Mr Vociferous said:We've been known to be this from time to time when it comes to details. We're glad you guys liked it.
Now let's play Q&A for realz::-o
- Who is this Maddie character? What does she know that makes her important or is she a character which is only meant to provide an emotional anchor for the player a la Dominic Santiago's "Maria" in the Gears of War story?
- Are the ODSTs there for to locate Regret's artifact - the Forerunner gateway - or is it something else? Could they eventually be part of the team which sights the Chief as he falls from the dreadnought, as in the "Halo: Landfall" shorts?
- Who is inside the lone HEV? The ONI spook named DARE? The ODST team leader? Or was it just an artistic nod to the concept of the HEV drop within the context of the game?
- What's with this time anomaly? Is time actually speeding up or is the Superintendent's corruption causing it?
- Gamespot compared this game to GRAW and Gears, so will it be third-person despite presumably using the Halo 3 engine? Halo 3 has excellent third-person animations, but is there enough there to have it work fluidly as an expansion on Halo 3? Will there be a cover system in lieu of a shield? Will there be mantling instead of jumping, like most third-person games? Will it have a commander system?
- How many players will this support cooperatively? How many players would be realistically be fun? 4? 8? 16? Could a game support four fire teams of four?
- Will the space tether's fall, if it does actually happen during the game, be the most bad ass cinematic in the history of the galaxy or even universe?
- Will the M6D come back, per Ryan's joke/comment during the podcast earlier?
- Will this release as an Xbox Live download or a retail disc? Will the new maps be released alone as downloadable content this Fall, followed in January by a retail disc with all of the maps and the campaign for this new game?
- What genre is the game?
- What is it called?
- Since Live calls it out as a Campaign, does that mean there is no MP, just co-op?
- Will it come bundled with the Halo 3 MP experience (Mythic)?
- Do the 16 pods splitting off from the main group mean it's 16-player?
- Is that last lone pod coming down at the end Maddie?
- Why can't I feel love?
- How will we interact with this Superintendent AI? Is he helpful, or gone haywire?
- What timeframe will the game cover? We seem to know when it starts - what's the scope? Do we leave Earth?