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Halo 2 Ready to Ship
Thanks to pdawerks who alerted us to the post on the Bungie site stating that Halo 2 is ready to ship. It's filled with typical Bungie humor. "If you create a clan, do it because you intend to use it, and enjoy the camaraderie that Clan membership brings. We have systems in place to deal with "dead" or unused Clans. Unpleasant, pointy systems that reek of rust and blood and horror. Think Silent Hill meets Autocomplete."
about the team behind Halo 2
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/halo.htm
It's a good read if you're into the game!
-- james
That's retarded. While there was a rumor that Halo 2 may be out in Spring of 04 (Or this year...), it was just that, a rumor. Bungie never said anything one way or the other about the rumor. It was back at the e3 2004 Convention that they stated it would release on November 9th: And for the love of bees, it looks like that's what's gonna happen! Be sure of your facts before dissing something, dude.
Will a Red vs Blue series foolow?
Rooster Teeth Productions already announced that they've started working on RvB season 3. I mean, it's called RvB: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, and the action is taking place largely on Blood Gulch when it left off. Thus, the next RvB season is probably not using Halo 2. Even if they weren't limited to Blood Gulch (not that they haven't used other maps), they still probably have to figure out all the nuances of Halo 2 that weren't the same in Halo 1 before making movies with it.
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Bungie is actually still quite intact. The orginal founder you mentioned did leave and start his own game company, which will be using and licensing a modified version of the original Halo engine, but the rest of them, for the most part, are still there. Heck, they started working on Halo 2 immediately after they finished the first game. Bungie is still very much it's own development studio, and not just a name. You might want to check out bungie.net.
Umm. No. Jason Jones was and is the main guy behind Bungie and he's still there. He's the driving force behind the story of many (all?) of thier games. Most the original Bungie guys are still there. I can think of one high-profile dude that left to form his own company, but don't feel like digging up the details right now. Should be easy enough to find.
You may not like MS, but don't take it out on Bungie, they are some damn good developers.
They were in a compromising spot some years back where they just could not effectively develop AND publish AND distribute their games -- too many big publishers were doing a better job than they ever could because they had the name recognition and the people and infastructure in place to do so. Bungie was too small. So they decided to merge with a big developer/publisher so they could focus on development instead of having to worry about calling up EB and Gamespot and the rest and trying to convince them to carry their games.
"Hello, this is Bungie and we've got an awesome new game we'd like you to sell."
"Who?"
"Bungie."
"Who?"
compared to
"Hello, this is Microsoft and we have an awesome new game that you will sell. May I put you down for a million copies?"
"Yes, sir! May I have another!"