Do you really think they are going to have the Halo 3 design of Cortana in Halo 6?
Hmm, who's talking about Cortana? I'm only referencing the fauna as Covenant species since they
do have modern 3D models using the old art direction ready to be used, but they prefer to use their own art direction as, as they said, an introduction to the Halo universe.
So, I'm just assuming by their words and visual demonstration on Halo Recruit the new art direction represents what is the Halo fauna now (since, if you introduce people to your world using VR and you are planning to go back to the old art direction within your next title, then that would be awkward to chose something you don't plan to use anymore further in your game).
Regarding Cortana, I'm actually pretty fine with what they did to her in term of art and visual (but not so about the narrative ofc).
Trying to gather anything from a small cheap little test experience probably made in Halo 5's engine isn't the best guess.
That's why I pointed this may more a controlled experience than a new branch for a new direction toward what's Halo now.
Still, I can only point the lack of ambition, or imagination, from my perspective ofc, to offer a 2D shooter within an AR world within a UNSC simulator using their new art direction. It wouldn't cost much to offer the same thing but on a Halo ring or anything else, which would be, imo, more representative of the Halo universe.
But that's just, you know, my opinion.
Also, from what I'm aware, Halo 5's engine isn't VR ready, so they are mostly using Unity (which is the go-to engine sponsored by Microsoft for any VR/AR/MR creation made on the Windows platform, and is easy to handle from what I've working on with it), so I wasn't suggesting we should take everything for granted (like, I didn't talk about dual wedding returning even if that's the basic mechanic of this VR experience).
Small budget, probably not a whole bunch of time to make it, and MS probably wanted it to be small for the launch of MR so they can easily demo it at stores (which is where I will be trying it out to see if I want a MR headset)
Sure, totally agree, better a small glimpse ordered by MS to showcase VR with a well-known branded name than nothing. That doesn't change my opinion regarding what they think is a good introduction to the Halo universe, but I will put that on the small budget and reusing assets.
I would say I'm quite disappointed it's not a MR experience I can use with Hololens (as I'm aware, I may have missed something about this) as I would have loved to get some Elites/Grunt in my room.
