--- title: Frank O'Connor Reacts to Criticism of Halo 5's Campaign description: And discusses what Halo 6 will be about canonical: https://time.com/4090404/halo-5-frank-oconnor/ author: Matt Peckham article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-29T15:56:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:44:21.130Z article:section: Business og:title: Halo Designer Reacts to Criticism of Halo 5 og:description: And told us what Halo 6 will be about og:url: https://time.com/4090404/halo-5-frank-oconnor/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3acb851da96acc2/698869b1428a9e4886ccfc32/halo-5-guardians-2-e1466782179604.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: halo-5-guardians-2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Halo Designer Reacts to Criticism of Halo 5 twitter:description: And told us what Halo 6 will be about twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3acb851da96acc2/698869b1428a9e4886ccfc32/halo-5-guardians-2-e1466782179604.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Halo_'s Frank O'Connor Reacts to Criticism of _Halo 5_ > Sponsored content. 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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. The PMP is for experienced project managers and requires a combination of formal education and years of documented project leadership experience, making it a more advanced and globally recognized certification. #### How does PMI support social impact? PMI supports social impact by helping individuals, nonprofits, NGOs, and communities use project management to turn purpose into measurable outcomes. Through the PMI Educational Foundation, PMI expands access to project management education for youth worldwide, including underserved and underrepresented populations. Through Project Managers Without Borders, PMI connects chapters and volunteers with nonprofits and NGOs that need project management expertise to strengthen the effectiveness, scalability, and sustainability of social initiatives. This reflects PMI’s broader purpose: maximizing project success to elevate our world. ### Sources * Project Management Institute | [pmi.org](/c/pmi-2026-q3/home?i=8a7aafe6-3072-4e5b-a454-5d3952d4a062&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey—Fourteenth Edition" | [pmi.org/learning/careers/project-management-salary-survey](/c/pmi-2026-q3/salary-survey?i=8a7aafe6-3072-4e5b-a454-5d3952d4a062&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Global Project Management Talent Gap" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/global-project-management-talent-gap](/c/pmi-2026-q3/talent-gap?i=8a7aafe6-3072-4e5b-a454-5d3952d4a062&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Maximizing Project Success" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/project-success?i=8a7aafe6-3072-4e5b-a454-5d3952d4a062&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse Report 2025: Boosting Business Acumen” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/boosting-business-acumen](/c/pmi-2026-q3/business-acumen?i=8a7aafe6-3072-4e5b-a454-5d3952d4a062&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse of the Profession® 2026: Driving Success in Complex Projects” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/driving-success-in-complex-projects](/c/pmi-2026-q3/complex-projects?i=8a7aafe6-3072-4e5b-a454-5d3952d4a062&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Step Up: Redefining the Path to Project Success with M.O.R.E.” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/path-to-project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/more-mindset?i=8a7aafe6-3072-4e5b-a454-5d3952d4a062&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI Education Foundation, PMIEF 2024 Annual Report, [pmi.org PMIEF 2024 Annual Report (PDF)](/c/pmi-2026-q3/pmief-report?i=8a7aafe6-3072-4e5b-a454-5d3952d4a062&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) ### FAQ structured data (JSON-LD, optional) ## Video: Tech Time: Why Super Mario Bros. is One of the Best Video Games Ever Made [Watch (HLS stream): Tech Time: Why Super Mario Bros. is One of the Best Video Games Ever Made](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/b86vuoEJ.m3u8) (1:32)  _Published 2015-09-10. TIME Tech Editor talks about the genius of Super Mario Bros. as the NES game turns 30._ by [Matt Peckham](https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Oct 29, 2015 3:56 PM UTC  Microsoft by [Matt Peckham](https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Oct 29, 2015 3:56 PM UTC _Halo 5_‘s campaign didn’t exactly work for me, [this much I’ve written](http://time.com/4077354/halo-5-guardians-review-a-mediocre-story-with-terrific-multiplayer/). Not