- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
They're not dropships, so whoever was under that impression needs to check their facts. They're simply space fighters. The Covenant Seraphs or the Longswords probably won't make it into the game as playable vehicles. Would they work well? Perhaps, if used properly on maps large enough. Anyone who has played Battlefield 1942, it's mods or the new version for Vietnam knows that fighters can work well in first-person shooters if the maps are large enough and are tailored for it.
Now, that being said, of the Halo 2 maps we've ran into thus far: Waterworks, Lockout, Burial Mounds, Zanzibar, Midship and Ivory Towers, none of them seem to fit the bill of being workable with the two aforementioned fighters.
What will we see? Well you can rest assured that there will be another flying aircraft in the new Halo game, as Pete Parsons, Studio Manager, all but confirmed it during an E3 2004 interview. The new flying craft will more than likely be human and there are a range of possibilities with it, from a helicopter-like vehicle hovering above the ground like a Pelican (which is confirmed to not be pilotable) or it could be a more classic, two-man fighter like those in World War II. Instead of being a normal flyer like the Banshee with one man doing the shooting and the flying, this new vehicle may have two compartments like a Warthog, allowing for a person to fly and another person to gun. The Longsword and the Seraph are simply too large for what maps we've seen so far.