Where will Halo 5 take place? This piece of concept art might give us a hint.
The first piece of concept art for the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians has been released by franchise development director Frank O'Connor in a blog post on the Halo Waypoint website. From the looks of it, we could be looking at a whole new planet to explore in Halo 5:
First off, the planet has two suns and seems to be a whole lot of desert. Some kind of advanced species lives on it, though, from the looks of the city within the rock. Is this a Covenant world maybe? Are those Engineers flying in the sky? We know they defected from the Covenant during their war with humanity. This species has a special connection to technology and cyberspace. Largely support and hacker units, have they been possessed by some kind of Forerunner technology? Also, on the far right, is that some kind of statue of the Didact?
O'Connor said in the blog post:
"It’s quite likely that Bonnie’s 2015 release announcement today surprised no one in the Halo community. In fact, I suspect most of you who read the Halo Bulletin regularly anticipate there’s even more to come. Well you might be right, but we’ll have significantly more to say about that at E3 and beyond. Suffice it to say, another shoe has yet to drop.
"But getting the Halo 5: Guardians announce out of the way is a big weight off our shoulders. This audience has correctly stated and assumed that you can’t necessarily squish a full Halo game into anything less than a three year development schedule – and at least up to and including Halo 5: Guardians, that’s more or less true.
"But we’re not just making a new game in that three year span, we’re also making a new engine. During the development of Halo 4, we pushed the Xbox 360 and the engine to its limits, and we were happy with the way we were able to make the Halo universe look. The Xbox 360 still has a few tricks up its sleeve, even now. We are moving to a whole new platform with the Xbox One – a new architecture, new graphics hardware and bluntly some new ways to think about gaming, period.
"Bonnie also called out 60fps and dedicated servers last year – attractive, desirable, and possibly expected upgrades to the Halo experience. After all, we won’t be the first 60fps shooter out there. That said, these must-haves are not necessarily easy to achieve."
What do you think? Is this our first real glimpse into Halo 5: Guardians? Tell us in the comments.
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