Disintegration

The Halo and Destiny co-creator returns with a new vision.

- Chris Burke

One of the surprise highlights from this year’s Gamescom was the opportunity to get hands-on with Disintegration, the latest game from Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto and his V1 Interactive development studio. Lehto had left Bungie a few years ago, having given the world the Master Chief, the Warthog and other bona fide game iconography, and also the studio’s other huge franchise, Destiny.

His latest project is a tactical sci-fi shooter that, for perhaps the first time ever, successfully marries the fastpaced fluid action of a first-person shooter with the combat smarts needed for a real-time strategy game. You control a squad on the ground from your ‘grav cycle’, which you’re using to fly above the battlefield – firing off ordnance and orders in equally fun measure.