Tired of playing the same old Halo 3? Well, not to fret, Halo 3: ODST promises to be all kinds of new bad-ass, even without Master Chief. Bungie's Lars Bakken and Microsoft Game Studios' Ryan Crosby recently sat down with Guardian UK to talk about the producer's latest entry into the Halo saga.

When asked about the omission of Master Chief from the game, Lars Bakken said that "I don’t think we’re bored of Master Chief at all, it was just something that we wanted to do for a long time, which was tell something in the Halo universe from a different perspective." Bakken added that "ODST seemed like a prime candidate for that because we could basically tell a different kind of story."

When talking about the story behind ODST Bakken said that “I think Joe Staten – who is the writer at Bungie – was really itching to tell the story from a different perspective, but then also change up the way we tell the stories because they’ve always been very linearly told in Halo 1, 2 and 3. This really allowed us to stretch our legs and try something different.”

Different is not always better though. I'm just puzzled that they would go away from what has brought them so much success thus far.