| Barozi said: @ twesterm I can't agree. |
- If it was good, why would they shut the studio down before finishing the product? There have even been many focus testers that have said it's just bad. Also, do I need to remind you that just because a game previews well a year before released doesn't mean it's good?
- Ensemble is a great studio, but even good studios can make bad games.
While I couldn't find a video of the 2007 walkthrough that still worked, I did read the impressions and all of them pretty much said it looked promising for how far along it was. That means they had basic gameplay working and told them what they planned to do. Between that point and now A LOT can change and things can go wrong.
I'm not going to pretend to know what exactly went wrong (be it too much management, too little management, couldn't hit milestones, just turned out not to be good, ect) but whatever the case something made Microsoft say we're not spending any more money on this. We're going to honor our contract, release what we can, and hope it sells purely on the Halo name so we can at least make *something* back.
You don't say that about a good game.
