Halo Creator Creates Reality TV-Game

Wait a minute! A Halo Reality TV game? This has to be a joke, right? Nope, afraid not folks. It would appear that the gaming industry has just sold out big time…

Halo co-creator Alex Seropian and head of Bungie Studios until 2002, has become involved in an odd experiment involving the creation of a reality TV/Sci-Fi/video game hybrid.

The video game will be created by Spectrum Mediaworks, the company founded by Seropian after leaving Bungie. The TV show will be produced by Ron Howard’s company and the similarities with Apollo 13 are stressed by those involved. The project carries the title X-Quest although its creators claim that the X will be substituted by a more appropriate word at a later stage in development.

Fox, the network that will air X-Quest, has hinted that the TV show will attempt to immerse its players just like a video game. Two teams of seven-to-ten players will occupy NASA constructed space simulators called Biocrafts and will be filmed with hidden cameras over a period of 30 days. The immersive experience will be enhanced by means of CGI and high-end computer graphics. The players will remain in the capsules for long periods of time and will be called upon to complete various missions which will include excursions onto planets where participants will not be able to see the film crews. Players will have to endure extreme conditions such as cold, heat, claustrophobia and psychological distress. Source: MegaGames

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