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Epic Games’ Mark Rein isn’t one to shy away from giving his opinion, and when CVG recently caught up with him he was very open about his thoughts on the Halo franchise and the way Microsoft has been handling the final instalment in the trilogy.
Although full of praise for the Halo series, Rein felt that showing the single-player game at E3 was a bad choice.
“I think that [showing the single-player campaign] hurt Halo 3 at E3,” said Rein. “Halo 3 didn’t win any game of the show awards that I could see. Well, because they didn’t have to show Halo. There was no need.“
He went on to add: “I’m sure if they’d actually had a big Halo 3 presence, if Microsoft had set up eight machines or 12 or 16 machines so you could sit and play it, it would have won all kinds of awards. But they don’t need to because, like me, everyone’s already placed their order… So I think that worked against them at E3.“
Despite some criticism directed at the showing of the single-player game, Rein said it was a “smart move” by Microsoft not to focus too much on Halo 3.
“What they wanted to do was highlight all the other great games… that are on Xbox 360 too so people don’t just think it’s a Halo box. They don’t care, they’re going to sell eight million of them anyway,” Rein said.
Mixed opinions then, but Rein is still a massive Halo fan; he’s already ordered the Halo 3 Legendary Edition: “I’m buying it – you don’t have to sell me any more on Halo,” he said.
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