Microsoft quashes Gearbox-Halo rumors

Halo is a great franchise and when the games begin to lose thier high quality then you can say that its too much. Halo 1 for the PC was really fun and that game is what got me into fps.

I agree with ShroudedEagle that halo 1 for pc (multiplayer aspect) was way better than Halo 2.

Aww.... Gearbox did a really good job with Halo 1 for the PC, especially with Custom Edition. It was so much better than Halo 2 for the PC. Gearbox should be given permission to make Halo 3 for the PC.

@solidstein Bet lost. Bungie has already made it very clear that Reach is gonna be a full-blown FPS game and a prequel to the Halo trilogy. It will also boast a whole new set of multi-player stuff, but it will still be a Halo "sequel" in all those respects. The story is just a prequel.

if people would do research more than they just make crap up and post it... there would not be this kind fake crap on the web

i bet u halo:reach is gonna be a fallout type of game

Halo 3: ODST Halo Legends Halo: Reach Halo Waypoint Thats plenty of Halo for one company.

It's just that I've completed the first 3 on Xbox/360, and the first 2 on PC. Halo 3 was the best in my opinion, and I'd really like to "finish the fight" on the PC as well.

looks like a crappy fallout

Lane_McNair I think never no reason why...I am waiting too but I also see that 2 new halo games are coming only to 360

What I want to know is when Halo 3 is coming to the PC.

Give me a new Halo every 2-2 and half years and I'll be fine. I don't mind the expansion since I haven't touched Halo in like 6 months, but Halo 4? Better be AMAZING..

hmm the halo franchise is getting a little too saturated for my taste

@cetanu07 That lego halo was an april fool's joke in EGM, i believe.

i know im gonna get a lot of thumbs down but i really dont care for halo. arent they making a lego halo?

wow so many halo....hope they dont release halo games every year like ea sports or cod, keep it fresh, release it like for the next xbox or years later

@jasonpa The pistol has a built-in suppressor. What do you expect? It's supposed to sound "flat."

Halo Reach is good for now

come on1 they can't even say ANYTHING about Halo 4 roomer boo!!!

thats good we really dont need that many Halo games

I really did love Halo Ce and Halo 2 i played so much I started having master chief dreams. LOL! Halo 3 was a disappointment for me, which is why I traded it in for Gears 2. But ODST seems better, I watched that VidDoc, with Nathan Fillion, which by the way I love him as an actor, he truly does make anything more interesting, even White Noise 2. But anyways, the Pistol does sound flat, it sounds like an airgun, but I'm sure they'll change that hopefully before it ships. The graphics and sound look better, and I get the sense that ODST will make people wonder why Halo 3 wasn't as good as the expansion for it.

Heard the word Halo too much now. I enjoyed 3 when it came out but too much is too much is too much. The game was decent, but the franchise is definitely not worthy of this overkill. Watch the thumbs down's roll in.

I agree with TurboGuru, I enjoyed Halo 1 and 2 alot more than 3. But Halo is a great franchise and allways will be one of the top FPS's out their. I'm looking forward to ODST alot and Halo Reach is going to be great aswell.

Honestly the campain in Halo 3 was better than COD 4, it was longer, it had a better story, it flowed better, and in the end you felt bad for Master Chief, and it was interesting to see the interaction between the arbitor and the admiral. Everyone disses the online play for Halo 3, yet every other developer has copied their ranking system, they way they update their map packs and playlists. Even GOW that had the most inivative online play copied Halo 3's format to some degree. I don't think COD 4's online play was great at all. You still play in someone's room off their host, you don't have access to all the weapons until you rank up, which means the first few weeks you'll spend your time getting slaughtered. The class system, and the weapons system is new and innovative but at the same time to me it's not appealing at all. Why would I play a game online to have no fun getting slaughtered. Why would I play a game that doesn't last very long either? There's not much incetive to play in my eyes. I think Halo 3 fell victim to too much hype and too high of expectations. I'll get Modern Warfare 2, I may play the online more, but only because i have a friend who plays it online on his PS3 and since I have a PS3 it may be fun to play with him. But ultimately most of my online play will be with GOW2 and Halo 3.

@jaspona Ive always loved Halo 1 and Halo 2 and I never compare them against each other because they are different, like you said, Halo 2 was about the arbitur's story etc. I guess the general disgruntlement for Halo 2 appeared because soo many of us expected to play the cheif again all the way through, and didnt really give a crap about the arbitur.... but the more you played, the more the story got interesting. Halo 2 Multiplayer is still epic. Halo 3 is the biggest disappointment when it comes to Storyline and Multiplayer, the campaign just felt lifeless, no surprises, and soo dumbed down too, nothing majestic like Halo1,2. Finally, I'm glad the pistol is coming back, but things like the AR in halo 3 bug me.... great for brining it back but WHY the hell did they change the sound, its soo flat.

