Evolution of Halo Video Finally Released Online

An anonymous reader writes "Halo.bungie.org has made available a video showing the evolution of Halo, from its initial conception as a PC-based RTS game to its final release on the Xbox. The video is 14 minutes long, and is a 'look at some very early builds of Halo, with voiceover and commentary by 4 Bungie employees'. The video was originally shown to a group of Bungie fans at E3 in 2002, and has never been available save 'a [rudimentary] shakycam version' until now - it's being distributed via BitTorrent."

Comments

Pre-commentary

[Bega]

I've yet to see the video, since I'm still located at work, BUT -- A few 0.02 though. I for one thought the PC version was great - and kickass at LAN parties. The absence of coop is unfortunate, but I've played that enough on the Xbox (Yeah, didn't think of all you non-Xboxers there). I'm looking forwards watching this, since I've begun to really like the game.

And no, I'm not an ubermicrosoft-Bungie-Halo -fan (not even when I'm not laughing over all the "where's the truck with $$'s from Microsoft at Bungie's HQ??"), but I can't see why people are whining so much over how it ended up -- it's a great game, it's got all the elements for an FPS that I like.

Stuff that was cut

[Echo5ive]

This movie reminded me of all the stuff they were planning to have in the game, but had to cut for one reason or other. There was initially supposed to be a shitload of more weapons, like a sword for the Chief (you see them in the movie), as well as native wildlife on the Halo.

Most of the stuff was extremely cool. Too bad they had to cut it. I remember seeing an old movie where the Warthog drove through a small flock of critters that scattered and fled.