Halo DS...a possibility?

[Nester the Lark]

This is kinda interesting. Apparently, there really was a Halo DS in professional development, but it was never finished and released for undisclosed (but not too hard to guess) reasons. It doesn't look half-bad from a graphical standpoint, either.

I wonder who the actual development studio was. Probably wasn't Bungie, right?

[Deleted]

It'd make sense if they licensed it out to some small company, since I doubt Microsoft would want their cash cow to graze other pastures (to paraphrase Joystiq.com). Still, it's a shame that never came to pass--HaloDS would have been great fun.

[TV Eye]

I just found out that that Halo video is fake. It's just a mod of GoldenEye

Here's a post on Fanboys Online

EDIT: HAHAHAHAHA! IGN? You amuse me SO SO SO much. I've gotten an email and somebody pointed it out in the forums: Halo DS is a reskinned Goldeneye Mod. Don't believe it? Go look at their own videos. Man, if I had know that sooner... I love you and your stupid lies IGN. keep up the amazing work.

Matt? Call BS on THAT.

Dear IGN, I'm calling BS.

Halo DS is very elaborate, and for that I tip my hat to you. I appluad you for your acting. What I liked about your video was:

* Your scores never went up
* The time never changed
* You shot right handed guns with left bumber.
* there was no waiting time for you to host a multiplayer session
* Innacurate ammo counts for the plasma rifle. Anyone who plays Halo can tell you it doesn't exceed 100 shots.
* The signal meter was non existant. It was there, but never showed any signs of being used.
* Slots for other joined players were empty when you were obviously "playing" against a human opponent. (this along with the no load times are the biggest flaws in the video)
* At the end the camera moved upwards when you were moving the stylus left and right (read: not up at all)
* I like how it cuts off right before the nice warthog physics could have kicked in.

This was all just first glance, and I'm not fixing to sit down and really study anything IGN has to offer, so I'm sure there's more I could post about this, but I won't. I'm not penny arcade, and I doubt anyone really cares what I have to say about anything in the industry. I think it's obvious that the posts about how "we'll see" were just delays so they could prepare an elaborate hoax.

I don't think it was at all playable, but rather a nice mock up of what could have been. Such a thing is not unheard of. There's the Nintendo Go vids, the Master Chief vs Samus video, and a lot of other things on the net. This was not much at all. It wouldn't have taken much other than some nice rehearsing to make choppy graphics look like a real game.

Kudos for sticking to your guns, but this myth, I think, has been busted.

Peace out.

[Blueberry_pie]

How does one mod a DS game, exactly?

[mrmolecule]

Bungie has been released from Microsoft's steely hands now. Maybe they'll show some love to the DS and Wii. Maybe they'll make PS3 an impulse buy. Who knows.