Halo Channel Launches On iOS And Android, New ‘Halo 5’ Story Info Revealed
Developer 343 Industries announced today at San Diego Comic-Con that the Halo Channel, a channel devoted to all things Halo, is now available on iOS and Android devices. What’s interesting is that the channel is not yet available on the Windows phone, however, the channel will launch when Windows 10 rolls out on phones soon.
The Halo Channel App is available to download now from the Google Play store, iTunes App Store in addition to the platforms it’s already available on, such as Windows 8 and Xbox One. The Halo Channel now includes the new ViDoc 343 Industries revealed at San Diego Comic-Con in its entirety, now available to watch on the new platforms.
Developer 343 also revealed a teaser trailer for the new animated series, Halo: The Fall of Reach, which explores the origins of Master Chief and Blue Team. In the ViDoc, Halo: A Hero Reborn, 343 introduces “Blue Team,” which looks to be the team we see Master Chief with during the Halo: Forward Unto Dawn miniseries that debuted before Halo 4 was released.
Speaking of the ViDoc mentioned above, Halo 5: Guardians looks to keep Master Chief at the center of the story, though the player will be controlling both Blue Team with the Chief, and Fireteam Osiris, as Locke looks to hunt down the Master Chief and find out what is threatening the galaxy. The developers are looking to make things more interesting by adding the more “human” elements to the game, and this starts with adding Spartan Locke and his team.
“We’ve got this big, galaxy spanning story,” narrative lead Brian Reed explains in the video. “There’s all these attacks that are happening on colonies. There’s this massive destruction that’s happening. ‘Somebody stop it! Somebody save the day!’ But at the heart of it, there’s this story of these two families and these two things that they want. And if you don’t have those quiet human stories, it doesn’t matter how many planets you blow up. Nobody’s going to care.”
Halo 5: Guardians is the second attempt at an original Halo game for 343 Industries after the studio took the helm from original creator Bungie. Halo 5 is 343 Industries’ chance to prove that the critical success Halo 4 recieved wasn’t a fluke, that this team is “worthy” to take the mantle and expand the universe. Developer 343 is looking to make Halo 5: Guardians a 60 FPS shooter, much like Call of Duty and other modern FPS titles, but it needs to be more than just 60 FPS for Microsoft to stand tall among its competitors.
Halo 5: Guardians will launch this fall on Xbox One. Make sure you check out the video doc, with download links to the Halo Channel here.
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