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Reasonable on 01 February 2011
Darth Tigris said:
Reasonable said:

This was obviously going to happen.  MS would be crazy not to try and leverage the Halo brand to Kinect.

I doubt - unless they're really, really keen on Kinect above anything else - that any Halo Kinect title would be a main series entry unless Kinect was only an optional control option.  But I just can't see MS risking tarnishing Halo franchise with anything that risks the core audience.

More likely we'll see a spin off or extension title tailored to Kinect interface.  Could well feature the Master Chief for maximum impact, but I doubt it'll be a full FPS just using Kinect.  It'll be some form of hybrid or if solely using Kinect either an FPS on rails or something more suited to gesture based commands.


Dead on.

Personally I think the original take on the cancelled Halo Chronicles from Wingnut Interactive (remember them, lol) would fit a Kinect project.  It was supposedly a cinematic experience that wasn't quite Heavy Rain or quite typical FPS.  It'd could be cool.

The bigger question for me is, if this is actually an in-development game and not just grabbing up a domain, when will it be officially announced?  E3 this year or later?


Chronicles could be interesting.  I'm just pretty sure MS will be careful that whatever they release, whether hybrid or Kinect only, will be polished and make sense.  The last thing they will want is to risk a bad misfire both for Halo and Kinect.

MS know that if they release anything Halo centric on Kinect and it doesn't deliver it will be a bad blow for both so I'm pretty sure they'll be very careful about it.

I suspect the domain name was just a reservation and it'll be a while before any Halo title for Kinect surfaces as a result, but something tied to Halo on Kinect just seems inevitable.



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