Bungie: We explored making Halo 4

As Bungie was deciding on its last Halo game, there was some serious talk about bringing back the Master Chief and developing and out-and-out Halo 4. Taking to MTV Multiplayer Blog, community director Brian Jarrard said: “”Even before the idea to build a game based around Reach came about, a lot of other concepts were explored, up to and including a proper ‘Halo 4,’ where Master Chief was going to wake up from cryo-sleep and we were going to tell that story.”

To be honest, we’re pretty damn happy Bungie decided against this. The end of Halo 3 was a little wishy-washy as it was, and trying to shoehorn yet another return of the Chief may have been too much to take. Let’s face it – Mr Spartan has had his day now and we’re all best leaving it there… until 343 Industries ultimately brings him back!