IGN - Halo 3 in Production?

[ubersaurus]

If they do this, it will be the 3rd Halo game that is rushed out the door.

How so? PS3 doesn't come out til next year. They've already got a story for it. Chances are they'll end up using the havok engine again, and I'm pretty sure at this point in their life they've got enough staff members to work on both halo 3 and their next game.

They wouldn't have been rushed with halo 2 if they had, you know, started work on it BEFORE E3 2003.

I thought that the Xbox 2 (or whatever its going to be called) is slated to be released later this year. From everything that I've heard it will most certainly be out before the PS3. Doesn't it make sense then that Hale 3 will be a Xbox 2 game and therefore use a different graphic engine?

Havok is a physics engine. I'm not sure how much of Halo 3 they got done working on halo 2 as far as levels designs go, but if they have some already, that'll cut time down. They've already got plenty of sound effects recorded from the first two games-it'd be mostly dialogue and actually making the levels and the graphics that'd suck the time. Which still, with the kind of staff bungie has now, should be enough.

As for Halo 2 downloadable maps, they've been hinting that they'll be out within a couple weeks, and that there's a number of them that are coming together (at least 2, but I'm expecting more like 4 or 5).

[Vectorman0]

So that's where all of the "downloadable" content went...
I wonder if we will ever get to see a decent map put up for download, or if they all went to be used in Halo 3.