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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.

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  • 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.
  • dave21
    That depends on what you consider the "gaming population" Kerwin. If you consider the casual gaming population I think it is probably less than one percent that think Halo sucks. However, if you consider the "gaming population" to be that of the hardcore gamers and so called "connoisseurs" of the industry if you will, I believe you will find a decent number of people who consider the franchise to be overratted.

    To actually say something relating to the article, I'm skeptical. If I remember correctly, Bungie declared themselves "done" with the franchise after the third game was released. Then they announced not one but TWO more games. The guys at Bungie are a creative bunch who have shown themselves capable of adding something fresh and exciting to each installlment. I think that it is only a matter of time before they inadvertently accumulate new ideas for the franchise and decide to make another game. There have been so many games, movies, albums, and books which have been intended to be the "last" by their creators. The creators of such mediums however are artists who are naturally creative entities and will always continue to have new ideas about things that are a large part of who they are.
  • Lightbulb830
    Bungie is done making Halo. 343 will go on and make alot more.
  • If you say "Halo sucks," you represent 1% of the gaming population. Nothing else comes close, seriously.
  • Name
    Halo sucks.
  • Name
    Are you serious? Really?

    Halo 1 represented nothing new except vehicle combat, and that only by the dint of being released a couple months before Battlefield 1942, C&C Renegade (yes it sucked, but it had vehicles) and several other games that were all under development at the same time as Halo. The levels were repetitive cut/paste borefests, and the multipayer wasn't anything that you couldn't have gotten from Unreal Tournament years before.

    Halo 2 was much the same, new Gfx, a couple new items, but nothing truly new.

    Halo 3, more of the same.

    Halo is ok, it's AI was good and the vehicle stuff was smooth, but it didn't overturn the genre and certainly never came close to Unreal Tournament for example in terms of amazing gameplay.
  • 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.
  • Kodiak
    Try playing games other than Halo and you'll see the gaming population to be much bigger, and the games much better.
  • Sam
    Halo Sucks. Microsoft fucked up a perfectly good idea from Bungie and turned it in to a shitastic series.
  • namenameasdf
    Yeah Halo isn't that awesome. They squandered so many options that could have to make it a better game. Its a horrible rail shooter that is only fun to play with friends in coop.
  • punzada
    I don't think you know what the term 'rail shooter' means.
  • Charlie Lesoine
    It's true. Halo sucks. Marathon FTW.
  • Sam
    Durandal FTW
  • geebus12
    Halo was awesome. Its multiplayer options and feel is still unmatched. COD is a completely different beast and comparing the two is pointless. Hope they go back to MYTH.
  • Chmod
    Halo CE is, without doubt, the best FPS engine ever developed. Thousands still play daily. "Chmod" rules.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • will
    i have played halo online and it gets so fuckin repetitive. shoot, then see who melees first, thats all it is
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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.
  • 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.
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