| Mail |

You might also like: WoW Insider, Massively, and more

More Sites You Might Like

/ Register

Joystiq

Halo: Combat Evolved and the battle for boats

by David Hinkle on Sep 4th 2010 5:30PM

During development of the original Halo: Combat Evolved, Bungie actually created a working boat. One map in particular was discussed during today's Bungie panel at PAX 2010 -- an area with several islands where the player would have to navigate from one to the other via watercraft. Bungie showed a video of an early rendering of the craft in use, which very much looked like a futuristic version of a cigarette boat.

In the end, it was cut from the game -- not because it didn't handle well, but because "it wasn't fun." Personally, we would've liked to try our hand at aquatic Haloing, but then again we're huge fans of Miami Vice.

Tags: boat, bungie, Bungie-Studios, Halo, Halo-Combat-Evolved, microsoft, Microsoft-Game-Studios, pax, pax-2010, pax-prime, pax-prime-2010, xbox

Reader Comments (29)

That would've been a great way to tie water-rafting from Kinect Adventures into Reach.

/s

water combat is rarely fun in FPS... look at BFBC 2's water combat, its almost none existent, or fun. Everyone rather be a Wookiee or fly the heli.

@PR0F3TA Driving a boat up land to fly in the air and land on a guy and proceed to pump away grenades isnt fun?

@PR0F3TA Interesting because driving water vehicles is one of favorite things to do in the game.

It would've been interesting but who wants a Halo: Windwaker?

@Prboi

Halo: The WindWaker
feat. Mister Chief

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4957791871_c64056a46e.jpg

@Peter Moore

Cel-shaded MC is so terrible it made my eyes bleed.

@Prboi

And UGH at the thought of a Covenant Water Temple.

@BrokenTriforce
BURN IT!! BURN IT WITH FIRE!!

I wonder if jet packs will last long enough/have enough power for you to fly from one location of forge world to another with out having to make it unlimited in custom settings, maybe if you feather it just right you could, cant wait to try it :-)

@Pennegan Forge World is pretty huge, man, I dunno. Although it's slightly less awesome, wouldn't it be better to just hit up on the D-pad and turn into a monitor to buzz over to wherever you need to be?

@Electrium

yeah thats true, but it might be some kind of record or something you know... "longest flight by jet pack without touching the ground" lol I'll try it and save the vid if I pull it off.

@Pennegan Custom settings during forge world/custom games :D

@Pennegan

They've already announced that there are custom settings in Forge this time around that let you turn on things like instant refill for armor abilities and the like.

Master Chief walking around with rolled up sleeves.

I approve.

(of the picture)

@Bedlight

Never thought I'd be in a Halo game!

Joystiq always has the best photoshopped pictures.

@TheMichaelJackson I'm just grateful they don't scribble "also cocks" on every photo they post. The same can't be said for at least one gaming blog...

" I got my swim trunks and my flippy-floppies.
I'm flippin' burgers, you at Kinko's straight flippin' copies!"

Excellent pic guys. Love this song.

Like Kevin Garnett, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLEEEEEEEEEEE

I'm on a boat

Image approved

You know, I never even thought about the absence of boats in Halo. Guess they designed around the variety well enough so that I didn't feel the need for some boatin' (except the Library).

Im on a Ghost bitch
A motherf***ing ghost

This is interesting and all, but how bout showing us a rendering or the video??? CMON joystiq

@schaeff48

CMON MAN! How are they going to post up something they don't have and that Bungie isn't releasing???

@schaeff48

Yeah, it was a video Bungie showed and the rendering itself was very basic. There weren't any textures and it was maybe three seconds long, despite them talking about boats for much longer. Sorry I couldn't get that for you.

Still BFF?

@Dave Hinkle
im sorry you had to listen to boat stories, those are never fun.
didn't realize it was such a short clip instead of a video showcasing it in action. why the hell were they even talking about it?

If they like to remove boring stuff then why did we have to run through a ship of Flood for such a long time in order to find Cortana in Halo 3? I swear, I have never wanted anything to end as much as I wanted that to end when I replayed the Campaign for 3 last night.

Also... if you think about it boats would be MASSIVE targets.

Sorry, you must be logged in to leave a comment.

Breaking News