The scale of the battles is far bigger in scope in Halo: Reach, allowing us to witness some pretty amazing scenes, including one where you're manning a gun turret in a chopper as it flies over a battle involving scores of Warthog jeeps and Scorpion tanks facing off against the Covenant in a land battle. Above this battle, the sky is thick with Banshee-on-Falcon dogfights, while, further in the distance, an immense Covenant mothership is bombarding the planet. It's absolutely epic stuff.
Bungie veteran and current CTO, Luis Villegas, has left the company after fourteen years and has joined Sony PlayStation as its new Head of Technology.
"I feel incredibly lucky because as part of my new role I get to still work closely with my Bungie family."
New role and more pay and still can work closely with Bungie
Bungie - "Join our development team to see the new updates arriving with Destiny 2: The Final Shape. Releasing on June 4, 2024."
Amid ongoing anxiety within Bungie following layoffs last year, the studio is now preparing for another shakeup, this time on Marathon.
Talk about mismanaged Bungie is a studio of tremendous potential and have made some of the greatest shooters to date. Sony pushed them to just make another Destiny style game and consult on other studios live service games and are now getting thrown under a bus as the pivot away from predominantly gaas games is unfolding.
I'd love to see a world where Bungie can focus on telling great sci fi stories again away from a live service dungeon but we all know that's a pipe dream
Are you serious? Do you just talk out of your arse naturally, or did it take years of being a POS?
You normally get so offended by internet comments or did it take years of being soft
Yes I see your point mate, someone clearly didn’t read the article.
Specifically the bit:
“Notably, multiple sources at the time and since have shared that Sony has largely left the studio to sort out its own troubles and was not responsible for the layoffs, with CEO Pete Parsons taking responsibility.“
He’s just spouting nonsense
lol what so fucking hilarious is that you called him out so bad he projected him being offended onto you.
Its been well documented that Bungie's management has been more responsible for their shortfalls, even mentioned in said article that we are commenting on.
Its ok, just admit you didn't read the article.
I like how for some, it is never Bungie's fault. Microsoft, Activision, and now Sony - it is everyone else who is pushing Bungie to make all these bad decisions.
Thrown under the bus?
Are you joking? This is all Bungie, we all thought it was 100% Activision but it's clear the higher ups at Bungie don't have a clue how to run the studio and are more bothered about saving their own skin and the money that they rake in.
Sony gave them an extra $1.2 Billion to make sure that employees didn't leave and they didn't have to cut anyones jobs. Where did that money go because Bungie still cut peoples jobs and I bet you the higher management still kept a hold of their big fact paychecks and bonuses.
Sony invested poorly in this and the best thing they can do now is throw the old Bungie management out and take hold of the studio fully.
Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Somebody at Bungie is the golden goose making great shooting mechanics, and the rest need to justify their paychecks.
This studio has had three owners and its never worked well with any of them....Management has issues
Worked very well for Microsoft. Microsoft’s mistake was letting Bungie go.
it worked so well with MS that they so wanted to be away from them they bought the company back. Only to do it again with activision-blizzard, and then sold to Sony...Sony shouldn't have bought them...Bungie hasnt been the same for a long time..
I am a playstation fanboy but this game looks good.
Makes me wish I would have won the Halo Reach contest.
I thought they gave it a 10. Anyways, great score.
I thought it was a 10 originally, but 9 is still a good score.
Good to see that Ign is finally not giving Halo Reach's graphics a 9.5+ cause I really don't understand how that's justified given that there are way more better looking games on the market.
This score although good doesn't make any sense.
it is complicated to give points for graphics and sound.
Reviews should make sub categories for graphics such Art design , level of detail (polygons), frame rate etc.
Art direction seems more important then how many thousands of polygons is in the face of a character for the reviewes at least. And I agree with that in part.
that is why Halo Reach got lots of 10s so far because of the beautifull art direction. Same like games such Mario Galaxy 2 or God of War3 in 2010.
But yah, as a PS3 fanboy I would say that UC2 ,tecnically speaking, destroyes Halo Reach because it has more body animatiom, facial animation, lots of beautifull cut scenes etc.
But when you consider "art direction" category then UC2, Metroid Prime 3m MG2, GoW3 or Valkyria Chronicles are "equaly"beautifull.
I respect that and grats to the Xbox360 users for getting an awesome game !