6 Years of Halo Planned, ODST Sells 2.5m & Reach Confirmed as Prequel

[Shirosaki]

6 Years of Halo Planned, ODST Sells 2.5m & Reach Confirmed as Prequel

Written Friday, October 09, 2009 by Dan Webb

If you love Halo, you'll love the next 6 years if 343 Industries' Creative Director, Frank O'Connor's words are anything to go by. If you loathe Halo... suck it up... it's going to be a long ride.

"We do have a plan that goes out at least six years," says O'Connor. Plans that include not only Halo: Reach, the upcoming anime Halo: Legends but a new Marvel comic series called Halo: Bloodline following the success of the current series Halo: Helljumper, a new story collection called Halo: Evolutions and the sixth wave of Halo action figures. And we suspect there is more... lots more.

According to USA Today - where all this new info stems from - Halo 3: ODST has already sold over 2.5 million units in just its first 2 weeks which according to Microsoft, amounts to about $125 million for their Entertainment and Devices division. The article doesn't specify whether that is just US or global sales, but it's pretty damn good either way.

O'Connor talked briefly about Halo: Reach as well, confirming our suspicions that the game will act as a prequel to the franchise, suspicions that were based on the fact that Reach was the target of some serious Covenant aggression before Halo: Combat Evolved.

"It's a prequel to Halo 1," says O'Connor, "a chronological prequel, but it is not a prequel in the directions the Star Wars prequels were to the (original) movies."

"It will cover events in and around the planet Reach." Again, something we assumed already.

O'Connor did find time to mention the Halo film which is currently on hold, as well as... try to act shocked here... hinting that Master Chief may return.

"We're being very careful to pick the right time and the right partner," O'Connor said about the movie. And Master Chief, well...

"I think that (his) fate, Cortana's fate and the identity of that giant, dark planet at the ending (on the game's hardest skill level) — that's a spoiler — are probably big mysteries that would be irritating if they were just cliffhangers."

Good news for Halo fans. Just news for everyone else.

Source.

I've gone off of the Halo trail to be honest. All of these sequel games like Halo: ODST and GoW 2 have put me off of their respective sibling games. I hope Assassin's Creed isn't the same.

 

[Firis]

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Oolala orgasm... Well... Not really, didn't get me hyped like MW2 is, but I really look forward to Halo Reach and the movie, maybe even the anime.

 

[Tiamatria]

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Sigh... just another FPS.

I never quite understood why Halo was so popular. I mean, to be honest, it's probably gonna turn out like most other sequels, where they're trying to milk a dead cow.

 

[runeblade265]

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the previews for the anime are pretty cool.

Looking forward to reach and the halo movie. If the movie is anything like the "We are ODST" trailer then i have alot to be happy bout

 

[Firis]

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^I am still waiting for that version of the Celtic war song to go public XD... Amazing.

 

[ScareCrowReturn]

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DOesnt bother me, Just more games to choose from.

 

[AttackAttack]

Re: 6 Years of Halo Planned, ODST Sells 2.5m & Reach Confirmed as Prequel

Eh. I was a Halo fan until Halo ODST. My opinion is ODST just didn't live up to the hype and it should of been an effing DLC. I mean come on no matchmaking with fire fight, and no new multiplayer? Only good thing i got out of it was an awesome controller. Hopefully Reach wont suck.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

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halo: reach means only one thing to me.
multiple playable spartans!
great success

 

[Firis]

Re: 6 Years of Halo Planned, ODST Sells 2.5m & Reach Confirmed as Prequel

^FOR GREAT JUSTICE!

Eh. I was a Halo fan until Halo ODST. My opinion is ODST just didn't live up to the hype and it should of been an effing DLC. I mean come on no matchmaking with fire fight, and no new multiplayer? Only good thing i got out of it was an awesome controller. Hopefully Reach wont suck.

I thought ODST did very well, it is a different pace than the other Halo games, I am not much of a multiplayer man, I do play multiplayer quite often, but I find it dry after about an hour unless friends are playing, never really liked Halo MP, loved the SP more than anything though, when I want multiplayer I play CoD, love the gun play, storyline is dry and uncreative, but multiplayer is damn good.

 

[Noctus]

Re: 6 Years of Halo Planned, ODST Sells 2.5m & Reach Confirmed as Prequel

All aboard the Halo train.



Can I get off please?

 

[Daemon300]

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^NO.

I just finished Halo 3 on Legendary and the weird thing is...

I want Halo 4!

WTF is wrong with me?!?!

I must get Halo: ODST <3

 

[Sean]

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Six more years?! WHY?!

 

[Skotekal]

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^FOR GREAT JUSTICE!



I thought ODST did very well, it is a different pace than the other Halo games, I am not much of a multiplayer man, I do play multiplayer quite often, but I find it dry after about an hour unless friends are playing, never really liked Halo MP, loved the SP more than anything though, when I want multiplayer I play CoD, love the gun play, storyline is dry and uncreative, but multiplayer is damn good.

Dry and uncreative? Explain. It had one of the greatest campaigns I've ever played.

 

[Aions]

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i love halo

ODST was disappointing, really fun while it lasted but it was hella short,
took me around 4hrs on normal and 3 1/2 on legendary and fire fight is only fun for about half an hour then youre like "when do i win and this stops?... oh wait never...."
then you die for the first time in like 2 rounds and your like "f*ck this noise" and play normal halo

cant wait for halo reach, might have to pull a cartman and freeze my self in snow

 

[Zjuggernaut]

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Bungie should move on. ODST sold that many because of all it's hype even though it turned out to be s**t. I can't bare to play Halo 3 online anymore because I've done everything, really and I hate the community. I shall be buying Halo: Reach because it seems that this Halo will have a better story than the trilogy, imo. I'm quite interested to see all the Spartans get owned.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

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^ agreed. ODST was worth renting for me, but the only reason anyone could consider it a full installment for halo is because, similar to deadspace, you backtrack and revisit different areas in the campaign a lot. just to be clear:
going back and forth =/= extensive campaign

 

[ScareCrowReturn]

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halo: reach means only one thing to me.
multiple playable spartans!
great success

I personally liked how you were the only Spartan.. Now that theres more.. Kind of kills it.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

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^ ahh but all of the spartans had specialties though...like there was a sniper, a tech expert, etc. also, i would expect strong orientation towards squad-based combat as the original spartans operated in teams of 4.

your sig quote is from Talladega Nights by the way. :lol:
great movie.

 

[ScareCrowReturn]

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^ Naaaaah I prefer the Ultimate, 1 and only, Spartan.

haha! Its actually from Step Brothers..

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

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haha damn, i just remembered John C. Reilly saying it :lol: