Halo 3-tråden

The flexible approach is about to become very important, because Bungie is looking to expand. The studio, currently standing at just over 100-strong including contractors, has just completed its biggest hiring year ever and intends to keep growing fast, partly to sate 360’s tremendous hunger for assets. Partly, but not entirely. With likely less than a year of Halo 3 development left, and the end of this monumental trilogy (though not necessarily of Bungie Halo games – Ryan at one point refers to “the next Halo game” and says it will likely be a shooter) in sight, the germination of new, original projects is already underway. Bungie is about to undergo its biggest change yet, bigger even perhaps than the Microsoft ‘merger’ (as Greisemer insists on calling it): the move beyond being a single-project, single-IP studio.

Bungie staff won’t talk specifics about the game, but it’s not difficult to goad them into generalised gushing. Greisemer says “it feels more crafted” and hints at some radical new ideas, while O’Connor reckons the strength of Halo 3’s singleplayer will be in its sheer scale. “Even now, you can go into the most primitive, poorly-polished encounter in any of the levels that are actually populated, and it feels better than the way you remember how awesome Halo was. On that first level there’s a moment when you’re in combat in an epic encounter, and also you can see over a ridge to another epic combat waiting for you to arrive at it. You can do something more amazing over there that you can see being set up for your arrival.” Adds Greisemer: “In Halo, there was a lot of smoke and mirrors to make it feel better, but it was not epic combat, really. Now when you play Halo 3, it is.”.

But it shouldn’t be confused with a lack of self-confidence, or bowing to public opinion. Bungie is a viciously self-critical organisation. “The pressure doesn’t come from beating Halo 2 or Halo, it’s all internal,” says the placid, even-tempered Jarrard. “We challenge ourselves to keep pushing further and further – nothing’s ever good enough for us.”

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common complaints we saw were that the graphics didn’t look finished. The graphics that we said were unfinished.

Perhaps the most significant announcement was regarding the upcoming Halo ongoing series. The book is still slated for Summer 2007. Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev will be handling the writing and artwork respectively. The two creators are best known for their Eisner Award-winning run on Daredevil. No art was shown. You can be sure that IGN will have the latest on this hot series as soon as possible.

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