Halo's Forge World

adam · Jul 2010

This is my last post before heading out to England to see what all the hoopla is over for old bricks and guys with funny hats. With that, I thought I'd make it a fun one: Halo Reach's Forge World. And my friends, it looks great. And I'm not even a Halo player.

Forge World

As an environment artist myself, I absolutely love the idea that a linear shooter is shipping with a streamlined, fixed up and fancy sandbox editor. Halo: Reach: 'The Forge World' will allow users to create their own game modes, levels, art pass and pretty well anything they want. The kicker? Well, there's two. The scale is HUGE, and this time around Bungie's learned from their fans and made habits from the last editor features in the new one - I absolutely love that.

I like it when developers ship their game with an editor.

I love it when developers ship their game with an editor that is streamlined, fun and easy to use.

This editor looks to be just that. When any videogame allows the player to do something else within the game that is NOT the intended main experience (like completing a multi-hour campaign) than that is just a great thing.

After watching this video, I think you'll agree that beyond the typical single-player and multiplayer experience, there is a metric shit-ton of fun to be had with Halo Reach's Forge World.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCcmrL29WII

See you guys in a couple of weeks!

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Will Faucher · Jul 2010

Oh wow. Is this engine going to be available for the PC? I thought Reach was console only? WANT MOAR INFO! =D

ZacD · Jul 2010

Its 360 only.

r_fletch_r · Jul 2010

Awesome, Makes me shed a tear that MS made this stuff 360 exclusive.

ZacD · Jul 2010

Hopefully bungie goes back to it's PC roots :P

nordahl154 · Jul 2010

/cumbuckets

Will Faucher · Jul 2010

I find it interesting that they implemented a full game engine... on a console. This should be interesting....

Autocon · Jul 2010

Clearly someone never tried Forge in Halo 3. This is like that but 10times bigger with a lot better options for customizing. Its a ton of fun to litterly make whatever you want. And its just so massive, its really hard to tell how big Forge World is until you play.

DOG-GY · Jul 2010

It's not a full game engine. It's a damn amazing map editor, but hardly an engine. And don't expect it to be on the PC. They've said before they have no plans to port any more Halo games to the PC.

Visceral · Jul 2010

Errhm i dont really get why you are getting your panties so wet over this? Its just a consoleized mapeditor?

NO CUSTOM ANYTHING?!

DOG-GY · Jul 2010

Forge had a great following in Halo 3. I don't know if you played it, but there were some amazing works created with it. Race variants, Griffball, etc. With Reach's Forge now we'll have the ability to really put our skills into make even greater works with a higher level of quality, and ease. I'm expecting something nobody saw coming (Like the surprise that Forge art was) and tons of new gametypes as well as cool classic maps and unique designs.

I sound like I'm trying to sell the game. I'm just excited.