Best kept secrets

Published: September 10, 2007, 10:05 am

It might not have been everyone's favourite feature in Halo 2, but it was an impressive achievement for Microsoft and Bungie to manage to keep the secret that you could play as the Arbiter in the 2004 blockbuster. I wonder what secrets Bungie has in stall for the final part of the trilogy? The studio has certainly been just as careful and secretive, even going so far as not to show Halo 3's opening sequence to journalists. "The reason why we are very protective is for a very small segment of our population who take it really seriously," says Bungie's Content Manager Frank O'Connor. "They've stuck with us through thick and thin. We don't want to ruin it for them." It's not an easy job to keep the world's fanatical gaming press in the dark, as well as the millions of gossip-mongering gaming forums, when you have a highly anticipated game that everyone wants to talk about. Take Assassin's Creed. Despite developer demonstrations that say the game is set in 1191, it seems bleedingly

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