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The latest main game, Halo Infinite, was released in late 2021 as a free to play beta, and then had the campaign release later that year.Ĭombat Evolved started life as a real-time strategy game, then became a third-person shooter, and finally a first-person shooter releasing as an exclusive on Microsoft's new Xbox video game console after Bungie was acquired by the company.

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The series launched in 2001 with the first-person shooter video game Halo: Combat Evolved and its tie-in novel, The Fall of Reach.

One of the map's lifts is located inside a hollowed-out tree and seems to be powered by escaping air from within an organic structure.īrowse more images in this article's gallery page.Halo is a military science fiction media franchise, originally created and developed by Bungie and currently managed and developed by 343 Industries, part of Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios.

The building’s interior looks relatively pristine compared to where it was originally, which is definitely to its advantage from a play-ability perspective, because it provides a stark difference between inside the structures and the wild flora that grows outside it. The final iteration was an even tighter trimming of things that weren’t needed or weren’t working. This version represented the first paring pass that reined the environment into a simpler and more believable statement of the original theme and cropped out some of the unnecessary components (we wanted to get back to what we really liked about the original concept art). The next iteration featured smaller animals trapped in containers underneath the map as the reason for the science team’s ‘disappearance,’ and early concepts show that the place was pretty badly assaulted. There were numerous subplots and supporting elements scattered around the map and in the skybox. There was a dead monster-like creature on this map that you could use as a ramp, and there was a story that went along with it-something along the lines of: the monster attacked, killed the scientists, and then died from injuries it sustained. The first was the balls-to-the-wall alien greenhouse version. Some of these organisms can be seen in the concept art.Ībandon had three distinct iterations. It was originally going to feature organisms called meat loops, muscle humps, gas sacks, smokers, and momma trees throughout the various different iterations of the map.

It features 3 man-cannons (one in each main structure, and one inside a tree between them) and ramps leading to all levels.Ī near-final map layout, overlaid on a 'mood palette'.Īccording to Kynan Pearson, one of the lead Halo 4 multiplayer map designer, the map was specifically geared towards Team Slayer and the Flood game types. The map features a three story building in the center of a dark forest environment, allowing for some long ranged combat but offering more short range skirmishes due to the trees and tight spaces. Inside one of the map's main structures, two transparent containers can be seen holding Eiyaa-Mahtuhaa specimens in preservative.Ībandon is an asymmetrical, close-quarters small scale 4v4 map. Initial surveys of this area were bold and promising, but it quickly became clear that these reports were far more hubris than logic. Although the hostility of this world had been initially considered by its team leaders, it is tragically clear that a great many ‘things’ had simply not been taken into account. On the remote world of Erebus VII, at the very edge of human-occupied space, an ONI research facility which was once teaming with researchers now lies eerily vacant.

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