While trolling digg this morning, I came across weird stories as usual. Usually they are game related but totally illegitimate b.s from unknown sites. You know the type..."Sega releasing Dreamcast 2!"
However, Matt Casimisima from IGN (their resident Nintendo fanboy ) wrote a bizarre blog yesterday that I really feel is worth pointing out. Here's the copy first, then the link:
Amazingly, the ill-fated DS version of the title plays remarkably well. Think Metroid Prime Hunters but with a Halo facelift. I had the opportunity to run through the beginning beach area and noted while playing that it looked like Xbox Halo except on DS, it was running fast, and the control was responsive. The trademark Halo music even played out of the tiny speakers of Nintendo's handheld. It is really, truly a damned shame that certain publishers couldn't make this happen because it would have undoubtedly been a huge hit and would have only furthered the popularity of DS and the Halo franchise.
Now that DS is enjoying a clear lead over PSP and the Halo franchise is bigger than ever, I'd like to see this game-that-could-have-been actually come to exist on the retail market. It's too good of an idea and the execution is too impressive to let it collect dust in the forgotten cabinet of a publisher's vaporware library.
Would you buy Halo on DS?
http://blogs.ign.com/Matt-IGN/2007/01/04/42284/p2
What do you guys think? Is Matt pulling our legs? This sounds believable. But i just can't believe a dev house would go that far into production without Microsoft's full backing. Hmmm...