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I watched the video. The game in that trailer could just as easily have been a tactical RTS with a cinematic camera as a FPS (note the complete absence of firs
by InitialLastName 5y ago
I watched the video. The game in that trailer could just as easily have been a tactical RTS with a cinematic camera as a FPS (note the complete absence of first-person shots).
- mig39 5y agoRight! For sure. But according to https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwqjg3/the-complete-untold-history-of-halo-an-oral-history https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwqjg3/the-complete-untold-h... It was already an FPS by 1998, 2 years before Microsoft was involved, and a year before the video shown above. They started as an RTS, then decided it was way too much fun to actually drive the vehicles, and the rest is history. Microsoft definitely helped with the development, but Microsoft bought a FPS game, not an RTS one.