Earlier this week the long awaited video game Halo: The Master Chief Collection was released for the Microsoft Xbox One, just in time for holiday shopping. Now Halo Franchise & 343 Development Director, Frank O’Connor is opening up about just why you should pick up this brand new edition of these classic Halo titles.
Recently, 343’s Frank O’Connor spoke to Xbox.com’s Xbox Wire blog, about how Halo: The Master Cheif Collection came to be:
“Halo: The Master Chief Collection, way back when we started, was just a conversation about Halo 2: Anniversary. The tenth anniversary was coming up, and we had this conversation about what would make it more meaningful. We [realized] that Master Chief’s story is split up by this completely arbitrary thing, which is technology and generations of consoles. You don’t have that with movies, you don’t have that with books; there’s no technological barrier to the continuation of a story. And so we said, ‘What if we put all the games on one console, finally... and we can just move forward from there?’”
O’Connor went on to describe some of what is different this time around:
“The game stories themselves tie together fairly well; they’re sequels, obviously, and there’s natural cohesion between the stories. But we had this opportunity to really enhance the fidelity. And the one that needed it the most was Halo 2, because it’s this great story but it’s really complicated, and it ends on a cliffhanger. So we worked with Blur and redid all the cinematics, and not just the fidelity--we also did stuff with camera angles to tell the story better, for instance. We didn’t change the script; the timing is identical, and you can actually switch between the old and new cinematics. But it’s the same story, just told at a higher fidelity... and that really impacts the quality of the story.”
Halo: The Master Chief Collection is available in stores now.
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