The “Break it Down” Blog

Over at VE3D they have a portion of an interview from EGM with the Halo team that goes:

“We’re not dumb,” says Bungie’s Frank O’Conner. “We know that people want it and we’re trying to make it happen. I think the biggest problem for us for online co-op is that we have a situation where you can be in a Warthog with five troops, almost a mile away from the other player. That’s a significant challenge. And there’s lots of design things you could do to prevent that from happening, but they would make it not feel like Halo anymore. If we can make it happen in a way that works well, we will - and if it works badly, we won’t.”

And as Andrew points out:

• Crackdown did it just fine
• Rainbow Six did it just fine
• Gears of War did it, and used a “jump ahead” mechanism to stop it… how many people pissed and moaned about that? No one…

So hopefully if we send them a bunch of hate mail, they’ll realize some co-op is better than more fucking Death Match (yay 1994!)