- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I am sure i will get flamed for this thread but i will say it anyway with everyone screaming "i know the release date my brother friends cousins roomates aunties brother in law went to our local generic games shop and they had the barcodes/boxes/demand forms/release date for halo 3 and it is sometime this year (Oct 06 is popular) it comes out. Now we know Bungie are crafty and are masters of keeping things hidden from us on a Machiavellian scale but with them stating "Finish the fight 2007" would they release halo 3 this year? was 2007 a red herring? As much as i would like to have halo 3 in my hands this year i doubt it would be released ahead of "schedule", from what we have seen so far we may able to have a educated idea on how far they are in making the game here's my 10 pence of help feel free to flame or at least help so us Halo hungry people may have a glimmer of hope on its release date:
1)The trailer section said that it is set 1/2 way through the game, so i suppose unlike movies a game would be created start to finish in that order and not all jumbeld about like in films to save money - This means they are at least half way through making the game maybe even more because i dont think they would show newly finished hot off the press virgin code to show for E3 they would have had to plan out what bits in advance to show off so that i think puts us over the half way point.
2)With models and T&L from the trailer alone we see that the M.C model is complete, so is the AR , Phantom and Banshee models and at least the texturing for the mombassa stage is completed along with rudimentry AI programs for the flight of the vehicles.
3)In the making of trailer we have all seen the shotgun model minus texture,new marine/pilot,the line up of enemies 3-4 that i can make out from shapes and shadows(Jetpack brute? etc...) they looked pretty shiny and complete to me including the weapons that they are holding so already there is a fair line up of characters and models "completed"
4)We know from weekly updates that "ahem" a lot of WORK has been done on the multiplayer side of things aside from some glitches a lot has been covered so we can assume there is a seperate group assigned to deal with the multiplayer side of things (the poor devils i dont know how they cope with it lol) so with the possiblity that a few levels have been completed, with T&L due them thinking its so pretty in the levels, the players characters must be well done (more weight to the finished M.C model/Player interface/HUD) with the possiblity of the Elite model finished(No sightings) but with halo 2 allowing people to be Elites we can assume they will be available in H3 , we dont know if there will be other multiplayer Characters to choose from but i doubt there will be many if any at all,the grenades are complete except for one or two glitches mentioned in a weekly update.
Thats all i can think off for now so please help in any way you can by confirming things i may have missed and if someone can fill these gaps for me we may have a better estimation: when was Halo:ce started ,finished + released (Production to release time) , the same question for H2 and since we know they started H3 when H2 was released that can give a rough idea of when H3 might be released (they started work about November 9th 2004) so that means they have been working on H3 for nearly 1+1/2 years so compare this time to other development times we might have a rough idea on when it will be completed