Bungie: Reach Will be Our Last Halo Trilogy Content
Halo has been quite the cash cow for Microsoft and Bungie, but even it must come to a (relative) end - according to Bungie, the upcoming prequel Halo: Reach will be the last title they develop for the "current Halo trilogy."
Speaking with VG247 [http://www.vg247.com/2009/08/21/bungie-halo-reach-will-be-our-last-injection-into-the-halo-trilogy/], Bungie's community manager Brian Jarrard said that Halo: Reach will be the last game the studio will develop about the Master Chief and humanity's war against the Covenant and Flood.
[blockquote]For now Reach is definitely our next big thing, and it doesn't really fit into the Halo trilogy itself. It's definitely a prequel, standalone offering, so we don't have current plans to go back and inject more content into the current Halo trilogy ... I think ODST is going to be a nice exclamation point, a nice rounding up of multiplayer content and a different side-story, but right now Reach is our focus.[/blockquote]
Of course, one has to note the phrase "current Halo trilogy," which seems like a sneaky get-out-of-jail-free card to me. What's to stop them from doing another game and calling it a sequel, eh?
Reach will come with a multiplayer beta when ODST ships September 22nd and is slated for a release in Fall 2010.
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Halo has been quite the cash cow for Microsoft and Bungie, but even it must come to a (relative) end - according to Bungie, the upcoming prequel Halo: Reach will be the last title they develop for the "current Halo trilogy."
Speaking with VG247 [http://www.vg247.com/2009/08/21/bungie-halo-reach-will-be-our-last-injection-into-the-halo-trilogy/], Bungie's community manager Brian Jarrard said that Halo: Reach will be the last game the studio will develop about the Master Chief and humanity's war against the Covenant and Flood.
[blockquote]For now Reach is definitely our next big thing, and it doesn't really fit into the Halo trilogy itself. It's definitely a prequel, standalone offering, so we don't have current plans to go back and inject more content into the current Halo trilogy ... I think ODST is going to be a nice exclamation point, a nice rounding up of multiplayer content and a different side-story, but right now Reach is our focus.[/blockquote]
Of course, one has to note the phrase "current Halo trilogy," which seems like a sneaky get-out-of-jail-free card to me. What's to stop them from doing another game and calling it a sequel, eh?
Reach will come with a multiplayer beta when ODST ships September 22nd and is slated for a release in Fall 2010.
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