Eerste Halo 5 concept art

Microsoft heeft eerder vandaag Halo 5 officieel aangekondigd. 343i heeft nu concept art van de game vrijgegeven. Daarin zien we woestijngrotten. We zagen al eerder Master Chief in een woestijn lopen (E3-trailer vorig jaar). Het lijkt dus waarschijnlijk dat Halo 5 zich gedeeltelijk in een woestijn afspeelt.

“Getting the Halo 5: Guardians announce out of the way is a big weight off our shoulders", aldus Frank O’Connor, hij is de 'franchise development director' van Halo. “This audience has correctly stated and assumed that you can’t necessarily squish a full Halo game into anything less than a three year development schedule – and at least up to and including Halo 5: Guardians, that’s more or less true."

Halo 5 gaat er volgens O'Connor fantastisch uitzien. “We’re not just making a new game in that three year span, we’re also making a new engine. During the development of Halo 4, we pushed the Xbox 360 and the engine to its limits, and we were happy with the way we were able to make the Halo universe look The Xbox 360 still has a few tricks up its sleeve, even now. We are moving to a whole new platform with the Xbox One – a new architecture, new graphics hardware and bluntly some new ways to think about gaming, period. In building Halo 5: Guardians, we want to push the ecosystem as well as the universe. And we’ll have some surprises in store for new and loyal players of the series.”

Reken er maar op dat we op de E3 nog veel meer zullen horen over Halo 5.