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Reach To Be Bungie’s Final Halo Title

By Kemuel Stewart ⋅ July 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment\

haloreach 01 Reach To Be Bungies Final Halo Title

With its release back in 2001, Halo: Combat Evolved marked the franchise’s debut on the original Xbox. Basically, changing first person shooters. However, for more then 7 years, Bungie, its developers, have been working on building the franchise – releasing the second and third installments of the game . But, now, it seems that the developer is ready to move on.

“After Reach that’s it for us,” Bungie’s Lars Bakken told IGN. “We’re already working on a new IP that we can’t talk about yet, I don’t know when we’ll be talking about it – when we’re ready I suppose.”

Bakken was cryptic as to the nature of Bungie’s next game stating to IGN that, “If you look at Bungie’s past we’ve done a lot of different styles – first person to third person to RTS – so it could be anything.”

As you may already know, Halo 3: ODST, the next Halo title to release, is due out this September, while Halo: Reach – which goes back to the origins of the Halo story – is expected next autumn. Future Halo games will be overseen by the recently revealed 343 Industries, which is headed up by former Bungie employee Frank O’Connor.

September 5, 2009 -- PAX 09: Bungie Not Ready To Talk About Reach
June 29, 2009 -- ODST Features An Open World, Natal Considered For “Reach”
October 8, 2009 -- Halo Series Continuing Into The Next Decade
September 8, 2009 -- PAX 09: Firefight Could Be Added To Reach “If People Love It”
July 7, 2009 -- Three New Multiplayer Maps For Halo 3: ODST
October 9, 2008 -- TGS 08: Halo 3: Recon Is A Stand-Alone Expansion
August 25, 2010 -- The Day Before The Invasion of Reach
April 21, 2010 -- Halo 3 Games on Demand “May” Have Longer Load Times
September 15, 2009 -- TGS 09: Microsoft Reveals “Epic” TGS Line-Up
July 30, 2009 -- Gearbox Isn’t Doing The Next Halo Project

Discussion

90 comments for “Reach To Be Bungie’s Final Halo Title”

