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| {{Title|''Titan'' (canceled game)}}
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| [[File:MMO.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Screenshot mock-up, with ''[[Wikipedia:World of Warcraft|World of Warcraft]]'' HUD superimposed.]]
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| {{Quote|Ensemble has been wanting to make an MMO for a long time. That was in production for a long time. The Halo IP was a great IP to launch an MMO with. Microsoft... hasn't had the best track record with those. <br>And we worked on it for a long time--we had staffed up an almost-40 person team. And then there was some reorganization at Microsoft, and the new bosses thought it wasn't the best idea anymore. It had actually been green-lit, and then it got cancelled after that.|Dave Pottinger<ref name="shacknews">[http://www.shacknews.com/article/55941/age-of-empires-dev-ensemble '''Shack News''': ''Age of Empires Dev Ensemble Speaks Out on Studio Closure, Microsoft, and the Cancelled Halo MMO'']</ref>}}
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| '''Titan''' was the codename for a canceled ''Halo'' [[Wikipedia:Massively multiplayer online role-playing game|massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG)]] developed by [[Ensemble Studios]] between [[2004]] and [[2007]].<ref name="interview1">[http://www.incgamers.com/Interviews/264/windstorms-dusty-monk-interview---part-one/2 '''IncGamers''': ''Windstorm's Dusty Monk Interview - Part One - Page 2''] (Dusty Monk: ''"For two years, before we all moved onto Halo Wars, we were working on an MMO prototype, and it was codenamed Titan."'')</ref> Following the project's cancellation in 2007, Ensemble Studios focused all of its resources into developing ''[[Halo Wars]]''.
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| Titan was a prototype game developed to compete against [[Wikipedia:Blizzard Entertainment|Blizzard Entertainment]]'s [[Wikipedia:World of Warcraft|World of Warcraft]]. The project was internally cancelled in mid-to-late 2007 with no formal announcement of its development by Microsoft.<ref name="oneremains">[http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20153 '''Gamasutra''': ''Exclusive: Ensemble Studios' Canceled Project Was Halo MMO'']</ref>
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| Around 40 staff in three teams worked on Titan while other Ensemble's staff focused on developing ''Halo Wars'', though one team remained on the project for six months.<ref name="shacknews"/><ref name="oneremains"/> During the early stages of ''Titan''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s development, Ensemble took inspiration from ''[[Wikipedia:World of Warcraft|World of Warcraft]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s general structure and gameplay.<ref name="interview2">[http://www.incgamers.com/Interviews/264/windstorms-dusty-monk-interview---part-one/3 '''IncGamers''': ''Windstorm's Dusty Monk Interview - Part One - Page 3''] (Dusty Monk: ''"We weren't necessarily making WoW in space, but we were certainly adopting a lot of the things that we saw working in World of Warcraft and then putting it in a sci-fi genre."'')</ref> The project was said to be radically different in the later stages, exploring then-novel concepts and gameplay additions such as "heroic stylized artform" and cover system (later used in ''[[wikipedia:Star Wars: The Old Republic|Star Wars: The Old Republic]]''), and public quests (later used in ''[[wikipedia:Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning|Warhammer: Online]]''). Instead of mana points as used in ''World of Warcraft'', a character's special ability energy was referred as psion.<ref name="psionmana">[http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20153 '''Gamasutra''': ''Exclusive: Ensemble Studios' Canceled Project Was Halo MMO''] (Michael Zenke: ''"The character pane shows a health bar and 'mana' -- or Psion, as is referred to in this title... The upper right icons are for basic character functions."'')</ref>
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| ====Assault====
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| Assault was intended to be a human class.
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| ====Forerunner==== | | ====Forerunner==== |
