The Halo thread

The chances of them calling the third Halo game by anything that doesn't begin with Halo is probably so miniscule that for all practical purposes we can call it zero. Fable was called Project Ego for a while before they made the switch to calling it Fable, and it wasn't even a sequel to one of the most popular games in a console generation. From a purely marketing perspective, calling Halo 3 something that does not include the word Halo, to make its tie to a hugely popular franchise as obvious as possible, is something only an amateur would do. If you make a sequel to a game that was not well received or a high seller, you change the title in an effort to distance yourself from the previous game. Example being when Shadow Hearts was released. It is a fairly direct sequel to a PSX game {Koudelka} that did not sell very well, so instead of calling it Koudelka 2, or something else that would make its ties to a previous game in the series, they chose to call it Shadow Hearts. This is, of course, purely speculation on my part.

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