When will Phoenix be released?

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As Phoenix is as yet not officially announced, no release date has been set.

Rumor has it Phoenix will be released before Halo 2.

UPDATE: Since Phoenix has been cancelled, obviously it won't ever be released, and no release date was ever officially announced or even hinted at. The same is true of the as-yet unnamed replacement project that the Phoenix team is working on as of this writing.

These developments also discredit the source of the rumors that indicated Phoenix (or, indeed, any project from that team) would be released before Halo 2.

Does Phoenix use the Halo engine?

narcogen's picture

It is unknown at this time whether Phoenix uses the Halo engine, a modified Halo engine, or something entirely different. It is widely believed that it is either the Halo engine or something based on it.

Update:

After the cancellation of Phoenix, Matt Soell at Bungie was asked whether Phoenix used the Halo engine.

He replied:

The original basis was the Halo engine, but like Halo (which began as an evolution of the Myth engine) there were significant differences between Phoenix's engine and the original code.

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