in snobbery. I don’t hate popular done-over-and-over-again things in principle, any more than I hate baseball, chess, or the Tour de France. As Stephen King put it in [his National Book Awards acceptance speech](http://www.nationalbook.org/nbaacceptspeech%5Fsking.html#.VjDX8YSMB-U), you “don’t get social or academic brownie points for deliberately staying out of touch with your own culture.” But popular doesn’t entail safe, and _Halo 5_‘s story, despite what I’m sure comprises an unfathomable amount of developmental work, feels too much like kicking back in the easy chair and putting your feet by the fire. Characters end the game as they began it. Even the twist at the end just feels like a tee-up for _Halo 6_. _Halo_ franchise development director Frank O’Connor graciously engaged some of my criticisms after I’d finished the game. Here’s what he told me: ## O’Connor has no qualms with players who can’t relate to the Chief “It’s totally a fair conversation to have, and I can’t disagree with how you felt about the game, you felt the way you felt,” says O’Connor, responding to my critique of Master Chief, the series’ icon, as an emotionally blank cipher for players. “It’s a tension that we’ve had, and something I’ve spoken about many times in the past, the fact that Chief is a vessel into which you pour your heroism.” “I think the difference in _Halo 5_ is that there are eight people you have to do that with, and for them to not simply be clones of the Chief moving around in that space, we had to properly characterize them. And that meant, because it ends up being more of a social experience, we had to make sure that the characters were actually reflecting each other and not simply ignoring each other.” “That said, this is a long running issue we’ve had with the Chief. Over the years, people have grafted their own feelings about the Chief onto the Chief. And sometimes that’s meant, like in your case, holding him as a sort of paragon of useful emptiness. And I think that’s a completely fair way to approach this character.” “But we’ve also got lot of other players who, maybe they’ve read the books, maybe they’ve just followed the games very closely, and they’ve projected their ideals about heroism onto the Chief, and actually given him far more personality than we ever have. So I’m not contradicting anything you’re saying, I’m just explaining the intent, and we certainly have got opinions contrary to yours, of people who enjoy that, and there are definitely Master Chief fans who’ve been literally asking for this.” ### See The 15 Best Video Game Graphics of 2014  Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Activision's futuristic first-person shooter in which players take on a rogue private military company uses a brand new engine built specifically for PCs and new-gen consoles to handle its cutting-edge lighting, animation and physics. Sledgehammer Games/Activision  Far Cry 4\. This pulled back shot of fictional Himalayan region Kyrat is in-game, believe it or not, rendered with an overhauled version of the engine Ubisoft used to design Far Cry 3. Ubisoft  The Last of Us: Remastered. Naughty Dog's meditation on the worst (and best) of humanity is built on technology that reaches back through the studio's pulp-adventure Uncharted series. The graphics are so impressive, TIME recently assigned a conflict photographer to photograph inside the game. Ashley Gilbertson for TIME  Alien: Isolation Built from scratch, the Alien: Isolation engine's outstanding deep space visuals all but replicate the set design of Alien film concept artists H.R. Giger and Ron Cobb's work. The Creative Assembly  Assassin's Creed Unity. Ubisoft says it "basically remade the whole rendering engine" in its AnvilNext design tool to handle the studio's meticulous recreation of Paris during the French Revolution. Ubisoft  Child of Light Inspired by filmmakers like Hayao Miyazaki and artist Yoshitaka Amano, Child of Light's hand-drawn artwork puts the lie to presumptions that graphical richness depends on shader support or polygon counts. Ubisoft  Destiny Built from scratch by ex-Halo studio Bungie, Destiny's game engine was designed to scale across the next decade, says the studio. Bungie  Mario Kart 8 Nintendo's kart-racer for Wii U reminds us that raw horsepower is just a facet of crafting a beautiful game world. Nintendo  Infamous Second Son Sucker Punch's freeform Seattle-based superhero adventure models all sorts of minutia, from the intricate wrinkling of an aged character's face to the way eyelids stick, slightly, before separating when characters blink. Sucker Punch Productions  Monument Valley Escher-like at first glance, Ustwo's mind-bending puzzler was also inspired