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August 16, 2009 Link to this post
The game is crap - and it uses stupid colors.
Hindsight can be amazing. Gamasutra sat down with Ed Fries, who was the Microsoft VP of Game Publishing when the Xbox hit the market back in 2001, and he had some interesting things to say about Halo. (Well, about a lot of things, but we're a Halo fansite, after all.) Microsoft had no intention of making Halo the flagship for the console; in fact, they'd gotten feedback that Halo was going to be terrible. Someone had done a color analysis, and come to the conclusion that Halo had used all the wrong colors for a console game. As it turned out, the experts were totally off-target... but Fries gets props for sticking with his marketing plans in the face of analyst scorn. The interview is a fun read; take a stroll down memory lane! (Louis Wu 19:17:30 UTC)
