While not an odd announcement in and of itself, some fans noted that there was previously only a three-year gap between the release of Halo 4 and Halo 5 and that this announcement came two years after the release of the last Halo game.įor the most part, though, expectations remained high. Ultimately, the post just noted that the company had no immediate plans to showcase the next Halo game and that it would likely be quite some time before they were ready to show off the project. The first indication that the wait for the next Halo game could be longer than usual came in a 2017 blog post from developer 343 Industries. June 2017 – 343 Industries Warns Fans of a Long Halo 6 Development Cycle
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More importantly, it furthered the idea that the next Halo game would both return to the series’ roots and help 343 Industries reshape the series a bit in order to better make it their own.Ĭombined, those ideas kicked off a series of rumors which strongly suggested that the next Halo game would be a kind of reboot. In the short term, this interview served as a soft promise that the next Halo game would feature Master Chief in a starring role. In what would prove to be an interesting interview with GamesTM magazine, Frank O’Connor acknowledged that fans were disappointed by Halo 5’s lack of Master Chief storylines and the ways that the game focused on other characters. April 2017 – Microsoft Promises to Focus More on Master Chief The announcement, which came during a D.I.C.E presentation, ultimately didn’t amount to much, but the fact that one of the first official pieces of information we heard about the next Halo game was a commitment to split-screen play inspired some fans to believe that the next Halo game would emphasize the franchise’s classic “staple’ concepts. February 2017 – 343 Industries Talks About Halo 6’s Splitscreen and Co-Op OptionsĪfter spending most of 2016 focusing on Halo 5, 343 finally broke their silence on the next Halo game by confirming that the project would incorporate split-screen play and emphasize co-op. Given the reactions to Halo 5, many fans felt that the development of this engine was not just a way to help ensure the Halo franchise remained technologically impressive in the future but to help 343 leave behind another remnant of the past and make Halo something closer to their own. 2015 – 343 Expands Development of a New “Slipspace” EngineĪround the time of Halo 5’s launch (the exact date is unofficial) 343 Industries ramped up the development of a new graphic engine called Slipspace. Those concerns would seemingly form the basis of much of what came next. There were real concerns regarding what a Halo game was anymore and whether 343 had done enough to truly leave their own mark on the series. While Halo 5 received a fair bit of praise for its multiplayer features and certain gameplay innovations, more and more people wondered whether Halo had lost its identity as part of 343 Industries’ apparent attempt to incorporate more modern trends. The story of Halo Infinite’s troubled development has to include the somewhat mixed reception of Halo 5. Octo– Halo 5 is Released to a Mixed Reception
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As Halo 5 hadn’t even been released at the time of this interview, though, there was little speculation at that time regarding the full meaning of this interview. Looking back, it’s pretty clear that this was the first official sign that “ Halo 6” was going to be something different. While Microsoft’s Frank O’Connor stopped short of naming that game in an i nterview with GamesRadar, he did mention that most people felt that the “Reclaimer Trilogy” which was supposed to play out across Halo 4, 5, and 6 had grown into more of a saga. Weeks before the release of Halo 5, Microsoft surprised many by confirming that initial work had already begun on the next Halo game. September 2015 – “Serious, Real Planning” Begins on Halo 6 The timeline of Halo Infinite‘s troubled development isn’t always pretty, but it’s a necessary tool for anyone who wants to understand how Halo Infinite went from a game on the back of the Xbox Series X packagin g to a title that may or may not even be released next year. What began as the seemingly inevitable development of Halo 6 morphed into one of the deepest dives into development hell that we’ve seen in recent memory. The answer to that question involves requires us to go all the way back to 2015 when Halo Infinite was little more than an idea.
The revelation that the game will be released a year after its recently delayed debut has prompted some fans to ask the question, “How did we get to this point?” Microsoft recently confirmed that Halo Infinite is now scheduled to be released sometime during the fall of 2021.
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