Bungie's next Halo

So... everyone's been wondering. Will they do Halo 4? Should they do Halo 4?

Looking at last week's MLG replays from the Meadowlands I suddenly reazlied.... Halo 3 is big stuff. It's big enough for people to base professional careers upon. It can't just shrivel and die the way of Goldeneye or Max Payne, it's a franchise that needs to constantly reinvent itself.

So... with that being said. It looks like 1up.com has dug up rumors of a new Halo game for 2009.

"we've heard rumblings that the first one will be a Halo spin-off due in late 2009. Our spies tell us to expect a third-person action/adventure shooter hybrid that takes place before the original Halo, chronicling early skirmishes between the ODST troops and the Covenant."

The article also mentions that this may, or may not, be related to the Halo project that Peter Jackson and WETA Digital are working on. Also interesting is the Third Person Perspective, the original Halo:CE was designed to be more of a third person RTS game, interesting to see Bungie go back to it's original game plan, with Halo Wars and this Spin Off.

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In this Episode Mark and Jonpaul get Emily (of the Leaning Towersto sit in and discuss LOST and other nerd related musings.

We talk about the mystical martial art, Shaq Fu.

We Talk about Video Games, Clay Fighter, Halo.

We Discuss The "Body" in the wizard of Oz and the Ghost of Ted Danson in Three men in a little lady.

We also talk about the movie that was filmed in Jonpaul's house, which was stunningly bad.

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Bar-el for President

Huh, that's funny.



I was about to make the same comparison

Bioware is making a sonic the hedgehog game?

What the hell is going on here? Bioware, of Knights of the Old Republic, is going to take a turd and make it into a turd sandwich. Coming to your DS... soonish.

Bioware will make you love Sonic's shitty friends

Gameboy = Synth?

Korg Running on a Gameboy?

Looks cool, but you would have to import it from Japan.

Halo Wars = DOTA

Listening to last week's Bungie podcast, one of those guys said how much they love Warcraft DOTA and how they could make a billion dollars by having DOTA on a console...

Looks like the new Halo Wars game is going to resemble DOTA! Which would make sense, because there's never been a really successful Real Time Strategy game (like Command and Conquer or Starcraft) on a console, and part of that is due to the micromanagement of all units (grouping them correctly, having them attack in the correct order etc.)

Dota is much more based on a "Hero" type character, and a hack and slash army that backs him up. I could see this format working much better for an RTS console....