Summary
- Had Halo Infinite stuck to its 10-year plan, the game would have had multiple multiplayer modes, as well as yearly campaign updates.
- The information comes from a new YouTube video, which gives fans a glimpse at what was in the works.
- Among the planned additions is a Battle Royale mode, along with a campaign update centered on Atriox.
Back in July 2020, 343 Industries, which has since been renamed Halo Studios, shared that there wouldn’t be a Halo Infinite 2. Rather, the existing Halo Infinite would serve as a platform for future updates, including story content.
“We want Infinite to grow over time, versus going to those numbered titles and having all that segmentation that we had before,” studio head Chris Lee said at the time. “It’s really about creating Halo Infinite as the start of the next ten years for Halo and then building that as we go with our fans and community.”
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In the end, almost none of that came to pass. While the game did receive five seasons’ worth of content, it never received a sixth, instead moving to “Operations.” Now, via a new YouTube video from creator Rebs Gaming, we now have an idea of what that 10-year plan was set to bring.
Campaigns And Battle Royale Galore
According to the video, the Halo Infinite multiplayer experience was originally expected to launch in 2019, touting it as “the lowest barrier of entry to any Halo game.” Instead, the experience came in 2021.
Multiple “large-scale” game modes were also seemingly planned for multiplayer, including the canceled battle royale experience. On the campaign side, it was meant to be released a year later in 2020, with features including “evergreen” content and “deep replayability.”
The campaign experience would have also been the subject of yearly updates, eliminating the waiting time between numbered Halo titles. One such update was titled “Atriox’s Reign,” which would have brought a “Warlord” system to the game. That system sounds a lot like the Nemesis System that Warner Bros. patented, in that the pitch slide mentions taking down “Atriox’s Warlords one by one to reach the seat of his power.”
For Halo fans, it’s a rather unfortunate look at what could have been had Halo Studios stayed the course. At the very least, Halo isn’t going anywhere, though it might be a while before a new entry sees the light of day.
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