Long-standing Halo guru and current 343 Industries studio head Frank O’Connor has called Halo: The Master Chief Collection a “black eye” and asserted the same won’t be true for the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians.
“We’re not going to rest on our laurels or hide from the mistakes we made,” O’Connor said to Xbox Achievements. “I will say that the nature of The Master Chief Collection – you’ve got five different game engines, you’ve got five different studios working on it, you’ve got 343 working on putting it all together – the footprint and complexity was outrageous.”
O’Connor said work on The Master Chief Collection isn’t finished.
“We’ve been sort of scrambling to get it first in a playable stage and now we’re going to get it in a polished stage, so that people are getting what they deserved in the first place. We’re never going to back away from that or shy away from that.”
O’Connor said people shouldn’t worry about Halo 5.
“Halo 5 is being made by a completely different team. It’s a singular product. It was built from the ground up for this new technology, rather than being sort of dragged kicking and screaming from 2001 and forced and shoehorned into a 2014 console.
“I think the beta is already a decent first step, in a retail environment, showing that we don’t have the same problems.”
Halo 5: Guardians will be available from 27 October on Xbox One.
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