I think that a few of you are jumping to conclusions. There isn't any evidence that this game will actually be a first person shooter. There are actually a lot of reasons for it not being another shooter. Firstly the publisher already has a lock on that genre, and probably wouldn't welcome competition for their products. Secondly the genre is already overcrowded. Thirdly we are talking about a studio that has been making first person shooters non stop for years. If you were them would you want to make the same thing all over again. It is probably likely that the reason that they wanted to leave Microsoft. Is so they could get away from having to churn out first person shooters.
Which brings me to my point. Everything stated in the original post points to this being a role playing game, and I mean everything. The tone, the art, the story, and even the setting. If someone had told you this was a Square game rather then a Bungie game. You would immediately call it a new Final Fantasy. Talk about type casting a studio.







