The end of 2021 is actually an unprecedented season for shooter fans, EA's masterpiece "Battlefield 2042", Activision's masterpiece "Call of Duty: Pioneer" and Microsoft's masterpiece "Halo: Infinity" come together, according to past experience, the three games should be a chess opponent will meet the talent, it is difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat!
However, all three products have been officially launched at present, and the results are known to everyone. The New Year's call of duty: Vanguard is mediocre, while "Battlefield 2042" has simply overturned, and the doctor once shared: the bad reviews of players once sent this game to the STEAM Temple of Shame TOP10. Only Halo: Infinity has been recognized by most players, and the product has unexpectedly been selected into many media game recommendation lists.
The above things give us a feeling that under the background of our peers, Halo: Infinity appears to be of outstanding quality and has achieved the final success. And when we actually get our hands on the game, we will find that its quality is indeed above the average level of the market. Thinking about the situation when the game was just released last year (2020), the doctor felt that there was a key reason for the success of "Halo: Infinity", that is, the game's official knowledge of mistakes can be corrected, not iron, and can listen carefully to player feedback!
Presumably, everyone still has a certain impression of the pre-launch conference of the xbox series X/S new console in July last year, when "Halo: Infinity" was the highlight of the conference, and the official showed the game's real screen for everyone. However, the quality of the picture has caused players to complain, in which the ghost-faced beast is jokingly called the cosmic gorilla due to the rough modeling. 343 Studios and Microsoft, which received feedback from players, did not choose to ignore it, but decisively announced the postponement of Halo: Infinity, which means that the first-party escort masterpiece of the new Xbox Series X/S console is missing the most critical members! Today, it seems that such a choice is obviously the most correct. So what really happened to the project content that year? The doctor noticed that the well-known media bloomberg has recently carried out relevant revelations, let's take a look.
Bloomberg interviewed more than two dozen current and former employees of the game development team and got some first-hand information: "Halo: Infinity" began to file a case in 2015, that is, after the development of Halo 5, when it was decided to make an open-world gameplay halo, the game's idea was really good, but the initial development was chaotic; the engine used at the beginning of the game was even left behind by the previous generation of development studio Bungie, and the development efficiency was extremely slow Developers are often churned, affecting the progress of the project.
In the summer of 2019, due to too slow progress, the studio decided to reduce the product to two-thirds of the original, and the game was no longer an open world game. Even with such compromises, the development team didn't seem to be able to complete the project smoothly, and Microsoft informed them that Halo: Infinity must be the premiere of Xbox next-generation consoles, and must be launched in November 2020. The above things should sound very familiar to everyone, the former "Anthem" is a typical case, and the doctor speculates that "cyberpunk 2077", "Battlefield 2042" and other "semi-finished products" are also on the shelves.
Fortunately, after the Gorilla Incident, Joseph Staten, the current senior creative director of Xbox Game Studios, prevented the tragedy from happening, and after learning about the actual situation, he successfully persuaded Microsoft executives to postpone the launch of the product, because Halo: Infinity still needs more time to polish, such as: today's Marines can fight side by side with the Sergeant Commander (before they would only stand still) and so on. Of course, the game is also very complete, like the campaign mode of the two-player cooperation function will not be updated until next year, but the sincerity of the development team and Microsoft, I believe everyone can feel.
Truth be told, Halo Infinity isn't a perfect game, but it's a good quality masterpiece. After all, a semi-finished product can't win The Game Awards Player's Voice Award!