| Soriku said: This is a pretty lol-worthy rumor. Gearbox and not Bungie? For next Xbox? Yeah...sounds false to me. |
I actually put A LOT of stock in this one. They have had something big under wraps for a little over a year now that all of their employees are super excited about. Whenever I bother them about it they love to rub it in my face they can't tell. :-p
But just thinking about it:
- Highly respected FPS developer
- Very good at emotion and story telling in FPS genre
- Has worked on Halo games before
- Another Halo game is already in the Dallas area
It sounds pretty plausible. Also, even though this is something they've had under wraps for a while I don't think that means they've been in heavy development yet or even had the project green lit. I bet it's a very small group of people working on it and just waiting for BiA:HH to get completely finished and shipped before they get an entire team on it.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's little more than a few blockouts, very placeholder art, and a concept at the moment.
And really, who else would they get to work on this?
- Some relatively unknown studio? I doubt it with a game this big.
- Valve? Not likely, Valve has their own shit to do and they would want to release the game over Steam.
- Infinity Ward? They're too busy working on Call of Duty 6.
- Epic? They're too busy working on UE4, Gears 2, Gears 3, and whatever their unannounced game that isn't Halo is.
