Joseph Staten

Joe Staten, aka deckard, is the writer and Director of Cinematics for both Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2. He also does voices for many of the Grunts, and is keenly involved with the mission design/story team of Bungie. Having been involved in the writing of the Halo 3 script, he is also working on the Halo Movie, working closely with Peter Jackson to ensure that all of the planned Halo productions go well. Joseph Staten was the biggest character in the Halo 2 Collectors DVD. He even appeared outside of the making of and was in the Deleted Cinematics part as well. He has written the story for Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 but not for Halo 3. He recently appeared on the third and ninth episodes of the Bungie Podcast.

Joseph Staten was the author of the most recent Halo novel, Halo: Contact Harvest.

Joseph Staten was helping Peter Jackson with writing the script for the Halo movie. Now he is helping the movie's new director Neill Blomkamp with writing the script.

Gameography

 * Halo 3 (2007), Microsoft Game Studios
 * Halo 2: Multiplayer Map Pack (2005), Microsoft Game Studios
 * Halo 2 (2004), Microsoft Game Studios
 * Halo: Combat Evolved (2001), Microsoft Game Studios
 * Oni (2001), Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

Trivia

 * Staten is a long time adversary of Marty O'Donnell.