

I would check out firefight first.