by posters, bonsai plants, arabic calligraphy and filmmaker Tarsem Singh's The Fall. Ustwo  Grand Theft Auto V Rockstar's remastered crime spree opus was crafted from an in-house engine first employed in a game that simulated table tennis. Rockstar  Titanfall Respawn Entertainment  Forza Horizon 2 Turn 10's Euro-racer actually models light refracted through drops of moisture, the render tech plausibly simulating something as intangible but essential as the earth’s atmosphere. Microsoft Studios/Turn 10 Studios  80 Days Inkle's anti-colonialist vamp on Jules Verne's famous novel uses crisp art deco imagery inspired by travel posters to unfurl 80 Days' tale of intrepid globetrotters Monsieur Fogg and his valet Passepartout. Inkle  Tomb Raider Crystal Dynamics' radical reboot of its popular series about an athletic archaeologist uses a modified version of the engine that powered Tomb Raider: Legend in 2006. Square Enix ## The ensemble cast exists partly to replace Cortana “I don’t think any of \[Chief’s\] Blue Team have particularly strong personalities,” says O’Connor when I ask about the challenge of maintaining emotional connection while jumping players between perspectives. “They’re not overwhelming you with things in the game. That’s in deliberate contrast to the much more chatty, less stoic Team Osiris. But when Chief’s with his team, there’s enough information coming that it does work as a kind of surrogate for Cortana’s absence, for her Virgil role where she’s leading you through the Inferno.” “I think the difference is that instead of being Odysseus this time, it’s much more of an ensemble piece. And in some ways I’m reminded of _Return of the Jedi_, where you have these perspectives that you switch between places and people, and each of the sets of people has a specific task in a specific place.” ## You can’t please everyone “We’ve got a lot of people who don’t care about the story,” says O’Connor. “We’ve got a lot of people who love playing campaigns but skip all the cinematics. We’ve got a lot of people who only play multiplayer. We have so many constituents to appease, that it’s always a careful balance and a fine line to walk.” ## It’s not meant to be subversive “Alan Moore \[the graphic novelist and author\] is a great example, because he often works with other characters that people are familiar with from other authors,” says O’Connor when I ask about the game’s departure from the marketing campaign’s intimations. “In some ways, that’s kind of what 343 was doing as it took over the franchise. I’m sort of a steady state, a bellwether in this, and the reality is that the Bungie who made _Halo 2_ was radically different from the Bungie that made the original _Halo_. In fact the Bungie that made the first _Halo_ was radically different from the Bungie that made _Halo_ for Mac and PC, before it was bought \[and became an original Xbox exclusive\].” “From my perspective, it’s just an organic flow of people and ideas no matter what. So while 343 taking over from Bungie was obviously a big deal, it wasn’t unnatural, because we would do that every time we shifted generations or platforms, or every time we did a sequel. Everything would be a new face. Even at the top.” “So to me, it’s never felt like the Alan Moore example, where a radically new voice comes in and upends things or subverts them. It’s always been more of a natural evolution. And _Halo 5_ in particular is, I think, in a very literal way, delivering on the promise teased in _Halo: Combat Evolved_. You’d look out at the skybox and you’d imagine these big battles, you’d imagine you were a superhero, because really then you were running at the same speed as a marine. You could flip Warthogs \[militarized jeeps in the game\], but you didn’t feel all that super-powered in the grand scheme of things. So through the games there’s been this natural evolution of gameplay, this natural expansion of scale. It’s never been about passing it on to a new auteur with radical new ideas, but about developing something incremental, sensible and occasionally controversial.” ## The studio wanted _Halo 5_ to be as fun to watch as it was to play “I think the interesting thing for me is, as I’ve gone back and played the older _Halo_ games, to me they always felt like _Halo_,” says O’Connor, talking about the gameplay’s partial return to form. “But it’s funny to go back to something like _Halo 3_ and feel the really significant differences, and they may be only a couple pixels wide, but as you know that can make all the difference in the world. But the thing I’m really enjoying in _Halo 5_, is that with the new modes of gameplay, the new mobility, the ground-pound and charging, they’re going to allow people to chain