A third-person shooter Halo prequel. Surprise?

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3167568

After shipping last fall's blockbusting Halo 3, revered developer Bungie stunned the world by announcing plans to liberate itself from Microsoft's ownership. Allegedly, that path to freedom requires that they develop a few more titles for Microsoft, and we've heard rumblings that the first one will be a Halo spin-off due in late 2009. Our spies tell us to expect a third-person action/adventure shooter hybrid that takes place before the original Halo, chronicling early skirmishes between the ODST troops and the Covenant. This may or may not be the oft-mentioned "Peter Jackson Halo Project" -- though apparently Microsoft is hiring a seperate team for that -- but WETA is definitely involved in some capacity. Look for a massive reveal around the time Gears of War 2 ships this fall... 

Wow, how could anyone see that one coming.

I've been hearing about a third person game for a while now. Wasn't it supposed to be called Halo Wars?

Cool concept for a game, no doubt it will make money.

I feel bad for Bungie. All the staff have been grumbling about how sick of Halo they are... they've spent the last 8 years doing it.

Different game. That's an RTS by some team that's made some good PC RTS's in the past.

It's the makers of Age of Empires right?

Well, the last Age of Empire was really bad! They ruined the series!
Way to modern, it was just wrong. Wasn't really an empire, it was a company of some sort.
I never finished the campaing, it was so bad....

If it's somehow related to Halo it will make money.

Very true.

Then again the game does have promise to be at least decent.

Ah, thanks for the clarification.


I think the RTS would be cool, 3rd person I'm not big on. The only 3rd person I ever really play is Gears.