The way that health works in Nintendo’s Yoshi’s Island actually served as inspiration for Microsoft’s Halo FPS game.
Tag: Halo
Things I Like: Halo: The Fall of Reach (2015 Film)
Halo has been one of the biggest video game franchises ever since it launched on the original Xbox in 2001. Shortly afterwards they wrote a novel called Halo: The Fall of Reach which covered the early history of Master Chief and the Spartan programs. I heard the novel was pretty good but I never read…
Things I Hate: Halo Legends (2010 Film)
Halo is one of my favorite video game series of all time, but I never really watched any work based on the series until now. They were also some novels made but I never read those either. While I’m a bigger fan of Halo’s multiplayer, this movie is based on mostly what happens before the…
Things I Like: Halo 4 (Xbox 360)
When Bungie announced that they were quitting the Halo series, and that Halo 4 would be developed by the new guys at 343 Industries I was a bit skeptical. I remember when Twisted Metal switched teams, and how bad the 3rd game of that series was. But I have to say, the team at 343…
Video Game History: Halo (Cancelled PC/Mac Game)
While we all remember Halo as the FPS that revolutionized the genre in 2001 on Xbox, it wasn’t originally going to be for Xbox. Not even a FPS game either. Before Microsoft nabbed Bungie, it was originally suppose to be a 3rd person strategy game for PC and Mac. Looks really rough, but at least…