{"id":2539,"date":"2017-02-25T15:10:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T22:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/future-halo-games-will-once-again-include-split-screen-multiplayer\/"},"modified":"2017-02-25T15:10:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T22:10:49","slug":"future-halo-games-will-once-again-include-split-screen-multiplayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/future-halo-games-will-once-again-include-split-screen-multiplayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Halo games will once again include split-screen multiplayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bonnie Ross, ask<\/a> corporate vice president at Microsoft Studios and head of 343 Studios, approved<\/a> confirmed this week<\/a> at the DICE 2017 gaming summit that all future FPS Halo<\/em> games will \u201calways have split-screen going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news comes after the removal of local cooperative play<\/a> in 2015\u2019s Halo 5: Guardians<\/em>, which was the first Halo<\/em> game in the series to lack the feature. That decision was met with considerable backlash from fans, especially given the Halo<\/em> franchise\u2019s long history as a couch co-op and LAN party mainstay. <\/p>\n

According to 343, split-screen was cut in Halo 5<\/em> to better focus on the “massive scale environments, improved AI behavior, increased visual and gameplay fidelity<\/a>,\u201d a somewhat strange move given both squad-based mechanics of that…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bonnie Ross, ask corporate vice president at Microsoft Studios and head of 343 Studios, approved confirmed this week at the DICE 2017 gaming summit that all future FPS Halo games will \u201calways have split-screen going forward.\u201d The news comes after the removal of local cooperative play in 2015\u2019s Halo 5: Guardians, which was the first… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t