XboxOZ360 gathers all they know about the secretive title in a hope to find out more, writing:
"The rumours have been flying over the last week about a new Halo being unveiled at E3. And since Halo Wars is already confirmed to appear; Bungie appears committed to their new "Superintendent" IP being unveiled next week; and a Halo 4 FPS just doesn't make much commercial sense when Halo 3 is still going strong, Bungie is busy and Gears 2 wants the limelight this year; our safe bet is on Peter Jackson's Halo: Chronicles.
Whilst we don't know much we do know that it has had the collective resources of Bungie, Microsoft (now with former Bungie writing guru Frank O'Connor), Peter Jackson's Oscar Winning Weta and the more recently formed WingNut Interactive games studio, for more than two years and has seen a significant ramp up in production over the last six months courtesy of some very public job advertisements.
Halo: Chronicles will not be a traditional game, rather it will be an "interactive experience/story" where a player makes emotional, moral and action-based decisions that affect the cinematic direction of what is otherwise a film.
Having done as much scouring as possible and tapping all the leaks (sorry) I could find, along with some educated guesses based on my long held interest in film and games (see my bio), this is what I've come up with…"
Expose after the jump.
Original Destiny artist Darren Bacon recalls how Bungie reacted to the art style change of Halo 4 by 343 Industries.
Bungie at that time became the most wonderful bunch of hypocrites in the gaming industry. Knowing this now, gosh the entitlement they felt was out of this world.
Nothing like buying yourself from Microsoft because you don't want to be the Halo Studio anymore, and the FIRST THING you do is sign your next IP over to Activision, for a DECADE, while they are in the middle of ousting the heads of Infinity Ward so they can exert even more control over COD while screwing out the devs at IW...
Should've come as no surprise then that Activision gutted the content of Destiny 1 before launch and was a horrible partner through Destiny 2, until history repeated itself and Bungie had to split from Activision only to wind up in the arms of another major conglomerate that also doesn't know how to handle these unmanageable devs.
Tti their credit they praised the technical abilities of 343 and I remember at the time thinking halo 4 was a huge graphical leap above reach everything else was rubbish when I actually got to play it but there was no doubt it looked good for the 360 and is probably the best looking game on the system.
But ultimately I think bungie has always had a leadership problem and going independent ultimately proved this it's only getting worse with studio heads being outed by Sony for abuse allegations seems like all bungies past success has been in spite of management not because of it.
But really I think the bungie we have today is not the same one we had in that Xbox era of Bungie
I liked the artstyle change. For the most part. Something looked worse but most of everything else looked better. Weapons and vehicles for sure. The wraith come to my mind instantly.
And how can they get mad when the bungie changed it with Halo Reach?
I know a lot of people dislike Halo 4’s arts style, but there’s thing about it I like and dislike. Personally, the Halo 4 design of Master Chief’s armour is my favourite depiction of the character’s armour.
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A new Halo 3 mod turns the iconic Master Chief into a Pokémon % Master as functional Pokeballs come to the game.
That is very impressive to skip the article here is the direct link to the video
https://x.com/GashnorOffici...
Full animiation then a code change to make the target that comes out of the ball to be in the same class unsc not a easy thing to do.
All I know is if the author is right and it's as action packed as Lord of the Rings, as polished as MGS4 and then let's me truly "direct" the picture then I'll be very interested... if not sold.
Although I have a sneaking suspicion about how the site's that hammered MGS4 for the cut scenes, will react to this? lol
i think i would by it in an instant, but if is just a "interactive movie" the game might be getting a lot of trade ins.. especially if its a $100 game.
yeah, just give Aussies the Video Marketplace already! lol
So is this Peter Jacksons response to the Halo movie not being made?
This concept is something I would never have expected, fan reaction will be interesting. I guess we will find out at E3 if this hypothesis is correct. Interesting idea though.
Bubbles for you!
It makes sense Jackson is targeting Live, and he'll have Bungie/Microsoft's support on the project, but if like you said, if it's anywhere as Epic as LOTR was then we are in for a great surprise! :D