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Bungie finishes work on Halo 2, may develop new IP next
Rob Fahey 09:56 04/10/2004
Final milestone for Xbox' biggest title; but Halo 3 isn't on the menu yet,
it seems
Microsoft-owned developer Bungie has finished work on the hugely anticipated
Xbox exclusive first-person shooter Halo 2, according to the latest weekly
update from the team, with the game on track for a November 9th launch.
"It's finished and shipped to a nebulous region known as RTC (Release to
Certification)," according to the update, "where it will be dumped from
eight digital tapes onto a DVD and go through some final testing."
Bungie will shortly be discontinuing its weekly updates, since development
on the game is now all but completed; while the title is not officially
"gold" as yet, with some quality assurance work still to be completed, the
actual development process is largely wrapped up.
This leaves the game right on track ("barring any unexpected shenanigans,"
as the update puts it) for its launch on November 9th in the USA, and
10th/11th in Europe - putting the game a couple of weeks ahead of Half-Life
2, if dates revealed to UK retailers by Vivendi Universal Games last week
hold true.
Bungie started work on Halo 2 almost directly after finishing Halo, but with
the company now considering its future plans, it would appear that Halo 3
isn't on the menu just yet - with plans to develop "something different"
next.
"After Halo 2 we are planning to do something different," Bungie studio
manager Pete Parsons told the BBC recently. "We will do something else and
we have a few ideas."
This will, of course, raise speculation that Bungie may not be planning to
do a Halo title as an Xbox 2 launch title, as had been widely expected,
since for a new Halo game to be ready for the launch of Microsoft's next
console - expected in late 2005 - work would have to begin right away.
It seems unlikely that the console would launch without some kind of
offering from Bungie, which is the jewel in Microsoft's internal development
crown. Rather than Halo 3, then, the firm may be hoping to create a new
franchise of similar value on Xbox 2, just as it did with Halo at the launch
of Xbox.
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that's fine but please give us beefy Xbox 2 versions of Halo and Halo2, if
there is no Halo3 or if Halo3 isn't coming out til 2007 or later.
http://gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=4720
Bungie finishes work on Halo 2, may develop new IP next
Rob Fahey 09:56 04/10/2004
Final milestone for Xbox' biggest title; but Halo 3 isn't on the menu yet,
it seems
Microsoft-owned developer Bungie has finished work on the hugely anticipated
Xbox exclusive first-person shooter Halo 2, according to the latest weekly
update from the team, with the game on track for a November 9th launch.
"It's finished and shipped to a nebulous region known as RTC (Release to
Certification)," according to the update, "where it will be dumped from
eight digital tapes onto a DVD and go through some final testing."
Bungie will shortly be discontinuing its weekly updates, since development
on the game is now all but completed; while the title is not officially
"gold" as yet, with some quality assurance work still to be completed, the
actual development process is largely wrapped up.
This leaves the game right on track ("barring any unexpected shenanigans,"
as the update puts it) for its launch on November 9th in the USA, and
10th/11th in Europe - putting the game a couple of weeks ahead of Half-Life
2, if dates revealed to UK retailers by Vivendi Universal Games last week
hold true.
Bungie started work on Halo 2 almost directly after finishing Halo, but with
the company now considering its future plans, it would appear that Halo 3
isn't on the menu just yet - with plans to develop "something different"
next.
"After Halo 2 we are planning to do something different," Bungie studio
manager Pete Parsons told the BBC recently. "We will do something else and
we have a few ideas."
This will, of course, raise speculation that Bungie may not be planning to
do a Halo title as an Xbox 2 launch title, as had been widely expected,
since for a new Halo game to be ready for the launch of Microsoft's next
console - expected in late 2005 - work would have to begin right away.
It seems unlikely that the console would launch without some kind of
offering from Bungie, which is the jewel in Microsoft's internal development
crown. Rather than Halo 3, then, the firm may be hoping to create a new
franchise of similar value on Xbox 2, just as it did with Halo at the launch
of Xbox.
_____________________________________________________________________
that's fine but please give us beefy Xbox 2 versions of Halo and Halo2, if
there is no Halo3 or if Halo3 isn't coming out til 2007 or later.
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