Bungie's Destiny

So the great looking Halo 4 hits our UK stores tomorrow but has a new developer in the form of 343 Industries. What this means is that Bungie are free to go onto their next project which we now know is code named ‘Destiny’.

Unlike the exclusive Microsoft franchise, Destiny is being published by Activision and as the Zampella/West trial  documents show this is due to be a four part ‘sci-fantasy, action shooter’ series - so not completely unlike Halo either. The games are due to start being released from winter 2013 followed by bi-yearly sequels from 2015 to 2019.

It has also been noted that in the down time years in-between Bungie will be working on four large scale expansions known as ‘Comet’ which start in 2014.

Bungie originally signed on with Activision in 2010 and rumours of the Destiny codename began to emerge in February of the following year. Reports have suggested that the game could also be a first-person MMO. When asked about the series, and even with the court documents going public, neither party have formally announced nor confirmed that series in any form.

According to the court documents, provided for the trial, the first of the Destiny game will definitely be available on Xbox 360 as well as ‘the next successor console platform released by Microsoft’. The contract refer to this as the Xbox 720 and could mean that this would do a similar thing as King Kong when the Xbox 360 was released – bridging the gap between the hardware generations.

While the Xbox 360 version is expect in the winter of 2013 the contract also states that the same game will hit PlayStation 3 in winter of 2014 after a ‘joint technical feasibility analysis’ is used to determine whether the game ‘is able to be developed for the PS3 at quality and feature parity to the Xbox 360 version.’  A PC version of the games is also mentioned as is Sony’s next generation console dubbed PlayStation 4 in the documentation.

Destiny has had a few pieces of concept art already released via Bungie in August 2011 but none of these have any clear cut details of the game itself.

The game has been quoted as a ‘WOW in Space’ which pretty much correlates with the MMO FPS title it’s being dubbed as. A beta has also been mentioned which is common practice in the online multiplayer genre as well as server maintenance.

Destiny has already become a very interesting idea due to Bungie’s large fan base and exceptional work with the Halo series. It’s now all about waiting for a detailed announcement or firstly some sort of confirmation of its existence to the public in the first place.