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[Halo 2] 'The Next Halo' Is Being Worked On!

[archon]

I think it's gonna come down to two things: whether or not Bungie REALLY REALLY doesn't want to do another Halo versus Microsoft's demand for a new one. Considering that Bungie probably isn't that conflicted about making a new Halo, I'd say it's safe to bet that Halo 3/"The Next Halo"/whatever you want to call it will come out sometime.

[Astald]

Hopefully they let us play a Grunt this time. That would be fun.

[Ranger D]

Well of course they are going to work on a third Halo game. Bungie has over 500 years of history made up in the Halo-verse, and it's the only franchise driving xbox and especially xbox live sales, so it's not a matter of "if". The question is when. Will they wait 3 years leaving us an empty husk of a game with a cliffhanger worse than most daytime soaps? Probably. I've read on unficiton and other places that the next game Bungie is working on is NOT Halo related. I think it was code named "Pheonix" or something like that.

I would of course love to be wrong and [SPEC] hope to see Halo 3 (or whatever they'll call it) as a launch title for the Xbox 2.[/SPEC]

[Fenwicked]

Well, as anyone who's followed the videogame industry for any amount of time can tell you, a code name doesn't necessarily translate directly to a title. The Gamecube was named "Project Dolphin" for years. And XboxNext may very well not be the name of Microsoft's next console. "Phoenix" might in fact be a project name for the next Halo game. Perhaps in it we'll see the rebirth of the Forerunners?

[FauxHammer]

i wonder if halo 3 is going to be a FPS. Wouldn't it be interesting if it was something else?

[thunderclap8]

wasn't Halo 1 originally going to be an RTS game? Some different genres could be really interesting.

I can see it now... PuzzleHalo... fill in the ring with blocks before it kills us all!

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[archon]

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[Centipede]

Spec:

The current most likely name for the new X-Box is X-BoxNext. Could this mean that the next Halo will be for X-BoxNext?

Just my guess.

[Daddy]

The latest EGM has an interview with Bungie which confirms that Phoenix is dead and that the next Bungie title will NOT be a Halo game.. They did mention that they could possibly work on two titles simultaneously though...

It's actually a pretty decent read--they talk about the cliffhanger ending and other things like what we may or may not see added to Halo 2 via download.

[DM]

There's so many coliding comments on what the next game is going to be it's crazy... I don't know WHAT to believe.

As for what the next XBOX is going to be called, the name of the program running on it is called "Dolphin" apparently...

[GWing_02]

Yes, Halo was originally a kind of spinoff of Myth, an RTS game. Whereas Myth was a fantasy game, Halo was to be a futuristic RTS game. They even had early demos where little marines ran around at your command.

Phoenix never really got off the ground, but Bungie says that's what they're working on next. Everything Bungie's made so far is great, so I'm not really that put off that they're not working on Halo 3 next. In fact, maybe it's time for gamers to take a break from Halo and let the platform and genre advance a little before getting another Halo.

[DreamOfTheRood]