The games will use shooter mechanics and an MMO structure

May 22, 2012 11:47 GMT  ·  By

Some details of the contract between Bungie, the development studio best known for creating the Halo series for Microsoft, and publisher Activision Blizzard, which owns the Call of Duty franchise, have been made public as the lawsuit between the company and former Infinity Leaders Vince Zampella and Jason West goes ahead.

The newly unveiled contract reveals that Bungie is set to create and launch four “massively-multiplayer-style...sci-fantasy, action shooter games” with the first of them set to be available to players during the fall of 2013.

Each of the video games is also set to receive one expansion.

It’s not clear whether the multiplayer element will only be linked to the online part of the game or whether the entire series will emulate an MMO.

The entire series is called “Destiny,” although that will probably change as development progresses, and will be first launched on the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft. It will also get a version for a next-generation Microsoft console that seems to be codenamed Xbox 720 at the moment.

A port for the first Destiny video game is planned for the PlayStation 3 from Sony, but only if it is easy to do from a technical and a financial point of view.

Other titles in the same series will be launched for next-generation consoles but also for the PC.

Bungie is set to get bonuses amounting to 2.5 million dollars (1.95 million Euro) as long as they meet budget and quality standards during each year.

The same sum will be awarded to the studio as long as their first release gets more than a 90 score on GameRankings.

Activision can terminate the Bungie deal if the first Destiny video game does not manage to sell more than 5 million copies during the first six months, and there’s also an option to get out of the deal after the launch of the expansion pack for the second title.