The graphics for ODST seem better, the cutscenes are better, the original Pistol is back, and even if you don't have Halo 3, you still get access to Halo 3 multiplayer plus all the map packs, which is why the game is full retail. It's a longer expansion than first noted, and is packed with extras. Which I will pay since I traded in Halo 3 for the best shooter ever since Halo, Gears of War 2. Halo Reach is being made because it's a way to make a Halo game still with Master Chief without making Halo 4. Instead we will play through the first battles of the war, most likely with lots of Spartan soldiers, but playing as John Spartan. I don't blame them for trying to make up for 2 games that failed to live up to expectations. However the expectations were far too high. Halo 3 is still better in my eyes than COD 4, Killzone 2, or Resistance and you can disagree with me, that's your right, but in the end it will still be better.

They are pumping out Halo games to captialize on it's popularity right now and make as much money as they can. Also to most Halo fans 2 and three were dissappointments. Not to me. I loved Halo 2, I thought the story could have been flushed out better towards the end, but the cliffhanger angle just made me want to buy Halo 3 even more. So it was a marketing angle. Playing as the arbitor added a side of the story and emotion that wasn't in the first game. People forget that usually in a trilogy you see more about the enemies in the second act. It makes you feel more for the hero, and get more invested in the outcome. I think Halo 3 was the dissappointment. Yes it had a closer feel to the first game, but the campaign was too short, but not as short as COD 4. The multiplayer in me eyes is far better than COD 4, but nothing new really added to it made not want to play it as much. So just like Stallone with the Rocky and Rambo series, MS and bungie made ODST to redeem themselves.

They don't want any hype right now...but its possible they're making it for the next xbox 360

Borrrriiiing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

all i can say is, I can not wait for borderlands!

I think it would be good for both the Halo franchise and it's fans if the franchise takes a breather for a while. It wouldn't be good for any franchise of Halo's stature to be over-used.

@ ShadowJake: I couldn't agree more! While I would love to see Halo 4 some day, I just hope its in like 2014

I really like halo (i own halo ce, halo 2, halo 2 pc, and halo 3) but I dont want them to suck all the fun out by constantly pumping out games. Halo 3 ODST and Halo Reach are fine but after that they need to take a break for a couple years. A game every year gets old quick. Hopefully this never happens to gears cuz thats my favorite series and its current release speed is just fine (although a little more work into the laggy multiplayer would have been great)

In my opinion it would be overkill if gearbox was working on a halo franchise game while ODST and Reach are on the way. However, I must admit, I'm always happy to fight the covenant and the flood =P

Well, as long as they don't recycle this too much like Nintendo does to Mario, Zelda, and Metroid.

and whats this about a xbox live destination called halo waypoint, sounds interesting

there cant be a halo 4 anyway, chief has defeated the flood and covenant for good

You'd be a fool to think there's no Halo 4 being made as we speak...it is. Trust me, companies don't stop making sequels until the series has proven to become a failure at retail, and trust me Halo is far from failing at sales. As long as people buy it, they'll keep makin em.

who cares

I don't see why there need to make any more Halo games

the hell is "quashes" shouldnt it be squashes?

Good; this rumor has been floating around for quite some time now.

Honestly, if Microsoft was going to make another Halo game, I could see them going to id.

Halo should keep itself fresh, like the GTA series, by not releasing itself every year, not like the Call of Duty or Guitar Hero series, which have mostly the same stuff as last year rebranded with a new title and better graphics.

OMFG!!!! we dont need any more halo!!!!

Cowboy-Bebop, I agree completely. I loved the first, the second was awesome until they released it, then it was alright(good online though) The third had a good feel to the story and a solid ending with stellar online play which just happened to be surpassed by cod4 IMO. Now all this? let the girl rest already! the trilogy is over, but that doesn't mean you need to start pumping out new games biannually. Its getting out of hand. Halo wars could have been cool but i lost interest. ODST could have been cool but they decided to chargee full price for it. Reach could be cool, but after everythings said and done, are we ready for another "halo" game yet? Leave the series alone for a while, take the risk and develop a new IP for a while, and a while later you can dabble back in the halo waters.

i need to work on my dyslexia. i almost thought the article was a gears of war-halo mash up.

i sense a new guitar hero.... great sales and like 12 games..... YAY!

@Cowboy-Bebop That looks to be what Bungie are planning to do once their announced titles are released.Here

You know, I absolutely loved the first Halo, didn't care for the second and the third was alright, but we're kinds entering over saturation of the market with Halo. I'd like to see something new like another franchise instead of what appears to be 3 or 4 more Halo projects.