Insider Confirms Halo 2 Anniversary Devs

There’s been a lot of talk around the possibility of Halo 2 Anniversary releasing this year, perhaps on 11th November - exactly ten years after the original release on the first Xbox. The first leak, now almost six months old, promised as much, but Microsoft has neither confirmed nor denied anything so far.

A few hours ago, though, insider Shinobi shared a few bits of information on Twitter. First of all, he assured one of his followers that the game is indeed coming; then, he confirmed that the game is being developed by Saber Interactive and Certain Affinity.

This makes sense, as they already worked on Halo Anniversary and it is known that they are doing something for Xbox One now. A couple of months ago, talking with IGN during GDC 2014, Head of Xbox Division and Microsoft Game Studios Phil Spencer heavily hinted that the main focus of the game would have to be multiplayer.

In this fictitious world where that game existed, it’s an easy answer: it has to be just the multiplayer experience that we all found in that first Halo 2 game. If you think about what happened in the franchise and what were the hallmark moments – when did duel wielding come in, when did another playable character that wasn’t Master Chief come in?

All the things that you and I know about the evolution of the franchise, if you’re going to say one thing about Halo 2, you’re going to talk about real multiplayer. I think you just have to nail that in just such a fundamentally core way. Frankly [we'd have to do it] probably better than we did with Halo 1 Anniversary. I thought the multiplayer in Halo 1 Anniversary was good, but Halo 1 never had multiplayer in the truest sense, so it always was going to be something different.

If there were something called Halo 2 Anniversary, I think the multiplayer would have to be fantastic.

Would you buy Halo 2 Anniversary on Xbox One? Anyway, we should get an official announcement with more information in a couple of weeks during E3.