Halo Battle Royale was planned at some point

In the video game business, there are always projects that are never released to the market, examples include PT Silent HillsWhich was even a demo and was later canceled due to departures Hideo Kojima, who was in charge of managing it. But there are many unknown cases, where there are games that were always in the pipeline, but in the end they are not released but for some reason they are not talked about, and their plans are known much later.

As noted by its co-founders XboxEra, Frequent_Nicka video game hello Battle Royale style was in the plans but was ultimately scrapped, while initially it was considered a larger project to compete with the company. PUBG or Fortnite. This was the code name for one your grandmotherAn extension of the franchise’s last game, Infinite, was launched in 2021 and ultimately did not receive the expected reception from audiences.

In fact, in an interview with September 2022 VentureBeatCEO and Director of Operations Certain Relationships, Paul SamsThere was talk of a cool Halo project that could be that battle royale, but it wasn’t followed through on.

Here is what is mentioned:

The biggest thing that we’re doing public right now, for over two years we’ve been working on something at Halo Infinite that they’re very prescriptive about what we can say.

But we’re doing something unannounced, and we’re leading that unannounced development, from concept and design. This is something big and new for the franchise. But I can’t say more than that. This is currently our biggest project out of our three projects. We have around 100 developers working on it.

Little was said after that statement, which is obviously why the project was definitively scrapped, as of now 343 Art Focusing on improving the new game experience, whether in single or multiplayer parts. There is even talk that another major release may be announced soon, to right the wrongs of the past.

Remember that hello infinite Available at Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S y PC.

Through: IGN

Editor’s note: It will be interesting to see this game, although perhaps it was the best decision, since competing in the battle royale market is difficult these days. Although it wouldn’t hurt to have some initial files to see what it looked like.