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Posted by: GOLDENSKULL95
ign said that halo 4 will be using a modifyed reach engine... thats when i started hating ign and i dont belive anything they say anymore.
If you want to get technical about it you could say that Halo Reach's engine is a heavily modified version of the Halo 1 or Halo 2 engine as there is code in it that dates back to those games.
As far as adding RPG elements, I could see this. Not sure if it would apply to only single player, only multiplayer or if they'd try to integrate it into both (I'd guess both, but who knows), but for single player they would need to find a way to get Chief into Mark VII armor (and with all the talk of his different armor having a story explanation, I'd assume they do somehow, maybe just not as soon as the teaser would make it seem). It's something I'd like to see. Even though they are carrying on the same game series, it'd be pretty hackneyed for 343 to just copy everything Bungie has done and not try to put their own stamp on it and create something unique. Halo can either stagnate and stay the same, or be relevant and try to push the genre forward and maybe even innovate a bit, or if not innovate in the genre, at LEAST push ITSELF forward.
If you're ever going to introduce somewhat larger changes to the formula of an established series to keep it fresh and relevant, starting what they consider a new trilogy, done by a new developer is probaby the best time to do it.
[Edited on 12.07.2011 5:41 AM PST]