Big news for Halo fans!

ebagg

http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?link=bungieatx06

Damn that's kerrrrazy! I wonder how well Peter Jackson's company will pan out, as for a Halo RTS...that'll be interesting!

Nilium

Given Bungie and Ensemble's past experience making strategy games, I think it'll work out fine. Should be interesting at the least.

ebagg

Halo Wars already has a damn nice looking CG intro:

http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/857/857436/vids_1.html

Lee3dee

Blur CG openings just keep getting better and better! Halo RTS on xb360 looks good from the mockup topdown wallpaper.

Anyone played Lord of the rings RTS on xb360? was that good with a controller?

Mark Dygert

What's even bigger news is that Halo still has fans.

--ZING-->>

Hedhunta

no pc version makes me cry.. oh well i still got AOE3

DH_

Yea, blur did the opening for us.

I'm not on the halo wars project but i've played it, and the controller is a non-issue.

CheapAlert

Yeah, I can imagine.

Peter Jackson(tm) presents Peter Jackson's(tm) Halo (tm) 3(tm) for Windows (tm)

Rick Stirling

It's hardly a big surprise folks, what with the shutting down of the Halo RTS mod (which I had no problem with, IP needs protecting).

With Emsemble on board this should be cracking.

PfhorRunner

Ugh, my only beef about the video is that for me at least, the sound was off by a good 15 seconds...

Though it looks interesting.
For me, Halo isn't a love or hate thing. I mean, its a game. I play it on occasion, and I dont see why it wouldn't have fans that like the game. I mean, you can really make almost anything (within bounds) and someone will like it.

monster

http://www.halowars.com/

This my next project after Age of Empires 3. Of course I'm an an animator for it. It's a blast to play so far. We all race down to get a spot when they call a playtest. I guess i'm lucky I'm a Halo fan.

Blur did a great job on the video. I think it will be in HD on the X-box Live Marketplace. Blur actually used the high poly versions of our vehicle models (the ones we use for normal maps). They just textured and added some details.

And one of our concept artists made some pimp wallpapers for the Halo Wars website:

Thegodzero

Go monster, go monster! Get your halo freak on! Blur for the win!

rooster

hot damn that vid was sweet.. halo was originally pitched as an rts wasnt it?

Joseph Silverman

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Yeah, Myth Style.

This definitely has my interest.

hawken

I must admit, that AvP game looks awesome!

no aliens in the video though, maybe they'll put them in later.

almighty_gir

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I must admit, that AvP game looks awesome!

no aliens in the video though, maybe they'll put them in later.

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word o/

Jeff Parrott

I'm kinda bummed DH won't be making any vag-faced aliens. Maybe he can sneek one in. Congrats to Monster and all the other PCers working on it. Sounds like a sweet game. I can already say it's going to be the best selling RTS ever.

Luxury

Aliens game? wtf dude. It's clearly the Starship Troopers RTS.

Mark Dygert

After checking out the video and knowing it is coming from a quality studio I'll put my thumb over the word Halo I think I could grow to like this.

Moz

since I actually happen to know a few this about the advanced landwarrior program I can't take halo so called "OMFG FUTURISC SERIOUS" seriously when the tanks move like glaciers!

Without that, it's just another shooter without anything unique about it. I never found it fun; found it too spartan! (hehehe)

Striff

Another great cinematic from Blur...although it is a bit anti-climatic.

Robert Headley

What makes Halo good is the total package.

Music (definitely)
Art Quality
Gameplay that doesn't make you throw your controller
and good story and voice acting (racial stereotypes aside)

BoBo_the_seal

This is going to kick ass. High on my games to look forward to list!

- BoBo

Zwebbie

It's rather lame MS closed the mod for this, though. Seriously, could a mod pose a 'threat' to a real game (a Halo game, people will be drooling over this now matter if it would be bad - not saying it will be, mind you)? And even so, couldn't they have done so sooner? I'd expect the project to be underway for a while now, if an intro movie has already been finished.

Anyway, good luck to any Polycounters working on it. Never been much of a Halo fan, but this might be interesting. Just remember not to change a thing to the Halo universe, or you'll have thousands of angry fans howling for your blood :P

Lee3dee

link to the mod ComradeJ is speaking of
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/13/ms-shuts-down-halogen-mod-why-now/

Halogen mod looked pretty sweet from that video!

Spark

Just wanted to chime in and say that I'm also excited about this:) I plan on stopping by Monster's desk and check out what he is doing daily:) I am also not on the project, but even in it's early state..it's a blast to play.

Spark