Before Modern Warfare, Infinity Ward was planning a Halo killer

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Before the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, developer Infinity Ward toyed with the idea of trying to compete with Halo. Broken into two teams, one worked on Call of Duty while the other did some early concept design on a “Halo killer” that never managed to leave the drawing room.

Coming off the success of Call of Duty 2, the studio was conflicted on where to go next as Treyarch handled Call of Duty 3. A pair of projects were decided on: another World War II-themed Call of Duty, and a sci-fi shooter that would emulate, and hopefully compete with, the Halo series.

According to studio art director Joel Emslie, by way of Game Informer, the preferred option was chasing down Master Chief. “It was a moment where we really wanted to take down Halo really bad, and we wanted to create a Halo killer,” Joel said. “Part of the studio went off and was working on another game to do that.”

The indecisiveness didn’t suit them, and eventually everyone bandied together and pooled ideas to make a contemporary Call of Duty. A fortunate turn, as Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare dam near turned the industry on its head overnight, out-grossing Halo 3 in the process.

It’s not surprising to hear Halo was on Infinity Ward’s mind during this time. Bungie’s initial trilogy was, and still is in many respects, a standard-bearer for mainstream single-player and multiplayer first-person shooters. As tempting as chasing that fanfare might have been, it’s hard to imagine whatever Infinity Ward came up with having the same impact as Modern Warfare.

Nothing has been publicly revealed of Infinity Ward’s Untitled Halo Killer, but the alien villains the Cryptid from Call of Duty: Ghosts are said to have more than a passing resemblance to an otherworldly race the team had cooked up.



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DanielPosted:

so glad they never went through with the Halo Killer that would've been a huge let down.

ZemaPosted:

thank god they did not do this halo killer thing and instead did modern warfare good call COD

-LSK-Posted:

Seems 343 did a good job on killing halo, no need to compete with a game that's already dying?

OGTrey079Posted:

Mario350 good times that was back when they had control over what to make and wasnt forced to make cod every other year, im glad ea has the real infinity ward well activision has the wanna bes who couldnt even make a good cod since ghost, yes ghost wasnt bad at all it was meant to be a big game which is why mp had big maps


I think i lost a few brain cells reading this

Mario350Posted:

good times that was back when they had control over what to make and wasnt forced to make cod every other year, im glad ea has the real infinity ward well activision has the wanna bes who couldnt even make a good cod since ghost, yes ghost wasnt bad at all it was meant to be a big game which is why mp had big maps

jkisklPosted:

LostPhone
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Maze Such a futuristic cod would get so much hate it's not even funny. Imagine competing with a pretty dead game as well as your goal.


Halo is no where near dead. Pretty sure they recently had the largest cash prize competition ever for Esports. (1 mil) until fortnite beat them the other day. (3 mil) I could be mistaken. But to me that doesn't say dead. They have a really loyal fan base and have done tons of other things recently besides the game.


only zoomers play halo now


Yet you probably play fortnite

RedactedPosted:

Maze Such a futuristic cod would get so much hate it's not even funny. Imagine competing with a pretty dead game as well as your goal.


Well would it? This was a decade ago

LostPhonePosted:

Two_Faced
Maze Such a futuristic cod would get so much hate it's not even funny. Imagine competing with a pretty dead game as well as your goal.


Halo is no where near dead. Pretty sure they recently had the largest cash prize competition ever for Esports. (1 mil) until fortnite beat them the other day. (3 mil) I could be mistaken. But to me that doesn't say dead. They have a really loyal fan base and have done tons of other things recently besides the game.


only zoomers play halo now

Two_FacedPosted:

Maze Such a futuristic cod would get so much hate it's not even funny. Imagine competing with a pretty dead game as well as your goal.


Halo is no where near dead. Pretty sure they recently had the largest cash prize competition ever for Esports. (1 mil) until fortnite beat them the other day. (3 mil) I could be mistaken. But to me that doesn't say dead. They have a really loyal fan base and have done tons of other things recently besides the game.

AnimePosted:

This is one great game so far.