Chmod
Halo CE is, without doubt, the best FPS engine ever developed. Thousands still play daily. “Chmod” rules.
Sam
Halo Sucks. Microsoft fucked up a perfectly good idea from Bungie and turned it in to a shitastic series.
Sam
Durandal FTW
Klepto
One question for all of you saying Halo sucks. If Halo sucks, then how come, nearly 2 years after its release, you can still sign into multiplayer and regularly find more than 250,000 people online and playing? Why is it one of the most popular games on the MLG circuits? Millions of dollars in MLG prizes, contracts, and endorsements every year, and Halo is basically the game that got it all started.
I wouldn't go so far as to think or say that that Halo franchise is the best there is….but it's a long way away from sucking.
Klepto
One question for all of you saying Halo sucks. If Halo sucks, then how come, nearly 2 years after its release, you can still sign into multiplayer and regularly find more than 250,000 people online and playing? Why is it one of the most popular games on the MLG circuits? Millions of dollars in MLG prizes, contracts, and endorsements every year, and Halo is basically the game that got it all started.
I wouldn't go so far as to think or say that that Halo franchise is the best there is….but it's a long way away from sucking.
mtera
People who say Halo is the best never played Tribes, which did everything Halo does and did it better years before the first Halo game was made.
mtera
People who say Halo is the best never played Tribes, which did everything Halo does and did it better years before the first Halo game was made.
Name
Really? Without a doubt, you say? You really haven't played many FPS's have you. That and well… the engine is nothing special by any means.
Lightbulb830
Bungie is done making Halo. 343 will go on and make alot more.
Coral
So the massive userbase of mods based on the Source engine (not to mention the previous Half Life 1 engine) doesn't matter?
Remember that games like Counter-Strike was a mod of the Half-Life engine.
So no, i would not consider Halo CE to be the best FPS engine ever developed.
grog
i'd rather play hello kitty island adventure
grog
i'd rather play hello kitty island adventure
sofaking1337
u guys need to piss off halo warped the gaming industry into what it is today…people play it because its fun, halo is the best game ever made. Its not real either, people like that it takes a solid 4 shots to kill som1 intead of 1 cuz then its just the first person to see the other…online is amazing and i doubt any of u have ever played it online or else u wouldn't be talking smack about it.
bynari
Someone get this kid a copy of Doom
T_the_Initial
Halo is the best game ever made? You have no idea what you are talking about. They messed up so much with the Halo series. It is a fun series to play but far from the best game ever made. they could sell a “Halo box: that played nothing but Halo and charge more than a regular Xbox 360, and stupid fanboys would still pay for it.
http://shiben.blogspot.com/ ORB
basically changing FPS… HAHAHAHA… is there ne place not plagued by fanboys,
get over it, it was a good game, but nothing revolutionary, thank you
Ian
None of you will ever win this argument. It is definitely in the top annals of video game history, especially in terms of first person shooters, and its success and fan base can basically be attributed to that. The game can be said as both revolutionary, and just another game.
The paragraph above is non-bias, although I love Halo and Bungie XD.
Klepto
One question for all of you saying Halo sucks. If Halo sucks, then how come, nearly 2 years after its release, you can still sign into multiplayer and regularly find more than 250,000 people online and playing? Why is it one of the most popular games on the MLG circuits? Millions of dollars in MLG prizes, contracts, and endorsements every year, and Halo is basically the game that got it all started.
I wouldn't go so far as to think or say that that Halo franchise is the best there is….but it's a long way away from sucking.
mtera
People who say Halo is the best never played Tribes, which did everything Halo does and did it better years before the first Halo game was made.
grog
i'd rather play hello kitty island adventure
TinoXtreme
It may have not overturn the genre from a PC point of view, but Halo was one of the first successful FPS console games to hit big. If it wasn't for Halo, I believe Xbox would of not have had the success it had in its early days, and when Halo 2 hit shelves, it made Xbox live overnight. Halo may not have been genre breaking, but it put console fps on the map for competitive play.
http://shiben.blogspot.com/ ORB
basically changing FPS… HAHAHAHA… is there ne place not plagued by fanboys,
get over it, it was a good game, but nothing revolutionary, thank you
http://shiben.blogspot.com/ ORB
basically changing FPS… HAHAHAHA… is there ne place not plagued by fanboys,
get over it, it was a good game, but nothing revolutionary, thank you
TinoXtreme
It may have not overturn the genre from a PC point of view, but Halo was one of the first successful FPS console games to hit big. If it wasn't for Halo, I believe Xbox would of not have had the success it had in its early days, and when Halo 2 hit shelves, it made Xbox live overnight. Halo may not have been genre breaking, but it put console fps on the map for competitive play.
TinoXtreme
It may have not overturn the genre from a PC point of view, but Halo was one of the first successful FPS console games to hit big. If it wasn't for Halo, I believe Xbox would of not have had the success it had in its early days, and when Halo 2 hit shelves, it made Xbox live overnight. Halo may not have been genre breaking, but it put console fps on the map for competitive play.
will
i have played halo online and it gets so fuckin repetitive. shoot, then see who melees first, thats all it is
will
i have played halo online and it gets so fuckin repetitive. shoot, then see who melees first, thats all it is
hdfg
My opinion: Halo is a great game. Very well made and is widely played for a reason. I personally choose Call of Duty 4 over it because I look for a certain level of realisticness in my games, and needing to unload over 1 full clip of assault rifle ammo into somebody's torso to kill them just doesn't make sense.
hdfg
My opinion: Halo is a great game. Very well made and is widely played for a reason. I personally choose Call of Duty 4 over it because I look for a certain level of realisticness in my games, and needing to unload over 1 full clip of assault rifle ammo into somebody's torso to kill them just doesn't make sense.
susan01
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Margaret
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susan01
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Margaret
http://businesseshome.net
licoifi
Halo Is a good game may get a little repetitive but it certainly is a game that i love the story line is great it may not be realistic but i don't really care.
licoifi
Halo Is a good game may get a little repetitive but it certainly is a game that i love the story line is great it may not be realistic but i don't really care.
killgeorgebushnow
Look, im not saying its the best game ever, but did you buy it? if not, piss off (now), if you did and you still rant about it, why dont you trade it in and leave the people who like it alone.
killgeorgebushnow
Look, im not saying its the best game ever, but did you buy it? if not, piss off (now), if you did and you still rant about it, why dont you trade it in and leave the people who like it alone.
Gerald
One question for all of you saying Halo sucks. If Halo sucks, then how come, nearly 2 years after its release, you can still sign into multiplayer and regularly find more than 250,000 people online and playing? Why is it one of the most popular games on the MLG circuits? Millions of dollars in MLG prizes, contracts, and endorsements every year, and Halo is basically the game that got it all started.
I wouldn't go so far as to think or say that that Halo franchise is the best there is….but it's a long way away from sucking.
Gerald
One question for all of you saying Halo sucks. If Halo sucks, then how come, nearly 2 years after its release, you can still sign into multiplayer and regularly find more than 250,000 people online and playing? Why is it one of the most popular games on the MLG circuits? Millions of dollars in MLG prizes, contracts, and endorsements every year, and Halo is basically the game that got it all started.
I wouldn't go so far as to think or say that that Halo franchise is the best there is….but it's a long way away from sucking.
Angelus
Halo sucks more than any game, too few details, too few story lines, repetitive, bad textures, bad models, bad game engine, bad idea. The only reason that it has survived is that 99% of console gamers are idiots and have no idea what a real game actually comprises of.
Here is some advice to you console fanboys who know nothing of what you preach (BTW, ive owned more than enough consoles including the x360, x1 and ps3 to know what is good and what is lazy/bad).
Get a PC, get some real games, play. I implore you, do the proper thing and get real!
Halo is a waste of space, bungie should have given up after the first one. I got bored in the first one (though i did complete it), halo 2 much the same (Didn't complete it as i couldn't believe such crap was even allowed passed testing) and ive not bothered with anything else but by the look of the trailers nothing at all has changed with any of the “games” since.
It is my sincere opinion that bungie knows that nobody that actualy plays real games plays halo. Halo is as bad as nfs shift btw, what pointless and badly made crap that was.
Angelus
Halo sucks more than any game, too few details, too few story lines, repetitive, bad textures, bad models, bad game engine, bad idea. The only reason that it has survived is that 99% of console gamers are idiots and have no idea what a real game actually comprises of.
Here is some advice to you console fanboys who know nothing of what you preach (BTW, ive owned more than enough consoles including the x360, x1 and ps3 to know what is good and what is lazy/bad).
Get a PC, get some real games, play. I implore you, do the proper thing and get real!
Halo is a waste of space, bungie should have given up after the first one. I got bored in the first one (though i did complete it), halo 2 much the same (Didn't complete it as i couldn't believe such crap was even allowed passed testing) and ive not bothered with anything else but by the look of the trailers nothing at all has changed with any of the “games” since.
It is my sincere opinion that bungie knows that nobody that actualy plays real games plays halo. Halo is as bad as nfs shift btw, what pointless and badly made crap that was.
You lose
Actually it did overturn the genre – the term halo-killer (as in app-killer) was coined as halo became the new pinnacle for first person shooters.

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