One was similar to the cover system in Star Wars: The Old Republic, while another involved public quests where players could join as long as they were in a designated area. The game was in production for several years and presented mechanics that were ahead of their time. It wasn’t part of the Halo timeline that players knew it was set 100,000 years before the Halos had been set off. Titan was supposed to be a large-scale MMO set in the Halo universe.
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According to ex-Ensemble Studios’ senior software engineer Dusty Monk, Titan had a $90 million budget. According to the book Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, the project started as an original concept before adopting the Halo name and universe - and even then, Microsoft was aware of the project, but hadn’t given formal approval yet.
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But Halo Wars wasn’t the only game in the mix.Īround 2004, Ensemble began development of a PC MMO codenamed Titan. The studio’s founder, Tony Goodman, considered the publisher “ pretty risk averse.” All of this led to the RTS concept that became Halo Wars in-mid 2006. Microsoft had acquired Ensemble in 2001, and getting these ideas greenlit was a difficult task. Half of the team was focused on finding the next big hit. Most never left the rough prototype stage. The team, known the Age of Empires and Age of Mythology series, had been iterating on several potential projects. Years before the 2009 release of Ensemble Studios’ real-time strategy title Halo Wars, there was a bigger idea in the works at Ensemble.
From an attempt to see Master Chief on a handheld console to collaborations with director Peter Jackson, the history of Halo projects cut short is vast and fascinating. To celebrate Halovember, we decided to look back on those we know. That’s far from unique in the game industry, and we wouldn’t be surprised if there were even more attempts that never became public knowledge. In that time, we’ve heard of quite a few Halo projects that never saw the light of day.
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