Halo 4, Official news from Bungie

[KenzS]

I know there are tonnes of posts about Halo 4 out there, i just wanted to answer some of the rumors that are going around. I found this information on videogamesblogger.


October 8th 2007: Halo movie director, Neill Blomkamp, confirmed that the Halo "film is entirely dead," but consoled fans of the series by mentioning that "Well, we are already at work on another Halo game, I wouldn't call it "Halo 4", but it is based in the Halo Universe and represents a collaboration between Bungie and Peter Jackson. Halo 3 was definitely not the last Bungie Halo game."


So i guess the bad news is it looks like the epic Halo movie won't be happening, rest assured once these new Halo games are released maybe Twentieth Century Fox will come to their senses and start funding Peter Jacksons projects.

EDIT: I have done some more research due to the comments below, and I have found out that Peter Jackson is creating a series of video games called "Halo: Chronicles". The games are said to be like an "interactive movie". This was confirmed by Microsoft on April 24th, 2008.

 

[shatnershaman]

Isn't it called Halo Chronicles? (Peter Jackson project)

 

[knumpify]

nope, now it's been dubbed halo wars

 

[Dominator1989]

nope, now it's been dubbed halo wars

No it isnt. Halo Wars is an rts made by some other company...
They havent announced anything official to do with this rumoured game... Yet...

 

[Kehan Wann]

of course not many people know about halo wars because it was pulled from microsoft's presentation at E3 because of bungie's recent seperation from microsoft.

 

[Dominator1989]

of course not many people know about halo wars because it was pulled from microsoft's presentation at E3 because of bungie's recent seperation from microsoft.

So what if they pulled it from E3. They've had trailers and gameplay demos for like 6 months now on XBOX live.

 

[shatnershaman]

nope, now it's been dubbed halo wars

Halo Chronicles is being made my Peter Jackson and his team.
Halo Wars is being made by ensemble.
Bungie is working on an unknown Halo project.

 

[Lord Krunk]

Can we lock this thread? I mean, how many ABSOLUTELY NOT GOING TO BE MADE OR I'LL KILL SOMEBODY Halo 4 threads have been made already?

 

[Alias_Raz0r]

Your kidding me
Yet another Halo game?
When will it end!

 

[Haliwali]

Can we lock this thread? I mean, how many ABSOLUTELY NOT GOING TO BE MADE OR I'LL KILL SOMEBODY Halo 4 threads have been made already?

Honestly Krunk... shut up.
Halo 3's end left plenty of room for speculation, and Bungie will probably capitilize on that.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Just to be perfectly clear;

Halo: Chronicles will be the inaugural title for Peter Jackson's new game studio Wingnut Interactive. No one has any sort of idea what genre the game is, save it's an "interactive drama". (Whatever that means.) Bungie is lending some assistance with storyline stuff, but beyond that isn't involved in any manner I know of.

Halo Wars is being produced by Ensemble Studios. Again, Bungie lent assistance with the storyline and continuity, but beyond that is not involved in the game.

Recent comments by MGS dude Don Mattrick suggest that Bungie itself is working on another Halo-related project, but beyond that we have nothing linking the famously-cancelled E3 announcement (and that "Superintendant" logo) with Halo. It's possible, but I'd like to see some solid ties before saying "yes" or "no" to the idea of another Halo game by Bungie.

Bungie is known to be working on additional DLC for Halo 3, including one map known to be nicknamed "Purple Reign".

There were comments made by (I believe) Alan Tudyk at ComicCon (I think) about doing more Halo-related voice work with Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin, but that hasn't been confirmed or tied to any particular product... it could be a new Halo game, but it could also be (for instance) a short film such as the bonus "Day at the Beach" vignette included in the Halo 2 Map Pack DVD.

That's all I got... it's all distilled from watching the news closely and reading up in the Halo fan community. If anybody has anything more that's concrete, and not rumour or speculation, I'd be glad to read/hear it.

-- Steve

 

[DraftPickle]

Alias_Raz0rYour "kidding me
Yet another Halo game?
When will it end!"

One word 'Zelda'

 

[Torment40]

Why can't they let Halo die? The first one was brilliant and the second one was even better with it's revolutionary multiplayer but the third one showed that they have no more tricks up their sleeve as it turned out to simply be halo 2 but with a poorer storyline and bloom up the ass

 

[shaboinkin]

halo 4 on wii/ds

lawl

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Why can't they let Halo die? The first one was brilliant and the second one was even better with it's revolutionary multiplayer but the third one showed that they have no more tricks up their sleeve as it turned out to simply be halo 2 but with a poorer storyline and bloom up the ass

And a level editor, and four-player online co-op play, and a "metagame" to add more replay value, and a better "skulls" system... not to mention the (amazing, IMO) hidden story that plays out in the terminals.

I've played Halo games for five years now, and Halo 3 is rapidly closing in on the "version most played" mark. Your milage may vary, of course.

-- Steve

 

[Torment40]

And a level editor, and four-player online co-op play, and a "metagame" to add more replay value, and a better "skulls" system... not to mention the (amazing, IMO) hidden story that plays out in the terminals.

I've played Halo games for five years now, and Halo 3 is rapidly closing in on the "version most played" mark. Your milage may vary, of course.

-- Steve

A level editor that is utterly worthless until they finally released Foundry I think it was and even that cost money and STILL all you can do is dump crates everywhere and build 'makeshift' race tracks. Co-op that was present anyway in all the others except not online and the only new feature of note. As to the metagame, if I get bored playing a game I don't then play it again with a few pointless optiosn turned on. What amuses me most is the laughable online multiplayer which is nothing more than an 'OMFG I wanted the sword dewd give it to me' *Teamkill* 'Hey I wanted the Rocket Launcher dewd' *teamkill* etc etc. IMO Halo 3 had nothing on Team Fortress 2 and I much preferred Vampire Rain to Halo 3 in terms of Campaign mode but then again I'm one of few people who actually didn't base my judgement of it on what the retards at IGN and Gamespot said

 

[IShade]

Oh God, another Halo game...

 

[Anton P. Nym]

I much preferred Vampire Rain to Halo 3 in terms of Campaign mode

Taking that into account, I can now correctly file your opinion in the appropriate folder; it's labeled "troll manure", if you wish to know.

-- Steve

 

[HomeAliveIn45]

It can't be Halo 4 (I know you said it wasn't) because the original was a trilogy.