together beautiful moments.” “Now I think we’re going to have this almost _Matrix_\-like, organic superhero stuff happening. It’s still very much recognizably _Halo_, but you’re going to see someone leap off a building, snipe a couple of guys on the way down, finish off with a ground pound to take out a vehicle, and plant a plasma grenade on a Hunter in a game of Warzone. And that I think will really change up how _Halo_ looks when you’re watching eSports. It’s one of the things that we did very deliberately. We wanted the game to not only be fun to play, but to be really fun to watch, so you’re not just seeing someone with a powerful weapon getting multiple kills for an hour. You’re going to see beautiful and skillful chains of ideas and moves that I think are going to look beautiful on screen.” ## The next game will feature a “much more human story” “Without giving away too much, at the end of _Halo 5_, as you well know, the universe has changed so fundamentally that we have no choice but to tell what I would call a much more human story in the next game,” says O’Connor. “Will it be an ensemble game? I think certainly we feel great internal success with the cooperative play in _Halo 5_, so I think it’s something we’re heavily invested in and we won’t simply abandon.” “But my hopes for the future of the universe are that we can tell a realistic story. I saw a complaint online, somebody had been reading spoilers, they hadn’t played the game, and they said ‘Why is this character evil?’ And my question back to them is, ‘What makes you say they’re evil?’ Certainly a lot of our younger players are going to struggle with that subtlety, that nuance, because they’re expecting Darth Vader.” ## The studio’s still figuring out how to tell stories in the medium “It’s our job to make this better, to make this untrue, but games right now have to tell stories in a certain way,” says O’Connor. “People expect it. There’s patterns people have become used to. But I think one responsibility every game developer has is to try to make that storytelling experience better. Not just for games on TV sets, but for virtual reality and so on. What’s the best way to tell a story? To immerse people in the story without the gameplay dissonance you were talking about earlier?” “So we have to come up with this sort of _Citizen Kane_ that really modernizes that method of telling stories. We’re not there yet, but lots of people are making great strides. Sometimes we’re following in those footsteps, sometimes we’re trying to do things ourselves. But I think one of the reasons our _Hunt the Truth_ tie-in podcast worked so well, is that we’re using a fully established medium for telling stories. And I hate to say this because so much work goes into _Hunt the Truth_, but it’s easier than making a game. You can control what people are listening to in a radio play, taking then down a very linear process.” “In a game, we’re still running into these weird, artificial barriers to telling a great story. And we keep knocking them down, every year. Sometimes it comes from a big game like _BioShock_, sometimes it’s a smaller indie game. The longer this industry exists, the better it gets. Fidelity isn’t just pixels, it’s also experience, and I think we’re getting better and better at it.” ## O’Connor can imagine a _Halo_\-verse game where players shoot nothing “You asked me what I’d be excited about in the future, and certainly in terms of interactivity, I think games or methods of gameplay that aren’t simply shooting interest me,” says O’Connor. “I’d love to go do a xenoarcheological expedition to the original Halo ring. You know, take some scientists down, drive around, catch samples, do some detective work, maybe there’s a mystery. And it wouldn’t require shooting. It’s the universe and environment that can still be exciting, even without action. So that’s one of the things I’d love to see us invest more in.” ### See How These Famous Cartoon Characters Looked in Their Live Action Films  Flash Gordon, 1980. Universal  Popeye, 1980. Paramount  Howard the Duck, 1986. Universal/Getty Images  Masters of the Universe, 1987. Cannon Films  The Flintstones, 1994. Universal Pictures  Josie And The Pussycats, 2001. Universal Pictures/Getty Images  Scooby-Doo, 2002. Warner Bros.  The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, 2000. Universal Pictures  Garfield: The Movie, 2004. 20th Century Fox  Dragonball Evolution, 2009. 20th Century Fox  Yogi Bear, 2010. Warner Bros. Pictures  The Last Airbender, 2010. Paramount Pictures  The Smurfs, 2011. Sony Pictures  Jem and the Holograms, 2015. Universal Pictures  Cinderella, 2015. Disney  The Jungle Book, 2016. 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