Brought to us via the power of Kovac’s amazing translation skills (or Google Translate), 4News is reporting that a source close to Microsoft Game Studios has been talking to them about a Halo HD release next year. Please bear in mind it is a translation, so some of the text sounds a bit Yoda-like:
“As we are told by a source close to Microsoft Game Studios, the software house would already preparing Industries 343 Halo 4, the fourth chapter of the Halo series. To ease the wait, which separates the output of the title not expected before the year 2012, it seems that developers are considering the idea of reproducing the first chapters using the graphics engine of the recent Halo: Reach, bequeathed by Bungie team.
This would be a clever move: to exploit the franchise created years ago and still difficult to counter.
It starts immediately with the high definition version of Halo Combat Evolved, which are said could come out even to the end of March 2011. But not everything is decided. Much would depend both on the willingness of 343 Industries to compete immediately with the largest user of Xbox Live without waiting for the fourth chapter.
And according to the source, Microsoft would have asked for this to Epic Games to postpone the release of Gears of War 3, taking the time to improve and raffianare their title, and allow greater visibility to the adventure of Master Chief.”
It is a plausible idea, bearing in mind the overwhelmingly positive response to the ICO/SotC HD collection, as well as Prince of Persia. The thought that it is the reason behind Gears of War 3’s delay is bound to upset fans of that franchise though. We shall send an agent in undercover to try and get an official comment.
Source: 4News
Tuffcub
Wow, upgrading an old game to HD. Wonder where they got that idea from.
Serebii.Net
Could this be inspiration behind shutting down the servers for Halo on the original Xbox? =P
Severn2j
Sound good, Halo:CE was the best one, imo…
ich1baN
As most of you don’t know. Halo 1 is what made the rest of the halo series that more popular. There was something that Bungie didn’t inted for when creating Halo 1 and that was nade tricks, random spawns, double melee, and timing weapons. This was all done in a competitive nature b/c this game is what made MLG big and what made halo 2 ever bigger than expected. There are literally 100s of thousands of halo 1 gamers that want to see halo 1 released on xbox live keeping all the former aspects the same. Halo 1 is 100 times different than the other halo series all in the name to make the other halo’s more even and easier to pick up for a larger target audience. Bungie knew that there were 1000s of gamers that were the best and it would take literally 5 years for anyone new to the game to catch up to their skill limit, especially in tournaments. So they took a dramatic change in the nature of the game and made it more accessible to the average gamer. Nade tricks, timing, random spawns were changed for the most part and so were the mechanics of the MC ran, threw, shot, or move. If you read this 343 Industries….. PLEASE RELEASE HALO 1 ON XBOX LIVE AND GIVE THIS TITLE THE HONOR IT DESERVES! Halo 1 was never given a chance on live and many people had to resort to xbconnect which is good for it’s purpose but nothing like a paid-subscrition service like Live.